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Caribbean Islands
Drug trade in the Caribbean Islands
Scenario 1: The political scene
Unfortunately for those aiming to stop the drug exodus from the Caribbean islands into the United States and the drug trade in the region, it has often been the Continue Reading...
Caribbean Art
Competing Visions of the Caribbean
When we look at art, it is looking back at us. More than this, it is reflecting who we are and who we would like to be -- and who we think that other people are. The current exhibition Caribbean: Cro Continue Reading...
Caribbean and Filipino Culture
Culture is in the Details
An old expression is that the "devil is in the details," and this is as true in the field of human behavior as it is in any other arena. If one examines any arena of human behavior as it pres Continue Reading...
Caribbean cuisine is a rich stew of geographic, political and cultural influence. The different colonial cultures all make a contribution to the cuisines, and local ingredients play a significant role. In addition, the African and Indian workers brou Continue Reading...
Caribbean History
According to Orlando Patterson it "is astonishing how the Washington and New York elites, the people who benefit most from the improvement of the United Sates, are so out of sync with it, endlessly talking about how things are gett Continue Reading...
Caribbean literature has been considered to reflect its political, cultural and linguistic fragmented region; this is due to its uniquely diverse and varied background (Jonnasaint, 2007). The Caribbean nations have undergone periods of long colonizat Continue Reading...
Haiti Jamaica Comparison
Jamaica and Haiti share a common history of British and American influence. While both countries have been subject to a degree of political and economic instability, Haiti has a lengthy history of political oppression and ec Continue Reading...
This system of government, with the many separate offices or audiencias each wielding authority largely in their own way in their own district, yet with each audiencia coordinated in its larger efforts and guiding principles by the Council of the I Continue Reading...
(4) Latin Music (15,16,17,18)- Write a short research essay on the Latin American composer of your choice. Be sure to include the following;
* Basic biographical data
* a work representative of that composer's style, with specific reference to wh Continue Reading...
Slavery in the Caribbean: Effects on Culture, Race and Labour
Origins of slavery
The Caribbean slavery began in the 16th and 17th century during the emergence of piracy. The basis for the modern Caribbean dates back to the slave trade and slavery. Continue Reading...
There is an open drug culture on the island that celebrates the use of marijuana, and no one knows how much of the plant is grown on this island, alone. As one drug enforcement manual notes, "Tiny Jamaica has been known to produce upwards of 300 met Continue Reading...
Product, Distribution
Should Barclay's Caribbean Operations Merge?
The strategy for Barclay in the Caribbean is to consider the market as a small share of the global commercial and investment banking market. Business units that operate in the Cari Continue Reading...
Caribbean
Only Michener could so exquisitely bring the violent, exciting history of the attractive Caribbean to life. Swaying away from the European Courts of the 15th century that first claimed the area, to the Islands themselves, we lookout at th Continue Reading...
Islands Jamaica Aruba
Evaluate how effective you feel these web sites are in promoting the destination. Explain your answer
The Jamaica website is well done, and is static. The entire information is crammed in the landing page. The 'where to visit Continue Reading...
Therefore, when the opportunity presents itself, as happened when coffee arrived, the group in question takes it upon itself to take control of the country. Of special interest is the note at the end of the article, when in 1944 a new wave of optimi Continue Reading...
As a result, the cuisine is heavily dependent on heavily spiced dishes accented by inclusion of easily accessible seafood. Due to the fact that the population of Cuba has been largely impoverished rice and beans have been a major part of most Cuban Continue Reading...
Caribbean Slavery
Black slavery in the Antilles helped define Caribbean culture. Most people living in Haiti, Jamaica, and the smaller islands of the Caribbean are descended from these slaves, something that can't be said for most of the American so Continue Reading...
steel drum, or steel pan, is a unique instrument commonly heard in Caribbean music today, and is one of the most recently "invented" instruments in the world, when taken in its current form. However, the roots of the instrument date as far back as t Continue Reading...
Politically, the state of Rhode Island has two U.S. Senators -- Democrat John "Jack" Reed and Republican Lincoln Chafee; the positions of U.S. Congressmen are held by Democrat Patrick J. Kennedy (of the famous Kennedy family), district one, and Dem Continue Reading...
" Yun's work focuses most of the attention upon Chinese workers in Cuba. She bases her writing on the primary source of testimonies, petitions and depositions by Chinese workers in Cuba, highlighting many aspects of this group's suffering that have b Continue Reading...
Transformative Artificial Intelligence and Digital Government Innovation for Public Sector Performance Management1.1 Background of the Research1.1.1 Overview of the ProblemTransformative artificial intelligence (AI) and digital government innovations Continue Reading...
Sugar
When it comes to the slave trade, there are many facets, periods and facts surrounding slavery and how it progressed that can be explored, nitpicked and analyzed. However, that overall subject is rather broad and without focus, one could lite Continue Reading...
The area around the volcano has been a hotbed of tectonic activity since it lays near a subduction zone where rock from the Earth's mantle is pushed upward as a reaction to the nearby subduction of the Earth's crust. Since tremendous internal pressu Continue Reading...
Angels Wear Brassieres? By Olive Senior, and "ADJ, Inc.," by Ana Lydia Vega. Specifically, it will discuss the use of language in the two works, and comment on the authors' use or rejection or variation of what for recognition's sake we will call st Continue Reading...
Puerto Rico is a Caribbean Island which was formerly settled by two Native American tribes, Caribe and Arawak. In 1493, this Island was captured by Spain and up until about 400 years it was ruled by the Spanish. The native settlers during this time p Continue Reading...
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Burger King beefs up global operations
What is Burger King's core competency? How does it relate to its chosen strategy?
Burger King is a fast food chain that offers two unique components to customers regarding it Continue Reading...
Wars of Principle in the Falklands and Malvinas
Although the age of imperialism has slowly, but inexorably, been consigned to history books, with the great British, Spanish and Portuguese empires that once dominated the globe now largely defunct aft Continue Reading...
This is to note that "Trinidad and Tobago alone account for 80% (1st quarter 2004) of all U.S. LNG imports, up from 68% in 2002. Therefore, any incident involving an LNG tanker along the Caribbean routes could harm not only U.S. energy security but Continue Reading...
Shakespeare's The Tempest and Chamoiseau's Solibo the Magnificent would seem to share little in common with one another. The former almost certainly takes place in the Mediterranean; the latter in the Caribbean. Yet both tragicomedies touch upon bot Continue Reading...
Regional Geography
Why could Africa be considered on of the richest continents on Earth? Discuss some of sub-Saharan Africa's Assets. Then address why, despite these facts, the majority of African states remain poor. Be sure to include several fact Continue Reading...
They began rounding up people by the hundreds and shipping them back to Europe to work as slaves; the conditions of travel were so severe that approximately half died at sea. On the New World islands, the Spanish explorers forced the native inhabita Continue Reading...
Carbon cycles through the ecosystem between the atmosphere, organisms (such as producers, herbivores, and carnivores) and decomposers. This natural cycle maintains a somewhat constant level of carbon in the atmosphere. The burning of fossil fuels rel Continue Reading...
Anthropology
Santeria in Cuba
Santeria began in Cuba as a mixture of the Western African Yoruba Religion and Iberian Catholicism. It is one of the numerous syncretic religions created by Africans brought to the Caribbean islands as slaves. It was d Continue Reading...
Introduction
The Caribbean nations of Haiti, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico share in common a history of tumultuous colonial rule. Yet different Old World colonial governments had presided over each of these countries, leading to completely different langu Continue Reading...
political framework of EU and OCT
European Union (EU) and Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) are in association with each other via a system which is based on the provisions of part IV of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU (TFEU), consi Continue Reading...
Prester John was another mythic king of another semi-mythic land (probably modern day Ethiopia) that was long sought by European explorers and adventurers. Once again, the very nature and purpose of Ponce de Leon's expedition emphasized the Europea Continue Reading...
Barbados Culture
Barbados was once called the Little England due to its landscape of rolling terrain, as well as its customs of tea drinking and cricket, the Anglican Church, parliamentary democracy and the conservatism of its rural culture. It has Continue Reading...
Haiti and Dominican Republic: Future Political-Economic Integration
Haiti Dominican Republic, a future political economic integration
Domestic and regional political processes and competition between different interest groups aid in the explanation Continue Reading...
Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola
The American writer and free lance journalist Michele Wucker in her first book has written about both Haiti and the Dominican Republic complex relations in terms of their cultures a Continue Reading...
Moreover, "corruption and inefficiency have exacerbated problems," ("Fidel Castro: Cuba's Communism Not Working" 2010). Because of the problems currently plaguing Cuba, communism is likely wane gradually by an opening of Cuba's markets even if Ameri Continue Reading...