Milcha Sanchez-Scott’s The Cuban Swimmer starts in media res: Margarita Suárez‚ a 19-year-old swimmer‚ is competitively swimming in a race from San Pedro to San Catalina while her family guides her way from a boat. With the support and on-going praise of her loved ones and her passion for the sport‚ Margarita Suárez vigorously pushes herself through the cold Pacific Ocean not only to achieve her hopes‚ dreams‚ and the prize‚ but also to bring her family pride and honor. While she does stand up for
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The history of Fidel Castro’s and the Cuban Revolution‚ has left many of the citizens of Cuba in great debate over his legacy. Castro can be credited for the anti-Batista movement‚ were he and his fellow members of the coalition‚ overthrew U.S.-backed dictator‚ Fulgencio Bastita on December 31‚ 1958. Castro‚ can also be proclaimed as the man who put an end to racism within the developing nation. He also implemented a national literacy campaign. However‚ as the year’s progress‚ questions remain
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Castro’s government‚ the public health sector in Cuba was extremely flawed due to political instability‚ corruption‚ and violence (Hirschfeld‚ 2006). Under Batista‚ the health care system was privatized and although Cuba had well trained doctors‚ many Cubans were at a disadvantage. Majority of the health care facilities and services were located in the cities‚ hence leaving those in the rural areas without easy access to health care. (Curious Case of Cuba) As part of being a government with socialist
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The objectives of the Cuban revolution were made around the overall goal of improved life for the citizens. Although the objectives were not perfectly successful‚ the essence of each goal has been met in most cases. The first objective was simple liberation‚ with Che Guevara claiming that this was the path to take if citizens wanted to live in an improved society. The hope for the new society spread as Cuba went through a second phase‚ practical socialism. To achieve this‚ land was equally divided;
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unaccompanied children crossing the southern US border and the Middle Eastern refugees fleeing into Europe. Another lurking possibility is that Raul Castro might imitate his brother’s previous actions in the 1980 Mariel Boatlift in which more than 100‚000 Cuban citizens came to South Florida in a matter of a few months. Hidden in this deluge of humanity was the fact that Fidel Castro emptied his prison and mental health populations into the mass migration. Ian Smith‚ an attorney working for the Immigration
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In analyzing Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban‚ it was apparent that the ideas and assertions presented in Thomas C. Foster’s chapter “It’s Never Just Heart Disease...And Rarely Just Illness” are relevant in this novel. In applying the assertions from Foster’s chapter‚ one can conclude each character’s “mental illness” reflects their views on identity in addition to allowing the author to expose their true identity and character. In his chapter‚ Thomas C. Foster presents assertions that disease
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The Impact of the Cuban Trade Embargo By: Natalie Bell 2/25/09 [pic] International Business Law BLAW 4320 [pic] Cuba‚ the largest island nation in the Caribbean just ninety miles off the coast of Florida‚ experienced many difficult struggles through its extensive history. It was the last major Spanish colony to gain independence‚ following a lengthy struggle that was begun in 1868. It was in 1898 when the U.S. intervened
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Cuban Missile Crisis Paper The United States & The Soviet Union: Leadership perspective during the Cuban Missile Crisis The Cuban Missile crisis between the United States‚ The Soviet Union‚ and Cuba was one of the most politically tense and hectic periods of time in American and world history. Throughout the decades‚ many historians have addressed and studied many facts regarding what the Cuban Missile Crisis would have symbolized for the world‚ had there been any nuclear attacks from
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other city in the United States. The majority of Latin’s being of Cuban descent. Since the Cuban revolution there have been constant waves of immigrating Cubans to Miami. The result has been a Cuban American society that has created culture diversity within. In order to understand the Cuban American culture you must understand its ethnic origin‚ politics‚ and the varying times of immigration. CUBAS ETHNIC ROOTS AND ORIGINS The Cuban population consists of a variety of ethnic origins. In the early
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is an interesting sight‚ the fact is that Cubans drive these old cars out of necessity rather than choice. In the first part of the 20th century‚ most new vehicles came to Cuba from the United States. This influx of cars stopped in late 1959 when economic reforms by the Cuban government‚ led by Fidel Castro‚ prevented Cubans from buying cars on credit. The subsequent U. S. trade embargo‚ instituted in October of 1960 in response to Cuba’s seizure of U. S. owned properties ensured that new vehicle
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