Tourism: Where Public And History Don T Always Meet By Barbara Kirshenblatt

In “The Ugly Tourist” by Jamaica Kincaid, tourism is thought as a disgusting and an extremely harmful industry. In her perspective, it allows first world citizens to escape and marvel at the simplest and most ordinary things. Although there is some truth in what Jamaica Kincaid describes to the reader, I believe there is a prejudiced view towards the tourist themselves. Kincaid’s essay about the ugliness and affects of being a tourist contrasts everything I’ve experienced being a tourist in Italy and Greece.

Elaine Potter Richardson a.k.a. Jamaica Kincaid, was one of the staff writers for the New Yorker who mostly wrote for the magazine that often-chronicled Caribbean culture. One of her work was “The Ugly Tourist” which was included in the opening chapter of “A Small Place,” and appeared in Harper’s in 1988. Kincaid’s essay talks about how it feels to be a tourist which she refers “the ugliest thing in the world.” The piece was rejected by the editor of the New Yorker because of being “too angry.” Within the composition, it’s obvious that Kincaid’s largest target is the economic structure of the dysfunctional tourism or in other words, she speaks directly to “you,” the reader. She even criticizes tourists in a resentful and ferociously pitched way that is somewhat troubling for some readers, and not obviously what she intends. Overall, Kincaid’s work doesn’t succeed to persuade his readers by failing to construct her ethos, pathos and logos.

The progression of technology and its presence in society has strongly molded the way people live their lives today, and the way they will continue to live their lives years from now. But with this advancement of science and increased order, there is a consequence that seems to be a heavy price to pay: the loss of human emotion and freewill, and the submission to organization and commands. The tourist industry is one such manufactured machine, so to speak, that influences people's views in certain aspects. One of these aspects, culture, is a main focus of post-modernist writer Bryan Turner, who believes that "tourism invents and demands empathy...makes cultures

You should develop information provided in P1. You need to consider why these links exist and why relationships are formed, explaining how they affect the organisations concerned. E.g.

The first text that I analyzed, which is Nikki’s portfolio, I decided that the audience could be anyone that either enjoys photography or maybe her future employers. Her purpose was to create an “eye” to see her character’s world and experiences. The audience doesn’t need much to understand the material, because I believe art could be interpreted in different ways. The best that people can do, is to assume what she truly meant. I also believe that the strategy she mainly used was inspiration, because it allowed people to see other people’s story, so they might want to share their own. Which could lead to a better understanding of the different characters in the country.

A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid presents the hypothetical story of a tourist visiting Antigua, the author’s hometown. Kincaid places the reader in the shoes of the tourist, and tells the tourist what he/she would see through his/her travels on the island. She paints a picturesque scene of the tourist’s view of Antigua, but stains the image with details of issues that most tourists overlook: the bad roads, the origin of the so-called native food, the inefficiency of the plumbing systems in resorts, and the glitches in the health care system. Kincaid was an established writer for The New Yorker when she wrote this book, and it can be safely assumed that majority of her readers had, at some point in their lives, been tourists. I have been a

The Natives’ Emotions “For every native of every place is a potential tourist; and every tourist is a native of somewhere” is a simple yet factual statement from Jamaica Kincaid ’s essay “The Ugly Tourist” (Kincaid 201). In this essay, Kincaid talked about all the emotions of the natives towards the tourists. She used the second point of view “you” to refer to the two persons she was talking about in her essay, the “you” as the ordinary person and “you” when you become a tourist. Kincaid persuaded her readers through pathos or by engaging them emotionally by describing your life as the ordinary person, by showing the potential thoughts of the natives towards “you” as the tourist and also by reasoning to “you” as the tourist by explaining why the natives doesn’t like the tourists.

The author Jamaica Kincaid talks about her hatred for tourist and how they take breaks from their world to come relax in another. These tourists only expect to see the beauty in the places they visit but they do not take in account all the hard work that locals do in their everyday life. As a result, locals have begun to feel hatred towards the tourists. They envy the fact that tourists are lucky enough to visit these types of places yet the locals will not have the chance to explore these other worlds and be tourists.

Professor Sellnow discusses nine ways a speaker can utilize in gaining the audience’s attention. The speaker can say or do something to win their attention, therefore arousing their curiosity or motivating the audience enough to make them want to learn more about the topic of the speech. The speaker can make a one to two sentence startling statement. Questions to the audience, either rhetorical or direct, can be used to encourage the audience to think about the topic. Stories that detail actual or hypothetical accounts of something that has happened, which relates to the topic. However, one slight drawback of storytelling, is the amount of time it takes, often there is not enough time in the introduction for a story. Speakers can use a joke or antidote designed to get a laugh. However, the speaker must make sure that the joke is realistic, relevant, can be repeated, and they should have a plan “B”, if the joke does not receive a laugh. Speakers can briefly talk about personal references

While reading Francine Prose’s essay Confessions of a Ritual Tourist, I believe that she successfully conveyed the concept of a ritual tourist using both her negative and positive definitions. For example, Prose brings up the negatives of the German tourists in paragraph thirteen of the essay. Prose talks about how they would push their way to the front of the crowd, talking loudly, and how they were loaded with cameras; seemingly not understanding or caring that the ceremony was very real to the other people present. Prose brings up the importance of respecting and understanding that the ceremonies or rituals are being performed by real people who truly believe. In paragraph ten, Prose talks about how she has heard stories of tourists crossing boundaries of respect during rituals. She states until she had received her own lesson about the dangers of ritual tourism, she had not realized how culpable she had been. In my opinion, Prose does a good job connecting both the negatives and

Paragraphs are lacking flow, I simply just wrote down any ideas that came to my head. Bad Indians and A Small Place both entail the topic of identity, the telling of their history and definition of culture. Both take on these themes differently, but especially share the same message. In A Small Place, by Jamaica Kincaid portrays the fact that tourism is an occupation of place. She accomplishes this by utilizing second person narration, expressing her disgust of tourists to the reader.

This essay will discuss both the Cinema of Attractions and Narrative Cinema and their origins in order to better understand the differences found between them in regards to the criteria to follow. This essay will highlight the role that the spectator plays, and the temporality that both the Cinema of Attractions and Narrative Cinema exhibit.

Daily, hundreds of thousands of people are traveling, whether it’s by plane, car, bus, boat, or foot, people are traveling to new locations and being immersed in different cultures. Many fail to realize how ignorant of a tourist they are. Kincaid explains that tourists are morally “ugly” and use other, less fortunate people, for their own amusement. She tries to enlighten those who are privileged to be more considerate when they are visiting new places. Published author Jamaica Kincaid wrote “The Ugly Tourist,” originally written in her book, A Small Place, where she tries to convince readers that tourists are, “a piece of rubbish” (207). Kincaid’s attempt to convey to the audience that tourists are ignorant and morally “ugly” is partially successful, due to her satisfactory emotional appeal, yet inability to produce a less angry tone, along with minimal logical appeal.

     Compared to other novels that deal with love affairs and romances, The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler is different because it takes the reader on a trip through the character’s minds. Macon Leary’s wife separates herself from him. Their problems begin with the death of their son, Ethan Leary. That is not to say that they agree on raising him, because they didn’t. “When Ethan was born, he only brought out more of their differences” (16). They choose to raise Ethan differently. Sarah wants to let him be happy and free, while Macon wants him to be more scheduled and structured. The already struggling relationship is now even more troubled. Macon is not an

I am writing a report explaining the importance of UK visitor attractions to tourism. In my report I will be including statistics and data to support my explanation.