Parsley: Dominican Dictator, Trujillo

Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina governed the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961. He is one of the most formidable dictators of the twentieth centuries, and the crimes committed by him and his comrades were in innumerable and hedonistic, from torture and rape to mass murder of Haitians. His American ties brought him into power and his manipulation of US officials allowed him to survive for much longer than should have been fathomable.

The poem, “Black Hair,” by Gary Soto describes a childhood of a boy looking back on how he compared himself to his favorite baseball player’s. The speaker gives many rich images stating how the boy compares himself to the baseball players. The three vivid images that prodded out at me were, “I came here because I was Mexican” this is him comparing himself to a dark skin baseball player, “At eight I was brilliant with my body”, and “Growing sweaty in the presence of white shirts”.

There are several events that lead the Mirabal sisters to oppose the “Trujillo regime”. The first event is at their high school play when Sanita almost shot Trujillo with the arch. After that day Minerva never saw Sanita again. Also, Trujillo’s party play a big role in the events that lead the Mirabal sisters to oppose to his regime. Trujillo invite the Mirabal family to his party, where he asked Minerva to dance with him. Trujillo was inappropriate with Minerva, and Minerva act with an instinct response (with a slap). That respond was really scandalous because everyone sees Trujillo as the God of the Dominican Republic. That lead Trujillo taking Minerva’s father into jail, where after his release die because he was tortured by the military.

“‘Race Politics” by Luis J. Rodriguez was about him and his brother living in a place called Watts. They journey over the tracks, trying to get the “good food” for their family. They go to the store, and find themselves face to face with five teenagers who knock the food out of their hands, and beat up the main character’s older brother, causing him to vomit. The teenagers leave, with them on the floor. The purpose for writing this essay is to identify syntax, connotation, and imagery within this poem, and decide what makes it important to the overall poem. The overall impression that Luis conveys within his work is the feeling of separation.

The use of racist remarks empowers the readers to feel sensitivity and sympathy towards the characters. Subsequently, the reader can comprehend the critical parts of prejudice in the novel. Symbolism is made obvious in this statement from the novel; "It resembles viewing a puppy crossing a bustling street". Issues, mentalities, and qualities all through the novel are altogether affected by the Vietnam War, particularly with the Lu family. This is because of the way that the Vietnamese were particularly focused during the time of the Vietnam War.

In this part of the essay, I will show how O'Connor made use of symbolism through her characters to symbolise an abstraction of class-consciousness. The issues of class consciousness was brought up through the rounded character of the

The struggle of an individual in a class alienated society is emphasised by presenting two disparate classes: the bourgeois and the proletariat. The bourgeois are describes by the narrator as ‘titans and their gigantic wives’ who ‘drink barrels of champagne and bellow at each other wearing diamonds bigger than I feel’. The exaggeration used adds to the cynical tone to mock the elements of the bourgeois, but also suggests the hollowness of their wealth and how they possess greater than the narrator can grasp. The narrator in comparsion feels like a ‘cockroach’ shown in the description; they ‘just want to see you run around their money…they know they can’t threaten you with the tip, to them

An indie folk songwriter and musician from Australia, Vance Joy first started his career in Melbourne on the open-mic scene that began toward near the start of 2010. He started seeing a skyrocketing of his success when he used Bon Iver's songs for influence. Instead of continuing to pursue his degree in law, Joy decided that he would take a career in the music industry. That is one of the musicians who will soon be playing at the Shrine Expo Hall with Elle King and Jamie Lawson.

From the start the novel is laden with the pressures that the main characters are exposed to due to their social inequality, unlikeness in their heredity, dissimilarity in their most distinctive character traits, differences in their aspirations and inequality in their endowments, let alone the increasingly fierce opposition that the characters are facing from modern post-war bourgeois society.

Spain during the 16th century has been described as a time of oppression, a time of exploitation of the subordinate class. For example, in the text of The Life of Lazarillo De Tormes a gluttonist priest offers Lazarillo scraps of an Eucharist bread, that was nibbled by mice. The priest tells Lazaro to take the bread, stating “There, eat that. The mouse is a clean animal.” This shows the how the higher class sees the lower class, it shows how they believe in offerings coming from them should be taken as a gift, even if a literal rodent has tampered with it. Most who could live during this this time usually were those who held high levels of intelligence and were also devious. Due to this, Lazarillo, being a man who holds the fore told

They don’t have any sympathy for the lower class, and this shows that they are of a higher class. When the grandmother speaks of painting “this picture” this also refers that they are of a higher social class because the grandmother is able to take up in art class.

For seven days, we both recorded how many calories we ate for every meal of the day, as well as how many carbohydrates, proteins, sugars, fats, and sodium amounts we had. We decided to analyze how many calories we had each day because the calories were quantities with high numbers, and there was a lot of variance throughout the days. This would provide data for an interesting graph. We also decided to analyze your percentage of sugar intake daily in relation to your weekly total intake. We thought this would be interesting to show because it not only compared your daily intake, but also showed how each day was different for both people. To add to that, analyzing the sugar intake showed that since our diets leaned on different kinds of food groups, we both

Another vice presented by the Poet is the connotation which depicts the ‘back air' of the suffering and torture the Latin Americans go through at the hands of the United Fruits Company. For example, in lines 12, 19, 23, and 25, words such as sleeping dead, dictatorship, submissive blood, and tombs are used to indicate the aura of death surrounding the setting of the poem. In some instances such as line 26, the word flies is used to refer to people who are present in various caliber under the rule of the company to drain the resources of locals and manipulating them authoritatively to provide forced labor. The nature of this description is evident in the 28th

She begins to explain to the reader about a hurricane on the coast, in which she calls it Big Bad Floyd. She personifies Big Bad Floyd and contrast it to her husband Fred, by saying “Today a hurricane is nudging up the coast, Oddly male Big Bad Floyd, who brings a host Of daydreams” (13). Because of Big Bad Floyd, it triggers memories to Dove and her first experience of love in her life. She states “awkward reminiscences Of teenage crushes on worthless boys” (13). As you see Dove was able to compare the storm to her own personal love life.

The third factor in reaching the theme of social discrimination is the use of classism. As defined from the Merriam Webster Dictionary, Classism means: Prejudice or discrimination based on class. Throughout the short story you get a feel for the class, that Old Phoenix is a part of. Throughout her long journey, she makes references to slavery through the use of metaphors,