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    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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    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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    Health “Parents Can Play an Active Role in the Identity Formation of Their Adolescent Children” Despite popular belief‚ when it comes to identity theory‚ adolescents are not the only factors involved in the formation of their development. A recent article published in Journal of Research on Adolescence shows that parents are active participants in the development of their child’s identity. Jonathan Ventura of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem‚ along with Doctor Elli Schachter‚ studied parent’s who

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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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    Modern-Day Review This is not a story of fairy-tale romance. Neither is it a tale of heroic endeavour. This is raw fiction at its finest; an exposé of the very core of human nature. In this novel entitled The End of the Affair‚ Graham Greene leaves no stone unturned‚ exploring the many facets of passion – love‚ hate‚ jealousy‚ truth‚ trust and faith‚ and then some more. It is a novel of infinite expression – Greene’s personal experiences provide this novel with the sort of depth that would

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    The Social Institution Of Religion The Church of Latter-Day Saints has a new policy on homosexuals‚ which is absolutely disgusting and inhumane. In the article“New Policy on Gay Couples and Their Children Roils Mormon Church” written by Laurie Goodstein is about the backlash they are facing due to these policies.It is completely discrimitory not only toward homosexuals‚ but toward their children as well. It makes their children choose between their parents and the church. Whether this is due to inequality

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    The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a time of consistent danger‚ stress‚ and constant conflicts between the United States and the Soviet Union. This was a moment when the two states came closest to nuclear war. After the United States failed to dethrone the Castro regime using the Bay of Pigs invasion‚ the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev made a secret agreement with the Cuban premier Fidel Castro. The plan was to place Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba to prevent any attempted invasions.

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    dissatisfaction and Spain’s inability to provide pivotal developmental support which saw the introduction of the United States as a dominant force in Cuban society‚ based on Ramon Ruiz analysis in ‘Cuba: The Making of the 1959 Revolution’. According to Campbell and Cateau‚ the United States became active in Cuba through providing input‚ purchasing the majority of Cuban produced sugar and vast investment in the country’s sugar and tobacco industries as well as the railroad‚ banking‚ electricity and telephone

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