Dominican Republic Geography

The Dominican Republic is divided culturally between the French Haitians and the Spanish Dominicans, which started in the colonial times and continues thereafter. The racism became more intensified under the regime of Rafael Trujillo in 1930. Due to Trujillo’s racism against Haitians, he made it so any person who is Haitian in the Dominican Republic from 1929 and forward has no nationality in the Dominican. He did this by taking their birth papers and considering them to be “in transit”, this means they have just traveled to the Dominican Republic for work. He also enforced the border dispute, by not allowing anyone without birth papers to pass the border; Haitians could only stay on one side of the island. Lastly, he knew that the Haitians had a hard time speaking Spanish, due to their French background therefore, another test he would allow soldiers to perform is the rolling of the “r” in the Spanish word for parsley. According to The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Trujillo has violated several articles that include nationality, legal standing, freedom to move within the borders of each states, and

The Dominican Republic is a beautiful island located on a larger piece of land called Hispaniola. The tropical land takes up two-thirds of Hispaniola which equals out to be roughly 19,000 square miles, while its sister island, Haiti, takes up the rest. According to an article by world atlas, there are four significant mountain ranges. Lesser ranges cover the northern coastlines, and the southwestern border areas with Haiti (World Atlas). The Dominican Republic lies between the

“It’s different cultures that make the world go ‘round at the end of the day.” This famous

In society many find that males hold dominance and make all of the major choices. This is just a stereotype that many people seem to believe. There are many stereotypes for a variety of concepts but that does not mean they are true. There are few females that stand up against sexist stereotypes, but for the few people who have spoken out against them literature has been an effective way of getting their message out. Feminism has impacted literature in several ways; it allows people to share their messages about stereotypes. In the book In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez there are many times when feminism is present, along with the many stereotypes found in the Dominican culture.

The Dominican Republic is a very interesting country. The most popular sport in the Dominican Republic is baseball. There are more than 800,00 children that play organized baseball in the Dominican. Many famous baseball stars are from the Dominican including Yordano Ventura, David Ortiz, Albert Pujols, Sammy Sosa and many more. My favorite baseball player from the

Caribbean Sea separates the Dominican Republic from Puerto Rico.This beautiful island is boarded right by Haiti on the left side.The Atlantic Ocean is right above

Important researches about the history of the Caribbean shows significant geographical information about the second largest island in the Caribbean also known as the Hispaniola, which contains two separate countries; Dominican Republic and Haiti. This two countries are similar in several ways; for example, both share an impressive history about their colonialism and slavery. Even

In The Time Of Butterflies was written by Julia Alvarez. Julia Alvarez is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. She wrote In the time of Butterflies in 1994. The book divided into four sections, which make the sisters to have their own sections. The story took place in Dominican Republic during President Trujillo’s dictatorship government. Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina, nicknamed El Jefe, ruled the Dominican Republic for 31 years. He organized secret police mento torture, and murder people who stood against him. Trujillo directed all crucial industries, and financial organizations. He murdered roughly 10,000 Haitian people. He ruled the people in his own way. Many revolutionary people stood up against him, but they didn’t last long. All of this conflicts led the Mirabel sisters to joined

The pursuit of social justice is a core social work value. Social workers advocate social justice for equality by participating in activities that are injustices. Every person is an individual that has many identities. Social justices issues is on social group identities, or socialization which is the way people are categorized in a society based in their characteristics, such as race, gender, religion, age, and social economic class. Everyone should have equal opportunities and values with respect. However, that is not the case. Rather appreciating social differences, we are socializae with some social identities being better than others. All social groups experience some sort of privilege and oppression. “Privilege exists when one groups has something of

The nation not only faced hardships in America, but with various countries. While dealing with life in the U.S., Johnson also had to address issues with other leaders. One of these issues would include the involvement with Latin America. When Cuban Communist Dictator Fidel Castro demanded back Guantanamo Naval Base and shut off the water to the installation, LBJ ordered the Navy to create its own water supply. This caused the Cubans to stand down against the Americans.

“Dominican dictator, Trujillo, established the “Dominicanization” program in 1937. The objective of this program was to increase the Dominican presence in the new border delimitation with Haiti” (Wise 168). The Dominican government thought of the Haitian presence in the border as a threat to their nations and the Hispanic identity of the Dominican Republic, furthermore, the Dominican government was concerned about Haiti achieving economic control and success in the border area. Therefore, this program was based on an attempt of nationalism in order to increase the national identity on the Dominican people. This program created the racial issues in Hispaniola. The Dominican government started cultural campaigns and used the Catholic Church as an attempt to fight against Haitian Voodoo, this with the purpose to enforce Dominicans cultural ideals and to remove any Haitian sentiment. In October 1937, the intensification of this racial conflict resulted in mass killings in which Dominican dictator, Trujillo, massacred more than 25,000 Haitians along the border. “Trujillo’s soldiers used their guns to intimidate but not to kill. For that, they used machetes, knives, picks, and shovels so as not to leave bullets in the corpses” (Wucker 48). If they would use machetes and knives, there would be no prove that the soldiers were who assassinated these people, instead, it would be easier to

From 1931 to 1961 the Dominican Republic was under the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. Born in 1891 Trujillo was raised in San Cristobal and in a middle class family. Wanting to escape his rural life Rafael Trujillo joined the army and through force was deemed the highest office possible. After his time in the military Trujillo placed himself as a candidate in the presidential elections and “organized a secret police force to torture and murder supporters of the opposing candidate. Not surprisingly, Trujillo won the election by a landslide” (Rafael Trujillo Biography, 2014). While this was happening the people of the Dominican Republic didn’t know. To them he won fair and square, and he was going to take care of their country. This was the first of many of wicked Trujillo's unfair stunts he pulled on the people of the Dominican Republic. Only one hundred and forty miles away from the Dominican Republic was the little country of Haiti. Due to the two countries being so close to each other, naturally some Haitians lived in the Dominican Republic and vise versa. September of

Moving to Dominican Republic as a young American came with many challenges. One of the main challenges was crime; crime is one of the biggest problems for tourist. I moved to the Dominican Republic at the age of 11 with my parents. I was in middle school when I had my first close encounter with crime during the summer, a week right before school started. I was robbed by two assailants, one on a motorcycle and the other man was walking. I remember that day in particular; because it was the first time I actually wanted to walk around to get familiar with the neighborhood. As I was walking farther away from my house, I noticed a motorcycle behind me, I didn’t think I had anything to worry about and right before I could blink the man on the motorcycle,

Growing up in Haiti, I was introduced to different cultures through arts. Haitian culture is rich and vibrant it’s a mix of African, Spanish, and French culture combined, creating the creole culture. As a result, I learned Haitian creole, Spanish, French, and English. Arts are a tremendous part of what make the Haitian culture. Such as “rara” is a form of festival music that is used for a street procession, typically during Easter week. They showcase their arts through their dance and clothes. I used to travel to the Dominican Republic and the United Sates for summer vacation. In the Dominican Republic, my parents use to take business trips and purchase merchandises for the supermarket they own in Haiti. I learned the language and the culture

Growing up in a small town surrounded by forest and animals, made me fall in love with the idea of wildlife, and taking care of it. I always thought that taking care of the wildlife was an awesome thing to do, but now I see that paying too much attention to the them might a danger to their existence. There is tours to the wild to see these animals which affect them in a lot of ways. We should tightly limit ecotourism in Costa Rica because it had negative impacts on wildlife, such as interrupting their environments, breaking their habits, shortening their life cycle.