Caribbean

Several people around the world believe that Christopher Columbus discovered America, and a day should be dedicated to him for all that he has done. However, there are people who acknowledge Columbus Day to be unnecessary due to the fact he truly did not discover America. Even though Columbus is given recognition for intertwining the New World with the Old World, there should not be a day just for him. Columbus should not have a national holiday dedicated to him because he did not discover…

visited point for taking cruises beside Florida and the Caribbean. We can find different yachts harbors along Nice, Antibes, Golfe Juan and Cannes, as we can also find different job’s opportunities in various fields as restaurants and hotels but also in the yachting industry. People from all over the world arrive to these small cities in order to be part of the crew of a boat and join the different itineraries around the French Riviera, the Caribbean or other places. In order…

Barbados is an island located in the southeastern part of the Caribbean Sea. They got their independence on November 30, 1966. Barbados is an example Folk and Local culture. They have their own way of doing things, and many traditions. They have many traditions that distinguish themselves from everyone else. The capital and largest of Barbados is Bridgetown. “Barbadian culture emerged out of the plantation slavery economy as a distinctive synthesis of English and West African cultural…

Over the period of the Atlantic Slave Trade, from approximately 1526 to 1867, some 12.5 million slaves had been shipped from Africa, and 10.7 million had arrived in the Americas. The Atlantic Slave Trade was likely the most costly in human life of all of long-distance global migrations. The first Africans forced to work in the New World left from Europe at the beginning of the sixteenth century, not from Africa. The first slave voyage direct from Africa to the Americas probably sailed in 1526.…

world was influenced majorly by the “white race” and the styles only consisted of Jazz, Ballet and Modern (The Katherine Dunham Center for the Arts and Humanities). She brought the ethnic and cultural dances she learned from the West Indies and the Caribbean culture to the United States where she created her own technique. Due to the dance world being largely influenced by “white culture”, she wanted to show the world that there are other styles that are just as beautiful and technical as Jazz,…

The Transatlantic slave trade continued to persist because of its money making value. Europeans, as well as Africans benefited profit wise from the Transatlantic slave trade. The slave trade was allowed because the slave trade reaped benefits from state support. In Nell Irvin Painter 's, Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 To the Present, Painter hits upon the fact that African Aristocrats allowed kidnappers free rein and collected taxes on captives passing…

is in the use of songs, poems, or even stories and can exasperate similar emotions or stories. Authors such as Edwidge Danticat and Jamaica Kincaid are both from the Caribbean and has evoked similar experiences being a woman in their writing. Edwidge Danticat was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Like many families of the Caribbean, her mother and father moved to the U.S. and left her to stay with her aunt and uncle. Edwidge had many obstacles of being a woman such as growing up without having…

What do you know the history of the island state in the Caribbean, called St. Lucia? St. Lucia is only 27 miles long and has a width of a short 14 miles and the capital and major port is Castries, but who lived on the island and why were Europeans interested in it? What was life like for the people on St. Lucia before, during, and after the British empire had ruled and how indigenous systems have changed since the island won its independence from the British. The Arawak were the earliest…

On October 23, 1983, United States President Ronald Reagan’s administration issued National Security Directive 110A, authorizing the landing of U.S. and allied Caribbean troops on the small island nation of Grenada. The document’s stated purpose for the invasion was threefold: Assure safety of American nationals, eliminate and prevent further Cuban influence, and restore democratic government. Reagan, in public speeches and as a justification for the conflict, cited 800 American citizens held…

In Latin America and the Caribbean, their efforts changed their world drastically. They went from being treated like animals, to being completely free. In the previous period Europeans, (the French, Spain, and Portugal), had increasing wealth due to the slave trade, which allowed crops to be produced in great numbers which would keep income rolling in. These societies were one sided, everyone that wasn’t European was not a slave, but they weren’t treated equal. They had to do whatever the…