Essay on Everyday Life in Puerto Rico

For most of its history, Puerto Rico has been controlled by an outside power, and its people oppressed. While Puerto Rico is currently a U.S. territory, Spanish colonialism has had a significant impact on the island’s development and identity. The history of the island itself is proof of this fact, demonstrating each step Puerto Rico took to reach its current state. By examining the stages of Spanish control that Puerto Rico experienced, we can determine how each stage affected the structure and identity of Puerto Rico.

Showing up in sea tempest attacked Puerto Rico since Maria's landfall, President Trump offered a healthy round of congrats to government help endeavors and expressed gratitude toward the island's representative. In any case, the president likewise recommended Maria was not a "genuine calamity," made an odd and misdirecting correlation with the loss of life from Hurricane Katrina, and clowned about how the sea tempest would influence the government spending plan. “Puerto Rico survived the hurricane," President Trump rightly says, and "Now a financial crisis looms largely of their own making." Hard words, but true.

Pablo Camacho was one of my old family friend who lives in Puerto Rico, since that’s where my family’s from. He used to be my dad’s family accountant who ran all the numbers and did all the financial operations of the business. Since my dad moved away from the island, we still keep in touch because of how close they were. Therefore, I thought this was the perfect person to vex or ask him questions for my interview. I have to disclose that Puerto Rico’s primary language is not English and I had to translate this interview from Spanish. I did my best in translating everything and summarizing it.

Puerto Rico might be better off staying a commonwealth because Puerto Rico doesn’t have to pay income taxes to the U.S.A.

Puerto Rico has been under US sovereignty since the Spanish American War in 1898, where United States gained territorial control of Puerto Rico, along with Philippines and Guam. Since this time, United States and Puerto Rico have engaged in a very peculiar relationship; and to this date, Puerto Rico remains a territory. In 1917, part of the Jones-Shafroth act, the United States Congress granted the people of Puerto Rico US citizenship, the right to have an elected state senate, established a Bill of Rights, and authorized the election of a Resident

Officially known as the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States of America situated in the

Since 1898 language has become a central issue in the Puerto Rican educational system. In the 1930s the US demanded that English be the official language to be taught in schools. This was very hard for people to get used to because most of the people on the island spoke Spanish. Because this was such a drastic change for many there was a lot of objection to this law. Therefore soon English became the second language. In 1991 the Puerto Rican legislature promoted a bill that stated that Spanish would be the official language. Although later this bill was modified and in '93 both languages gained equal status. Today Spanish is the official language that classes are conducted in. In contrast the United States teaches classes in English.

To argue on Puerto Rican Independence, Commonwealth, or Statehood, we must first learn of the history of Puerto Rico. Growing up I was very ignorant about Puerto Rico. It wasn’t till I was in the Navy and got stationed in Puerto Rico did I really find out the small Caribbean island. Although Puerto Rico has an extensive history, I will only give a brief synopsis of it: In November 1493 Christopher Columbus discovered the island of Puerto Rico for the country of Spain. It remained a colonization of Spain until 1898 when Spain ceded the island to the United States after the Spanish-American war. In 1917 Puerto Rican’s became U.S. Citizens, but only 24% consider themselves as American (2000 census). Puerto Rico was also granted its own

All of Puerto Rico's northern and eastern coast is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean. It stretches for more than 30 million square miles and tends to be the saltiest ocean on Earth. Like the Caribbean Sea, the waters of the North Atlantic surrounding Puerto Rico tend to be warm year-round due to equatorial water flows and the Gulf Stream that forms north of the island. Cities in Puerto Rico's northern coastline include the island's capital, San Juan, as well as Isabella, Arecibo and

Since Puerto Rico was first discovered by Christopher Columbus on November 19, 1493, and Spanish colonization ensued in 1508, Puerto Rico has experienced all of these pressures of identity and culture.

One of the most interesting and exciting places I have had the pleasure of visiting was the Island of Puerto Rico. Getting on the plane and arriving on the island was the easy part, but learning to navigate the island and getting reliable transportation was a whole other ball game.

Not many may know that Puerto Rico is considered to be American territory. Soon people all over America will know because Puerto Rico could possibly become the fifty first state or could be separated from America completely. Most of Puerto Ricans would like statehood 61% to be exact, this citizens would like to be united with America once and for all. There are some Puerto Ricans would like to be free association and the amount is 33% citizens who want a relationship without political territory with a degree of statehood with America. The last percentage are the citizens who want to be independent which is 5%. As the percentage shows most Puerto Ricans would like to become the fifty first state of America and add one more star onto America.

Primarily, enforcing the English language had the major impact. An assembly was held to determine the new educative system for the Puerto Ricans, controlled by the American government. It was a very centralized system where supervisors and teachers were brought without knowing the Spanish language or culture. As a result, creating great difficulties of communication. Despite all these cultural conflicts between such different cultures, great advances were made in the educational system in Puerto Rico. During the rule of the Spaniards eighty percent of the population was illiterate. Due to the Americanization, this reduced to more than half of the eighty percent and there was more opportunity to do other studies in the island. As the Puerto Ricans were exposed to an American society, language and culture, a new dialect rised up known as “Spanglish”. Which is a mix of Spanish and English words and expressions. While the English language was incorporated in the schools and society, still Spanish remained as the primary

Puerto Rico 's governor, who is the head of government, and the members of the legislative branch are appointed by the Governor with the approval of the Senate to serve until they reach age 70. Due to the status of Puerto Rico as a territory of the United States, its residents cannot vote in the U.S. presidential elections.

I have a ticket in my hand. I can go anywhere in the world, see anything or meet anyone. The world has an abundance of cities and beautiful views. For what? A temporary ease to reality? Magical places filled with superficial smiles materialistically caused to cover up the evil within the country. So where would I go?