Santo Domingo

The early advent of the sixteenth century presents Loíza as a Taino Arawak Indian settlement, situated on the eastern area of the banks of the Cayrabon River (presently called Rio Grande de Loíza) at the time of the Spanish conquest of Puerto Rico in 1508, led by the leadership of Juan Ponce de Leon. First named Jaymanio by the Indians, the settlement was under the rule of the indigenous chieftess Yuiza when the Spaniards arrived. Believed to have married Pedro Mexia, a Spanish-born “mulatto”…

Victoria Woodhill’s running mate on Equal Rights (Davis 288; “Frederick Douglass” Bio). Unfortunately, he was nominated without his approval and therefore, never campaigned (“Frederick Douglass” Bio). In 1871, he was Assistant Secretary of the Santo Domingo Commission. He was a marshall in the District of Columbia (1877-1881) and a Recorder of Deeds (1881-1886). His last post was the U.S. Minister and consul General to Haiti (1889-1891) (“Douglass…” Encyclopedia 642). Douglass passed away on…

administration were preoccupied and distracted with the South, France and Spain used the opportunity to blatantly disregard the Monroe Doctrine and recapture Latin American lands they had lost in the past. Spain’s goal was to recapture the island of Santo Domingo, Hispaniola, and Haiti while Napoleon III wanted to reinstate a monarchy in Mexico, to thwart the expansion and influence of the United States in Latin America (Doyle, 125). The Union was late to actually institute the Monroe Doctrine…

Junot Diaz’s Stories Reader Responses #2 “Drown” The narrator, presumably Yunior based on the other stories, recounts his past and present experiences with his family and especially his best friend, Beto who left to go to college. Beto and the narrator were great friends, but often did illegal acts together such as shoplifting or watching obscene videos in a ghetto neighborhood. One particular incident was when Beto reached inside the narrator’s shorts and suggests that Beto and possibly the…

Sweetness and Power The book Sweetness and Power written by Sidney W. Mintz(1985) was truly an empowering book written about the rise of sugar and how it has truly created a new world culture. The impact of the sugar was the main force of economic surge and the power of a new world order. But over time Mintz, an Anthropologist and graduate from Columbia University, has expressed how sugar has created a new modern problem with the foods Americans consume today and the impact on the human body…

Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and free from poverty, hunger, and homelessness. Utopia is a place where happiness flourishes through the eyes of Utopians citizens every single day. While Haiti, a country that went from slavery to independence to falling into debt from France. Utopians live a better life than Haitians because Utopia establish trust among their citizens while Haiti continues to have corrupt politicians in their government that is not enabling them to move forward.…

Junot Diaz and “Daddy” by Silvia Plath are similar in the way both narrators present their fathers as tyrants and oppressors, but different in the way the main characters tend to develop through life. In “Fiesta 1980” by Junot Diaz, a family from Santo Domingo is going to the Bronx to celebrate some relative’s arrival to the United Sates. Yunior, the son of an abusive father, describes his life enclosed by the figure of this…

When the Civil War ended he didn’t take a break on protecting and securing the right of the freeman. He also was the secretary of Santo Domingo Commission, a recorder in Colombia, and United States Minister in Haiti. Douglass knew that his father was his master, after his mother separated from him. Douglass a young kind went and live with his maternal grandmother Betty Bailey. Douglass…

The Beauty of Love (A Memoir of Miracles, Hope, and Healing) Laura Posada and Jorge Posada Atria Books, 2010 General Idea The newlyweds Jorge and Laura Posada faced a difficult challenge when their first born son was diagnosed with a craniosynostosis. It is a birth defect that causes an abnormally shaped skull. Their lives were affected of the case of their son but they tried to be strong for their baby. They never stop believing that their son will be okay. The beauty of love is not just…

geography close to the Dominican Republic and both culture was similar, baseball was easy for Dominicans to adopt to play (Bjarkaman, 1994). The first professional baseball was made in 1907. Both amateur and professional teams were developing in Santo Domingo. In around 1920, baseball was becoming more popular in Caribbean courtiers, so this era was the beginning of Caribbean competition. Dominican also identified the U.S as symbol of resistance in this era (Bjarkaman, 1994). From 1920, more…