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1) Critical thinking on an issue of importance to Caribbean Civilisation.

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1) Critical thinking on an issue of importance to Caribbean Civilisation.

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In a Ted Talks, Chimamanda Adichie talks about how stereotyping begins at a young age and the effects of literature on a young mind in her piece “The Danger of a single story”. She gives us insight into her life as a child. She had been indoctrinated with the idea that “normal” was everything surrounding a white person’s life, because she was only given access to American and British literature at the time. As she got older, she was introduced to local literature like Chinua Achebe who wrote “Things Fall Apart”. In this book, Chinua Achebe writes back against colonialism in Nigeria. Adichie, through this new literature, was open to a world away from persons with blue eyes and blonde hair. In Caribbean Civilization, we were taught the history of the Caribbean from the indigenous to slavery to where we are now as a people. As a result of our history, persons from other parts of the world such as Europe have come up with this stigma that persons from the Caribbean are very laid back and aren’t very advanced in technology or in the industrial division. This relates back to what Adichie was saying about the single story. People outside of the Caribbean believe one thing to be true about Caribbean people.

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2) Application of learning in Caribbean Civilisation, to students’ understanding of their social or geographical environment.

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2) Application of learning in Caribbean Civilisation, to students’ understanding of their social or geographical environment.

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Religion is considered an important institution needed for the proper function of society. It is defined as a way of life of a people that includes systematic beliefs and values (Mustapha, 2013). Emile Durkheim thought religion to be functional to both individuals and society as a whole. He stated that individuals benefitted from practicing their religions, in that it can allow a person to be at peace in distressing times. For example, in times of hardship, the performance of the different forms of worship among all religions helps to nullify the effect of the situation by giving a person moral cohesion. This functional view also talks about religion being used as an institute to help guide the values and morals of persons. Thomas Simey(1937) investigated family in the Caribbean. He found that religious values were falling apart in the region. Simey blamed lifestyle. He called the Caribbean people ‘loose’ and maintained that the people stayed away from established religion.

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3) Application of learning in the course to understanding a problem of regional importance as reflected in news and current affairs literature/programs in the region.

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3) Application of learning in the course to understanding a problem of regional importance as reflected in news and current affairs literature/programs in the region.

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CARICOM is made up of 15 states that have allowed an extensive mobility of various things. The objective of CARICOM is to improve economic development through free trade. There is a competitiveness that has been born among all member states. This is because in CARICOM, the factors of production, that is, goods, services, capital and people are allowed to move freely between member states. Not only are people allowed to move but also goods are allowed to move freely. Tariffs and other restrictions have been removed from all member states. This common theme of competitiveness affects goods and services as member states will seek to provide the highest quality they can possibly achieve to compete with the other member states. CARICOM in itself is the Caribbean coming together as one people to strengthen each other and uplift the status of each Caribbean country. Under CARICOM the CSME was developed to assist in trade between member states. CSME regulates businesses in the Caribbean to make sure that the dominant businesses don’t take advantage of the smaller businesses.

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4) Self-evaluation of learning for the semester. 

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4) Self-evaluation of learning for the semester. 

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Before doing this course, my expectations were that in this course, I would not learn anything important. After going through this semester, I could now say that I was wrong. I did not do history so all of the things that I learned in this course was new to me and it was all very interesting information. Everything that I learned in this course has opened my mind to think differently about the Caribbean as a whole as I know now where we as a people come from. Even something as simple as cricket, I learned was once a tool as fighting back against oppressors on the field as the fighting couldn’t be done off the field. I was intrigued while learning about the demography of the Caribbean and how it came to be. In class, we did this exercise to help prepare for a quiz that was very interactive and I thought it was enjoyable and a really good way to get us as the students excited to learn. Aside from this exercise, we were shown video clips of how slavery was in Jamaica and normally I would be bored by this sort of thing, but the videos that were chosen peaked my interest. All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed this course and I am glad that I was wrong about what I initially thought the course would be like.