Antigua

twin island state of Antigua and Barbuda occupies a combined land mass of only 170 sq. miles [1]. Its population is only 93130 according recent 2016 figures of a population tracking website [2]( http://countrymeters.info/en/Antigua_and_Barbuda). For such a minute territory it boasted a GDP worth 1.3 billion USD in 2015 [3] (www.tradingeconomics.com). Based on world rankings of PPP, Antigua and Barbuda’s rank varies depending on the source of the ranking. The IMF ranks Antigua and Barbuda as…

Antigua and Barbuda's population has been growing steadily for decades and is currently projected to continue this growth. According to statistics there is a net Increase of 1 person every 1440 minutes. In addition to this the life expectancy of the average person in the population is 76.577 years. Between the years of 2016 and 2017, the population grew by 1.04%. Antigua’s constant growth in population positively impacts business and government in the country. This can be said because steady…

On Feb. 29, a 61-year-old man was arrested for allegedly embezzling over $100,000 from a California company. The incident took place in Lake County. According to media accounts, the defendant was working as a bookkeeper for a local couple, and an investigation by the Lake County Sheriff's Department determined that he stole $103,000 from their business and personal bank accounts. The evidence was sent to the Lake County District Attorney's Office in September, and a criminal case was opened on…

This past summer, I took an adventure down to Antigua, Guatemala. While we were there we built homes, ran clothing distributions, worked at orphanages and malnutrition centers, gave food to the homeless, and preached on the streets to those around us. I didn’t expect much to change for me. I knew I’d have a greater appreciation for my life back home in the US, but I wasn’t prepared to be shaken so dramatically by what I experienced. I was put into a group with four other people to build a…

visiting Antigua. Her tone is effective in drawing attention to the naivety of tourists who look to Antigua to escape their own lives…

small countries like Antigua were colonized by European nations. England arrived in Antigua in 1632, Antigua was underdeveloped at the time and the English modernized and industrialized their society. When England left Antigua in 1981, Antigua was left in poverty and with no government structure. A Small Place reveals that a form of economic slavery still exists today in post-colonial Antigua through the corrupt government leaders, which lead to major countries giving Antigua loans that were…

sceneries, anything beautiful can undermine the reality when it is written on paper. “A Small Place” by Kincaid seeks to challenge this very notion by revealing a darker side of tourism, a dimension that looks beyond Antigua as a tourist locale. Behind a romanticized narrative of Antigua reveals the challenges of post-colonialism and the ways in which servility to power creates a disfiguring illusion for tourists. While a travel guide may provide enough basic information about a place, more…

Small Place”, by Jamaica Kincaid published in 1988, she explains the meaning behind what the real Antigua should be; How it has been taken over by foreigners and completely changed in ways she never thought possible. Kincaid wants the reader to understand what the native’s outlook is on this matter when people who don’t belong, come to their country. She wants you, the reader, to see the island of Antigua in an Antiguan’s perspective. Throughout the book, Kincaid presents a passionate and angry…

prejudices and dehumanization of any sort. Jamaica Kincaid's narrative, A Small Place, highlights Antigua’s dehumanization and racial prejudice. Thus, by reading the two books together and applying Jacobs’ definition to Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place, Antigua, despite its independence, also lacks freedom. Jacobs’ experiences as a slave in the South characterize the antithesis of freedom because slavery, by definition, is the antithesis of freedom; Jacobs suffers from both dehumanization and…

dominating concern with foreign control in the developing nation of Antigua is exposed through Kincaid's own personal experiences and observations as a native of the country. Above all, the vision of Antigua articulated by Kincaid presents itself as a standard for similar developing countries in regard to the encompassing effects installed by foreign involvement. In her essay, Kincaid draws a connection between two versions of Antigua, calling attention to the synonymously of the country’s past…