The Voyages of Columbus Christopher Columbus started off on his first voyage from the port of Palos (near Huelva) in southern Spain‚ on August 3‚ 1492‚ in command of three ships: the Niña‚ the Pinta and the Santa Maria. His crew mostly came from surrounding towns such as Lepe and Moguer. Columbus called first at the Canary Islands‚ the westernmost Spanish possessions. He was delayed there for four weeks by calm winds and the need for repair and refit. Columbus left the island of Gomera on September
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A free person of color in the context of the history of slavery in the Americas‚ is a person of full or partial African descent who was not enslaved. In the United States‚ such persons were referred to as "free Negroes‚" though many were of mixed race . Free people of color was especially a term used in New Orleans and the former Louisiana Territory‚ where a substantial third class of primarily mixed-race‚ free people developed. There were also free people of color in Caribbean and Latin American
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Profiling On Fast-Growing Crime-Fighting Technologies Kenny Ozuna Cedano 11-0880 Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) Faculty of Sciences and Humanities Rhetoric and Composition (AHH-202) Santo Domingo‚ National District‚ Dominican Republic April 19th‚ 2013 Profiling On Fast-Growing Crime-Fighting Technologies Even though crime-fighting technologies give a broad advantage in police investigations‚ many citizens have arrived at the point of asking themselves whether its use will
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Latin American Perspectives http://lap.sagepub.com/ Tropical Blues : Tourism and Social Exclusion in the Dominican Republic Amalia L. Cabezas Latin American Perspectives 2008 35: 21 DOI: 10.1177/0094582X08315765 The online version of this article can be found at: http://lap.sagepub.com/content/35/3/21 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: Latin American Perspectives‚ Inc. Additional services and information for Latin American Perspectives can be found at: Email
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This has greatly effected the rural population by shrinking it steadily. About half of the total population is located between Santiago de los Caballeros and San Pedro de Macoris. Another 1/3 of the population is located in the capitol city of Santo Domingo and between the cities of La Romana and San Cristobal. The annual growth rate is estimated to be at 1.71% for the next couple of years until the year 2000. Mulattos form the largest ethnic group in the Dominican Republic being roughly 73% of the
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Las Casas Time Line 1484 Born in Seville to Pedro de Las Casas‚ a small merchant wealthy enough to send his son to learn Latin in the academy at the cathedral of Seville in 1497. Many older sources give 1474 as the year of his birth. 1502 Leaves Spain for Hispaniola in the West Indies with the governor‚ Nicolas de Ovando. He earns an encomienda for his participation in several expeditions and then proceeds to evangelize the Indians. 1506 Returns briefly to Europe where he is ordained a deacon
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Revolution shook the institution of slavery throughout the New World.[2] Toussaint Louverture began his military career as a leader of the 1791 slave rebellion in the French colony of Saint Domingue. Initially allied with the Spaniards of neighboring Santo Domingo‚ Toussaint switched allegiance to the French when they abolished slavery. He gradually established control over the whole island‚ expelled British invaders and used political and military tactics to gain dominance over his rivals. Throughout his
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there is no hope because the father is dead. In “Fiesta 1980” we can tell the story is told in the first person by and adolescent Latino boy. The story is mainly about the struggles of an immigrant family as they wake up from a nightmare in Santo Domingo only to find themselves in another nightmare‚ except this time it’s in America. Yunior’s dad is abusive and is pretty much a typical macho man. However the idea that the narrator creates from the story is a boy being starved by his father‚ not
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issue an embargo‚ regardless he implemented this in our relations around the world (Document E). Secondly‚ Jefferson displays his loose interpretation of the Constitution through the Louisiana Purchase. Because of Napoleon’s failure to reconquer Santo Domingo‚ his need for money in his war with Britain and his opposition to the idea that America would fall into the arms of Britain is Britain should gain
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