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Jamaica Kincaid's "Lucy", 2005.
This paper discusses the themes of love and anger in Jamaica Kincaid's novel "Lucy".
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 44.95
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This paper examines the protagonist in Jamaica Kincaid's "Lucy", especially the way her anger affects her relationships with the people who love her. The author points out that these relationships are hindered both by Lucy's uncertainty of what she wants and by the anger that constantly seems to be bubbling under the surface. The paper discusses the relationships between Lucy and her mother, Lucy and Mariah, and Lucy and Peggy.
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"When Lucy comes to the United States, her life takes a dramatic turn. All of the things that she once understood and had taken for granted have changed. On the morning of her first day in the United States, that point is illustrated quite clearly for her. The simple assumption that the shining sun equals warmth no longer has any validity. She is forced to acknowledge that she no longer lives in a tropical zone. This realization comes upon her: like a flow of water dividing formerly dry and solid ground, creating two banks, one of which was my past--as familiar and predictable that even my unhappiness then made me happy now just to think of it--the other my future, a gray black and overcast seascape on which rain was falling and no boats were in sight."
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Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl", 2005.
An examination of the mother-daughter relationship in "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 2 sources, $ 26.95
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The paper examines the relationship between the mother and daughter in the short one-sentence story "Girl", by Jamaica Kincaid. The paper looks at the the destructiveness of the relationship between them, and the negative attitude of the mother and the elements of the relationship that are evidenced in the short story.
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"There are several important themes to the short story "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid, the most significant being the relationship between the mother and the daughter. It is not immediately clear who is narrating this story, which is actually a single-sentence list. The rhythm and cadence form a large part of the story's power, which has been said to induce a sort of "hypnosis," both on the part of the reader, and the daughter (Simmons 467). This rhythm, according to Simmons, reflects the lulling nature of the mother in the early part of the story. At first the words of wisdom that the mother gives to her daughter, whether told in the mother's voice or in the form of the daughter's repetition of what her mother has said, is practical, "simple, benevolent, and appropriately maternal" involving such mundane things as laundry, sewing, cooking (Simmons 467)."
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"A Small Place" by Jamaica Kincaid and "The Secret Life Of Saeed" by Emile Habiby, 1993.
A comparison of the books' depictions of racism in Antigua (British West Indies) and Palestine.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 2 sources, $ 55.95
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"Racism is a universal problem. It occurs almost anywhere there is more than one racial group in a population, and the dominant group tends to take out its frustrations, its prejudices, and its fears on the more vulnerable and smaller subpopulation in its midst. Jamaica Kincaid's book A Small Place is set in Antigua in the British West Indies, while Emile Habiby's The Secret Life of Saeed takes place in Palestine and tells the story of a Palestinian Arab who remained in Palestine after Israel incorporated the region. Both books involve situations in which racism appears, directed at some minority population in each country. For the people who are experiencing this racism, it has become a daily part of their lives. It may be ignored by them (on the surface, at least), or it may be something they rail against openly. In either case, it festers..."
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Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl', 2000.
A poetic exploration of Caribbean family ties between mother to daughter.
1,048 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 1 source, $ 36.95
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"The poem ?Girl? by author Jamaica Kincaid shows love and family togetherness by creating microcosmic images of Western Caribbean familial practices and imbedding them in a seemingly incomprehensible text. Upon closer examination, the reader sees that the text is a string of images that are the cultural practices and moral principles that a Caribbean woman is passing along to her young daughter. Jamaica Kincaid has taken common advice that daughters are constantly hearing from their mothers and tied them into a series of commands that a mother uses to prevent her daughter from turning into ?the slut that she is so bent on becoming? (13). But they are more than commands; the phrases are a mother?s way of insuring that her daughter has the tools that she needs to survive as an adult. The fact that the mother takes the time to train the daughter in the proper ways for a lady to act in their culture is indicative of their familial love; the fact that there are so many rules and moral principles that are being passed to the daughter indicates that mother and daughter spend a lot of time together. The reader gets the impression that the advice that the mother gives her daughter has been passed down from many generations of women. The advice of the sages has enabled their daughters to endure hardships and to avoid making the same mistakes that they had made, such as planting okra far from the house because it attracts red ants. The reader knows that there was some woman in the past who learned this lesson the hard way, and included it in the litany of advice for future generations."
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Young Women Coming of Age in Jamaica, 2008.
A review and comparison of the books "Lucy" by Jamaica Kincaid and "Small Island" by Andrea Levy.
1,781 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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This paper examines how the two young women who are the subjects of the coming of age novels "Lucy", by Jamaica Kincaid, and "Small Island", by Andrea Levy are complicated characters. The paper compares the main protagonists in the stories and explains that Jamaica Kincaid's novel is told from the perspective of Lucy, the main character in the novel, and focuses only on Lucy's, as seen from her own perspective. The paper then looks at how in "Small Island", the character of Hortense is contextualized more fully, with the perspective and history of her husband, her landlady and her landlady's husband also being represented--and giving more perspective to her own, by surrounding it. The paper then points out that the background of race and post-colonial features strongly in these insights about difference, but the impact of these two novels is even further-reaching -- it is an impact which has everything to do with what it means to be human.
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"Both Hortense and Lucy are highly unpleasant people. Spoiled, selfish, self-absorbed, with a sense of entitlement that confounds belief, they are supremely uninterested in anyone other than themselves, and unable to see the suffering of others with any empathy. Hortense is convinced that she is special because of her golden skin and her well-known father. She has completely absorbed the colonial indoctrination of her education and believes herself to be truly English, and therefore above her home country and its people. In fact, upon arriving in England it becomes clear that she considers herself more English than the English."
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Identity in Frost, Kincaid and Wilson, 2004.
This paper focuses on the theme of identity in these writers' works.
678 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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The paper offers a comparison and contrast of the theme of identity in Jamaica Kincaid's short story "Girl", Robert Frost's poem "Design" and August Wilson's play "The Piano Lesson."
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"Though Robert Frost's "Design" is a poem, Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl" is a short story and August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson" is a play, all three of these works are similar in trying to demonstrate the difficulties in finding meaning and individual identity in life. In "Design" Robert Frost's speaker observes nature."
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Manufacturing Sectors in Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, 2002.
An in-depth study which compares the manufacturing sector of Jamaica with the manufacturing sector in Trinidad and Tobago and why one is more successful than the other.
12,014 words (approx. 48.1 pages), 43 sources, MLA, $ 232.95
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This paper compares, through the application of appropriate economic models, the development of the manufacturing sub-sector in Jamaica with the manufacturing sub-sector in Trinidad in order to identify those factors that have led to higher levels of growth in Trinidadian manufacturing than those prevailing in Jamaican manufacturing. The paper asks if the differences between Jamaica and Trinidad in the effectiveness of the transmission of export gains, have contributed to differences in the growth of the manufacturing sub-sector in the two countries. It also questions whether the differences between Jamaica and Trinidad, in relation to the development of internal obstacles emanating from governmental economic policy, have led to differences in the levels of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the two countries.
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"Throughout the decade of the 1980s, Jamaica experienced economic growth. The nation?s mean growth rate for the decade was 2.2 percent, and the Jamaican economy recorded its highest growth rate, 4.1 percent, in 1990. Subsequently to 1990, Jamaican economy performed somewhat erratically through 1994 while maintaining growth. The economy was flat in 1995 and fell into recession in 1996, where it has since remained (World Bank, 1999). Gross domestic product (GDP) in Jamaica declined 0.7 percent in 1998 (Thomas, 1999). By the spring of 1999, Jamaica?s economy was described as being in a state of "shambles" after recording its third consecutive year of recession in 1998 (Gibbings, 1999, p. 1).
The Trinidadian economy, by contrast with that in Jamaica, was in recession throughout the 1980s, experiencing mean negative growth of 2.9 percent across the decade. Trinidad experienced two years of economic growth in 1990 and 1991 before falling back into recession in both 1992 and 1993. From 1994 through 1998, however, Trinidad recorded strong economic growth, although the rate of growth steadily declined from 3.8 percent in 1994 to 3.1 percent in 1998 (World Bank, 1999). By the spring of 1999, however, Trinidad?s economy was described as being in "rapid decline" (Gibbings, 1999, p. 1). GDP growth in the first quarter of 1999 slipped to two-percent (International Monetary Fund, 1999)."
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Jamaica and Haiti, 2004.
A comparison of the political and economic situations in Jamaica and Haiti.
897 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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Jamaica and Haiti share a common history of British and American influence. The writer explains that while both countries have been subject to a degree of political and economic instability, Haiti has a lengthy history of political oppression and economic chaos that continues today. The paper also states that while both countries have ongoing relationships with the United States, Jamaica's relationship is much more stable. Today, Haiti's economic and political future seems uncertain, while Jamaica is a relatively stable and prosperous nation.
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"In the 19th and 20th centuries, Jamaica's history was dominated by the English, the slave trade and democratic socialism. At the beginning of the 1800s, Jamaican slaves were subject to terrible treatment, and a slave revolts were common. During the largest of these revolts, the 1831 Christmas Rebellion, over 20,000 slaves murdered planters and destroyed plantations. As retribution, over 400 slaves were hanged, and the resulting outcry in England forced the Jamaican parliament to end slavery in 1834 (Lonely Planet, Jamaica).
The resulting economic transition to wage labor was largely chaotic, as former slaves chose to leave poor wages on plantation estates. White plantation owners were the only people with voting power. Conditions on the island remained poor and naval blockades during the American Civil War cut off vital supplies and made conditions even worse. The Morant Bay Rebellion resulted in public executions, hangings, and destruction that forced England to send more "enlightened" governors to Jamaica (Lonely Planet, Jamaica)."
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The Identity of Jamaica and Bermuda, 2008.
This paper explains that the national identity of Jamaica and Bermuda is complicated and troubled by a history of colonialism, race, sugar and slavery.
1,390 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 46.95
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This paper explains that, from a legacy of colonialism, Jamaica and Bermuda have carved out a more independent path through which they are better able to express an authentic local culture and identity. The author points out that, while Jamaica is the island with actual independence, Bermuda appears to be developing the more versatile and durable society. The paper states that the education system of Jamaica is still hampered by colonialism insofar as external imagery and tourist considerations actually determine what is taught to Jamaican school children so a citizenry is created, which will behave appropriately in the presence of white tourists. The author underscores that the Bermudans are moving towards eradicating the island's over-dependence upon tourist dollars although its education system and no doubt its society remains not wholly dissimilar to the systems of Great Britain.
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"Continuing onward, the racial legacy of colonialism manifests itself in many ways. For one thing, there is evidence (at least in the popular press) that racial identification has grown stronger in Bermuda in recent years; unfortunately, the pyramidal arrangement of historic Bermudan society (one in which certain groups are associated with power) has lingered: as one example, it is noteworthy that a Caucasian British subject was chosen to head Bermuda's judiciary over many other qualified candidates - at least some of whom were non-white Bermudans."
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Tourism as the Normalization of Oppression in Jamaica., 2006.
This paper describes how the tourism industry in Jamaica reinforced colonial elitism through the oppression of cheap labor.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 3 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper explains how Jamaica's tourist industry after 1960 reproduced colonial forms of oppression in an industry controlled by colonial elite investors and beneficiaries that capitalize on cheap labor supplies; explanation of results of mass tourism as pursued by various Third World countries, and in Jamaica's example; note higher basic costs, low industrial or other development, cultural decay; reinforcement of colonial/postcolonial elites in a dual economy and dual society of much poverty. Itwaru, Fanon, CLR James, plus other refs.
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"Jamaica is the third largest island in the Caribbean, discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1494, named earlier by the Arawak Indians, 'Xaymaca' or the 'land of wood and water'. The Spanish introduced slaves from Africa after 1513, as labourers in a new sugarcane industry. In 1655, Jamaica became a British colony, continuing on till its independence in 1962. Just before independence, economic development began that centered on cultivating tourism, in keeping with other emerging colonies of the British Commonwealth Caribbean. This paper shows that tourism involves a carrying on of colonial phenomenon in independent Jamaica, including the class gaps of a colonial society. The moneyed classes were those to invest directly..."
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James Kincaid's "Alice's Invasion of Wonderland", 2004.
Review of James Kincaid's article on Louis Carroll's children's classic, "Alice in Wonderland".
1,961 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 62.95
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This paper describes Kincaid's more cynical view of "Alice in Wonderland" in which he talks about the subversive and brutal elements of the classic story. The paper also compares Kincaid's reading of "Alice in Wonderland" to more traditional readings of the story.
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"Yet another traditional reading which Kincaid references is that which says Alice is ?the reader's surrogate on a frightful journey into meaningless night [where] practically all pattern, save the consistency of chaos, is annihilated." (92) Kincaid says that in this reading, Alice learns to reject chaos and the darkness of unlimited imagination and return to the ?sane madness of ordinary existence.? (92) This is the sort of reading which might suggest the story to be not only about children learning to navigate a foreign and nonsensical adult world, but also about the way in which children filter out the nonsense of their own fantasy lives and learn how to grow up and
chooses to reject chaos and also imagination and take part in the ?ordinary existence? of adult life. These first two readings can be reconciled by saying that Wonderland represents the fantasy of a very young child?s nonsensical imagination transposed over a sort of archetypal structure that is adult life (hence making adults seem absurd) -- and that what Alice is doing is rejecting the fantasy aspects while learning to make sense of the reality-based adult aspects."
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"Jamaica Inn", 2006.
This paper reviews and examines Daphne du Maurier's novel "Jamaica Inn."
1,403 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 46.95
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The writer of this paper discusses the plot and main characters of Daphne du Maurier's romantic novel, "Jamaica Inn," which is the story of a young woman named Mary Yellen, who was raised in the peaceful village, Helford. This paper follows the story of Mary, who after the death of mother is sent to live with her aunt Patience at the Jamaica Inn. This paper also details the evolving romance between Mary and Jem, a horse thief.
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"Mary meets up with Jem on Christmas Eve and watches him sell the newly colored pony back to its original owner, who does not recognize it. Later, Jem questions her about her appearance, worried that the light has gone from her eyes. She tells Jem what Joss has told her. Mary and Jem have a great day together and Jem tries to kiss her. She pushes him away and tells him she wants to go home. He leaves to get the jingle but fails to come back. Eventually, Mary decides to venture home alone. She meets the vicar on the way, accepts a ride from him, and once again spills her guts to him. He comforts her by saying that the government will soon patrol the coast and wreckers will be arrested and outlawed. Mary's evening gets worse. She arrives home only to be forced to accompany Joss and his gang on a wrecking trip."
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Jamaica Business, 2005.
Discusses customary business, management and negotiation practices in Jamaica.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper is about the customary business, management and negotiation practices in Jamaica. It discusses the fundamental shift from a socialized to a market driven economy. The paper looks at the dependency of the Jamaican economy on services and the long term problems of the economy.
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"The reforms embraced measures that have been implemented in many other developing countries in the past two decades including removal of price controls, privatization of state assets and enterprises, liberalization of financial markets and international trade and reform of public administration..."
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Canada and Jamaica Demographics, 2002.
Variation in the global demographic experience, as illustrated by Canada and Jamaica.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 26.95
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This three-page undergraduate paper is based on graphs and tables, and explains why there can be so much demographic variation. Jamaica and Canada are very different. There are many reasons; however, this paper focuses on technological and socioeconomic factors.
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Jamaica, 2002.
An analysis of the history of the damage caused by human impact on the Caribbean island of Jamaica.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 71.95
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This paper will, in the course of examining the changing landscape of the Caribbean island of Jamaica over time, argue that the human impact upon the landscape of the island has been so dramatic that the only natural force comparable was the earthquake of 1692. This human impact, intended to support the industries of mining, agriculture and tourism, threatens to inflict radical damage upon the island's environment from which it may never recover.
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