Caribbean

drawn tightly using straps off of the cincher. The idea was to cinch the waist down to a hand span to give the woman a regal look. The problem, of course, was this tended to be very uncomfortable. It was even spoofed in the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie when Keira Knightley was cinched into a new dress to the point that she could barely breathe. She eventually collapsed, falling off a high wall into the ocean where Johnny Depp's character saved her.…

several different authors/contributors. The Great Depression is located in chapter five of the book and is written by Peter Temin. Obviously, I will only be mainly looking at the United States, but will also take into account how Canada and the Caribbean were affected as well. Temin describes the depression as being “a unique failure of the industrial economy.” By calling the Great Depression a unique failure completely sums up the period of time perfectly and I completely agree with his…

is a story which encompasses features of Caribbean life with the use of Caribbean dialect, humor and cricket. The tale is based upon the mannerism of the writer’s aunt before and during a visit to a cricket match at the oval. The events that take place draw attention to issues within the Caribbean based on identity, gender and sexual relations. Identity is what defines an individual; their qualities, beliefs, experiences and overall way of life. Caribbean people are very heterogeneous. They…

throughout the Americas and Caribbean islands on the Panama Canal, and sugar plantations in Cuba and the Dominican Republic. According to author Laura Putnam’s book entitled “Radical Moves” gives insight to these immigrants and argues how they paved the way for the modern world and civilization, as well as how these events set up black representation and identity in the Caribbean and the Americas. Putnam addresses what push factors drove migrants away from the Caribbean, how gender, race, and…

Black Death in fourteenth-century Europe. The neo-Columbian exchange denned the Greater Caribbean by giving the region its distinctive ecological and economic shape. From an ecological perspective, the Greater Caribbean ecumene consists largely of the colonial and postcolonial landscapes organized around the production of tropical commodities…

Also characters in the novel, demonstrates the multiracial and interracial interaction of a small community in the French Caribbean. Mira, Vilma, Xantippe and others are created to represent a different aspect of the town of Rivière au Sel. In Praise of Creoleness argues that the créolité is similar to a braid. Our history is a braid of histories. We had a taste of all kinds of languages, all kinds of idioms. Afraid of this uncomfortable muddle, we tried in vain to anchor it in mythical shores…

dominance by deeming other cultures peripheral and illegitimate. This paper is going to analyze and illustrate Caribbean cultural disaccumulation by using Padget’s plural cultural systems concept. The paper will then critically analyze the Europeans methods of establishing and maintaining their cultural legitimacy. Cultural differential accumulation of the European culture over the Caribbean cultured will also be critically explored and examined. In addition to this, the…

Make a Grand (and splashy!) Entrance: Your Guide to “Boating to Dinner” in the Caribbean Ever considered actually sailing off into the sunset? It’s no secret that the Caribbean offers some of the most beautiful vacation destinations in the world. With at least 28 island nations and more than 7,000 individual islands, the problem quickly becomes deciding where to go. To complicate matters further, each of the islands offers a variety of local flavors—like a preference for cumin in Cuba, or curry…

Derek Alton Walcott was born in the Caribbean island paradise of Saint Lucia in the small port city of Castries on January 23, 1930 (Grimes). His work was strongly influenced by this Caribbean setting, the beauty of it, and the historical context of colonialism (Grimes; Campbell). Specifically, he explored themes of cultural chauvinism, political inequity, and ethnicity. He refused to accept the false Black/White dichotomy of race in the Caribbean, centralizing ethnicity in his work, he himself…

The role of the women in healthcare has evolved considerably from antiquity to modernity. Whether women earned the title of nurse, doctor, caregiver or obeah women, their place in history is one of influence and silent courage. Women have been perceived as being in the shadow, or in positions of low standing in relation to that of men. They are spoken of as being the “weaker” and more docile of the sexes; yet have still managed to operate in positions of power and influence. In the struggle for…