SOCIETY MODEL VALIDLY EXPLAINS THE CURRENT CARIBBEAN SOCIETY IN BOTH SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC TERMS” - DISCUSS [30 MARKS] TS – The plantation society model served the purpose of rigidly structuring society in order to facilitate clear economic goals. The Caribbean has since shed many of the harsh rigidities of the system in favour of more liberal social order but many elements of the plantation system still remain today. Much like the plantation model‚ the Caribbean continues to be rooted in economic development
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Question: How would you characterise the contemporary Caribbean‚ taking into consideration the issues of inequality‚ multi-culturalism and poverty. Often enough the Caribbean is portrayed as the untouched paradise‚ with its’ crystallised waters‚ hidden getaways and lavish landscapes with enriched flora and fauna. However‚ the image projected is not without a tumultuous past. It is a past based on colonialism‚ slavery‚ indentureship‚ assimilation‚ the mixing and diffusion or borrowing of many cultures
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There are many factors that have lead Caribbean migrants living in the metropolitan countries to create a home away from home. For many it would be because of an increase in salary. Job opportunities or for an increase income would be one of the main reasons why Caribbean migrants migrate. Money is said to make the world go round‚ we need money to be able to survive. Choosing to go away to generate more income may be the best choice for the person making that decision and also a benefit to their
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Slavery ended in 1838. One of the biggest negatives of such a system was racism which was found in every Caribbean society. British officials believed that people of Africans descent were inferior and what was worse perhaps these racist attitudes were after internalized by Black and Brown people that is some Africans themselves became convinced that they were inferior to Europeans. With Emancipation in 1838 slaves became free to choose the nature of their future existence. A fundamental
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It is important that we examine precisely the provisions that will be available to the Caribbean Countries‚ as this will strengthen our discussions on ways in which businesses in the Caribbean should organize themselves to take advantage of the Economic Partnership Agreement. Norman Girvan’s article “Implications of the CARIFORUM-EC EPA‚ examined the provisions‚ state that the EPA was a trade agreement with development components designed to open-up and develop trade between Europe and CARIFORUM
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The question must be asked firstly‚ not what if the establishment of the Caribbean Court of Justice is a sound move but what exactly is the Caribbean Court of Justice. As many perceive the CCJ as it is commonly referred to‚ would be a replacement to the previous Privy Council; which was and still is in some Caribbean states the last court of appeal. The Privy Council is considered to be one of the oldest institutions of government. “It has many roles which include giving advice on the exercise of
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A comparison of political systems is done to deepen our understanding of our own institutions‚ as well as to expand our awareness and views on other political alternatives. But what is a political system. David Easton (A System Analysis of Political Life‚ 1965) defined a political system as that "behavior or set of interactions through which authoritative allocations are made and implemented for society". Simply put it’s a set of institutions and agencies that implement goals of a society. The
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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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Before there was the Caribbean Common Market (CARICOM)‚ there was the Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA). CARIFTA was intended to encourage balanced development of the region by increasing‚ diversifying and liberating trade‚ also ensuring fair CARIFTA was limited as the free trade area was not enough to garner the desired economic efficiency. According to Bernal (2007) “... it did not provide for free movement of labour and capital‚ or for the coordination of agricultural‚ industrial and
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Question: Examine the methods employed by planters to induce "labourers" to work on sugar estates after emancipation. Full emancipation of the slaves was achieved in 1838 in the British West Indies and 1848 in the French colonies. The post-emancipation period was viewed with fear by planters who believed that mass of ex-slaves would exodus the plantations‚ robbing them of their labour supply. In many cases this was so. However‚ one can argue that the British West Indies experienced a greater labour
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