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Carmen Imbert Brugal
Carmen Altagracia Imbert Brugal (b. Ponce, Puerto Rico, 25 November 1955), is a Dominican jurist, author, journalist and columnist. Biography Early life and family Imbert was born during her mother's exile in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Her parents were Segundo Manuel Imbert Barrera (Major of the Dominican Army and the elder brother of General Antonio Imbert Barrera) and Martha Beatriz Brugal Mateos who was herself the daughter of immigrants from Spain and Cuba; her father was murdered by the Trujillo regime in 1961. She is the great-granddaughter of both Segundo Imbert (former Vice President of the Dominican Republic) and Andrés Brugal (a rum businessman born in Spain), and great-great-granddaughter of José María Imbert (a native of France). Career Imbert has a law degree ''magna cum laude'' from the '' Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña'' university (1978). Imbert Brugal has been a professor at '' Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña'', Universidad Iberoame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Electoral Board
The Central Electoral Board (Spanish: Junta Central Electoral, JCE) of the Dominican Republic is a special body of the government of the Dominican Republic responsible for ensuring a democratic and impartial electoral process, and also administer the civil registry, the marital status of all Dominican citizens. It was created in the year 1923 as part of the negotiations to end the first US intervention, and currently its functions are to organize the presidential, congress and of overseas deputies held on the third Sunday of May of each leap year, and municipal elections held on the third Sunday of February of each leap year. History Although there is not much historical material about the Central Electoral Board, it is known that it was created on April 12 of 1923 through Law No. 3413, and was incorporated into the Dominican Constitution with article 82 of the 1924 reform. It is currently regulated by article 212 of the 2015 Constitution. It is responsible for organizing the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Essay
An essay ( ) is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a Letter (message), letter, a term paper, paper, an article (publishing), article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have been sub-classified as formal and informal: formal essays are characterized by "serious purpose, dignity, logical organization, length," whereas the informal essay is characterized by "the personal element (self-revelation, individual tastes and experiences, confidential manner), humor, graceful style, rambling structure, unconventionality or novelty of theme," etc. Essays are commonly used as literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. Almost all modern essays are written in prose, but works in Poetry, verse have been dubbed essays (e.g., Alexander Pope's ''An Essay on Criticism'' and ''An Essay on Man''). While brevity usual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña Alumni
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Dominican Republic Women Writers
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People From Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominican Republic People Of German Descent
Dominican may refer to: Religious communities * Dominican Order, a Catholic order, formally the Order of Preachers * Anglican Order of Preachers, loosely referred to as Dominicans Dominican Republic * Dominican Republic, on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles, in the Caribbean ** Dominicans ** Demographics of the Dominican Republic ** Culture of the Dominican Republic Dominica * Dominica, an island nation in the Lesser Antilles, in the Caribbean ** Demographics of Dominica ** Culture of Dominica See also * * * Dominican College (other), the name of several colleges * Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology The Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology (DSPT) is a Catholic graduate school in Berkeley, California. It is a member of the interfaith Graduate Theological Union (GTU) and an affiliate of the University of California Berkeley. DSPT ..., Berkeley, California, United States * Dominican University (other) {{disambiguatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1956 Births
Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan after 57 years. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are killed for trespassing by the Waorani people of Ecuador, shortly after making contact with them. * January 16 – Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser vows to reconquer Palestine (region), Palestine. * January 25–January 26, 26 – Finnish troops reoccupy Porkkala, after Soviet Union, Soviet troops vacate its military base. Civilians can return February 4. * January 26 – The 1956 Winter Olympics open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. February * February 2 – Austria and Israel establish diplomatic Austria–Israel relations, relations. * February 11 – British Espionage, spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean (spy), Donald Maclean resurface in the Soviet Union, after being missing for 5 years. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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