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Puerto Rico Labor Relations
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Spanish American War War With Spain
2,415 words... up du Lome was forced to resign over the matter, and tensions between the US and Spain increased. Six days after Hearst published the Lome letter, the USS Maine sailed into Havana harbor. The surprised Spanish, who had only been given a few hours notice that the Maine was coming, were quite upset. Although the Maine claimed to be on a friendly mission, it was a powerful warship. The Spanish authorities felt that the US was trying to intimidate them and was interfering with Spanish sovereignt...
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898 wordsYou are home alone. Silence does not match your personality so you decide to turn on a music station. You are listening to Latin music and you move to the rhythm. You cannot avoid it. You are dancing! The music has body and soul and it has taken over you. You close your eyes and feel the music that has moved your senses. While you listen to the sounds you recognize some musical instruments, but there is one unusual, and splendid sound unknown to you. The sound is vibrant and captivating. The ins...
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Bermuda Triangle Puerto Rico
1,054 wordsA legendary triangle of Ocean lies between 3 countries upon the Atlantic ocean. The Cities are Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Fort Lauderdale. Ships, people and aeroplanes have been reported mysteriously disappearing off the face of the earth whilst travelling inside this triangle. It soon acquired the name "Devils Triangle" owing to peoples superstitions that the devil was at play on this stretch of ocean and gobbling up weary and lost travellers with great delight, but what actually was at play insi...
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Y 2 K Face To Face
1,033 wordsComputers seem to control our lives. It is hard to live without a computer, and no matter how hard you try to remove yourself from computers, they always affect your life. Many people think it is good that computers make things simple. "The Jetsons" was a cartoon where computers controlled the world; their maid was a robot while a computer guided the family to do simple tasks, such as showering and styling hair. It seems that the Jetsons world would be an ideal world to live in, so looking at wh...
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Trade Agreement Nafta North American Free Trade Agreement
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1,085 wordsHispanic American Diversity Hispanic Americans are a large ethnic group that can be divided into four big sub-groups: Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Dominican Americans. The representatives of these groups can be known as Latinos, and have Spanish roots. First people of Hispanic background have appeared in the United States since 17 th century. It is the fastest-growing minority group in the United States. Though the representatives of four groups belong to the same Hispa...
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Federal Communications Commission Chancellor Media
5,003 wordsMedia do not simply present cultural products for consumption; they provide much of the stuff of every day life through which we construct meaning and organize our existence. Michael R. Real, Super Media DEFINING MOMENTS IN MASS MEDIA Newspapers. Media began with the written word... To date, the oldest existing written document dates back to 2200 B. C. By 500 B. C. Persia had developed a form of pony express and the Greeks had a telegraph system consisting of trumpets, drums, shouting, beacon fi...
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749 wordsChapter IV focuses on the presence of the Americans in Puerto Rico during the early part of the twentieth century and their subsequent development of the sugarcane industry there. During this time, the United States military occupied Puerto Rico. Due to this occupation, the native islanders were affected in numerous ways and were looked down upon by the Americans. The Americans viewed the natives as incompetent and unable to be trusted. Many new American banks were popping up in Guamani that wer...
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2,055 wordsA very massive group of levees may be all that is in the way of lower lying New Orleans and destruction with a visit from Hurricane Georges. Without the levee system and concrete flood walls Georges could have catastrophic effects in New Orleans. But with this man-made hurricane protection system protecting the city people. New Orleans is spared the casualties and damage past storms have wrought. The levee system is important because the city is like a saucer 6 feet below sea level and is surrou...
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Spanish American War U S Troops
1,079 wordsImperialism and Its Motives Imperialism began to grow just before the turn of the twentieth century. During this time America s businesses were growing and need more markets. The United States was becoming a world power, and with that some people felt there came obligations. The United States economic growth and powerful figured led to incidents overseas that caused war, especially the Spanish-American War. The nation was growing. Industry was doing well. Businesses were booming. The United Stat...
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577 wordsPublished in Mcclure's Magazine in February of 1899, Rudyard Kiplings poem, The White Mans Burden, appeared at a critical moment in the debate about imperialism within the United States. The Philippine-American War began on February 4 and two days later the U. S. Senate ratified the Treaty of Paris that officially ended the Spanish-American War, ceded Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines to the United States, and placed Cuba under U. S. control. Although Kiplings poem mixed refrain to empire w...
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Ponce De Leon Juan Ponce De
1,108 wordsJuan Ponce de Leon Juan Ponce de Leon was born in 1460, in Tierra de Campos Paleia, in Leon, Spain. He came from a noble family and entered the royal household as a page for Pedro Nunez de Guzman, at the Court of Aragon. Later, young Ponce de Leon would become a solider for Spain and fight in the battles to drive the Moors from Granada. In 1493, Leon sailed with Christopher Columbus on his second voyage to America. He was a member of the forces that enslaved the Indians in Hispaniola. This was t...
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Juan Ponce De Leon Puerto Rico
769 wordsJuan Ponce De Leon Juan Ponce De Leon was born 1474 in Terms de San Campos, Spain. He served as a page for a powerful lord. Schooled in warfare from an early age, he took part in many campaigns waged by the Spaniards to expel the Moors. In 1493, at the age of 19, he volunteered to accompany Columbus on his second voyage to the New World. They sailed through the island chain of the Lesser Antilles. Ponce spent the next few years as a soldier and distinguished himself for bravery. He also acted as...
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1,701 wordsJuan Ponce de Leon was born in 1460, in Tierra de Campos Paleia, in Leon, Spain (Ponce, 1996). He came from a noble family and entered the royal household as a page for Pedro Nunez de Guzman, at the Court of Aragon. Later, young Ponce de Leon would become a solider for Spain and fight in the battles to drive the Moors from Granada (Blassingame, 1991). In 1493, Leon sailed with Christopher Columbus on his second voyage to America (Ponce, 1996). He was a member of the forces that enslaved the Indi...
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2,036 wordsThe American media, through its choice of news content and manner of presentation, has changed and shaped the course of American history and American policy. The media? s powerful influence can be seen through its portrayal of major events like the Vietnam War, the Spanish-American War, the Tweed Ring, Watergate and several other minor events. Through the years the role of media in public affairs has changed as its influence has grown. When the media began, it had a political agenda. It was an o...
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Game Was Played Including But Not Limited
2,628 wordsThe Maya called it Pok-ta-pok. The Aztec called it Tlachtli. In Puerto Rico it was called Based. Though may cultures had it, and although they called it different things it was still the ball game. It is difficult to tell exactly what the Mesoamerican ball game was. Of course it was a game played with a rubber ball that weighed any where from six to ten pounds. The object of the game was to score points, more points than your opponent. The players had to bounce the ball to the place to score poi...
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293 wordsPonce de Leon Juan Ponce de Leon was born in 1460 in Spain. He fought for Spain in the battle which defeated the Moors of Granada as a teenager. In 1493 he traveled to the Americas with Christopher Columbus on his second, less famous, voyage to the New world. He fought in a battle on the island of Hispaniola against revolutionaries against Spain. His bravery in that battle was rewarded by King Ferdinand II of Spain. The reward for his role in the Spanish victory was a commission to explore the i...
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701 wordsA number of factors contributed to the U. S. decision to go to war against Spain. Since the early years of the 19 th century, many Americans had watched with sympathy the series of revolutions that ended Spanish authority throughout South America, Central America, and Mexico. Many people in the United States were irritated that the Spanish flag continued to fly in Cuba and Puerto Rico. The brutality with which Spain put down Cuban demands for a degree of local autonomy and personal liberty arous...
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