Caribbean Community

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opportunities and health. Though the exam – driven nature of our system makes it different from North America (Lochan 2005), education remains the means through which we can demonstrate how, as a people we are dependent on each other as we attempt to build communities in which we can live harmoniously despite our cultural differences. This writer’s interpretation of the statement is that in a

on a small island in the Caribbean Sea. While on a voyage for Spain in search of a direct sea route from Europe to Asia, Christopher Columbus accidentally discovered the Americas. However, in four separate voyages to the Caribbean from 1492 to 1504, he remained convinced that he had found the lands that Marco Polo reached in his overland travels to China at the end of the 13th century. To Columbus it was only a matter of time before a passage was found through the Caribbean islands to the cities of

1,165 miles south of Atlanta, lies a fairly small island in the Caribbean Sea named Jamaica. This country is no bigger than the state of Rhode Island, yet holds its own unique culture. My mother and grandmother migrated to America about twenty years ago. About ten years ago my Grandmother and Uncle started a Jamaican shop, “Caribbean Connection” that sold an array of Caribbean goods and cooked a good selection of Jamaican dishes. This shop is my family’s way of preserving our culture. I don’t actually

Early in the colonial history of Hispaniola, the island that is now shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic; the original Caribbean peoples of Haiti were exterminated by the Spanish. Voodoo is the dominant religion of Haiti and it is important to acknowledge that it is taken with the upmost seriousness; not merely only practiced by the poor and middle class, but also by intelligent

actually do a disservice by not being completely accurate. In reality, according to Greer, Catherine was much more involved in her Mohawk community. This is an aspect where Greer’s account shines. He argues that the idea of Tekakwitha having the behaviour of an outcast seems “implausible” due to conflicting reports from many other Europeans (32). Women in the Mohawk community were “regard[ed] as the principal support of their families” but Greer goes on to explain that in earlier accounts, the Jesuits only

The Caribbean country of Haiti holds a growing capacity of Roman Catholics, and although the country has no official religion, more than half of the population currently practices Catholicism. Haiti is most known for its vulnerability to natural disasters such as the earthquake of 2010 that plagued the country and disrupted not only the Christian community but every community in Haiti. The issue of poverty is also prevalent throughout Haiti, which is the poorest country in the Americas. Another influential

of all European colonies in the Caribbean, on the western part of the island of Hispaniola, a major center of sugar production with hundreds of prosperous plantations. The population of the colony comprised of three groups, the white colonials, the gens de couleur, and the slaves. Many slaves ran away and established maroon communities that were self-sustained. As more and more slaves ran away, more and more slaves were being imported from Africa and other Caribbean islands, which resulted in the

create the dance. Salsa did not come from just one place or person, it is a mix of multiple cultures as well as peoples creativity. When Spain found the Caribbean during the 1400’s, they later brought African slaves also. The merge of such two different musical and dancing styles from the Spanish and African community merged with the native community has given us what we now understand as salsa. The evaluation of salsa that is danced in clubs today has taken many years and been a long

research is the Dominican Republic located in both the northern and western hemispheres in the Caribbean. The country is located on the east section of the island of Hispaniola, with the country of Haiti on the west section. The island of the Hispaniola is the second largest island of the West Indies and it is 29,418 square miles in total. The Dominican Republic's shores are dominated by the Caribbean Sea to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the north, but its nation capital Santo Domingo is located