Cuba Gooding

Cuba, a place of beauty and wonders, is also home to people of different ethnic and national backgrounds. It is a complicated mixture of different factors and influences that often contradict each other. Their customs are based mainly in the European culture with African and American influences. A land full of music, fishing, and all around beaches. A vacation away from home. A land many hope to one-day visit. In the Cuban culture, affection is demonstrated by touch. It is not considered a…

States and the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear war over the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba. It was a direct and dangerous confrontation that placed the two superpowers closest to a nuclear conflict. During the crisis, a fragile peace hung by only a thread for 13 days as the United States instituted a naval blockade of Cuba to turn back Soviet ships, and work to turn back the armament of Cuba with offensive nuclear, and tactical weapons within the Western Hemisphere. There were…

people, the year 1959 changed the course of their entire future when the Cuban Government under President Fulgencio Batista was toppled by a guerrilla army lead by Fidel Castro and the Movimiento 26 de Julio–the 26th of July Movement–became reality in Cuba. The subsequent government that replaced the Batista regime was lead exclusively by the leaders of this revolution and everything that the government embodied–everything from its policies, its politicians, and all the way down to those on the…

to be blinded by imperialism and arrogance during the Cold War. How can the United States be considered the world’s greatest democracy when we solely desired world domination? For example, we went to war with the Philippines in Cuba just to protect our acquisition of Cuba, essentially so we could show our version of democracy. The terms associated with democracy include equality, prosperity, and peace yet we did the opposite by getting involved in wars and taking over possessions that didn’t…

Knowing that Cuba was growing more of a threat by the minute, President Kennedy was being pressured to make a move that would hopefully stop Castro’s revolution. The solution to this was an operation named the Bay of Pigs which occurred in 1956. JFK found this perfect…

The first prehispanic migration to Cuba happened in 8000 BC hunters from North America and Latin America discovered the island then. But in 4500 BC Latin and South America came to occupy it and control the south coast of Cuba. The Third migration in 500 BC was from North America. On October the 28th in 1492 Christopher Columbus found the island of Cuba and claimed it for Spain but before he got there. There were a bunch of Indians living there. The long and enduring voyage took the…

There are many possible reasons for why the USSR chose to place their nuclear weapons in Cuba whether it be to protect them or us them. The Cubans happily accepted the soviet military onto their island even when it drew them deeper into a war with the US. Both the Cuban leader Castro and Khrushchev said different things as to why they had missiles in Cuba. They main reason as to why the soviets placed was to bargain with USA. They believed that Kennedy was a weak and novice leader. Khrushchev…

However, this is not the case. Columbus never stepped foot, nor recorded seeing any part of North America. Though all the land Columbus did discover, he thought was a part of Asia due to his own distance miscalculations. Columbus even believed that Cuba was mainland China, and Venezuela was an island! This is why the term the West Indies and the…

Communist imagery and text appear in two contexts in Cuba, one, satirical and the other, its intended “proper” use in political propaganda. This essay will juxtapose the use of word and image in propaganda art of the Cuban revolution and the post-socialist conceptual art of the 90s that emerged in indirect and sometimes overtly direct response to it. Due to the regime’s strict control over the media, art has become one of the only spaces where critique of the government can sneak through, mostly…

The construction of the Nicaraguan Inter-Oceanic Canal raises several controversial social, environmental, political, and geoeconomic concerns for Nicaragua, its people, and the international community. Opponents are concerned about the potential for irreversible environmental damage, the disruption of indigenous communities, and the involvement of a private Chinese company that was given the 50-year concession to build and operate the canal. Proponents cite the canal as the only viable option…