Geography Essay Examples

Santeria arose from the Yoruba people, who were enslaved and brought from Nigeria to the Caribbean in the 1500s. However, their original religion was considered unacceptable by the predominantly Roman Catholic slave owners. As a result, the slaves were forced to abandon their native faith and accept Catholicism. Over time, they discovered that they could […]

CARIBBEAN MUSIC Introduction: Caribbean music originated from the Caribbean Islands, also known as the West Indies, and is a mixture of West African and European predominantly Spanish influences. The music has its origin when West African slaves were brought to Caribbean Island. They composed music with the help of percussion instruments like drums, bells and […]

Here we are once again on board the Black Pearl looking out onto what looks to be a thrilling encore to an amazing first adventure. However sadly we are much disappointed as a similar plot quite literally rolls across our screen. The entire film seems to be just one big repeat over several points. Ok […]

This was without a doubt the most horrific experience of my life. We were taken from the shed with chains around our wrists and ankles they had already started to rub. Then we started to walk everyone was walking, the whitemen were shouting, shouting words none of us understood. There were cries coming from the […]

Grace Nichols was born and brought up in Georgetown, Guyana. She was moved to London where she still lives. Due to the history of invasions the people from the Caribbean Islands are a mixture of races. Most of the original Caribbean people were killed off by disease brought to the Islands by western explorers. As […]

Before the seventeenth century. Africans were non seen as “black” . but as “pagan” . The elusive alteration to racism occurred in this century as Trans-Atlantic trade developed. In the clip period from 1600 to 1763. labour systems in British America changed drastically in the West Indian islands and the Southern settlements because of Trans-Atlantic […]

In Sociology there are numerous theories that we use to explain, analyze and define populations, one of these theories being the Demographic Transition Theory, developed primarily by Warren Thompson of Sweden. This theory was initially used to trace the transition of European society’s population from primitive communism to nineteenth century capitalism it dealt with demographic […]

According to the Caribbean scholar Edward Kamau Brathwaite (1974) Creolization is the process through which the various groups in the Caribbean society absorb each other’s cultural product. Our Caribbean culture as we know it today was born out of many different cultures as the Jamaican national motto reads ‘Out of Many One People’. This change […]

The Atlantic world, including America, Europe and Africa went through some changes and some continuities when they came in contact with among Europe from 1492-1750. Spanish and Portugal explorers brought new diseases the natives were not immune to when they arrived in the Americas resulting in serious population loss. The use of slaves was also […]

The Tainos and Kalinagos were two different Amerindian groups which inhabited the islands of the Caribbean. The Tainos lived in the islands of the Greater Antilles (Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, and the Bahamas), while the Kalinagos lived in the Lesser Antilles (Grenada, St. Vincent, St. Lucia etc. ). Although the Tainos and the Kalinagos […]

The root of Caribbean Society and Culture is on the plantation. Mustapha (2009) posits that “The plantation played the principal role in the development of Caribbean culture. ” Indeed there are remnants of Plantation Society in present Caribbean, especially if one examines our class system. According to www. capesociology. org (n. d) “Academics contend that […]

During his voyage to find Asia and his accidental discovery of the Americas, Columbus made a miscalculation in determining the earth’s circumference in the late 15th century. It was widely believed that the world was a sphere at that time, but its exact measurement remained uncertain. Columbus underestimated its size by one-fourth (Laufer in Columbus […]

In the above statement “the history of the Caribbean is the history of the exploitation of labour,” it simply states that the Caribbean’s history is basically the history of its exploitation of labour. The definitions of keywords exploitation and labour must be considered. Exploitation can be defined as the practice of taking selfish or unfair […]

The history of the Caribbean is the history of exploitation of labor discuss with reference to two of the following labor systems 1. Encomienda 2. Slavery 3. Indenture ship To properly analyze the above heading the definition of the keyword must first be found. The word exploitation can be defined as a situation in which […]

 The question of whether The Americanization trend has been propagated by the media throughout the Caribbean is a topic of consistent debate. It’s important to note that Americanization can, in fact, be equated to Globalisation. Therefore, it’s highly relevant to the argument to define ‘Globalisation’ initially. This term is characterized by Dr. Maria Alfaro as: […]

In this essay one would seek to critically discuss the view that the Moyne commission was a waste of time .The Moyne Commission started August 3rd 1938 and ended on February 20th 1939 which was appointed by the British Government to investigate social and economic conditions in Barbados, the Leeward Islands, Jamaica, British Honduras, British […]

In Bartolome De Las Casas’s “from The Very Brief Relation of the Devastation of the Indies” a lot of descriptive verbiage is utilized to paint a distinct picture of good vs. evil in an unjust world. Referencing the Spaniards as Christians is done with a great deal of anger, and sarcasm. These Spaniards performed many […]

In my recent exploration of nationalism, I stumbled upon an essay by Greenfeld (2006: 64-92) that presents the idea of nationalism as a modern form of awareness. According to this essay, nationalism is not only crucial in contemporary times but also serves as the underlying consciousness within all nations (Greenfeld 1992: 3-26). Inspired by this […]

Assess the contributions of the Dutch to the development of the Caribbean. The incorporation of the Dutch into the Caribbean during the latter half of the 16th century and early 17th century came on the heels of them seeing the prosperous economic opportunities at the time dominated by the Spanish. In the Caribbean, the Dutch […]

I’se a Man Political Awakening and the 1942 Riot in the Bahamas Abstract When Americans began building their World War II bases in Nassau, the Bahamians they hired expected the high wage rates that usually accompanied foreign contracts. Unfortunately, the Bahamian government had negotiated much lower rates than were expected. Green, with his cry ‚I’se […]

The motivations of Spanish, French, and English explorers varied, but in certain aspects, they overlapped. One shared goal among all three was to discover the Northwest Passage, a direct and efficient route believed to lead to the wealthy Orient, renowned for its spices, silk, and prosperity. Another common objective was to acquire new territories and […]

Introduction This paper seeks to identify and discuss the predicament of Development Administration as it relates to public administration in the Commonwealth Caribbean. It will seek to elucidate thought and provoke discussion on the topic by first of all taking a journey back to the period of colonial rule and the historical antecedents that impacted […]