My Visit To The Dominican Republic

When spring break began my parents gave me the opportunity to have 2 weeks of spring break, where I would spend the first week hanging out with my and fiends and the week they go back to school I go on a cruise. While I was on the cruise me and my family visited 4 different islands over the 8 day voyage. On the third day on the boat we visited the Dominican Republic, on the fifth day we visited St. Thomas, on the sixth day we visited Puerto )Rico, and on the seventh day we visited are final island Grand Turk.

On September 23 of 2013, half a million of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic woke up to the unfortunate ruling made by the country’s Central Electoral Board. The ruling TC-168-13 called for the denationalization of Dominican born civilians if at least one of their parents are not a citizen of the nation. Because the highest population of immigrants living in the Dominican Republic are Haitians, this decision is hurting them the most. Now, these people are not able to attain governmental or legal papers, making daily transactions difficult to fulfill, receive medical attention,

The Dominican Republic was explored by Christopher Columbus in 1492. When he first discovered it, he named it ‘La Española.’ It became an official country in 1844. The capital is Santo Domingo and the population is about 10.4 million people. The main language spoken there is Spanish, the main religion is Roman Catholic, and their Independence Day is February 27, 1844, which makes it younger than the United States.

Dominican-American is the largest Latin American Ethnic Group in New York. The Dominican Republic is located in the Caribbean island of the Hispaniola. “This nation was originally colonized by the Spanish in the late 15th and early 16th centuries” ( Sean T. Buffington everyculture.com). The first habitants of the Hispaniola were the indigenous group of the Tainos, whom were known for being peaceful and Simple. Upon arrival of the Spanish colonizer the Tainos indigents where demolish by diseases, weapons and enslavement. This sadly cause the extinction of the Tainos in the Hispaniola. The people of Dominican Republic are mostly a mixture from African, Tainos and Spanish. This mixture

For this map project, the country of research is the Dominican Republic located in both the northern and western hemispheres in the Caribbean. The country is located on the east section of the island of Hispaniola, with the country of Haiti on the west section. The island of the Hispaniola is the second largest island of the West Indies and it is 29,418 square miles in total. The Dominican Republic's shores are dominated by the Caribbean Sea to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the north, but its nation capital Santo Domingo is located on the southern portion of the island. The also has close surrounding neighbors which are Cuba and Puerto Rico. The main reason why the country is in my interest of research is because it’s my place of

When it comes to religion in the Dominican Republic, things were complicated. Religion changed with its political leaders. It all started with Christopher Columbus. In one of four voyages that Christopher Columbus sailed he found Santo Domingo. Christopher Columbus brought about Catholicism to the Native Taino people. When Columbus came, the population of Taino people went from around 1 million to 500 because of enslavement, European disease, warfare, and suicide. Due to this, sub-Saharan Africans were imported to be part of a slave labor force who were Spanish-speaking Christian Africans. In 1844 Santo Domingo gained its independence from Haiti. Then, from 1861 to 1865 Spain came back and reoccupied

The history of the Dominican Republic formation is first dated back to The Taino’s, which split up the island into five territories and chiefdoms. A major event of the country’s formation was in 1492 when in his first voyage Christopher Columbus’s discovered and claimed it. Columbus’s exploration triggered Spanish takeover of the American mainland and the Caribbean. Due to the French taking control of the western third of the island, that part of the island became known as Haiti in 1804. The Dominican Republic tried to gain its own independence in 1821 but failed for 22 years due to the Haitians taking the island over until 1844 when it gained its own independence. But they willingly returned to the Spanish Empire in 1861. Due to voluntarily

The Dominican Republic is a Caribbean country also known as “Republica Dominicana” and two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola. Its shares the other one-third of its country with Haiti. Christopher Columbus discovered the island in 1492, and claimed it was a Spanish crown. (CIA.GOV). The Dominican Republic sits in the Caribbean Sea and is south of the Atlantic Ocean. It lies between the island of Puerto Rico and Cuba, and is mostly populated by people of European and African origin. The Dominican Republic claimed their independence from Haiti on February 27, 1844, and their government runs as a democracy till this day. 85.4% of their financial stability comes from services and tourism attractions, and about 14.6% of the Dominican Republic’s

even though I did not conduct any particular test to determine where are my root coming from I know the history of my country and is pretty clear, there is African blood on my veins both size of my family are mixed race,

There are four Mirabal sisters, Patria, Dede, Minerva, and Maria Teresa. They did something remarkable for all women who lived in the Dominican Republic. The girls started a revolution that they were doing things to stop Trujillo. Patria, Minerva,and Maria Teresa Died in the process. Six months after their deaths Trujillo was assassinated. Everything they did for women started then. Minerva was the sister that saw how Trujillo really was first. She felt like she was trapped, “ sometimes watching the rabbits in their pen, she’d I’m no different from you,poor thing.” She went to a Religious boarding school. Minerva met her first actual friend there. Sinita told Minerva things Trujillo did to her family. She didn’t really start believe El

In 1995, the Dominican Republican Government ordered an executive decree that mandated modernization of the health care system to better serve the population, with an emphasis that focused on the most disadvantaged groups. The National Health Commission was created to assess and implement various reform initiatives (Health, 2007). Dominican Republic Demographics The Dominican Republic is located in the Caribbean and is the Eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola, the capital is Santo Domingo. The Dominican Republic is a democratic nation with elections every four years.

Haiti, the small country located west of the Dominican Republic, is a unique and beautiful country with its own unique culture and geography. The people of Haiti are proud of their country and their culture. Even though the nation is plagued by earthquakes and storms, due to its geographic location, it does not stop the Haitian people from continuing their unique culture and happy lifestyle. Taking a look at this country’s culture and geography, anyone, civilian, military or political personnel can fully grasp and understand the country’s uniqueness.

Dominican Republic a nation home to 10.4 million people and home to 300,000 immigrants. Today Dominican Republic faces a big crisis has of today the immigrants of the Dominican Republic are being deported from the island for not having visas and paperwork to prove that they are from the island. Many citizens have had their paperwork reviewed as false such as invalid birth certificates, invalid passports and this has brought the economy to it’s lowest since the 1960’s because those immigrants are the very same people who work the toughest jobs in Dominican Republic. The people of Dominican Republic refuse to work the jobs that involve doing hard labor such as harvesting and construction. Many latin people seek the jobs that we hard working

The Dominican Republic was founded in the year of 1496 by Diego Columbus, the younger brother to Christopher Columbus. This area became the main base of Spanish activity until the conquest of Mexico. In 1664 the Spanish lost a battle to the French and had to give up the western half of the island known today as Haiti. The island was liberated from Spanish rule by a man named Toussaint L'Ouverture in the 1790s. Toussaint is followed by many people in the rule of Haiti. The most effective of his followers is Boyer. During Boyer's presidency the two halves of the island were forcibly reunited (historyworld).

Thesis Statement: I believe that education allows students to find themselves by giving them the tools and qualities needed for being successful and doing what they want with their lives. Introduction (Attention Grabber) Tell a story about going to the Dominican Republic Last Summer when I made the decision to go to the Dominican Republic to help out at a local school, I had no clue what to expect. All I knew was that my Spanish was pretty decent, I enjoyed working with children, and I was feeling pretty adventurous at the time. One of the students I worked with was a 16 year old boy named Antonio Rojas.