Essays on Dominicans

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 ...

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’ ...

Religious change among the Aztecs

Annotated Bibliography Berdan, Frances, Aztec Archaeology and Ethnohistory, pp. 215-296. NY: Cambridge University Press (2014).

The source tells of the history and religion of the Aztec people.

Burkhart, Louise. “The missionary missionized.” In her The Slippery Earth: Nahua- Christian Moral Dialogue in Sixteenth-Century Mexico, pp. 15-45. Tucson: University of Arizona Press (1989).

This source tells about the implementation of Christianity on Aztec society.

Cervantes, Fernando. “The Indian response.” In his The Devil in the New World, pp. 40- 73. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press (1994) The source reminds one that they should be looking at the paper through an objective lens, rather than proscribing any ideals onto the Aztecs or the Spaniards. Florescano, Enrique, “Transformation of indigenous memory and resurgence of ...

During the 1990s that the Hispanic American community in the U.S. began increasing at almost four times the rate at which the country’s entire population figures were rising mainly due to the influx of immigrants and the high birth rate of the Hispanic community already present there. It is this statistic that has led sociologists to predict that in the next five decades, Hispanic Americans that are a minority today will account for almost half of the American population. In addition to being one of the fastest growing ethnic minorities, Hispanic Americans are also predominantly young, and thanks ...

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 ...

Introduction

The Holy Office of the Inquisition Tribunal was a court, created in 1478 by the Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile. The main causes of the Inquisition were to strengthen the political power of the church, the persecution of heretics, treatment, under pain of death, Jews and Muslims, income from property confiscation convicted. Oddly, the Inquisition, who presents himself as a representative of "the Court of God," and that was supposed to embody the highest degree of spirituality, charity and infallibility were peculiar weakness such as deceit, greed and betrayal. Thus, in 1452 the ...

How dating girls can be related to discrimination

The short story “How to Date a Brown Girl” written by Junot Diaz talks about the tactics that a teenage boy can use in trying to conquer girls from all races, white, black and brown. There is a romantic aspect about the story but one thing that stands out is the racial stereotypes that he highlights. The story is about a white poor teenager who is about to start dating girls like any other teenager in this society. Diaz gives several hints about how the girls from the different races he talks about are supposed to be treated differently. The issue of racism ...

How, why and when Dominicans started immigrating to New York

Dominican migration to the New York City was a result of the political instability. The political instability resulted to the assassination of Trujillo in the year 1961. It is estimated that many people of the conservative regime left the country to the New York City. The assassination of Trujillo led to the death of so many innocent citizens many of which were women and children. The other event that resulted to the migration of the Dominicans was the overthrowing of the government of president elected Juan Bosch in 1963. The overthrowing of the government was as a result of some people ...