I was a teenager just living her life like the rest of her peers. I never thought just how important a person's background could be. That was until I moved here, to New York. I was born and raised in the Dominican Republic. So, there are a lot of significant holidays and dates, which I never...

The Dominican Republic is unique from all other Latin American nations in part, because its heritage relates to Haitian cultural traditions rather than solely Spanish ones, much like the rest of Latin America (Brown & Standish, 1999). In fact, the Dominican Republic received its independence from Ha...

Howard Zinn looks at not only the history of the conquerors, rulers, leaders; but also the history of the enslaved, the oppressed, and the led. Like any American history book covering the time period of 1942 until the early 1760's, what is said in the first chapter of A People's History...