Life and Debt

INTST: Reaction Paper Life and Debt Troy Wefers October 1, 2015 In the documentary Life and Debt, it is explained through the stories of local people, the economic and social crisis of Jamaica. With Jamaica receiving mandatory loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 1977 because of lack of alternatives, Jamaica was promised meaningful development. Unfortunately, this only made the situation worse because of the extreme policies and foreign economic agendas that came with

Globalization- Life and Debt The world is constantly becoming smaller and smaller as time progresses. A process of globalization is rapidly turning the world as we know it into economic opportunity waiting to be exploited. A large factor in this process is due to the advent of technology which is becoming more and more readily available to lesser developed countries. Countries such as Jamaica and other LDC’s are primary targets of economic globalization. In the film Life and Debt by Stephanie Black

Looking at the beautiful landscape of Jamaica, its warm turquoise beaches and comfortable hotels, everyone imagines that this Caribbean nation is a prosperous and developed tropical paradise, but this is very far from the harsh and brutal reality. “Life and Debt” is a powerful documentary film directed by Stephanie Black in 2001 that shows the world the harsh situation and contrast of this country from both perspectives tourists and locals. She takes the audience on an experience inside and outside the

In Stephanie Black’s 2001 documentary, Life and Debt, Black exposes the financial and cultural struggles of the Jamaican people. Stephanie Black delivers her message on the socioeconomic crisis in Jamaica by including first- hand experiences and the juxtaposition of the daily lives of Jamaican locals and tourists. While tourists enjoy the luxuries of beautiful Jamaican hotels and weather, locals struggle to make ends meet with the little resources allotted to them. Due to outer influences infiltrating

From my analysis of the film Life and Debt and my readings, I have come to the opinion that economic globalization works in favor of powerful and wealthy countries while undermining the interests of poorer, less developed countries to cultivate their own economy and establish a substantial quality of life for their civilians. In the film Life and Debt, this situation is exemplified through Jamaica’s decades-long grapple with economic globalization in their involvement with the IMF, World Bank, and

effects of neoliberalism and globalization. Neoliberalism and globalization have impoverished previously colonized countries all over the world and the effects are devastating and cruel. In the film Life and Debt, it displays how Jamaica’s economic and political policies have negatively impacted their way of life. The director, Stephanie Black, clearly believes that Globalization has almost completely destroyed Jamaica’s economy. Jamaica is no longer able to sustain itself economically, food, and other

Jamaica Kincaid addresses the reader as a tourist in her book A Small Place. Throughout the book her sarcasm and resentment towards the postcolonial state of the country cannot be missed. She exposes the “ugliness” of tourism, she writes, “The thing you have always suspected about yourself the minute you become a tourist is true: A tourist is an ugly human being” (14). Kincaid points to the fact that the tourists (European and American) and the tourism industry are morally ugly. The first section

the credit card department. It is almost impossible to just live a natural life these days without falling into the jaws of one debt or another, but the ones from the credit card department just amaze me. Despite cries of economic recession, more and more companies are shoving offers of credit down our faces, coating them with offers we find difficult to resist. The end result is that from 1990 to 2008, the amount of debt accrued from credit alone has multiplied by four! I know it's usually a hard

Many of the Americans in today's world believe that life is not life without debt. In order to buy big ticket items or have vacations requires you to get migraines the next day thinking about the debt you have just created. I am here to tell you that it is simply false way to think of money. I am here to tell you to go out and have fun, go buy a 60 inch flat screen, go to Europe. But I am telling you to do it responsibly and with debt free burden. To live free willed with your money. Do not follow

Jamaica is a small island in the Caribbean Sea, where many tourists go for the lovely weather and beaches. When tourists are there they don’t see that fact that Jamaica is a developing country. In the movie Life and Debt they show that it is in the developing, the also bring up the rules that the IMF gave them. It also gives a view on which developing course Jamaica is following. Three examples from the movie that shows that Jamaica is in a developing nation, is the dollar is less than the western