Santo Domingo

‘Global’ can either be defined as being worldwide, international, or something that relates to, or encompasses, the entirety of something- for the purposes of this essay, I will be using the latter definition, with the ‘global’ referring to the whole of America and its culture. The texts I will be referring to are Junot Diaz’s This Is How You Lose Her and Lorrie Moore’s The Gate at the Stairs. In This Is How You Lose Her, the relationship between America (the ‘global’) and its cultural influence…

Daniel Sternheim 10-6-17 First Year Seminar Essay #2 Professor Redding Topic: Comparing and Contrasting the characters life in their home country to their life in America. Using two stories “Otravida Otravez” and “Inverino” from the book “This is how you lose her” by Junot Diaz, Diaz explains the theme of Characters who come from a different country or region that moves to the United States for a better life. In the first story “Otravida Otravez” from “This is…

high and lowland areas, rivers and lakes, including offshore islands. The Dominican Republic displays beautiful mountain ranges covered with forests, Pico Duarte being the highest mountain in the Caribbean and plains such as the Coastal Plain of Santo Domingo. Despite not having been blessed with natural lakes, The Yaque del Norte represents the longest river in here, crossing the most fertile area, The Cibao Valley. Turtles are the key attraction points whenever it is to outline the…

was too far out at sea to turn around to make his presence known. Since the boat was too far out at sea, the captain of the ship had to let Jean stay onboard; however, once the ship got to the port of Santo Domingo the captain of the “Fox” made Jean stay behind. Whilst Jean was staying in Santo Domingo he found work at a plantation, and he met a padre at the church. While the priest wanted Jean to work at the church, Jean had other plans. When Jean found his love and asked the padre to give them…

Juan Luis Guerra was born in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic who is a producer, composer, singer, and songwriter. In his music, he implements jazz, salsa, merengue, bachata, blues, Afro-pop, soukous (French, African origins), gospel music, etc. Some of his influences were the Beatles and heard bachata elements in songs such as “Till There Was You” and “If I Fell” and on “Till There Was You,” where it used bongos. He heard African musician, Papa Wemba playing with Peter Gabriel in NY.…

it “La Espanola” or in English “La Hispaniola”. The island was resided by the Taino indigenous group. This group was forced into slavery by the Spaniards and after all the abuse and illnesses the Spaniards brought, the majority of them died. Santo Domingo is the capital of the Dominican Republic it was founded in 1496 and is the oldest city the European settled on. The island of La Hispaniola stayed under Spanish reign until 1697. Spain let go of the colony to French empire in 1795, but in only…

Porto Santo, Madeira Islands the oldest son of Christopher Columbus When his father managed the great voyage of discovery in 1492, Diego was made a page at the Spanish court. When his father’s died in 1506, he began a long struggle to regain his father’s former privileges in the Indies. Diego’s marriage to María Álvarez de Toledo, niece of the duque de Alba, the cousin of King Ferdinand, worked in his favour, and in 1508 he was accredited governor of the Indies. He arrived at Santo Domingo on…

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…

lines in Dominican Republic, mostly for sugar cane plantations and are privately owned by the plantation. In Santo Domingo metro city rails are starting to develop, helping ease the traffic in such busy city. There are thirteen airports in the Dominican Republic, five of them being international, to help spread tourists arrivals and ease congestion at the main airport in Santo Domingo. In 1999 the government sold control of the airport management to different foreign consortia, helping with…

I was born May 11 1966 in the Dominican Republic. I came to the United States in 1991. I arrived in Kennedy airport New York City, on March 19, 1991. The first place I visited was Metropolitan hospital, because my mother was sick, she had gallbladder surgery. After the surgery her blood pressure went up then she was in coma. My sisters and my brother were scare, they were children between 15 and 7 years old. I remembered their faces sad and happy at the same time; happy, because we were…