Guyana

a warm climate. Temperatures are about an average of (79°F) and (82°F) making the country an all year round destination. Venezuela occupies most of the northern coast of South America on the Caribbean Sea. It is bordered by Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south. Venezuela has approximately 29 million people. Venezuela’s northern coastline stretches approximately 2,800 kilometers that share the waters with numerous islands in the Caribbean sea, including Los Roques,…

concept. He had nothing to gain personally by pursuing this criminal, however, he became an officer to better society. He wanted to give back to his city and country (Southall and Goodman). The article mentions that officer Holden was an immigrant from Guyana, and when he moved here he wanted to become a police officer like his family (Southall and Goodman). He did not grow up in American society. In many South American countries there have been issues with military police forces. Therefore he…

My personal experience with culture is a bit different from the typical person. Growing up I was immersed in the American culture but also the Guyanese culture. My parents are from the country Guyana were I was born as well, so at home there was a strong influence from the ways my parents had grown up. We immigrated here when I was three so I was grew up going to school in America and I was influenced by this culture as well. Lillian Comas-Diaz’s…

religions” (104). Religious historian and author J. Z. Smith’s essay is a shocking and eye opening expose into the life of James Jones and the congregants of the Peoples Temple, all of whom committed mass suicide on November 18,1978 in Jonestown, Guyana. Smith uses this essay as an educational and informational piece explaining what he thinks happened and why, while also chastising his fellow religious scholars for focusing on long passed religious matters instead of participating in public…

Jonestown Massacre On the tragic day of November 18, 1978, Jim Jones told his people to lay down their own lives. “We’ve had as much of this world as you’re going to get. Let’s just be done with it. Let’s be done with the agony of it”(Kim). Jim Jones, founder of Jonestown, leader of The Peoples Temple and the reason over nine-hundred people died on November 18. Was Jim Jones obsession with power and fame or was the CIA involvement behind the catastrophe of the Jonestown Massacre. To begin with,…

This so called movement began in 1998 when Hugo Chavez Frias was elected president of Venezuela. This movement transitioned to the following by Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Brazil, and Uruguay. During this time we have seen the opposition movements began to voice their opinions on their discomfort on the oppression of this regimes. There are various levels of oppression that have been studied by many scholars…

On 25th of January 2016 an article was posted in the Jamaican Gleaner entitled “Usain Bolt Beating Classism And Racism In Jamaica”, Usain Bolt was facing these challenges even in his own country as persons within the upscale community doesn’t like to see young person striving for anything in life. They believe that in order for you to move up the social-class up have to study or maybe even marry into a higher class family. They don’t believe that athletics should allow you to move into upscale…

In Ian Frazier’s “Take the F,” Frazier gives an observation of his views on Brooklyn, the F train and New York City as a whole. Within these observations, Frazier writes beyond a given place and considers the interaction of people. For example, he describes his long train ride from Brooklyn to Manhattan: “every ride can produce its own mini-society of riders, its own forty-minute Ship of Fools.” By using “mini-societies” Frazier gives readers the sense that these riders aren’t strangers anymore,…

at least a hundred thousand ethnic Indians. The origins of the Indian diaspora lie mainly in the subjugation of India by British empire. The Indians were taken over as indentured labor to far flung parts of the British empire like Fiji, Mauritius, Guyana, Trinidad, Surinam, Malaysia, South Africa, Srilanka, and other places of the world occupied mainly by the British Empire. During the colonial period Indians were traded as slaves by Portuguese, Dutch, French and English imperialists. The…

is an example of this, using data collected by the ICO, as supply increased from 99,550 (in thousand 60kg bags) in 1997/8 to 108,858 (in thousand 60kg bags) in 1998/9 this can be explained due to an increase in suppliers with the addition of Yemen, Guyana and Loa. The increase in coffee supplying countries will effect total production by adding to the market, simultaneously additional competition in the market will encourage other exporting countries to further increase their productivity and…