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Oral history interview with Angel Gabriel Rivera García, November 2022
Oral history interview with Angel Gabriel Rivera García, November 2022
dc.coverage.location | Mayagüez, Puerto Rico | |
dc.creator | Rivera García, Angel Gabriel (Narrator) | |
dc.creator | Torres Vega, Andrea S. (Interviewer) | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-01-23T18:38:19Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-01-23T18:38:19Z | |
dc.date.created | 2022-11 | |
dc.description.abstract | Angel Rivera García is a 20-year-old UPRM student studying Electrical Engineering. He loves to spend time with his family and has two younger siblings. Angel and his family were safe during the hurricane and nothing major happened to their house. The story contains an interesting description of how there was a sudden calmness during the natural disaster, which was the eye of the hurricane. During this, they were able to go out for a while and see how everything was around their neighborhood. After the hurricane, he and his siblings had to find ways to maintain entertained during the time with no phone service or power, by playing board games, like Monopoly and card games. He describes how he and his dad had to cut up all the trees and branches that were left in the ground around his neighborhood after the hurricane. Angel’s dad works in Claro, and he and the company put up the infrastructure of antennas to provide phone service to the community. He tells us how the families were so grateful to the workers after they regained communication with their loved ones. It was an emotional moment for his dad, and his sacrifice paid off. | en |
dc.description.abstract | Angel Rivera García es un estudiante de Ingeniería Eléctrica de la UPRM de 20 años. Le encanta pasar tiempo con su familia y tiene dos hermanos menores. Angel y su familia estuvieron a salvo durante el huracán y no pasó nada importante en su casa. La historia contiene una descripción interesante de cómo hubo una calma repentina durante el desastre natural, que fue el ojo del huracán. Durante esto, pudieron salir un rato y ver cómo estaba todo alrededor de su vecindario. Después del huracán, él y sus hermanos tuvieron que encontrar formas de mantenerse entretenidos durante el tiempo sin servicio telefónico ni electricidad, jugando juegos de mesa, como Monopoly y juegos de cartas. Describe cómo él y su papá tuvieron que cortar todos los árboles y ramas que quedaron en el suelo alrededor de su vecindario después del huracán. El papá de Angel trabaja en Claro, y él y la empresa montaron la infraestructura de antenas para dar servicio telefónico a la comunidad. Nos cuenta cómo las familias estaban tan agradecidas con los trabajadores después de que recuperaron la comunicación con sus seres queridos. Fue un momento emotivo para su padre y su sacrificio valió la pena. | es |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work was created as part of the project “Listening to Puerto Rico: The Promise of Oral History On-Campus and Beyond,” funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Award number ZDH-284106-22. | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11801/3015 | |
dc.language | en | |
dc.publisher | Oral History Lab @UPRM | |
dc.rights.holder | (c) 2022 Angel Gabriel Rivera García, (c) 2022 Andrea S. Torres Vega | |
dc.rights.license | All rights reserved | |
dc.subject | Hurricane Maria aftermath | en |
dc.subject | Puerto Rican families | en |
dc.subject | COVID-19 | en |
dc.subject | College students | en |
dc.subject | Online teaching/learning | en |
dc.subject | Lack of supplies/resources | en |
dc.subject | Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) | en |
dc.subject | Consecuencias del huracán María | es |
dc.subject | Familias puertorriqueñas | es |
dc.subject | Estudiantes universitarios | es |
dc.subject | Enseñanza/aprendizaje en línea | es |
dc.subject | Falta de suministros/recursos | es |
dc.title | Oral history interview with Angel Gabriel Rivera García, November 2022 | en |
dc.title.alternative | Entrevista de historia oral con Angel Gabriel Rivera García, noviembre de 2022 | es |
dc.type | Oral history | |
dspace.entity.type | Publication |
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