Santo Domingo

from Lola’s and to distance her from oncoming changes, as confronting this neighbor would brought. That she won’t confront him when she’s willing to fight police officers displays a deep and indirect rebellion against the government officers in Santo Domingo who thrust her out of her home. This is emblematic of Said’s argument about the paradox of exile; Belicia resembles these officers when she continues to call Lola “fea” or “idiota”, and he asserts, “Of these, the state—or more accurately,…

“Tis better to have loved and lost/ Than never to have loved at all.”(Alfred Lord Tennyson). These are words Oscar Wao unknowingly lived by. As teenagers and frankly as humans, many people focus on finding a person to love and in return be loved. This same idea applies to a Mister Oscar Wao. He desperately wants to find love. Desperately meaning he fell in love with every girl he saw. The only thing holding Oscar back is what he believes is the fukú. The fukú is a curse put on a family for many…

Columbus first settled here in the island previously known as Quisqueva, Bohia and Ayti, then the Spanish named it Hispaniola. The original inhabitants called Tainos were annihilated as African slaves were delivered here with special purposes. Santo Domingo, the capital was the city at the very heart of the Spanish Empire in the New World. In 1967 Spanish ceded to France the present Republic of Haiti and the part that continued to be a Spanish colony turned into the Dominican Republic. Many…

What was the American Colonization Society and what was their plan? The American Colonization Society was a charitable organization created by Reverend Robert Finley in 1817. There plan was to assist free slaves in emigrating to Africa. The American Colonization Society colonized land in western Africa. In 1821 that land became modern day Liberia. Finely believed that the American Colonization Society would be seen as charitable work for Americans and Africans. He thought returning the Africans…

Bastides set off from Cadiz in 1500 in search of new lands. He found the isthmus in 1501, but was unable to stay for very long because of his ship's deteriorating condition due to shipworms. Despite many attempts to repair them, his ships sank in a Santo Domingo port and was not only unable to continue his exploration of the isthmus, he was also arrested and sent back to Spain by the governor for allegedly trading with natives without permission. After returning to Spain to face trial, the…

The Dominican civil war began on April 24th 1965 and it served as the climax to the fight for democracy that had begun with the assassination of Trujillo in 1961. Like all powerful movements, the 1965 civil war began with the young people of the Dominican Republic. Young adults and teenagers who had lived most of their lives under a dictatorship sought to fight, even if to the death, for the end to political limitations and the fear brought forth from the old regime. They sought the birth of a…

favor of the United States and slave born rebellions ravished through French occupied Santo Domingo. Santo Domingo ports were essential for French success in Louisiana. Touissaint L’Overture embarked on the disastrous mission to regain control of the Caribbean Colony. Plagued with yellow fever and guerrilla warfare, Napoleons army was decimated with the loss of 50,000 men and still no control over Santo Domingo. Knowing that Louisiana was nothing more than a reliability without control over the…

Chasteen wrote that n 1493 Pope Alexander VI, while granting Spain the right to colonize the New World, mandated that the indigenous people be converted to Catholicism and didn’t want anyone to be converted into slaves. However, he added a catch that anyone who didn’t want to be converted into Catholicism they would be converted into slaves. More positively, in 1500, Queen Isabella of Spain then said that all Indian would be converted into slave because they were to different from white people…

In life, each person faces decisions that affect the rest of their lives, there are moments that define who you are and who you will be; it is in these moments that people learn to grow up. These moments teach individuals important life lessons. Throughout adolescene, young adults are faced with challenges that force them to grow up. The short stories, “Good People” by David Foster Wallace and “Wildwood” by Junot Díaz, are coming of age stories that show the importance of growing up. David…

Christopher Columbus in December 5th, 1492. It is an island in the Caribbean which shares border with Haiti. In October of 1500, Governor De Bobadilla of Santo Domingo arrested Christopher Columbus and sent him in restraints to Spain. Columbus, during his third break to the new world, busy in a dispute with the representative of Santo Domingo, Hispaniola Columbus was later free and pardoned by the Queen of Spain, Queen Isabella. In the year 1502, Christopher returned to the island fleeing a…