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    in their fancy car. Everybody looks at her family as if they were in a car showroom. The curiosity can be seen in their facial expression and the way they use their cell phones and camera to capture the moment. In contrast, the second photo is more Cuban with local people in their daily life. The second photo exposes the over-bright scene, which implies the uncomfortable feeling. The viewer can sense the heat and the humidness of La Havana’s street. It is a picture of a man fixing an old car. He sits

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    Cuban Culture Essay

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    My cultural ancestry comes from a Cuban and Mexican decent. I have chosen to write about my Cuban side because I can relate to them more than I could with my Mexican side. I was raised around my Cuban family and would occasionally see my Mexican side due to them living so far away. I have spent a lot more time associating with Cubans and have adapted to more of their habits. Cubans have absolutely no problem sharing their feelings, thoughts, and ideas. They are known for being boisterous and not

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    Patrick Symmes Summary

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    Patrick Symmes embarks on a trip to Cuba for thirty days to live as a Cuban and then share his experiences. He limits his spending to that of $15 a month, the paycheck of a journalist in Cuba. This small budget is what Symmes hopes will connect him to the real Cuban lifestyle, but the journey proves to be more difficult than he though. At one point, Symmes caves and spends a good portion of his wages on a small pizza. After, he felt defeated and writes, “. ... I had to sit down. Then I burst into

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    fuel for most everything which comes from Venezuela. Fuel for their cars and other transportation is controlled by the government, it never changes in price. Cuba’s economy is weak by not as weak as some other countries. The average income for a Cuban is a little over $5,000 but take home is $20 Cuba’s Military break down. Cuba has an Army, Airforce and Navy. The breakdown of the army is known as Revolutionary Armed Forces. They are broken down to three different parts. They have the Eastern

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    United States ideologies will be imported into Cuba and how they would ultimately affect the cuban regime. United States Ideologies are very strong in democracy and freedom, an exact opposite of Cuba who still carries a totalitarian communist government. These Ideologies that would be passed down to cuban citizens through word of mouth or their very own eyes will prove to be a challenge to the cuban regime. The people of Cuba could move from a survivalist state to a progressive state and ultimately

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    freedom and democracy to the people of Cuba. Inconsistency underlies the logic of the United States sanctions against Cuba. The relevance of the pre-1990 objectives of the embargo became obsolete with the end of the cold war. However, the so called “Cuban Democracy Act” came up with a new objective of bringing freedom and democracy to the people of Cuba. The act demands Cuba to establish electoral democracy. Put it in other words, the act asks Cuba to permit the establishment of multi-party system,

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    The cross-pollination religious customs and material culture in the Cuban Diaspora has provided a wealth of indigenous and assimilative sources (Gordon, 2014: 53), and this has afforded Mendive a rich abundance of inherited iconography of fauna, flora and otherworldly phenomena to consume and use in the process of creating his artworks. Mendive is able to animate the pantheon of Orishas, depicted as either interacting with or sometimes assimilating human postures and gestures. Such representations

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    Fresa y Chocolate and The Borderlands

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    Identity is the essential core of who we are as individuals, the conscious experience of the self-inside. (Kaufman cited in Anzaldúa, 1987, p.84) The objective of this essay will be to interpret the contradictions of identity produced in the movie Fresa y Chocolate and The Borderlands. When personal identity, is stifled and shaped by nationalistic discourse. By examining the polarised dichotomies of self-identity, juxtaposed against the internalised and dominant hegemonic discourse of imposed National

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    Cuba Essay

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    because of domestic political reason. Since there is an increasing number of Cubans in US, as well as decreasing anti-Castroism of the young Cuban-American generation, how to gain the political support of the immigrations become a noticeable problem for US government. Refer to Pew Hispanic Center (2006), Florida is home to about 990,000 Cubans, which occupies two-thirds of Cubans (68%), and other states of large amount of Cubans are New Jersey (81,000), New York (78,000), California (74,000) and Texas

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    worldwide which tries to analyse and reflect upon the conditions of such people, and how they are received in the new communities they emigrate to. The Cuban author and novelist Ana Menendez is one of the writers who explored these ideas in her works. Her short stories collection In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd reflects upon issues related to the Cuban community

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