Caribbean
Essays

¶ … Economies of Latin American countries

Santeria is one of the oldest and richest religious traditions born in the New World. A fusion of Catholicism and the indigenous African religion Iba, Santeria literally means "the way of saints." According to Robinson…

¶ … Boot's book, the Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power, adopts the topic of a handful of recent works focusing upon the oftentimes overlooked conflicts in American history.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that more than 58,000 women in the United States had been diagnosed with AIDS by 1994 (Hackl, Somlai, Kelly & Kalichman, 1997).

Plastic debris constitutes between 60 to 80% of marine debris in the world's oceans and is known to cause detrimental effects to the world's aquatic life and sea birds. Thus efforts must be devised to resolve this situation. This article analyzes literature that is available regarding the effect of plastic debris and management efforts.

You live in the shadow of a monster the Afghan opium trade that threatens not only your nation, but the world."

Ratnam, Niru. "Surrealism's other side." Varieties of Modernism. Ed. Paul Wood. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. 53-70. Ratnam, an art historian, provides information on the little-covered Caribbean Surrealists…

American imperialism of the 19th century has long been a controversial subject matter. Many people believe that America had other issues that it should have been tending to, like staying home and focusing on the issues…

Abstract This paper will focus on slavery in the Caribbean and its effect on race, culture and labour. Slavery began in the 16th century and was promoted because of the need for labour on the sugar plantations. Slave trading was directly related to the plantations. Unfortunately, the sugar plantations resulted in a slave society. The entire plantation system was terribly degrading. The slaves were treated terribly and suffered throughout their lives. Slave turnover was very high because of the very poor treatment they received. They were denied medicines and food. While being forced into slavery, they neglected themselves. As a result, many slaves died. This then resulted in plantation owners trying to secure even greater numbers of slaves to work on their plantations. Nonetheless, these people had pride and ultimately resisted white supremacy. They developed a resistance movement that was ultimately successful. There were many types of resistance that the slaves would use. Some forms of resistance were rather effective, whereas others were not. Additionally, the resistance movement certainly cost many lives. Emancipation finally came about in the 19th century. Throughout this entire ordeal, an entirely new social class developed, the "free colored" people. These people were legally freed however they were invariably excluded based on their racial ancestry. Many of these people continued to be persecuted, just like slaves. Slavery obviously had a significant effect on culture. Slavery continues to have an effect many decades after abolition. Many cultural trends have been influenced in one way or another by slavery in the Caribbean. Race was also affected. The new social class was a result of a race that developed between slaves and Europeans. This third social class has had a significant effect on many aspects of culture. Labour was also affected by slavery in many different ways.

Twenty-five years after having first been discovered as a lethal and incurable disease, HIV / AIDS continues to be a world-wide health crisis (Furniss, 2006). This incurable, fast spreading, sexually transmitted disease…