Santiago de Cuba

“socialism”, I cannot avoid to think about my beautiful country Cuba and how it fixed some broken things, but at the same it destroyed so many others, where the Cubans had no other option than to abandon their families and emigrate searching for a better future. As I was reading the extracts from John Pomfret, Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China, I kept coming back to the same memories from my childhood in Cuba and the feelings of living under a communist country.…

instead settle for the first proposal that adequately addresses the issue. Under this lens, certain matters are explained – the poor camouflage of Soviet missile bases, the decision for a blockade rather than an airstrike and Soviet withdrawal from Cuba in the face of US decisive action. This model goes into detail to illustrate the reality behind how decisions are implemented but minimizes the impact of…

I was born and raised in Puerto Rico until I was 9 years old. The lifestyle, and the cultural customs in the island are very different from the American culture. Coming to America was a mix of emotion. I was sad to leave my family and friends behind for what I later learned in life, was for a better future. It was hard to leave the house that I grew up in for 9 years of my life. It was hard to leave the fresh country air and friendly neighbors, that where more like family then friends. But I…

Symbols in UAE folklore The palm tree (nakhlah), coffee pot (dallah), and censer (mubkhar or midkhan), camel (jamal), talli, and houses (tents), are key symbols of the traditional life unique to the emirates society that proves its ability to withstand rapid changes. First, the Palm tree (nakhlah) is an important part of survival in UAE, the oldest seed found on Delma Island back to 5100 BC. There are 44 million tree in UAE, of which 8.5 million only in Al Ain City. Palm tree…

4.2 John F. Kennedy – In movie and in real life “Thirteen Days” is a fictional dramatized movie, which follows the events during the Cuban Missile Crisis chronologically. The movie follows the presidential advisor Kenny O’Donnell and the Kennedy brothers as well as the meetings with the ExCom members. When Kennedy was elected president in 1960 and began his presidency in 1961, he was a popular man. Being the youngest president he had a certain charisma, which people loved. When Kennedy married…

economy. In October of 1960, the United States put an embargo on trade with Cuba because of the actions from the new government put into place and controlled by Fidel Castro. Tensions with the country raised after they became allies with the communist Soviet Union, who at the time was an enemy of the United States (Cuba). The embargo is still in place today and it causes controversy over what should be done about relations with Cuba.…

crisis involved 2 superpowers, the United States, The Soviet Union and the Island of Cuba. Cuba is a small island that is located 160 km from the coast of Florida (USA), it was a US ally that had US businesses and a US military base in Guantanamo. A revolution that began in 1953 was led by Fidel Castro to overthrow the US backed dictator Batista. In 1959, the rebellion succeeds in overthrowing Batista out of power. Cuba then gets its first communist government. Consequently US businesses were…

One of the longest rebellion made in Philippine history was the Dagohoy Rebellion. The rebellion was led by himself, Francisco Dagohoy and it was held in the island of Bohol from year 1744 to 1829. This rebellion took the Spaniards 85 years to quell and completely end the act Francisco Dagohoy led. The reason why Dagohoy took rebellion was that the Spanish authorities did not allow and refused a Christian Burial for Dagohoy’s brother’s death. This made Dagohoy promise to himself that he will…

giant marlin and him because, Santiago is trying to prove to everyone that he could still catch fish on his own despite what other people think of him. By carefully analyzing key research, such as the novel, one can come up with a certain conclusion that the main character, Santiago represents the desires, the mentality, and the lifestyle that is identical to Hemingway's. In Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway portrays the old man, Santiago, with the desires, the…

Oscar Wao Paper 1 Fuku a curse of doom. Fuku was brought to Santo Domingo by the dictator, Rafael Trujillo or that is how the Dominican people would testify. Oscar Wao’s family was cursed by Fuku as shown in the novel. “If you even thought a bad thing about Trujillo,fua, a hurricane would sweep your family out to sea,fua,....” p.3 This is how fuku is presented in the novel and how it was known in Santo Domingo. My family was presented with a term similar to fuku. This term is known as…