Deep in Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico, called by most the island of enhancement. Called by most of us the best place to live and the happiest world on earth. Even though our opinion in other parts of the world they have negative aspect of Puerto Rico. Criminality, economy, poverty, unemployment, etc.; are most of the reason that the world have a negative image of Puerto Rico. But what if they could see the bright side of Puerto Rico? What if they could see deep inside of the persons that compound this beautiful island? Puerto Rico is not only problems, criminality and bad economy, Puerto Rico is full of persons that are always ready to extend their hand to needed one, of persons that always are always trying to make other people happy even though their situations and of persons always try to find the positive side to everything.

Is pretty difficult to find a puertorican that actually says, “I wished I’ve never was born in this island”. We puertoricans are pretty patriotic and we always are going to defend our island to any negative comment of us. Not only in the island puertorican are patriotic, they are also all around the world constantly defending the ideals, persons and situations here in Puerto Rico. In an article by Peter Roberts, called “The Roots of Caribbean Identity: Language, Race and Ecology” he wrote and quote; “The identity of any human can be specified by using, singly or in combination, many different universal criteria, e.g. sex, age, religion. However, in the modern, political world human beings are automatically identified with a country, and national identity is generally established by place of birth or place of residence”. So my message to all the persons that make negative comments of Puerto Rico is not to come a visit the beautiful places this island has, but go deep in Puerto Rico to really discover what really Puerto Rico, the island of enchanment, is really made of.

Dead Poets Society, Knox Overstreet Internal and External Journey

 The past wednseday September 10 the class had the opportunity to see the great movie classic “Dead’s Poets Society” in which appeared recently dead star and loved actor, Robin Williams. As part of the character journal for this movie I chose Knox Overstreet. Knox recognizes the importance of individualism when he becomes infatuated with “Chris”, a girl that he has never actually met before. He became obsessed with “Chris” which already had a boyfriend, called Chet. He ends up risking his life in front of Chet to win her heart. Knox assumed individual authority of his choices and stop obeying traditional authority figures. As his internal journey, Knox didn’t undergo any kind of self-realization like Todd did. He just threw himself into the romanticism and used that as his interpretation of “carpe diem”.

In his external journey, he broke rules to see her, competed for her attention with her boyfriend, and sacrificed his relationship with his family.Knox can be called as the luckiest one of the characters in the movie as the only authority figure he face was Chet and it wasn’t the same kind of authority that Mr.Perry was to Neil or the school was to Nwanda. So maybe that is why things worked out better for Knox than Neil and Nwanda. Chris obviously does like the attention Knox gives her, and in the end, holds his hand at the play. Although this has a happy outcome, this is completely an example of romanticism. The main point is that Knox risked quite a lot for a girl he never really even talked to. Many times the “wanting” is more intense than the actual being in the situation.  Knox’s fearless mind will forever demonstrate the importance and necessity of self-discovery and individual growth to new generations of teenagers to come.

About me, Waldemar Dominguez

Who is Waldemar Dominguez? From here it comes? Well let’s start by his parents, Waldemar Dominguez Morales and Keila Soto Jaume. Both born and raised in Jayuya, a town in the deepest part of Puerto Rico.  And both were first generation college students in their family. They moved from Jayuya to Rio Piedras on 1996, where they received their first and only son, named after his dad, Waldemar. It was a hard task for Waldemar and Keila to study and on the same time raises a newborn child. After 5 years of studying and working both finished their degrees and moved to Dorado, where “Waldito’s” story began.

Waldemar started to play multiple sports like basketball, baseball and volleyball; he later on decided to play baseball. Born as an only son all the eyes of the family were on him. What is he going to play? How is he doing on school? What he is going to study? All of those questions were constantly asked by his family, which has always stood in sports manners. His parents were always behind him on study manners too and with their support help him to become an honor roll student since elementary school until high school. He later on was accepted in the University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus, the same college that his parents studied when he was just a little boy. He also got a scholarship on the college baseball team. He in currently completing a bachelor on natural sciences, with a specialization on chemistry. Waldemar is still on his familys eyes as the oldest nephew and grandson of the family. He have big task on he is shoulders to demonstrate what his capable of.