Essays on Dominican

Research Question: What Strategies and concepts can teachers use to enhance English comprehension-levels in learners?

Problem and Purpose: Enhance English Comprehension in Learners Theory: Mental Model Theory Theorist: Phillip Johnson-Laird and Ruth Byrne Primary Postulates of Mental Model Theory (Relation to problem and purpose) The theory stipulates that in order for learners to comprehend what they are learning, they must have the ability to create mental picture or models of what they are reading. For example, when one is reading fiction, it has to be reconstructed in the mind thus helping the student stay in track of what is being talked about in the reading (Casper, Catton & Westfall, 1998). The creation of the mental ...

The Map of Haiti and others countries in the Caribbean

Haiti Acknowledgement This Cholera Proposal would not be having been possible without the support of “the Hinckley Institute at the University of Utah who gives me opportunity to serve the world and to see the good in the world. I am grateful to those who provided guidance and support during my internship at Medical Care Development International from ministry of health in Haiti (MSPP) I’m thankful my best Dr. Benavente Louis for his valuable contributions to this proposal. I’m thankful to Dr. Pablo Paolo and for Dr Jeff Wendell their leadership support of my research for this ...

Scaffolding

Scaffolding can be described as a teaching technique which provides a temporary support to child learners until they can stand on their own. The expert who is the teacher or the facilitator sets an example for the learners and guide them closely until such time that they can grow on their own. Puntambekar, S. (2009) cited the definition of Vygotsky (1896-1934) of scaffolding that learning begins not in the cognitive level but in social interactions. Vygotsky as cited by Puntambekar added that in a scaffolding, the expert set the tasks that are beyond the learners’ capability. It is then ...

The quality of nursing care in the Dominican Republic has been subject to extensive research on numerous occasions. In the recent years, the government has been focused on enhancing the quality of maternity care across all the hospitals with the aim of reducing the rate of mortality rate through childbirth. It has attracted the attention of many scholars, especially because the nation is known for its highly trained attendants and universal institutionalized deliveries. The quality of medical care provided varies across the various medical institutions (Schumacher, 2010). In the recent years, the rate of Dominican Republican immigrants into the ...

Industry Overview

Planet fitness relates to the fitness industry that includes fitness centers and weight loss centers. The US fitness industry is growing rapidly that is indicated by the increasing numbers of paid gym members by 18.6 percent in the period 2008-2014. There were more than 34 thousand centers in the United States in 2014. The revenue of the overall US fitness industry increased to $24.2 billion that is 7.4 percent in 2014.More than 533,200 people are currently employed in different fitness centers, and the employees are also expected to grow by eight percent by 2024.The market research shows that ...

Santiago, popularly known among the locals as Santiago de los Caballeros is located at the heart of the Cibao Valley, in central Dominican Republic and is considered to be the second largest country of the Republic. Due in large parts to its location on the island, tropical climate prevails in the city for most parts of the year. To put it into context, average temperatures throughout the year hover around the 25 degree Celsius or 77 degree Fahrenheit, with days that offer sunlight without the heat making the weather intolerable . This is why the long, sunny days on the ...

Human Geographical Factors and Social Systems

Human Geography is defined as the activities of human beings and its impact on the society and the earth in general. Human geography is a key indicator and pointer that can and has been used to explain trends in societies and communities. According to Jared Diamond, societies and how they rise and collapse can be linked to a number of human geographic factors which influences the way societies are ran and can be analyzed. This is mainly due to the fact that society is based on livelihood and a reliance on the environment. Thus, human geography identifies these collective ...

Introduction

Diego Rivera is a Mexican artist famous for his painting of murals. Julia Alvarez is a native of the Dominican Republic, and is a famous writer. These two artists have many similarities. They were both raised in affluent families. They both were exposed to cultural revolution, and they both portray their life experiences in their art. However, the two artists have a significant number of differences. These dissimilarities can be attributed to the level of acceptance and popularity that both have received.

Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera was an artist who lived from 1886 to 1957. He was born in Guanajuato, Mexico. ...

Language is an important part of a person’s life because it connects one to other people. There are many languages used by people all over the world. Learning language other than the native language helps a person to communicate to more people. Personally, I experience this benefit by knowing how to speak two languages- Spanish and English. I was born in Dominican Republic where Spanish is the native language. Learning Spanish is greatly influence by my family and by the environment I lived in. In Dominican Republic, all people speak Spanish. That’s why I think that learning ...

Immigration is one of the most complicated aspects of the human experience. Even though they may share species, people around the world are very different, with each culture housing its own world. Even though the United States of America was a country designed for and by immigrants, it has developed its own way of life that the people that go there have to adapt to. Many people soon see that the American Dream is really an illusion and that they must constantly fight to keep themselves afloat. There may be many similarities between how people react to this change ...

The Dominican immigration narrative is one driven by diverse factors and for a foreign born, the history is an enticing one on how we arrived in the United States. Universal history dictates that the immigration happened in four distinguishable groups: the "Trujillo era" (1930 – 1960), the "post–Trujillo era" (1961 – 1981), the "flotilla" group (1982 – 1986), and the "post–flotilla" group (1983 – present) (Torres-Saillant and Hernández, 12). Many of the Dominicans have a history that supersedes the current reasons for immigration, and every family has a history. This history goes back to the days when working the farms ...

Rafael Trujillo was the Dominican dictator during the period which lasted beginning in the 1930 and ended in 1961 when he was assassinated. He was a president twice during this time, but he was the leading person in politics all the time even when other people were presidential figures. This era lasted for 31 years and there was much blood spilt throughout this period. A cult was related to the personality of Trujillo and he was guilty for killing about 50 thousand people. There were dictatorships in other countries of the region, but none were as brutal as Trujillo’ ...

The memoir of Raquel Cepeda Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina is an exploration of the modern age racial identity. On the other hand, in her memoir, Brother Am Dying, Edwidge Danticat offers a deep reflection on the personal sacrifices that her parents went through to come to the United States. Also, she offers the reasons why her uncle chose to remain in his home country Although the two memoirs are dramatically different in content and style, both authors try to come to a new understanding of a critical aspect of their identity. One may argue that the ...

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Position Paper for the Organization of American States

The topic before the Organization of American States is Migrant Workers: Protection of Labor Rights. The OAS stands with a conviction that the problems affecting migrants in the Dominican Republic, particularly those pertaining to labor should be addressed and resolved.

The Dominican Republic has the obligation to address the Haitian influx of cross-border migrants, in the same way that the Haitian government has the responsibility to its own citizens. Haiti became a member of OAS in 1949 while the Dominican Republic entered as a member of the OAS in 1948 (oas.org). The Organization of American States, being ...

Play Review

Earlier this week I was fortunate enough to take in a showing of the play, “In the Time of Butterflies. Written by talented playwright, Caridad Svich, the performers and all involved did a splendid job bring the ideas of the play to life. Though butterflies are not known for their ability to stay in one place for long, the memory of the play will live for a very long time in my mind’s eye. “In the Time of Butterflies,” is actually a stage translation of a novel written in 1994 by Julia Alvarez. The novel, sharing the same ...

Citizenship and Instruction Program

Experience and Community Need BronxWorks, is a settlement house and multi-service organization with proven track record of leading immigration services since 1998. That year we first collaborated with SEEDCO to launch a series of initiatives that target low-income immigrants with limited English language proficiency. Our organization leveraged resources to provide English as a Second Language (ESL) services and civics classes from the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) to more than 250 participants in 2015 and over 600 participants since its inception. For over 18 years, we have provided citizenship and ESL instruction to New ...

Introduction

In his novel, ‘The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao’, author Junot Diaz portrays two of the main characters differently. To achieve this, he employs the approach of love and the ability to get it to narrate a fascinating set of events. Through a series of events and exercises, Diaz succeeds in explaining how self-perception (appreciation) and self-esteem play a significant role in defining what one becomes. There is no doubt, whatsoever, that Yunior is Oscar’s foil. In every aspect, Yunior is everything Oscar is not, the inverse holding true. Through their love lives, the two are portrayed ...

Question: Briefly describe the culture identified in the novel.

Julia Alvarez’s book, How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents, is story of four sisters growing up in two different cultures. The story depicts the Dominican Republic's culture that the four sisters were used to compared to the new American culture that they had to adopt when they went to the United States (Alvarez, 1991). In their motherland, the Garcia girls had a life of luxuries in the Dominican aristocracy based on the family structure, where social status was determined by family ties (Alvarez, 1991). Women preferred a life of leisure and refinement that was entitled to the ...

Question 1

Assimilation, ethnic pluralism or multiculturalism in the US and transnationalism for immigrants share certain similarities but even though they also differ markedly with reference to migration of women and their rights or status in the receiving nation. Either way, immigrants have got to eventually adapt to one of these immigration aspects in the long run. One notable similarity among these concepts is that all of them share the notion of social relations among members of the society. They all relate to the social interactions that exist within the members of the community, particularly between immigrants and their new-found friends ...

The history of Black in Latin America extends back over the times first African slaves were brought to the Americas at the beginning of the sixteenth century. It significantly influenced on the modern standing of Blacks, their social and cultural identity that varies in different Latin American countries. For instance, while Brazil is proud of its multi-ethnic society, in Haiti, Black are proud to be Black, and in the Dominican Republic, they try to forget its African roots. The aim of this paper is to analyze attitude to Black in Latin America, its historical shaping and impact on the ...