San Juan, Puerto Rico

When thinking back to my past, my favorite memory is my trip to Puerto Rico. I got to travel with some of my close friends and really cool adults. We were in Puerto Rico for seven days, and every single day I got to discover the culture and learn something new about the island and the people living on it. We were able to explore the nature there, try Puerto Rican foods, speak in Spanish, and tour historical sites. We left at four in the morning to board our plane. When we arrived on the island,…

Rene Perez Joglar “ El Redidente” and Eduardo Jose Cabra Martinez “El Visitante” are the Puerto Rican step brothers that formulated the band Calle 13 in 2005. The music style Calle 13 incorporates in their music is Reggaeton with a range of different Latin American genres. Reggaeton originated from Puerto Rico,it is a collaboration of latin dancehall and rap. Unlike many rappers, this particular Latin American band use their music to speak upon the current issues people are facing instead…

Puerto Rico is a commonwealth of the United States of America and actively participates in its government and its elections as much as any other American citizen would. The President of the territory is Barack Obama and its Vice President is Joe Biden, the same as the U.S., but the territory has a Governor who acts as the figurehead of Puerto Rico. That man is Alejandro Garcia Padilla, a member of the Democratic Party, and he was elected on January 2, 2013 (World Factbook). Even though the…

We instantly ran down to the ocean. This was probably not really smart because it was pitch dark, and all you could see and hear was the smacking lips of the waves. The first morning in Puerto Rico I woke up to the crashing of waves and the smell of salt water. The first day consisted of trying to body surf on the waves and renting rental cars. The entire day the temperature was in the eighties, with the sun blazing our skin red hot. That…

Puerto Ricans: citizens yet foreigners Today Puerto Ricans make up about 2.8 million of the population in America. Versus the island of Puerto Rico itself making up 3.8 million The authors parents came to America with one of the first big waves in 1946. His parents Juan and Florinda arrived at the airport from San Juan. In 1932 his grandfather who was an engineer died of pneumonia. Which consequently spiraled his family into poverty. His grandmother then after sold the family’s home and moved…

Prior to the military invasion and occupation of Puerto Rico in 1898, the Puerto Rican was already emigrating to the United States. Many of those heading to the mainland were “Puerto Rican revolutionaries who were conspiring on U. S. territory to break once and for all with the yoke of Spanish colonialism.” The four-century-old resilient stronghold of Spanish imperialism over the island was beginning to be confronted when, in 1868, the first pro-independence uprising against Spanish rule…

San Juan, Puerto Rico. - Currently, Puerto Rico is in its tenth consecutive year of the economic crisis which has motivated that the immigration of the Dominicans diminish, added that the economic conditions in the Dominican Republic in comparison with previous years has improved allowing more Dominicans can improve their quality of life in their own country. From the beginning of the thirties, where we can point out that there was an immigration of Puerto Ricans to the Dominican Republic to…

(Puerto Rico the Profile pg 4) Its currency is the same as the U.S; they just use Spanish words to describe their money. At one period in time when the fare for traveling was cheap, many Puerto Ricans took advantage and moved to the Mainland. Many Puerto Ricans reside in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Hartford, or Newark. Not surprisingly more Puerto Ricans live in New York than in their own island’s capital. With a large percentage of them in New York they are able to establish their own…

made its first appearance in the farmlands of Puerto Rico where it left tons of goats dead. All of the goats had been left fully intact, but were drained of all their blood." (Achilles paragraph 1). The description of it describes a small, hairy, reptilian body with…

great person he was.” Roberto Clemente’s loving soul changed the world. He will never be forgotten. Roberto is the best, and kindest baseball player to ever come out of Puerto Rico. Roberto Clemente had been hard working ever since childhood. Roberto Enrique Walker Clemente was born on August 18, 1934 in Carolina, Puerto Rico. He was the youngest of six siblings. He was born during The Great Depression. He grew up in a family with poverty. Even though they didn’t have much, his parents…