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Question 1: Provide your commentary on the video

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Question 1: Provide your commentary on the video

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Chimamanda Adichie a Nigerian writer of novels, short stories, and nonfiction spoke about the danger of a single story. Now one might think that there are no serious consequences to something like this but Ms. Adichie enlightened us differently. Chimamanda Adichie elucidates a single story being a method of showing a people one thing and only one thing and eventually that is what they become. With the mixture of power and a Nkali mindset (to be greater than another) an entire race or even nation can be robbed of their dignity and eventually cause recognition of our equal humanity difficult.  Being a university student this short nineteen-minute video has revealed to me that I have fallen into the trap of believing a single story. Now before entering UWI, there was a stigma placed that university is made up of numerous bad influences and if you’re not careful you can end up being pregnant having aided or becoming a drug lord even the possibility of being raped is present. Now going to university with this mindset, caused me to become so paranoid that it was hard to make friends at first. However, it isn’t as bad as some people say. We all get caught up in listening to the few bad stories that leaked out about what happens in university and completely ignore the fact that university is a stepping stone to our success it’s the place where our future prime minister's doctors and business men/women of our nation are molded. Now if we had look at both sides of the story where we don’t only plant one story in our heads then the process of eliminating the danger of a single story begins. Now this concept can be used for both places and people, where before we treat or look at someone a particular way because of that one negative story that replays on media we need to first examine both sides of the story and don’t persecute someone because of the actions of people who may look like them or believe in the same things.

Works cited
Alnatour, Omar. Muslims Are Not Terrorists: A Factual Look at Terrorism and Islam. Berggruen institute, www.huffingtonpost.com/omar-alnatour/muslims-are-not-terrorist_b_8718000.html

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Every time an act of terror or shooting occurs, Muslims closely watch the news with extreme trepidation praying that the suspect is not Muslim. This is not because these terrorists are likely to be Muslim but rather because in the instances where they happen to be, we see amplified mass media coverage and extreme unjustified hatred towards Muslims.

As a Muslim, I am tired of condemning terrorist attacks being carried out by inherently violent people who hijack my religion. I am tired of condemning these attacks to people who are calm and apathetic when Muslims are killed by these same radicalized terrorists.

I am tired of hearing the word "terrorist" not being used when the suspect in a terrorist attack is a non-Muslim. I am tired of the "mentally disabled" excuse being recycled when the suspect in a terrorist attack is a Caucasian. I am tired of seeing hundreds of terrorist attacks carried out by non-Muslims not get the same coverage of even a single terrorist attack where the suspect happens to be Muslim.

Above it all, I am tired of having to repeatedly say that Muslims are not terrorists. It is time we silence this Islamophobia with facts. My next five points will prove once and for all that Muslims are not terrorists:

1. Non-Muslims make up the majority of terrorists in the United States: According to the FBI, 94% of terrorist attacks carried out in the United States from 1980 to 2005 have been by non-Muslims. This means that an American terrorist suspect is over nine times more likely to be a non-Muslim than a Muslim. According to this same report, there were more Jewish acts of terrorism in the United States than Islamic, yet when was the last time we heard about the threat of Jewish terrorism in the media? For the same exact reasons that we cannot blame the entire religion of Judaism or Christianity for the violent actions of those carrying out crimes under the names of these religions, we have absolutely no justifiable grounds to blame Muslims for terrorism.

2. Non-Muslims make up the majority of terrorists in Europe: There have been over one thousand terrorist attacks in Europe in the past five years. Take a guess at what percent of those terrorists were Muslim. Wrong, now guess again. It's less than 2%.

3. Even if all terrorist attacks were carried out by Muslims, you still could not associate terrorism with Islam: There have been 140,000 terror attacks committed worldwide since 1970. Even if Muslims carried out all of these attacks (which is an absurd assumption given the fact mentioned in my first point), those terrorists would represent less than 0.00009 percent of all Muslims. To put things into perspective, this means that you are more likely to be struck by lightening in your lifetime than a Muslim is likely to commit a terrorist attack during that same timespan.

4. If all Muslims are terrorists, then all Muslims are peacemakers: The same statistical assumptions being used to falsely portray Muslims as violent people can be used more accurately to portray Muslims as peaceful people. If all Muslims are terrorists because a single digit percentage of terrorists happen to be Muslim, then all Muslims are peacemakers because 5 out of the past 12 Nobel Peace Prize winners (42 percent) have been Muslims.

5. If you are scared of Muslims then you should also be scared of household furniture and toddlers: A study carried out by the University of North Carolina showed that less than 0.0002% of Americans killed since 9/11 were killed by Muslims. (Ironically, this study was done in Chapel Hill: the same place where a Caucasian non-Muslim killed three innocent Muslims as the mainstream media brushed this terrorist attack off as a parking dispute). Based on these numbers, and those of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the average American is more likely to be crushed to death by their couch or television than they are to be killed by a Muslim. As a matter of fact, Americans were more likely to be killed by a toddler in 2013 than they were by a so-called "Muslim terrorist".

When a drunk driver causes a car accident, we never blame the car manufacturer for the violent actions of that driver. This is because we understand that we cannot blame an entire car company that produces millions of safe vehicles just because one of their cars was hijacked by a reckless person who used it to cause harm. So what right do we have to blame an entire religion of over 1.6 Billion peaceful people because of the actions of a relatively insignificant few?

I will not deny that terrorism is a real threat, it definitely is. However, it is extremely incorrect to associate the words "Muslim" and "terrorist" when literally all the facts implore you to do otherwise. The only way that we as Americans can defeat terrorism at home and across the world is by accurately targeting its root causes. There have been 355 mass shootings in the United States this year and falsely blaming Muslims for the San Bernardino shooting will do absolutely nothing to address this serious problem. It is time that we begin addressing terrorism on an educated and factual level.

As an American Muslim, I plead you all to deeply consider the facts mentioned here the next time you see a news headline about Muslims and terrorism. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that". We cannot allow the disparity in media coverage to blind us from the facts and turn us into hateful people, we are smarter than that.

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Muslims Are Not Terrorists: A Factual Look at Terrorism and Islam

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Every time an act of terror or shooting occurs, Muslims closely watch the news with extreme trepidation praying that the suspect is not Muslim.

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Question 2: Which the application of learning in Caribbean civilization to students’ understanding of their social or geographical environment

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Question 2: Which the application of learning in Caribbean civilization to students’ understanding of their social or geographical environment

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Modern Caribbean societies are largely the products of nearly five centuries of European colonial policies. First as colonies, again as plantation settlements, they were forcibly modified to satisfy the strategic, political, and economic aims of the mother countries in whatever means the colonizers saw fit. The Emancipation Bill was presented in Parliament by Thomas Buxton in 1833 and the Act came into effect on August 1, 1834. On that day it seemed as if history had been created for slaves throughout the West Indies. They would no longer be slaves but emancipated - free to do as they pleased. However, that was not to be, as amidst the joy and celebration came the news that full freedom would not be granted immediately, but that ex-slaves would be apprenticed to their former master for a minimum of four (4) years. Thus a period of 'apprenticeship' was put in place to bridge the gap between slavery and complete freedom.

Emancipation's worldwide significance is undoubtedly vital. Each island has its own unique history of slavery and the abolition of it where Trinidad had a mere 17,439 slaves at Emancipation Jamaica had 254,310, slaves, and British Guiana, which had 69,579 to list a few. The British annexation of Trinidad came at a time when English opposition to slavery was winning popular approval. As a result, Trinidad was administered as a Model Colony, in respect of legislation governing the treatment of slaves.

All this help us place our experience in a wider global and historical perspective. In Trinidad's history, the episode of Emancipation was crucial in changing the character of the population of the island. For one, Trinidad became a magnet for the emancipated slaves of the other, older and more-densely populated islands, especially Grenada, St Vincent and Barbados.

Presently Trinidad celebrates emancipation by hosting a five-day celebration that leads to Emancipation Day which is the opening of the Lidj Yasu Omowale Emancipation Village. Located at the Queen's Park Savannah, Port of Spain, the village is the center stage for cultural performances as well as a shopping district for all things Afro-centric. Fashion, art, jewelry, furniture, and food will be available there. My family and I personally love visiting the village to reminisce about our past ancestors and their lives and how we as a people came a long way.
Linking this to Caribbean civilization our past helps us understand who we are, therefore it is important we pass the information from generation to generation to ensure our culture stays alive.
Works cited:
Administrator. “Emancipation.” USI Home Page, The Understanding Slavery initiative, www.understandingslavery.com/index.php-option=com_content&view=article&id=312_emancipation&catid=125_themes&Itemid=224.html.

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The Lidj Yasu Omowale Emancipation Village opened on Wednesday night at the Queen's Park Savannah in Port of Spain, to a large gathering which included Government Ministers, PNM MPs and spectacular performances by several African dance troupes and calypsonians. This year's celebrations were in recognition of veteran calypsonian Dr. Leroy Calliste, the Black Stalin.

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Question 3: Free movement within CARICOM

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Question 3: Free movement within CARICOM

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community, providing for efficient and competitive production of goods and services for both regional and international markets, means that our Region’s people can maximise their talents and resources, thereby leading to greater efficiency and increased profits. By removing barriers to trade in goods and services and opening up new opportunities for over six million CARICOM nationals, (14 million if Haiti is included) the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) will stimulate growth and add to the potential for the international competitiveness of the CARICOM Member States.

Under the CSME, the free movement of persons across the Region entails the removal of work permits for University Graduates, Media Workers, Sports Persons, Musicians, Artists, Managers, Supervisors and other service providers. Workers in these categories can now move freely to another Member State and enjoy the same benefits and rights as regards conditions of work and employment as those given to national workers.

Under the CSME, competition will be promoted and maintained. This will lead to greater economic efficiency in production and at the same time enhance intra-regional trade as well as extra-regional trade. To retain markets abroad in the face of additional global competition domestic firms are encouraged to become highly competitive and to meet international standards for quality and performance

THE CSME—CREATING A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD.

Anti-competitive business conduct will not be allowed.

This includes:

• The fixing of selling prices

• Artificially dividing up the markets.

• Restricting of supply sources.

• Bid-rigging – collusive tendering whereby persons enter into an agreement by deciding amongst themselves who should participate in the bid and on the amount of money which should be used to bid.

• Predatory pricing – where the supplier sells at a very low price in order to drive his competitors away.

• Limit to the production of goods and services for a market to the prejudice of consumers.

Now with this in mind a lot of positive outcomes can arise where now people who are unable to find jobs in their country have a greater chance to do so, also businesses now have a wider market they can expand to which would help increase profits and also bring in money in the circular flow of income within the nation. However, negative circumstances can arise where a possible brain drain can occur where an outflux of educated, skilled citizens can leave their homeland to venture into new ones.
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Question 4: self-evaluation of your learning this semester

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Question 4: self-evaluation of your learning this semester

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Firstly, the past is a key aspect to our sense of identity. Who we identify as today comes from an understanding of our origins and how we have developed over time. This is probably one of the most memorable things I have learnt in Caribbean civilization. In the very first class our mindsets were transformed from the average thinking of just knowing the Caribs and Arawak but knowing them as neoindians. We were introduced to the term revisionism which is a theory of socialism that is more moderate than normal Marxist theory, and is therefore considered unacceptable by most Marxists, where the writing of past incidents take place but based on new findings. What struck me the most is that growing up we were always taught the non-Caribbean people (colonisers) point of view and never our own ancestors’ side of the story, and this is what Caribbean civilization was all about. Broadening our mindsets to thinking critically to help us see not only the Eurocentric point of view by to see through the eyes of our ancestors which would lead to changing our mindsets resulting empowerment of oneself causing us to become more confident in what we believe in. All in all this subject was very informative but in future I do not advise online lectures as it is not very encouraging to use a laptop to listen to a lecture. TOO MUCH DISTRACTIONS!