Guyana

Benjamin Franklin once said “[t]hose who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” The message Franklin was trying to convey is that liberty is a gift, and it should not be used as a bargaining chip for ones personal desires. His warning to all about the value of vital rights is not just right-wing propaganda, but rather a warning with truth behind it. Throughout history many people have given total devotion to a ruler in hopes…

After reading part one of Gone from the Promise Land, I was not at all surprised to find out how troublesome Jim Jones’s childhood was. In class, I learned that Jim Jones had thought of himself as ‘God’ and he had lead a religion where he was able to convince the followers of this religion to commit suicide. Since Jim Jones was able to convince a large number of people to commit suicide, I thought that his reasoning for doing this must have stemmed from his childhood. I thought it stemmed from…

research essay I chose to write about the customs and traditions of death in Guyana. This country was chosen for this essay because when I visited there in winter recess a death had occurred. Guyana is a small country in South America neighboring Brazil and Venezuela in which I grew up in. Guyana is the only South American country that speaks English because it was colonized by Great Britain. Like many countries Guyana has many customs and traditions that are followed by the citizens such as…

Guyana Frontier Mining Corporation (GMFC) is a public mineral exploration company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSX-V: GYG), and is focused on the exploration, discovery and development of precious metals deposits located within the South American country of Guyana. The company formerly Shoreham Resources Ltd came into operation in the year 1987 and began acquiring interests in Guyanese gold exploration properties in 2007. The company holds various rights to obtain working interest in…

Sabeena Jagdeo [Romesh was born in 1963. His home country is Guyana, which is located in South America. He grew up living a simple lifestyle with his two parents and his three brothers and two sisters. His “call name” or nickname as it is known in America was Bai. He got his high school education in Guyana and when he was 21, immigrated to America in 1986 , where his older brother was already living. He emigrated, so that he could have a better life for himself and one day bring the rest of his…

Globalization is the increasing interaction of people worldwide through the growth of the international flow of money, ideas and culture in a facile manner. For the purpose of this essay I will focus on the global spread of culture. Culture may be defined as the ideas, customs, and social behavior of a particular society. This essay will defend the notion that globalization is a major cause of the increased culture of skin bleaching in the Guyanese Society. For clarification, the focus is not on…

based on her appearance. For many Caribbean immigrants, their appearance and ethnicities will correlate to how they are treated in society, as well as the American school system. Based on her appearance in the Guyanese community and growing up in Guyana, Ramona was and is perceived to be Indian. In the United States, she remarked that people thinks that she is Dominican, for her “dark skin and those features and I live in the Bronx, so automatically I’m Dominican.” In Florida, where she…

(1983), posited that “occupational health has made little progress in developing countries in recent years and usually is low on the list of national priorities.” Guyana is no exception; since Guyana is considered a developing country; and according to GUYANA COUNTRY COOPERATION STRATEGY 2010-2015 (2009), it stipulated that even though Guyana has introduced and Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act in 1998 it insufficient due to lack of complete enforcement; it further went on say that on a…

Their complete distrust of the government and the idea that the racist, capitalist United States would take over and control all people became the main beliefs of the group, especially Jim Jones. This distrust would eventually culminate in the move to Guyana and the final act of “revolutionary suicide”, thus escaping from the forces that wished to destroy them (Ashcraft, Peoples Temple). Jim Jones and The Peoples Temple experienced freedoms and limitations through the view of their physical…

Created by the People’s Temple and lead by Jim Jones, “Jonestown” was a religious society located in northwestern Guyana. On the date of November 18, 1978, 918 died in Guyana’s capital, Georgetown, in Port Kaituma, a close-by airstrip (Wikipedia). According to Adst, “Jonestown was the scene of one of the most harrowing tragedies in American history.” The People’s Temple was created in Indiana by Jim Jones who formed this so called church because he was aggravated by the persecution of…