Calypso is one of the most significant traditions in Caribbean music. Calypso began on the twin island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. The rhythms of calypso can be traced quite back to the seventeenth century. This was when the first enslaved Africans were brought to Trinidad to work on the sugar plantations. While the Africans worked in the sugar field plantations‚ they were forbidden to speak to one another. So‚ by means of communication‚ they
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Death‚ dying and other ethical dilemmas Anand Chatoorgoon University of Phoenix Death‚ dying and other ethical dilemmas are issues that all Intensive Care Units (ICUs) throughout the world have to face and address. In the Current Opinion in Critical Care‚ Vol 16‚ No 6‚ December 2010‚ p. 640‚ Dixon-Woods and Bosk‚ writing on the topic of “Death‚ dying and other ethical dilemmas” under the journal’s section of ‘Ethical‚ legal and organizational issues in the ICU’‚ have stated that “Recent
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POLLUTION SHIVALLI RAGBIR UPPER SIX B ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE OIL SPILL IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO The Petrotrin oil spill was a series of oil spills that transpired on the island of Trinidad and Tobago. There were a total of eleven oil spills that took place in December 2013. The first spill began when the 16-inch sea line No 10‚ operated by the Trinidad’s national oil company‚ Petrotrin‚ ruptured at the bottom of the Gulf of Paria near the company’s Pointe-a-Pierre refinery
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wore her thick‚ dark riding habit while on her horse. This story reflects the importance of class and color of this time period in Caribbean Literature. “Triumph” by C.L.R James displays the injustices of the colonial society in the island of Trinidad. The story takes place in a barrack yard‚ or slums‚ in Port of Spain. “In these lived the porters‚ the prostitutes‚ cartermen‚ washerwomen‚ and domestic servants of the city” (James 35). In the barrack yard you can see that life was clearly difficult
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factors that have consistently led to the economic decline of the island states. This paper examines the recent experience of the Commonwealth Caribbean in dealing with the current Global economic crisis with a particular focus on Jamaica‚ Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago. It begins by examining the signs and the effect on each island. The paper then identifies five key issues that have emerged as factors contributing to and needing the attention of the heads in order to ameliorate against an occurrence
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few ways; Caribbean literature‚ fashion and music‚ all due to the colonial experience. Creolisation has played a major role in the evolution of music into several subgenres and fusions. Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to mid 20th century. Its rhythms can be traced back to West African Kaiso and the arrival of French planters and their slaves from the French Antilles in the 1600s. These slaves‚ brought to toil on sugar plantations‚ were
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pay for his music tuition. It was during his time as a secondary school student that Charles was taken under the wings of his teachers Orasio Lewis and Ken Archer and so‚ he began his musical journey on the guitar. At the age of 18‚ he joined the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service Band where he served as both a clarinetist and a guitarist for 13 years. Although he played the clarinet‚ he was influenced by senior band members; Keith Christmas and Jeffrey Smith to return to his roots on the guitar.
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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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Economic Paper Trinidad and Tobago Jurgen Budike Introduction Trinidad and Tobago is one of the wealthiest and most developed nations in the Caribbean and is listed in the top 66 High Income countries in the world. Economic reforms adopted in the early 1990s had resulted in an average economic growth of 7.7 percent per annum‚ until the start of the world financial crisis in 2008‚ when the country began to experience a period economic downturn. This endured until 2012 when the economy slowly
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with any members of the group to breach the University’s regulations. Signature: Junior Robinson Date: 2013-06-10 Calypso according to the dictionary is define as a type of music that originated in the West Indies‚ notably in Trinidad‚ and is characterized by improvised lyrics on topical or broadly humorous subjects1. This type of music was the voice of the people and the slaves on a whole. This particular genre of music was the background of communication by the slaves which
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