Jamaican poet Olive Senior’s latest collection of poems Gardening in the Tropics is an impressive affirmation of Senior’s place as one of the most lucid of Caribbean poets writing today. It is her clarity of thought‚ her capacity to construct the clean precise line‚ and her direct commitment to political issues that make this collection such a welcome addition to West Indian writing. Gardening in the Tropics is a carefully constructed series of poems that are organized around
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Colonialism and Imperialism in Olive Senior’s “Summer Lightning” Olive Marjorie Senior‚ born in 1941 in Trelawny‚ Jamaica‚ is a Jamaican poet and short story writer currently living in Canada. She is regarded as a distinctive voice in West Indian literature‚ having explored issues as cultural nationalism‚ identity‚ class stratification‚ and the oppressive impact of religion on women and the poor. Her portraits of the lives of Jamaican children and women struggling to transcend ethnic‚ class‚
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COLONIAL GIRLS SCHOOL The poem opens with the phrase‚ "Borrowed images/willed our skin pale"‚ which is an allusiin to many teenaged school girls bleaching their skins with different creams and soaps to become a lighter complexion. The poem as a whole focuse on the rejection of one’s color to a more favoured one‚ emphasised to them by the outer one. Borrowed images from the first world countries‚ where white is emphasised as better or more beautiful. It also focused on the image of girls’ ’dekinked’
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a distinctive voice. Olive Senior is a Jamaican poet of high repute and is the author of Gardening in the Tropics. In this poetry volume Senior seeks to tackle history‚ moral issues‚ travel and environmental crises. Senior’s poems are pervaded with irony‚ humour and sarcasm and her tone is conversational and calm. Senior’s style of writing aids in creating a diacritic voice which is evident in the poems “Seeing the Light”‚ “Meditation on Yellow” and “Stowaway”. Senior in an interview with Kwame
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AND CERTIFICATE PROGRAMMES The accompanying Instruction sheet provides detailed information on the completion of this application form. All applicants are urged to read this information carefully. The Associate Degree is offered only through the School of Continuing Studies. SECTION A – PERSONAL DATA 1. Name Title Last Name/Surname 2. a) Former Name (if applicable) Title Last Name/Surname 3. Have you previously applied to the UWI? Yes No First Name Middle Name(s) First Name Middle Name(s)
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Meditation on Yellow Olive Senior is a Jamaican poet who explores Caribbean history. Her poetry often conveys her displeasure of colonization and the suffering Caribbean people endured. Meditation on Yellow explores the colonization and exploitation process carried out by the Europeans. This poem strong conveys Senior discontentment as it relates to the exploitation of the land and the Amerindian tribe. It through the use of symbolism‚ language and repetition the brutality of colonization
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Examine Stereotypes of Caribbean masculinity and femininity that Olive Senior seems to be commenting on. In the section Gardening in the Tropics Senior appears to examine stereotypical notions of Caribbean men and women. Within the title of each poem‚ Shango: God of Thunder and Yemoja: Mother of Waters‚ traits of the men and women of the region are echoed‚ along with reflections upon our African lineage. Shango Orisha in the religion of the Yoruba people is a warrior deity‚ sky father and
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years of junior high school and two years of senior high school). Two years were added to our basic education. The government implemented this because of poor quality of education in the Philippines. President Ninoy Aquino signed the Enhance Basic Education Act of 2013 last May 15‚2013. It is one way of addressing unemployment problems in our country because students can be easily employed after they graduate in senior high school. Unlike before even if
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Global School-based Student Health Survey Ghana Senior High 2012 Fact Sheet The 2012 Ghana Senior High GSHS was a school-based survey of students in Grades SHS 1-4‚ which are typically attended by students aged 13 - 17 years. A two-stage cluster sample design was used to produce data representative of all students in Grades SHS 1-4 in Ghana Senior High. At the first stage‚ schools were selected with probability proportional to enrollment size. At the second stage‚ classes were randomly selected
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1. I believe that the target market for Olive Garden is mostly targeted towards family. They use a slogan in their advertising‚ "When you’re here‚ you’re family." They feature young professionals in their ads to target upper income families. Women and teenagers were most likely to be repeated customers. The popular TV show‚ "The Girls Next Door"‚ was meant to target men but ended up targeting more women. It targeted young‚ college-educated‚ upscale adults. The reason for targeting young female
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