Mintz, Sidney W., and Sally Price, eds. Caribbean Contours. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.…
Technology is the advancement of a society’s skills and tools. Science and technology have played a critical role in altering the course of human history. Two major technological advances that helped shaped society are the development agriculture and the printing press.…
“Antigua is a small place, a small island,” nine by twelve miles long, discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493 (Kincaid, 80). Europeans later settled on the island along with the slaves they imported. In A Small Place, Kincaid described the Europeans as “Human rubbish,” who took “noble and exalted human beings from Africa” to enslave them (80). She made no effort to conceal her thoughts about the little island consumed by the after effects of colonialism. Driven by anger and resentment toward Antiqua’s British implemented culture, Kincaid explored the intricacy of the after…
Based on different readings and lived experiences, the one question that always aroused is what effect do Caribbean women have on knowledge construction and ideas dispersed? The purpose of this research is to demonstrate the intellectual culture among Caribbean women. In addition to displaying their cultures, this research looks to clarify and bring to the surface the lifestyle that Caribbean women have faced, is facing and have taken into their own account to write and speak about. This research also includes the Caribbean’s women perspectives on social circumstances, economics, colonialism and the history that either them or their ancestors endured. This research paper explains the intentions of the research topic, which is to investigate and indicate some of the challenges and problems through which Caribbean women have encountered.…
What is technology? According to Webster, “Technology is the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science.” The development of technology in last 20 years has improved lives through invention. Technology has positively and negatively affected three main spheres of our lives: medicine, education, and communication.…
I am astounded. I unraveled the interview “What can cultural study do?” By Steven Connor and chronicled a solitary terrain called “Technoculture.” Technology is unceasingly cogitated to be the crux causation of economic and social change in the world. Some of technological innovation has been the catalyst for revolutionary changes in the culture of its time. As we know, the invention of the wheel in ancient civilization transformed transportation and travel, the invention of currency transformed trade and spread capital around the world, the invention of printing press transformed learning, media, communication and knowledge dissemination all over the world. Additionally, consider the far-reaching impacts of electricity, the steam engine, the telephone, airplanes, nuclear power, genetics etc. on the cultures of the world. Jacques Ellul, enquired in his writing “Is there a Technical Culture?’ and concluded that ‘a technical culture is impossible. He argued that ‘technique is universal, but culture cannot be, for human beings are not universal. We all have a place, a race, a formation and a specific time.’…
Account for the changing role that Race, Colour and Ethnic affiliation play in Caribbean Society and Culture…
Based on Wikipedia, technology is a broad concept and has more than one definition. The first definition is the development and use of tools, machines, materials and processes to solve problems. This term can be used either in general or in specific fields: for example the construction of technological knowledge, medical technology, and information technology. The term is often associated with technology and gadgets designed to use scientific principles and processes. However, the design is as old as the tires still show technology. Technology can be most broadly defined as the entities, both material and immaterial, created by the application of mental and physical effort to achieve some value. In this usage, technology refers to tools and machines that may be used to solve real-world problems.…
Technology is a quite broad term. It encompasses the entire human- made world. It refers specifically to the knowledge, processes and products of technological activity.…
What is technology might one ask? Technology is the use of tools or instruments for any human activity. These human activities can be production, storage, exchange, transportation or even consumption. It is the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life society and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial engineering, applied science, and pure science.…
What impact does the Church of the Open Bible have on the social lives of youths living in the Bushy Park Community?…
1 Examine three measures that Caribbean countries can implement to minimize the danger posed to coral reefs in the region.…
First of all I would like to thank God for waking me up each and every day in order to complete this project, then I would like to acknowledge the assistance from my brother and mother both financially and in terms of mentorship.…
5. Outline two ways in which the festivals have had an impact on the economies of countries in North America or Europe. (2 marks)…
“The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, they were toiling upwards in the night.”…