Puerto Rico Essays

Roberto Clemente, a renowned Latin American baseball player with an impressive track record, spent 18 exceptional years playing for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Born on August 18, 1934 in Carolina, Puerto Rico to Melchor and Dona Luisa Clemente as the youngest of six children, his ancestors were Puerto Rican laborers who worked on coffee and sugar […]

Intangible But Impossible to Go Beyond “Cloud Cover Caribbean” tells us the story: a Haitian, Antenor, fled his country on a small boat. During this unpredictably dangerous sea adventure, he rescued a Dominican, Diogenes, and a Cuban, Carmelo, who both shared the same dream with Antenor of going to Miami to start a new life. […]

When I was Puerto Rican is a memoir of Esmeralda Santiago’s (referred to as Negi in the book) childhood and how she overcame her struggles after moving from her home country of Puerto Rico to The United States. She lived a poor life in Santurce, Puerto Rico for 13 years before her mother decided to […]

America gained territorial possession of Puerto Rico in 1889. Puerto Rico declared them as a common wealth. There are several reasons why it would be easy to change Puerto Rico from being a U. S. territory to a U. S. state. Puerto Ricans were officially U. S. citizens after the United States military took the […]

Perception of “others” reflected attending Miss Columbia’s School House The document provides a preview of a Hawaii with a British flag and Miss Canada both who are outside the gate. In the photo, Miss Columbia is holding a pickaninny being prodded by a weapon-wielding pupil. This therefore brings out the perceptions of others as being […]

Facts about women sterilization Female sterilization is one of the many procedures of birth control and usually takes several forms. First, there is the method that involves tying, obstructing or the removal of the fallopian tubes or tubal sterilization as it is commonly referred. Then there is hysterectomy that involves the removal of the uterus […]

The literary duality of Puerto Rico is depicted via food and mango in particular. Carlotta awards a mango to Mercedes the merely girl who makes friends with her within the convent school. The mango is at first given to Carlotta as a reward for being branded the first Creole sovereign of the city’s celebration. Finally […]

According to research conducted by Tagliaferro (2004), Puerto Rico’s history dates back to 1851. Originally called Puerto Rican, the island’s name was changed to Porto Rico by federal military forces in 1899. The residents of Puerto Rico faced severe poverty and heavily relied on agriculture for their livelihood. According to studies by Tagliaferro (2004), the […]

The Spanish-American war lasted for a few months, from April to August in 1898 but has a lot of significance in history. The American military had an easy time during the war and it only took them a few battles to defeat the Spanish soldiers. The war caused into positive strategic and economic results. Cuba […]

Inequality still remains a source of great anguish as the primary cause and spread of conflict. Generally, in a society that seeks to proclaim freedom, unlimited mobility, and individualism, inscriptive lines of gender and race appears to contradict and this has influenced the association amongst the Africans, Mexicans, and Native Americans. Absolutely, distinct speeches, texts, […]

Introduction As argued by Marquardt (2001), it is true that currently the state of our favorite banana is bad. They may be doomed and be replaced by new varieties. The bananas in the average U.S. grocery store are pretty much the same. They are the genetic variety known as Cavendish. However, in some nearby markets […]