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    My Aim in Life

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    Effects and Developments of the Forced Migration of Africans Europe and the New World: Though the effect on Africa due to the slave trade was very negative‚ in the Americas it was the exact opposite. As population decreased in Africa‚ it increased in the Americas. Even today‚ approximately one tenth of our population can trace its roots back to an imported slave. The demographic effects of the slave trade varied on the area. In the British West Indies‚ for example‚ the proportion of people descendent

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    History of Salsa

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    lacked Cuban spices. According to Valdés‚ the word served as a type of protest against bland food. It then flourished as a popular nickname for a variety of Hispanic influenced music including the rhumba‚ Són‚ Montuno‚ Guaracha‚ Mambo‚ Cha‚ cha‚ cha‚ Merengue‚ Guajira‚ Cumbia and others. Increased syncretism in New York occurred of the different sounds. In addition‚ there was greater investment and promotion of salsa‚ which generated more commercial music. However‚ the term did not really take off until

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    Timba Sasa Style

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    Salsa is a style of music and dance practice by different cultures on all over the world. Salsa is way of communicating others who you are‚ not only by singing also by dancing. Different cultures have different way of singing and dancing salsa. Sometime‚ even though people are from the same culture they have different ways of transmitting salsa music and dance. Salsa is a very unique style that can be projected as romantic melody or very energetic and dynamic. When Africans arrived to Cuba

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    never actually did win‚ but I was addicted to the possibility of wealth. While on the first Saturday of every month‚ my family and I would go to the cinema and watch a new Charlie Chaplin movie. The other Saturdays‚ I spent at home listening to the merengue tunes of “Era Gloriosa” and “Que viva el Jefe” on the radio while reading La Naciόn Trujillo newspaper on the patio of my home. The highlights of the newspaper were always Angelita’s coronation‚ the Free World Fair of Peace‚ Flor de Oro’s adventures

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    Immigration Paper

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    Table of Contents Introduction – Pages 2-3 Ethnicity – Pages 3–5 Immigration – Pages 5-10 Conclusion – Page 10 Works Cited – Page 11 James Marty 11/8/11 Professor Clement Mbom Core 3101 Literature‚ Ethnicity‚ and Immigration *Topic – 8-10 page paper on Ethnicity & Immigration James Marty 11/8/11 Professor Clement Mbom Core 3101 Literature‚ Ethnicity‚ and Immigration Introduction: From the air we breathe to the food we eat‚ we as people are all the

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    Zumba

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    an idea of what this new exercise craze was all about. It actually started back in the 1990’s‚ when a dance instructor‚ Alberto Perez‚ forgot the music he was supposed to use for an aerobics class. He ended up improvising his dance class‚ by using merengue and salsa music instead. After seeing the success it had in Colombia‚ Perez moved to the United States in 2001 in an attempt to get his new dance concept discovered. Zumba became a huge hit among the fitness world. It includes slow and fast rhythm

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    Baseball: The American Pastime in the Dominican Republic One hundred and forty years after American-influenced Cubans fled their home island during the Ten Years’ War and brought baseball to the Dominican Republic (D.R.)‚ the sport is thriving in the impoverished nation. In the sport’s top professional league‚ Major League Baseball (MLB)‚ more current players were born in the Dominican Republic than any other country besides the United States‚ where 29 of the 30 MLB teams are based (Gregory 2010)

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    English 224 Masculinity What defines Masculinity? To be the “man” not be afraid and be strong. Ideas of what a man is suppose to act like and be. Masculinity is what led to the downfall of Oscar Wao’s life. Junot Diaz emphasizes sex as a big part in being a typical Dominican male. What it means to be a Dominican male‚ to be attractive and smooth with the ladies‚ to have charm and be able to woo them‚ and most of all sexually active. Dominican men as Yunior would put it must be able to get laid

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    LATIN AMERICAN DANCE MUSIC INTRODUCTION Latin America thrives on its culture. Its dance and music is known to be very sexy and promiscuous‚ and is recognizable by anyone familiar with dance. Latin American music has had a large influence on the form the dances have today. It was the mariachi bands of Mexico that stirred up the quick paced rhythms and playful movements at the same time that Cuba was embracing similar musical and dance styles. Traditional dance was blended with new‚ modern ways of

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