calendar month Kartik. Dhanteras usually falls eighteen days after Dussehra. In the Gregorian calendar‚ Diwali falls between mid-October and mid-November. Diwali is an official holiday in India‚[4] Nepal‚ Sri Lanka‚ Myanmar‚ Mauritius‚ Guyana‚ Trinidad & Tobago‚ Suriname‚ Malaysia‚ Singapore and Fiji. For Hindus‚ Diwali is one of the most important festivals of the year and is celebrated in families by performing traditional activities together in their homes. For Jains‚ Diwali marks the attainment
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A Timeline of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its Abolition 16th Century 1562 1564-65 1567 1607 1618 1619 1623 1625 1626 1649 1655 1655 1656 1657 1660s 1672 1675 1668 1683 1685-86 1690 1692 1698 1699 1702-13 1727 Sir John Hawkins‚ backed by Gonson and other London merchants‚ leaves Plymouth with three ships‚ making him the first English slave trader. He takes 300 Africans and trades them with the Spanish and Portuguese for sugar‚ hides‚ spices and pearls Backed by Queen Elizabeth I‚ Hawkins
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Rhea Belgrave Ms. Pleming English 1302_ 5 6 November 2012 Couples Should Live Together before Getting Married In my mother’s house it was never discussed whether I should live with someone before I get married. In Trinidad and Tobago it is a normal for a man and a woman to live together and not have plans for marriage. With this being said‚ my mother does not want me to live together with my boyfriend until after I get married. I believe that this can sometime break up good relationships
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a major petrochemical and oil refining complex‚ Petrotrin. The Wild Fowl Trust is a wetland habitat. They are actively involved in the research‚ breeding and translocation of endangered wetland birds into existing natural wildlife areas in Trinidad and Tobago. Aviculture is the practice of keeping and breeding birds and the culture that forms around it. Aviculture is generally focused on not only the raising and breed of birds‚ but also on preserving avian habitants and public awareness campaigns
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SOCIOLGY ESSAY Discuss the major determinants of three family forms found in the Caribbean. (25marks) The various family forms present in the Caribbean can be attributed to a long and specifically Caribbean history dating back to the slavery and indentureship periods and beyond to the cultural heritages of Africa‚ Europe‚ India and elsewhere. Three of these family forms are the family based on common law unions‚ the matrifocal family and the extended family. Some theorists such as Melville
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1. Introduction Many things have shaped the history of the Caribbean islands‚ decolonization‚ economic modernization and the globalization of tourism. When most of the islands became independent from foreign rule they needed to build up a working economy. Some of the bigger more resource rich island nations started to produce and export goods but many of the smaller island states did not have this opportunity. When tourism started to grow‚ both types of islands benefitted a lot from it‚ but it
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English Name French Name Local Name Region A 1. Afghanistan Afghanistan Afghanestan South-Central Asia 2. Albania Albanie Shqiperia Southern Europe 3. Algeria Algérie Al Jaza’ir Northern Africa 4. American Samoa Samoa Américaines American Samoa Polynesia‚ Oceania 5. Andorra Andorre Andorra Southern Europe 6. Angola Angola Angola Central Africa 7. Anguilla Anguilla Anguilla Leeward Islands‚ Caribbean 8. Antarctica Antarctique
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Content Page Introduction 1-2 Definition of terms 3-5 How the process of syncretism started in the Caribbean 6 effects of syncretism in the Caribbean 7 Essential beliefs of vodou 8 Simple vodou ritual 9 Similarities between vodou and Catholism 10 Contemporary Vodou 11 Myths and misconceptions aboutVodou 12 Notes
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Topic: Compare and contrast ways in which both men and women can be discriminated against in the workplace. Thesis: Although both men and women encounter discrimination in the workplace such as maternity or paternity discrimination‚ women‚ however; are constantly plagued by the never moving glass ceiling where as men get selected for harder‚ dirtier and more dangerous jobs than their female counterparts. |Topic |Sentence
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education and it has been affected by factors such as the change in industry‚ socialization‚ religion‚ laws etc. This paper strives to discuss three of these factors either promoting or affecting equal opportunity for upward mobility that women in Trinidad and Tobago enjoy. Education the number one factor that places and important role in an individual’s upward movement for it opened doors that weren’t possible for women in the plantation era. Before domestic work was the only occupation a women was seen
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