ENG100 - How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents: Introduction

Assignment

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  1. Research the Dominican dictator Trujillo using at least three secondary sources from the library and create a concrete timeline showing his rise and fall. By concrete, the timeline must be tangible, so you will need either a poster or poster board for submission. Compose a 300-word reflection in which you discuss how and why you used your sources in the timeline. (300 words)

 

 Possible search terms are:  Horacio Vasquez, Rafael Trujillo, Rafael Estrella Urena, Servicio de Inteligencia de Militar, Dominican   Republic, Parsley Massacre, Hull-Trujillo Treaty, Romulo Betancourt, Mirabal Sisters

 

How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents