the devaluation of the local currency. One manifestation of this is the introduction of the new Five Thousand Dollars ($5000.00) note. As the Jamaican dollar devalues‚ low income earners have to make more sacrifices and survive on less because the cost of goods and services has increase exponentially. The current market price of one US dollar to Jamaican currency is 89: 1 respectively. Jamaica has being facing several external shocks such as surging oil prices and the removal of trade from the banana
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defining the criteria for “manliness” in the lyrics of Jamaican popular music. According to dancehall scholar‚ Donna Hope‚ in her book Inna di Dancehall‚ (2006)‚ “dancehall culture is a space for the cultural creation and dissemination of symbols and ideologies that reflect and legitimize the lived realities of its adherents‚ particularly those from the inner cities.”1 Dancehall is a cultural production and representation of Jamaican realities. The concept of culture refers to patterns
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Pastoral counselors are clergy who have received graduate training in both religion and behavioral science for a clinical practice that integrates psychological and theological disciplines. Pastoral counselors believe that there is a God in whose image and likeness we are created. They believe that we yearn for a transforming connection with the divine‚ and that psychotherapy can mediate the loving and healing nature of being itself. Pastoral counselors also make therapeutic use of traditional
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as one of the most recognized sporting activity in Jamaica. It is also highly recognized on the international scale as a major sporting activity which is highly favoured among many. Sports can increase a nation’s popularity‚ as it also uplifts the Jamaican population; educationally‚ has enhance the tourism aspects of the country as well as creating better infrastructures. Sporting activities in Jamaica can contribute to the country becoming more renowned. Sporting Activities‚ such as track and field
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A manger is the leader of any organization who has to take decisions‚ control the situation‚ be spontaneous and resourceful to change decisions for better functioning of the organization if situation so demands etc. Teachers‚ like executives in other settings‚ are expected to provide leadership to students and to coordinate a variety of activities as they and students work interdependently lo accomplish academic and social goals of schooling. As a manger‚ teacher is concerned with all die three phases
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Irish‚ and Scottish. The other two significant languages of Jamaica are Taino and Arawak‚ specific to particular regions. Jamaican Patois‚ known locally as Patois (Patwa or Patwah) and called Jamaican Creole by linguists‚ is an English-lexified creole language with West African influences spoken primarily in Jamaica and the Jamaican diaspora. It is not to be confused with Jamaican English nor with the Rastafarian use of English. The language developed in the 17th century‚ when slaves from West and
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Wardaugh 2010 he defined Creole “as a pidgin that has become the first language of a new generation of speaker.” Over the years‚ the University of the West Indies Mona Linguistic Department along with Bible Society of the West Indies have played an integral role in the process of standardizing Jamaican Creole. Currently‚ their major project is translating the Holy Bible from Greek to Jamaican Creole. The translation of the Holy Bible was not only focus on getting Creole speakers to read but also
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through the traditional metropolitan norms and the educated Jamaicans. She identifies that the discrepancies found in defining Standard English in Jamaica often times go undocumented. However‚ this should not be as teachers would want to use it as they hope to monitor the factors to which their students are exposed by paralleling the discrepancy model with the acceptable model. As a result of this‚ I do agree with the idea of teachers using Creole to teach students different aspects of the target language
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slaves and European masters later developed into their own individual languages (or Creoles). They (the elite in society) shun these languages as inappropriate or inadequate for public and sometimes even private use. This notion is widely accepted by even those who can speak nothing else but the Creole. It has fed belief that the use of the Creole‚ in Jamaica’s case “patois”‚ makes one inferior to the users of Jamaican Standard English. This research serves to educate the minds of these “elite”
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A) 1. What parts of speech are found in this text? Nouns‚ pronouns‚ verbs‚ and prepositions are found in this speech. 2. Identify all the inflectional affixes. What is their function? What kind of affixes are they? In this text‚ I find that gender‚ number‚ and case are marked. Gender is marked as masculine‚ feminine and neuter. For example‚ ‘medi-o-que’ means and in the middle where middle is a masculine word. Number is marked as singular and plural. Latin has case distinction‚ in which
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