Jamaica Retirement Trip

Jamaica Kincaid’s novel “A Small Place” is a novel made up of a series essays that dives into the daily life of the island of Antigua. Antigua is a small beautiful, nine miles wide by 12 miles long, island. Tourism is an industry that makes huge amounts of money. Hotels, beaches, and fun in the sun all come at a price, but where is the money really going? Antigua with its many resort hotels and tourist attractions, seems rich in wealth but what about the native descendants of the island. Are the natives actually benefiting from tourism? Kincaid who grew up in the once colonized island explains the islands’ history during colonialism. She also, gives insight on the island after colonialism. In “A Small Place” Jamaica Kincaid uses critics tourism

Gentle waves, lush greenery, and sun-soaked beaches, Antigua embodies your ideal holiday destination. But Jamaica Kincaid turns your paradise upside down in her new memoir A Small Place. Using her pen as a sword, Kincaid slashes Antigua’s façade of perfection into shreds and presses the blade against the throats of tourism, colonialism and corruption.

First trip to the Caribbean, first time in Havana, we've booked a couple of nights at the Roc Presidente while we find our feet. This gracious 1920s classic with rooms ten times the cost of a casa particular offers commanding views down Avenida De Los Presidentes, a frozen-in-time sitting room, immaculate staff, adequate restaurants, a nearby bank, and taxi drivers on tap. Baked Europeans encircle the pool by day and a Cuban girl band entertains guests at night.

If I had one chance to visit anywhere in the world, I would visit Jamaica. I want to visit Jamaica, because I want to learn about other cultures, I want to see the crystal clear water, and the white sand, I would like to go snorkeling to see all the vivid colors. I would rather fly to Jamaica, then go on a boat. Jamaica is located on a island called the West Indies. Jamaica would be a beautiful place to visit for a vacation.

In “A Small Place”, the author Jamaica Kincaid talks about her strong feelings about and tourism in regard to her home country Antigua. Antigua is a 10x12 mile island in the West Indies and it was discovered by Christopher Columbus (Kincaid, 80). Many people don’t know about the background of places we visit, and Antigua is no exception. Kincaid believes, “A tourist is an ugly thing”, and expresses that belief throughout her essay. It is true that there a few tourists who actually know about Antigua and the events that took place there, but there are also some tourists that may not be fully aware of a country’s

Jamaica Kincaid immerses the reader into her essay “A Small Place” through the use of second-person point of view, continually referring to the reader as “you.” She characterizes the reader as a tourist from a privileged Western nation and narrates the experiences and thoughts of the reader while visiting Antigua for the first time. By portraying the reader as the tourist through second-person narrative, Kincaid criticizes the ignorance of Eurocentric assumptions, as well as the total superficiality of Western tourism. Ultimately, this technique allows her to capture her disdain for Eurocentrism, alienating the reader from Antiguan culture.

Kate made her way off the boat and through the flowers that greeted her with a smile. She liked everything about the Caribbean and had wanted to go there since she was five. Finally, her dream came true! As she was walking around the shore, she was looking at the tall colorful buildings and beautiful trees. She noticed that something about this island

The city was surrounded by a small river to protect us from the cruelty from the Jungle. The gates opened and in all the years I had lived in the city, the sun never seemed brighter than it was right now. But I know it hadn’t changed. As we loaded on the boats, weighted down by the heaviness of the rusty shackles, I was hoping I would wake up from some bad dream, and return to a life anew. A life where I wasn’t a thief, a life where I had parents to raise me. A life where I didn’t live in slums.

A Small Place, by Jamaica Kincaid, tells the history of a small postcolonial island called Antigua, which is located in the Caribbean. In this nonfictional text, published in 1988, Kincaid examines the challenges that Antiguans were left to deal with after the English left and in her writing Kincaid reveals how European colonization left Antigua with injustice, corruption, and poverty. The book is sectioned off into four parts. The first part focuses on tourism, the second part studies the colonial legacy of the island, part three talks about the political situation of the island, and part four expresses some hope for the future. Throughout the book, Jamaica Kincaid makes it very clear that she does not approve of tourists by saying things such as, “An ugly thing, that is what you are when you become a tourist, an ugly, empty thing, a stupid thing, a piece of rubbish pausing here and there to gaze at this and taste that…”

While I was on the cruise I was able to go zip lining in Jamaica. Which was my favorite explosion. We went on a bunch of different zip lines. My favorite part of the excursion was my bus driver. He took us to the zip line course, he was always cracking jokes and took us on his bus through Jamaica for shopping. So we could buy souvenirs and other cool things from Jamaica to take home to the US. Which he didn't have to do but did anyway because he was a swell guy. He showed us a famous bar/restaurant and stayed with us the whole time we bought souvenirs and other things from the stores. He told us who were the good people to talk to were and who the good people to buy from and kept us away from the bad people. We got to experience a lot of

Life in Jamaica was a different place at that time; different groups were forming to save themselves from the oppressions that overpowered them. Money was scarce and jobs were few; Bob helped in a welding shop to support some of the family’s expensive. People’s hopes diminished as generations saw their lives crumble under their country’s weak economy. For all of

Cinchona of the clouds is otherworldly. And Castleton, the garden established to replace Bath, fleetingly evokes that golden age of Jamaican tourism, when visitors arrived in their own yachts--the era of Ian Fleming and Noel Coward, before commercial air travel unloaded ordinary mortals all over the island."

In today’s modern society where people live more in the urban cities than the rural areas each day traffic increases. And the government made a way for which people can go to work from home and back so that less people drive is public transportation. And it has always been discussed whether public transportation should be free or not. According to Joe Pinsker from the Atlantic making public transportation free will only attract the wrong crowd. For example kids and young people with culture of vandalism. Instead public transportation should focus on the wealthier people because they are the ones that work and need to drive (“Why Can't Public Transit Be Free?” Joe Pinsker). On the other hand what I believe will happen is that traffic will actually reduce on the roads and people will actually start using public transportation. So, the public pays taxes for public transportation but they also pay for it when they ride it which is not fair. Also making public transportation free will only benefit the city by many means. There will be great effect to the nation and society if public transportation is made free. This is on the grounds that many individuals will be urged in going to utilize them. This paper will show why there are more points of interest for making the public transportation free and why there will be fewer inconveniences.

Rain fell from the sky humidifying the soil. The day did not seem like ones lived before, days that belong now to my past. People ran swiftly across the sidewalks trying to get to their offices, homes, or just a place to stand for a few minutes and not be drenched by the falling downpour. Hailstones hit the ground with severity; water flowed along the street, coming down the steep mountain, where a sequence of modern and recently constructed ten-story buildings stood silently. From my apartment the splendid and astonishing view of a city with more than one million people dominated the front section; at the back, the relaxing sight of nature and old trees created a welcoming and loosening up sensation. All these were located in one

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