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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Rodney Carey African American History Dr. Reginald Ellis Go Sound the Trumpet: Synopsis In the book Go Sound the Trumpet by Canter Brown Jr.‚ he talks about the documentation of different African Communities in Florida and the communities of the freed slaves. He tells us what happened to slaves after they were freed and where they went. Some of these communities he described as unidentified and he talked about one in particular that escaped identification. Information about the community known
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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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INTRODUCTION According to Lucille Mathurin Mair in her article entitled “The Rebel Woman in the British West Indies During Slavery”‚ coming from West African‚ enslaved women in the Caribbean developed a gret level of self-respect and confidence. This was due to the fact that many of them held great amount of power and authority in Africa. Being child bearers‚ women were held in high esteem and were an asset to their tribe. Women also held high positions such as Queen Mother in African societies
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Canter Brown Jr. wrote Tales of Angola to show the strong history of Free Blacks‚ Seminoles‚ Red Stick Creek in Southwest Florida and what happened to them. Their a focus on southwest maroon communities and their survival. The expression of their struggle and the havoc felt by these people are brought to light in this section .It tells a story of the forgotten ‚that were destroyed by the United States government‚and how some of them escaped. A significant black community existed in Florida‚ the
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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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16th through 19th century Europeans enslaved those from Africa for many reasons. The Portuguese were one of the first European nations to establish outposts in West Africa. In West Africa‚ and to a further extent Africa itself‚ slavery was already an old tradition. Upon discovery of the new world‚ areas in places such as Brazil were converted to cultivate highly profitable crops (such as sugar). Since the natives were very susceptible to European diseases‚ they were not a good source of labor
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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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