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    Child Shift

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    continuous domestic relocation. “Children Caught in the Crossfire” is an interesting article that exploits numerous factors involving parental negligence which causes child shifting. This has become a clichéd situation in the Jamaican society as a vast percentage of Jamaican parents have become surprisingly negligent. Whether by improper parenting or defaulted situations‚ children have suffered from these mal-outcomes and this has become evident through child development assessments explored within

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    Winter Olympics who finished first in two events again during the 1972 Winter Olympics but was disqualified from the latter for cheating and retired in disgrace to Jamaica‚ where he leads an impoverished life as a bookie. Irving is approached by two Jamaican athletes: top 100m runner Derice Bannock‚ who failed to qualify for the 1988 Summer Olympics when another opponent tripped him at the trials‚ and Sanka Coffie‚ a champion push cart racer. The athletes wish to use Irving’s previous experience as

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    behaviour (Wantanabe‚ 2006). Drug abuse among teens is a worldwide problem. In Jamaica‚ the use and abuse of drugs by teenagers has steadily increased over the decades. Gazarelli‚ Hoxter & Lester (1987) in studying the drug usage patterns of Jamaican teens‚ discovered that while drug usage was not dependent on sex‚ it bore positive correlations with other anti-social behaviours and emotional disturbance. In 1989‚ 78 percent of teen males and 40 percent of teen females were using one of four drugs

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    Nicole Angelic R. Simpao BSMT-1B Cool Runnings There really was a Jamaican bobsled team. ‚ the Jamaicans practiced on a bobsled with wheels‚ in the absence of any snow in their native land. Then they went to the winter Olympics‚ where the crowds cheered their pluck‚ if not their speed. The Jamaican national bobsleigh team represents Jamaica in international bobsledding competitions. Not only was there the novelty of having a tropical country compete in a cold-weather sport‚ but they had

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    Homophobia in Jamacia

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    A history of Jamaica with reference to sexuality and homophobia Modern Day Jamaica with reference to sexuality and homophobia Dancehall and homophobia in Jamaica Masculinity in popular Jamaican culture Chapter 3: Methodology and limitations Case study and primary research of dancehall lyrics Evaluation of lyrics Chapter 4: Conclusion Introduction: Jamaica is known

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    Linguistic Paper

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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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    genre of music that possesses a distinctive beat popular in Jamaica from 1969- 1983. According to Chang et al‚ the idea of “reggae music” is used to describe all Jamaican popular music that came about in 1960‚ while the term “reggae” in particular‚ categorizes the genre of music from 1969-1983. There were roughly four eras of Jamaican popular music‚ which started in 1960: Ska‚ Rocksteady‚ Reggae and Dancehall. Each era had their own distinctive beat. The ska era was from about 1960 to mid- 1966

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    important part of the Jamaican society because it helps them to define each other. The middle and upper class blacks oppose it because they believe they are above it and that it is morally wrong. The lower class blacks believe it is a symbol of pride and of black identity. A lot of the lower class religious groups also oppose it because they believe it is morally wrong and a cause of crime and social disorder. Dance halls are also a source of jobs‚ especially for lower class Jamaican. To many lower class

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    preservation in their practice. For example‚ some people in the Jamaican culture hold nine-day wakes for deceased persons. The wake is a time for respecting and honoring the departed soul. For nine nights‚ relatives and friends share food and sing hymns‚ thus saying goodbye to the departed one (). A nurse can advocate for a patient from Jamaican cultural by coordinating with the hospice facility a way for the wake to take place as the Jamaican culture sees fit. A nurse can also apple cultural accommodation

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    unskilled black Jamaicans who needed a hope. The social situation which was emerging in the 1930’s which called for this need was as follows. Jamaica was a commonwealth of the British Empire. It had recently‚ around 1884‚ received a write in clause to their constitution which stipulated if the new government did not succeed and the economic life of Jamaica were to suffer because of it‚ the political constitution would be amended or abolished to meet new conditions. Black Jamaicans had a taste for

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