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Bob Marley original name was Nesta Robert Marley was a Jamaican legend Reggae, song writer and a musician. Bob Marley was born in February 6th 1945 in Ann parish Jamaica. At the age of seven bob Marley seems to have a knack for spooking people by successfully predicating their future by reading their palms. After some years, he spent in the ghetto of Kingston, bob Marley returned to his rural village and declared that his no more reading palms after a woman asked his to read her palms that his…

brew, first described academically in the early 1950s by Harvard ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes, who found it employed for divinatory and healing purposes by the native peoples of AmazonianPeru. Salvia divinorum (also known as Diviner’s Sage, Ska María Pastora, Seer’s Sage, and by its genus name Salvia) is a psychoactive plant which can induce dissociative effects and is a potent producer of “visions” and other hallucinatory experiences. Its native habitat is in cloud forest in the…

groups engendered a major conflict in 1960s Britain, meanwhile the nonconforming, flower-wearing hippies across the pond demanded that the troops were withdrawn from the Vietnam War. There were skinheads with their Levi’s and DM boots bouncing to a ska beat, the punks with their spiked hair and anarchistic views and, the Goths; full of obscurities, plastered in black. What are there now? Does individuality and eccentricity exist? Or are we all the same? Let’s face it, when the designations Kim…

My father was a white and my mother was black. Them call me half-caste or whatever. Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side nor the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.” ~Bob Marley In the late fifties the scarcity of jobs forced Bob and his mother from their home to seek employment in the big city of Trenchtown. Trenchtown got its name because it was built over a huge trench which was used to drain…

Perkins says that Jamaica is most famous for ragged music that was born in the fifties and sixties from mento, rocksteady, and ska. A famous ragae singer was Bob Marley, backed by his group the Wailers. Other famous raged singers are Desmond Dekkar, Jimmy Cliff, Peter Tosh, and Burning Spears. Jamaica has lots of interesting and unique geography. Jamaica was formed when North…

large part of the world with many island nations within it, and within these island nations there are even more music genres. When someone says “Caribbean Music,” it is impossible to tell if they are talking about Merengue from the Dominican Republic, Ska from Jamaica, Salsa from Cuba, Reggaeton from Puerto Rico, or the many other types of music genres originating from the variety of countries that there are in the Caribbean. A specific type of Caribbean music that originates from the Dominican…

Music plays a big role in the life of a Mexican. They could never live a life without art. Music in Mexico allows people to talk and express how they feel about something or someone which is usually in their past. This helps people celebrate life and love. History and legends are an overcoming of cruel treatments. The history has experienced an enormous change from the sound of the drums of a Mayan or Aztec ceremony to some modern Mexican rap. Over the years the music has changed. Mexican music…

(Biography.com Editors). Gwen Stefani was born in Fullerton, California on October 3rd of 1969 (Biography.com Editors). According to Biography.com, “Her love of music was influenced by her older brother Eric who played a lot of recordings by such ska revival bands as Madness. With friend John Spence as the lead singer, Eric started the group No…

Jamaica is an island that is well known, but how well do we know it? This island has been through so much during its time of independence, and even before that. Jamaica was once an island inhabited by a group of people called Arawaks also known as Tainos. They lived a simple life of farming and community. The men hunted while the women planted and took care of the household. That was all soon to be changed. Christopher Columbus, and the Spaniards, were the first group to explore…

Group Members Zoe Ching, Juliet Contreras, Ailly Lam, Aleksi Ska. Background information Enzymes are biological catalysts, which speed up the rate of chemical reactions. The pancreas produces a concentrated solution containing a mixture of enzymes – amylase, lipase and protease. In this experiment you will examine the effect of protease on casein, the protein found in milk. When the protease breaks down the casein, the opaque solution will become transparent. Theoretically, Enzyme activity…