Bahamas

may affect the cruise industry. Cruise companies often try to avoid legal factors such as national taxes and labour laws by registering their organisation and cruise liners in foreign countries with a weak political environment, such as Panama, the Bahamas, and Liberia (Burke, 2009). This is often stated as the ‘flag of convenience’. This frequently results in employees of cruises being underpaid, mistreated and they will often lack the ability to purse lawsuits. This is an important factor to…

Historians normally give the perspectives of the American Revolution from those that were living in the thirteen colonies. In Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution we are able to see the American Revolution from a different side not normally seen which involves the war fought in the Gulf Coast region. Duval focuses on the Revolution’s impact on people in Louisiana and Western Florida. We learn from the eight characters that the American Revolution was more than just…

Alternative music is an umbrella term that is used to describe music that is not played on mainstream radio, or consumed by mainstream audience. It does not fall into any other musical genre. There are dozens of different subgenres that branched off from alternative music. Alternative pop/rock is a catch-all term for post-punk bands from the mid-1980’s and mid-1990’s. Since there are a variety of musical styles within alternative rock, all of them tie together and exist outside of the…

Mills concludes that that only justification for slavery (and Locke must have justified slavery as he had investments in the slave-trading Royal Africa Company, the slaveholding Bahama Adventurers and assisted in writing the Constitution of the Carolinas, extending absolute power to the owners of African slaves) is that Locke did not see blacks as human and did not offer the privileges of his social contract outlines in The Second…

Throughout history, many European countries formed colonies in the Americas. The most well-known countries were, Spain, England, and France, who all claimed land and worked to serve the mother country. However, they encountered many problems such as; a lack of knowledge of the land, unknown food sources, and, the Native Americans. The two books, A People’s History of the United States, by Howard Zinn, and, A Patriot’s History of the United States, by Larry Schweikart, discussed different view…

The New World was a land full of choices for the settlers that discovered it to make. Despite the fact that the Spanish and English people came into the New World at different time frames, both countries had goals to achieve. The English wanted to establish settlements for a growing future nation, and the Spanish wanted gold and success in expansion as well. The Spanish and New England colonies in the New World in 1492-1763 had both major differences and similarities in government, religion, and…

Are shopping for a portable beach umbrella? There are a number of factors you have to take into consideration. Is it fashionable, durable and stable? Can it withstand the raging winds? You must have satisfactory answers to these questions before you purchase the umbrella. Portable beach umbrellas are similar to traditional personal umbrellas in terms of construction. The canopy opens wide and closes easily when the upper part of the frame or the runner is eased up or down. They are made without…

Tanveer Talokder E1 What is explanation for the Bermuda Triangle Electronic Fog? The Bermuda Triangle is a region of the north-western Atlantic Ocean, which is also known as the Devil’s Triangle. Its three vertices are located at Miami, Puerto Rico and Bermuda, according to Gaddis, V. (1964). A number of aircrafts and ships have disappeared mysteriously in this region. A lot of theories have been suggested, in order to solve those mysterious disappearances. One famous incident involving the…

My leadership influences have mainly come from two people. The first is my mentor and dear friend, the late, “Dr. Myles Munroe”. This man was an ambassador and advisor to multiple kings and governments across the world including his own in the Bahamas. He conducted leadership training sessions and seminars inspiring the poorest of poor, to Kings and Prime Ministers. He has written over 50 books in over 7 different languages and still managed time to raise a beautiful and successful family of…

Money laundering is the process of taking the proceeds of criminal activity and making them appear legal. Laundering allows criminals to transform illegally obtained funds and make them appear as seemingly legitimate funds. Those who commit the criminal activity may attempt to wire the money themselves, but a new class of criminals performs the laundering services to Organized Crime. This new class consists of lawyers, bankers, and accountants. It is a common question as to why criminals launder…