7. What problems were developing in Cuba? Why was America interested? – There were revolts for independence which increased amount of annual deaths.…
The CESPA Roundtable Discussion on Cuba was about the five professors insights on questions about Cuba moderated by Dr. Jorge Garcia. One question was asked to the panel and the panel gave an answer due to their experience in Cuba and as a scholar in Casa de las Americas. The main questions asked by the moderator were about Casa de las Americas, identity, and Cuban society and quality of life. There were questions asked by the audience that allowed the panel to talk about different issues that contributed to expanding the discussion to the audience.…
Additional document: an article done by a less patriarchal country about the treatment of Cuban women during this time period…
1. The revolution ----> Directly caused the U.S. to place embargo on Cuba ------> that meant that Cuba had to find someone else to help float their economy---> Turned to Soviet Russia---> At first, this worked well (you are right). In the long term, it caused a dependence on another country, the USSR. When they crashed -----> Cuba crashed, and they have never recovered since. Wages just 20% of what they used to be in 1980’s. ---> Greatness was a partial High due to soviet flotation ($5 Billion/year support). ---> Did more damage than good…
A Critical Summary Analysis of “Reframing Prostitution as work” by Deborah Brock and “Prostitution in Vancouver: Pimping women and the colonization of First Nations” by Melissa Farley and Jacqueline Lynn…
Through his integration of flashbacks in the storyline of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey, the author, is able to demonstrate his criticism of society’s ignorance and its attempt to conform all of its members to the norm. In the novel, Chief Bromden recalls the first time he was ignored, causing him to lose his voice and be rendered into silence. During an encounter with some unexpected visitors in the Falls, Chief’s voice goes unheard and thinks “that they don’t look like they’d heard me talk at all” (Kesey 213). Assuming that the Chief is unable to speak or understand English, the visitors choose to ignore his attempt to be included in the conversation. Through the use of a flashback to highlight the ignorance of the…
“The Cuban diaspora is perhaps the most complex of all Latino immigrant sagas” (Gonzalez, 109). In the 19th century, more than 100,000 Cubans (10% of their country’s population) migrated to America during Cuba’s independence wars. Most of them were tobacco workers looking for jobs American factories.…
there are many views on the Cuban Revolution and how it changed Cuba as a country, some say the revolution is good for the country where some people disagree strongly with it and say that it was not the right path for the country to follow and they should have followed traditional ways. Even with revolutions occurring all across the world and all throughout history women are still seen less than men , and this is one of the biggest challenges we face as humans inhabiting this…
nuclear war and spare them the effects of radioactivity. In my pre college studies, I…
For many immigrants, the reason for leaving their home country behind was to find and live a better life elsewhere. In this research paper the history, reason, and effect of the immigration wave of Cubans during the mid to late 1900’s will be discusses as well as the residual effects on both Cuban and US governments. The goal of this research paper is to inform the reader of the importance of the Cuban presence and culture in the US and triumph throughout.…
Arenas writes this book through his imaginations and pastimes in Cuba as if it were his diaries. He analyzes his secrecy with artistic writing and sex. Reinaldo Arenas says, My sexual activity was all with animals. First there were the hens, then the goats and the sows, and after I had grown up some more, the mares (Arenas 149).” This shows the indifference towards women and the rest of the societies interests. In other words, Reinaldo was a homosexual and hid through his fear of the totalitarian government by taking his pain out with the animals. This book represents Reinaldo’s search for…
Considering the close proximity of Cuba to the United States, it indicates that there has always been migration between United States and Cuba. During the 1800’s, immigration had become very popular amongst Cuba and the United States. In the 1800’s Cuban merchants and businessmen generally conducted business, and casually visited United States on vacations, and vice-versa. But all that changed when Fidel Castro took over Cuba in 1959, hence, having a significant rise in immigration from Cuba to the United States. Over the years thousands of Cubans fleeing Cuba on makeshift boats has become a routine to the United States. But the most important of the Cuban migration has happened in the past 40 to 50 years. Since then there were 4 major migration movements that distinguish this particular migration movement from others.…
“The following note is of interest as confirming and roughly measuring the common statement that prostitution in Cuba is almost confined to the class of foreign-born women. It was prepared for, but not included…
relations in Cuba. The jungle like remake of the Sugarcane fields present an image of distance and an illusion of naturally occurring. When in fact the sugarcane fields are not that far from these tourism posters that depict this island and are another way for the US to profit from this small Island. In addition the unproptionally top to bottom clutter is a way to identify with the struggle of a having a heavy load to care on such a small nation. Create profit for the US while also supplying their self with nessary resources to survie.…
The Cubans way of entering the United States was very dangerous and insecure. The first major wave of Cubans that were seen in the USA was from 1959-1960. Between these years there was a total of 250,000 that arrived to the United States. This group was called the “balsero” as Gonzalez calls them in his book. The “balseros” were supporters of ousted Batista government. However, soon there was a great number of educated, wealthy, and business owners whose land were confiscated by the new communist government in Cuba. This is the one unique reasoning that some Cubans have had to migrate to the USA. It’s rare to see high class citizens migrate to other countries, it's usually the lower class people that are looking for a better life. This comes to show that the communist government had a great effect on all the different classes in Cuba. Which is one of the unique migration patterns Cuba has had compared to other immigrants from other countries. The second major wave of Cuban immigrants that arrived to the U.S. was in the mid 1960’s to 1970’s. In this wave, we saw 300,000 undocumented Cubans arriving to the U.S. “The refuges of the 1960s and 1970s were largely from the upper and middle classes and brought with them enormous technical skills”. Later, Castro closed down all private properties. This made more Cubans rebel against the revolution; it was the low class, middle class, and skill workers…