positive effects Dancehall music might have on our young people‚ it has become more a pathway for moral degradation with our young people. Dancehall is a “style of Jamaican popular music that had its genesis in the political disturbance of the late 1970′s ad became Jamaica’s dominant music in the 1980′s and 90′s”‚ ( C.J.Cooper) “Jamaican dancehall culture is commonly disparaged as a homophobic‚ homicidal‚ misogynist discourse that reduces both men and women to bare essentials: skeletal remain” (Cooper
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Academic Source: “Historic low prestige and seeds of change: Attitudes toward Jamaican Creole” Jamaican Creole (known to its speakers as Patois) is a language of ethnic identification for roughly two and a half million people in the island of Jamaica‚ and overseas for many thousands of native speakers. The origins of the Jamaican Creole postdate 1660‚ in the interaction of British colonists and African slaves. Jamaican language and its place in society reflects the brutal history of Jamaica as
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Homosexuality is an embedded taboo in Jamaican society. In fact‚ it is so disgraceful that even parents can forsake their own children because of it. In a particular case reported in the Daily Observer by Karyl Walker involving the attempted lynching of a young boy suspected of being homosexual by residents and students of his school‚ it was confirmed that it was the boy’s father who instigated the violence directed at his son and left him to the mercy of the angry mob. The boy was set upon because
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Guidance counselors are school professionals who specialize in helping students make decisions about their personal and educational needs while providing information about colleges and other life choices. To become a guidance counselor‚ each state has certain educational requirements. Most states require a college degree plus one to two years of special study in guidance counseling. Some states may also require teaching experience. Personal characteristics are just as important as educational requirements
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Print Media Era (1700-1834) Jamaica’s media history dates back to 1718 when Robert Baldwin published the country’s first newspaper‚ Weekly Jamaican Courant from his printery on Church Street. Between the period 1718 and 1834 no fewer than 33 newspapers were published across the island. These included The St Jago Intelligencer‚ Royal Gazette‚ Cornwall Chronicle and County Gazette‚ Kingston Morning Post and Trelawney Advertiser. Books and magazines developed at a slower pace than newspapers as
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defining the criteria for “manliness” in the lyrics of Jamaican popular music. According to dancehall scholar‚ Donna Hope‚ in her book Inna di Dancehall‚ (2006)‚ “dancehall culture is a space for the cultural creation and dissemination of symbols and ideologies that reflect and legitimize the lived realities of its adherents‚ particularly those from the inner cities.”1 Dancehall is a cultural production and representation of Jamaican realities. The concept of culture refers to patterns
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Pastoral counselors are clergy who have received graduate training in both religion and behavioral science for a clinical practice that integrates psychological and theological disciplines. Pastoral counselors believe that there is a God in whose image and likeness we are created. They believe that we yearn for a transforming connection with the divine‚ and that psychotherapy can mediate the loving and healing nature of being itself. Pastoral counselors also make therapeutic use of traditional
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as one of the most recognized sporting activity in Jamaica. It is also highly recognized on the international scale as a major sporting activity which is highly favoured among many. Sports can increase a nation’s popularity‚ as it also uplifts the Jamaican population; educationally‚ has enhance the tourism aspects of the country as well as creating better infrastructures. Sporting activities in Jamaica can contribute to the country becoming more renowned. Sporting Activities‚ such as track and field
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A manger is the leader of any organization who has to take decisions‚ control the situation‚ be spontaneous and resourceful to change decisions for better functioning of the organization if situation so demands etc. Teachers‚ like executives in other settings‚ are expected to provide leadership to students and to coordinate a variety of activities as they and students work interdependently lo accomplish academic and social goals of schooling. As a manger‚ teacher is concerned with all die three phases
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benefitted the economy which created many haves; however‚ the Europeans and natives inability to coexist made many have nots. Colonization allowed Britain to produce sugar and jobs for Europeans. Britain tried to force their culture on Jamaican natives and African Jamaicans‚ in addition to creating one of the largest slave trade operations at the time. The colonization of Jamaica was beneficial to The Europeans because it gave them many new crops that funded the wars they were fighting‚ and created
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