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Ronald Donaldon's Film Thirteen Days and Conflict Theory

escalate into World War III; if he did nothing or offered a weak response, the balance of power would clearly shift in the directi...

Various Cultures and Views on Spirituality and Death

that deny death and try to defy it. In the United States for example a great deal of money is spent on prolonging life. Every minu...

Latin America and the Foreign Policy of the United States

is evidence that the U.S. actually supported the revolution. Supposedly, President Kennedy uttered words which would be aligned wi...

The Importance of Cultural Skills in Reaching Multicultural Students

chief factor in effective learning in a multicultural classroom. The hypothesis can be presented that:...

Hispanic Cultures in the United States

different and tied to their country of origin. II. Mexican Americans Mexican Americans, as well as Puerto Rican and Cuban Amer...

Robert F. Kennedy's 'Thirteen Days'

This paper consists of 14 pages and provides both a book review and a glimpse into the Cuban Missile Crisis as seen through the ey...

Cuban Americans and Their Positive Contributions

Mexican-Americans; in Miami, mainly Cuban-Americans; in New York, mainly Puerto-Ricans, whose commonwealth has a unique status in ...

Cuban Artist Paul Sierra

Gallery, 2002). The human conditions, his paintings seem to say, tend to be in chains and bound, no matter what country these huma...

Post Second World War and Global History

that the Russians "made very serious mistakes" (Booth 37). In an attempt to avert a secret attack, President Kennedy ordered Prem...

Role of the Jupiter Missile in the Cuban Missile Crisis

its joint landbased and shipboard capabilities. Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson announced the development plans on Novembe...

Cuban Missile Crisis '13 Days' in October 1962

door was opened, it had the potential for opening the door to other opportunistic countries as well. President Kennedy finally cam...

Kennedy's Role in the Cuban Missile Crisis

verified in the CIAs own records.) At the last minute, Kennedy called off the air strikes but that message did not reach the more...

Cuban American Community and Assimilation

the beginning of our history. According to popular belief, the U.S. has actually been more successful than other countrie...

Cold War Intelligence and Russian Spy Oleg Penkovsky

writes that he was a particularly important source during the Cuban missile crisis. Ultimately, however, Penkovsky became more id...

Overview of Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution

In eight pages this paper examines the events that culminated in the Cuban Revolution, its outcome, and the disagreements surround...

The Cuban Missile Crisis and the U.S. 'Grand Strategy'

In ten pages this paper considers the evaluation of the Cuban Missile Crisis that is presented in Donald Kagan's book The American...

1962's Cuban Missile Crisis and the Central Intelligence Agency's Role

In six pages this paper examines the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 in a consideration of the role the CIA played both pro and con. ...

The Cuban Environment for Business

A socialist government places heavy curbs on business. The first thing Castro did since taking power was to nationalize the holdin...

The Cuban Exile Community in America

and mental patients also arrived, but these were deliberately introduced by Castro to bedevil U.S. authorities and discredit the e...

Cuban Missile Crisis Perspectives

In five pages traditional, revisionist, and post revisionist perspectives on the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis are presented. Five so...

The Cuban-American National Foundation (CANF)

This paper examines the history and impact of the CANF. The author discusses figures such as Jorge Mas Canosa, founder of the fou...

Sugar Production in Colonial Cuba and its Effects on Slavery and Business

This paper presents an overview of sugar production in Cuba during the country's colonial era. The author notes the various impac...

Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia and the Cold War

In five pages this paper examines how the characters in the novel were affected by the Cold War between the U.S. and the Cuba of F...

Fulgencio Batista, Fidel Castro, and the Cuban Revolution

In twenty six pages this paper examines the events leading up to the Cuban Revolution in a consideration of Fidel Castro's organiz...

Gustav Firmat's Ano que viene estamos en Cuba, by Gustav Firmat Along With a Rough Translation in Spanish

In five pages the Cuban Firmat's description of his life in America in terms of his perspective on old and new homelands, culture,...

World War I and the Cuban Missile Crisis

Diplomatic crises World War I and the Cuban Missile Crisis are contrasted and compared. Eight sources are cited in the bibliograp...

Color Blue and Dreaming in Cuban by Christina Garcia

The significance of the color blue in Garcia's text is contemplated in eight pages. There are no other sources listed....

Women in Castro's Cuba

percentage of women possess the knowledge and ability to support themselves in high ranking careers; however, the patriarchal soci...

U.S.-USSR Relations and the Cuban Missile Crisis

Most people are familiar with the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. This paper examines relations between the USSR and the United Stat...

Cuba of Fidel Castro

Castro's Cuba is examined in terms of the book and subsequent documentary about Castro's 1959 Cuban Revolution and discusses the f...