The speech event depicts two Caribbean natives Oliver Samuels and Marvin ‘Trini’ Ishmaels as two tourists who have just arrived at their destination in Canada. Oliver Samuels is a Jamaican native while Marvin ‘Trini’ Ishmaels is a native of Trinidad. Both characters are at the moment placing telephone calls to various places in hopes of finding a room for rent. The speech event is used to demonstrate the language varieties of the interlocutors. It also depicts how an individual’s identity can
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Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. It is also refer to Jamaican dance music (Origins of Reggae). Reggae is a combination of both elements of rock and soul music. Reggae is also played in the U.S. Jamaica dance are aspects of Jamaican life which represents the working class and generate feelings of joy and national pride. The dance moves was influenced from jazz‚ rhythm and blues movement (Jamaica
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THEME: Languages in the Caribbean TOPIC: Oral Traditions within the Culture RESEARCH STATEMENT: To examine the factors contributing to the diminishing presence of the oral tradition within the Jamaican society. INTRODUCTION Oral traditions are viewed as “the means by which knowledge is reproduced‚ preserved and conveyed from generation to generation…” – Renee Hulan‚ Renate Eigenbrod It is through interaction and interrelation that we procure experiences
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a musical genre which developed alongside hip hop culture‚ defined by key stylistic elements such as rapping‚ DJing‚ sampling‚ scratching and beatboxing. Hip hop began in the Bronx of New York City in the 1970s‚ primarily among African Americans‚ Jamaican Americans‚ and‚ to an extent‚ Latino Americans. The term rap is often used synonymously with hip hop‚ but hip hop denotes the practices of an entire subculture. Rapping‚ also referred to as MCing or emceeing‚ is a vocal style in which the artist
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stories and struggles of local Jamaicans. With the help of the voice over‚ viewers will fathom the positive and negative effects globalization place on Jamaicans. Tourists who visit Jamaica will feel that they’ve stepped into paradise‚ a place where “the sun is always hot and the climate always hot and dry”. At least that’s how I felt when I visited Jamaica two years ago. This movie allows viewers to see the underlying issue that goes on in everyday lives of local Jamaicans. In the beginning of the
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higher inland regions are more temperate • The Jamaican animal life‚ typical of the Caribbean‚ includes a highly diversified wildlife with many endemic species found nowhere else on earth. Land mammals are made up almost entirely of Bats. The only non-bat native mammal extant in Jamaica is the Jamaican Hutia‚ Also known as the coney. • The official language of Jamaica is English. Jamaicans primarily speak an English-African Creole language known as Jamaican Patois‚ which has become known widely through
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the punctuations and spellings etc. linguistic competence asks : what words do I use? How do I put them in phrases and sentences? Theorist Noam Chomsky ’s theory believes that children were born with the innate ability to acquire language. In the Jamaican
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types of mass media that affects the educational system in Jamaica. The birth of mass media has put a new look on education and has affected the Jamaican educational landscape. Four of these ways are educationally‚ socially‚ emotionally‚ and physically. First I will take the educational aspect. Mass media has a full impact on the education of Jamaican students. There are those on television that seeks to help toddlers and young children alike. Programmes such as Dora the Explorer‚ Go Diego Go
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Statement of the Issue/ Introduction Dancehall music is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970. Initially dancehall was a sparser version of reggae than roots style which dominated the 1970’s. Dancehall owes its moniker to the Jamaican dancehalls in which popular Jamaicans recordings were played by local sound systems. These began in the late 1940’s among people from the inner city of Kingston such as Trench town and Denham Town. Social and political changes in the late
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Others say that it is a corruption of the word streggae‚ which is Kingston street slang for prostitute (The Origins of Ska …‚n.d.). On the other hand‚ Bob Marley claimed that the word was Spanish in origin‚ meaning "the king’s music." Veteran Jamaican studio musicians offer the simplest‚ and probably the most logical‚ explanation. "It’s a description of the beat itself‚" says Hux Brown‚ lead guitarist on Paul Simon’s 1972 reggae-flavored hit‚ "Mother and Child Reunion". "It’s just a fun‚ joke
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