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    Caribbean Slavery

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    SLAVERY A. Slaves were people captured in war‚ used to settle a debt‚ or made slaves as a means of punishment. The Spaniards in the Caribbean had little need for African slaves in the early 1500s for various reasons. The Treaty of Tordesillas‚ which was a line of demarcation drawn north to south‚ west of the Azores and Cape Verde’s‚ stipulated that the areas west of the line belonged to the Spaniards and the east to the Portuguese. As a result of the treaty Africa was on Portugal’s side of

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    Digital Music Piracy

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    Jose U. Santana 03/06/2013 Digital Music Piracy Every day people through out the world are downloading millions upon millions of digital music from the Internet illegally. Using a Peer-to-peer file-sharing program integrated in websites like 4shared.com and MEGAUPLOAD.com. As having friends in the Music Industry‚ I do believe people should not break the copyright law and instead pay the music artists for their work. Although this ongoing issue is in a way hard to control‚ record label

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    Introduction Software piracy is a thing affecting most business in the world today and it seems evident that even though businesses improve and make it much harder for these criminals to copy their products it’s only a matter of time before they usually find a way to replicate the products therefore making software piracy all but impossible to stop. According to the Oxford Dictionary software piracy is the unauthorised use or reproduction of another’s work. So basically software piracy in the 21st century

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    Caribbean Creole

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    people‚ and then the Blacks‚ arrived on the Caribbean islands‚ they faced small groups‚ as the Carib and Arawak‚ speaking their own language and living their own cultures. Once the mentioned contact was made‚ the Caribbean creole was created. The original population of the islands had already influenced Spanish‚ lending them some words‚ and now was the time of participating in the English and African languages‚ as well as letting be influenced. The Caribbean creole is a Black English variety‚ but within

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    Piracy In The Middle Ages

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    Bucher 02/05/2015 Piracy in the Middle Ages Piracy is the act of robbery or criminal violence on and around the high sea. The term can and is not limited to include any acts committed on land‚ in the air‚ in large bodies of water or on a shore. Piracy does not normally include the crimes committed against people traveling on the same vehicle as the possible criminal. The term‚ “Piracy” has been used throughout history as a reference to land-raids committed by non-state agents. Piracy or pirating is

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    ABSTRACT Technology development has allow people in the world‚especially in this case‚Surabaya‚ to violate copyrights of music and films in many forms . This practice (Music and films piracy violation) is spread widely over Surabaya‚ largely consumed by citizens and poorly handled by the authorities. In this paper‚ we will focusing about why and how we as citizens should come to the solution for this case in relation to our Ideology (Pancasila) and our role as Indonesian citizens. After that

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    Caribbean Sexuality

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    selected and specific materials to be done on attempting to assist people of the Caribbean acknowledge and approach in a conscious manner human sexuality. He thought that Caribbean people needed to recognize‚ understand and accept their sexuality rather than approach it in an air of ambivalence. In his view‚ the materials written in this field‚ had an absence of how to really apply pastoral counseling to the Caribbean people; who in his mind had a characteristic history and culture pertaining to their

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    Caribbean Civilisation

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    The outlined article looks at the scope of respect and value place upon the educational system in a Caribbean society. The article reveals that within Jamaica’s society that there are two different set of cultural stand points. Firstly‚ we see that there are individuals that have little or no respect for persons that are charged with the educating of youngsters in the school system. They are also least concerned about the lives and safety of their fellow citizens. We can also recognize as well

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    Caribbean Studies

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    Caribbean Studies notes Module 1 Caribbean society and culture Location of the Caribbean Greater Antilles: Cuba‚ Hispaniola (Haiti and Dominican Republic)‚ Jamaica‚ Puerto Rico Lesser Antilles: * Windward islands: Grenada‚ St. Vincent‚ St. Lucia‚ Guadeloupe‚ Dominica‚ Martinique * Leeward islands: Antigua and Barbuda‚ St. Kitts-Nevis‚ Montserrat‚ Anguilla‚ Virgin islands Netherland Antilles: Aruba‚ Bonaire‚ Curacao (ABC"islands); Saint Marten‚ Saba‚ St. Eustatius Mainland Territories:

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    Stop Anti Piracy Act

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    imagine that all of your favorite websites or search engines were blocked and could never be up and running again. In October‚ the U.S. Senate and House of Representative proposed a bill called Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Luke Johnson of the Huffington Post defines the Stop Online Piracy Act with‚ “the legislation would allow copyright holders and the Justice Department to seek court orders against websites associated with copyright infringement.” The copyright infringements‚ even if unintentional

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