Europeans came into contact with the Caribbean after Columbus’s momentous journeys in 1492‚ 1496 and 1498. The desire for expansion and trade led to the settlement of the colonies. The indigenous peoples‚ according to our sources mostly peaceful Tainos and warlike Caribs‚ proved to be unsuitable for slave labour in the newly formed plantations‚ and they were quickly and brutally decimated. The descendants of this once thriving community can now only be found in Guiana and Trinidad. The slave trade
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Caribbean Geology The oldest land areas of the modern Caribbean are at the extreme ends of the arc of islands in Cuba and Trinidad. The Greater Antillean islands have all had a somewhat similar geological history but they differ from one another in the distribution‚ form and erosion patterns of the limestones deposited during several phases of submergence and uplift through the Tertiary period and Pleistocene. Apart from sporadic unions between islands now separated by shallow seas‚ as within the
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Name: Belize; formerly known as British Honduras. Location: Belize is bordered on the North by Mexico‚ on the South and West by Guatemala and on the East by the Caribbean Sea. Currency: Population: Since the last census established in July 2008 a total of 301‚270 was recorded. Flag: The coat of arms shows: 1. A mahogany tree: the first European settlers in Belize became mahogany traders and the mahogany trade was once the economical
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CARIBBEAN MUSIC Introduction: Caribbean music originated from the Caribbean Islands‚ also known as the West Indies‚ and is a mixture of West African and European predominantly Spanish influences. The music has its origin when West African slaves were brought to Caribbean Island. They composed music with the help of percussion instruments like drums‚ bells and shakers. The music had unique musical style elements with special tempo-setting rhythms created by claves or bells‚ multi-layered and
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is the trend towards social stratification‚ the system by which society organizes itself into a hierarchy. In some cultures this is manifest in the form of a caste system in which people who are in poverty have little to no chance of escaping it. In the United States the system is more in the form of a class system in which there is at least some degree of social mobility‚ and less status consistency allows people in poverty to have the possibility of changing their social status‚ but rarely the
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Business and Economics Research Journal Volume 2 . Number 1 . 2011 pp. 89-107 ISSN: 1309-2448 www.berjournal.com An Empirical Study of the Relationship between Transformational Leadership‚ Empowerment and Organizational Commitment Azman Ismail Hasan Al-Banna Mohamed Ahmad Zaidi Sulaiman d e Mohd Hamran Mohamad Munirah Hanim Yusuf a b c Abstract: Abstract Organizational leadership literature highlights that transformational leadership has four salient features: intellectual stimulation‚ individualized
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Journal of Business Research 60 (2007) 277 – 284 Hofstede ’s dimensions of culture in international marketing studies Ana Maria Soares a‚⁎‚ Minoo Farhangmehr a‚1 ‚ Aviv Shoham b‚2 a School of Economics and Management‚ University of Minho‚ 4710-057‚ Braga‚ Portugal b Graduate School of Management‚ University of Haifa‚ Haifa‚ 31905‚ Israel Received 1 March 2006; received in revised form 1 August 2006; accepted 1 October 2006 Abstract Growth of research addressing the relationship between
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An investigation into new approach of mobile marketing to male fashion industry – an empirical study of male fashion industry in UK Tzu-Yin Hsu (Valerie Hsu) Design Innovation Studio‚ Faculty of Art and Design‚ De Montfort University‚ Leicester‚ UK Abstract The purpose of this project was to enhance the exposure of fashion trends to a male target group through the optimizations of the medium of mobile phones. By using mobile phones as a means of marketing communication‚ fashion information
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➢ Scopes of the Study ➢ Methodologies of the Study ➢ Limitations of the Study 1.1 Origin of the Thesis Work This report has been made for the partial fulfillment of the “Basic Dimensions of Environmental Accounting & Reporting - An Empirical Study on Some Industries in Bangladesh”‚ with the specified time duration. I had to study on certain topics of “Environmental
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CAUSES OF PROBLEM FACING SOCIAL STUDIES The finding that an unacceptably high percentage of preservice elementary teachers shared a negative perception of their past encounters with social studies presents a serious challenge. The cumulative percentage of participants who described their past social studies courses as being either "very interesting" or "interesting" was 58.5 percent. For those who reported their past social studies courses as being either "very uninteresting" or "uninteresting‚"
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