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                                                               SELF EVALUATION 

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                                                               SELF EVALUATION 

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Foun 1101 Caribbean civilization was a very informative course about the Caribbean on the whole, teaching about The Concept of Civilization, defining the Caribbean, showing the Caribbean identity, religion, education and aribbean Family Life and Caribbean cultural expression. These topics were taught very professionally with a bit of humor in each lecture, the information being taught were always a few clicks away because everything was made available on myelearning.

These fine method of teaching made the course a very fun and interesting experience and it was also a new experience for me seeing that I have a science background and currently majoring in physics. The method of teachings were complete new to me but I was drawn to it, seeing it didn't feel like a course I was doing but more like a leisure activity.

The book beyond massa although expensive and a task to read was quite informative and made me feel like I was part of the 18th century chattel slavery giving me understanding to what was happening and how oppression was fought and how cultures were retained. The book was able to complete its objective in my case.

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Brain drain in the Caribbean

Why do uwi graduates migrates to first world countries ??

Brain drain is the process by which a country losses intelligent and technically skilled labor through immigration of individuals to other countries with better economic, geographic or professional environment. Many Caribbean countries have undergone the brain drain  process where many college graduates leave their homeland to seek out better or 1st world countries with more opportunities for them to take advantaged of because of limited resources in their homeland.

Brain drain in the Caribbean occurs mainly because there are no jobs to fit the perspective of what these graduates have studied. If no action is taken by these graduates they will be left unemployed. Thus with the knowledge, skills, abilities and behavior that these graduates possess they search for jobs out of the region, which leads to brain drain. If the government take action by providing jobs for all graduates the high levels of brain drain that the Caribbean holds will decrease

Studies have shown that Jamaica is one of the largest country to which brain drain occurs. This is so because developed countries offer better job opportunities to citizens which is appealing to them. Logically they are drawn to higher wages, better working environment, proper health care system and a better standard of living. These graduates no longer has the desire to return their homeland because they see the environment as suffering and inadequate.

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I have lived in D'Abadie for the passed 22 years and there a lot to see and do here but one location that significantly stands out is Santa Rosa. At present Santa Rosa  is a developed community with lots of attraction like the Santa Rosa Park where horse racing tournament are held almost every week, Santa Rosa church  and a underground spring known as Santa Rosa heights. Santa Rosa also has great historical relevance. While a group of Carib men were resisting conversion to Catholicism they encountered Santa Rosa de Lima who was  a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic in Lima, Peru, who became known for both her life of severe asceticism and her care of the needy of the city through her own private efforts. Her manifestation in Trinidad led to the construction of a church in 1759 dedicated to Santa Rosa de Arima. The priest resided in a underground spring currently known as Santa Rosa heights. The Santa Rosa Caribs, descendants of  indigenous Caribbean/Amerindian people retained their  traditional survival systems and practices including the cultivation of cassava, its processing methods and farming implements.the Santa Rosa Caribs although didn't have much input into social or economic life they gave  us a rich legacy of place names and words such as rima, Naparima, Cumucurapo etc.

In the month of August, the week leading to the celebration of Independence day is usually when the Santa Rosa Carib festival occurs.It  pay tribute to the first peoples of the New World. This is how they expose their culture to the nation by engaging in cultural ceremonies, such as the crowning of the Carib Queen, who is an elder  matron of the community who performs the role of focusing their heritage and traditions. The ritual activity performed is usually a church procession where they execute smoke ceremonies and prayer. Additionally, individuals witness the preparation and sales of cassava bread

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Gender inequalities

A major issue that our Caribbean is facing in today's society is that of gender inequality. Gender inequality refers to  unequal treatment or perceptions of individuals based on their gender. It arises from differences in socially constructed gender roles. This idea was brought about a very long time ago when the Caribbean was colonized by the European nations. Upon emancipation Caribbean men were deemed free and were seen to have a dominant and powerful personalities where as women has a more caring and loving personalities, and seeing the work force needed more manpower than woman power, women were seen as second class citizens. This view have been in the Caribbean decades now where woman were always second place to men in all aspects of society, some of which are: lack of mobility, women are forbidden to drive in Saudi Arabia and has to rely on a male member to take them to places, freedom of marriage, women in some countries are usually obligated to participate in arranged marriages and refusal of doing such may lead to honor killing, Discriminatory Divorce Rights, in this case men can easily divorce their wives but wives can't do the same, Frontline Combat, women are not allowed to serve in the front lines when going into battle, Custody Rights in Bahrain custody usually go to the father and the women are left without any means of financial support, Violence, women are must my susceptible to violence and abuse because they are seen as the weaker gender, Professional Obstacles, Even in developed countries women are at a disadvantage when it comes to salary, especially in the workplace. Despite attempts to debunk the wage gap statistic, women nevertheless only earn only 77 percent of what men earn for the same amount of work. These issues have been around for a long time and had been damaging our society and our women, but as of recent in the 21st century there has been a stand against gender inequalities and a great movement in promoting women right by means of protesting, marching, awareness conferences and many other done and held by many female activist around the world in the effort to break the barrier of gender inequalities.

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The simple definition of Identity is given by the fact of being who or what a person or thing is. But as learnt during this semester identity is broken into two categories, the fact of identity which  refers to a group situation where the characteristics focused on are objective attributes which are shared, and which concern the behavior of individuals and the sense of identity, which refers to how a person see the world or experiences it. With these two definitions we can derive a set of factors that can help one describe his or her identity. These factors are  Education, Race, work area, religion, Politics, History, Gender, Sexual Orientation, Geographic origin, Language and even economic'activity. Using 4 factors education, geographic origin, work area and religion I can give myself different identities and can answer the question "WHO AM I."  My name is Kevin Ali I am 22  years of age, currently I attend the university of West Indies pursuing a degree in physics. My education began at age 3  in a simple preschool close to my home  called early learning kindergarten. I don’t have much memory of it but what I can recall it was mostly fun and games where we kids learnt to do simple English and math but mostly learned how to socialize and co-operate with each other.  At age 5 I was accepted into Tacarigua Presbyterian School where I spent most of my childhood, the adventures there helped molded me into the young man I am today, with teachers helping me in both my academics and personal life. After spending 7 years there my education road led me to El Dorado west secondary (Eldorado brown). Where I spent 5 years of my life doing both academics and leisure activities and realizing that I like the area of physics.  I graduated from Eldo brown and as people said "I jumped the fence" to further my education at form 6 of El Dorado east secondary (Eldo blue) where I pursued sciences. It was soon realizes that form 6 level and form 5 level is two completely different levels of difficulty. After graduating I was accepted into uwi to study physics and thus my uwi journey began.  For the past 22 years I have been living at the same location, D'Abadie. It’s a busy where I'm located but most people are friendly and caring. There's rarely  any kind of criminal activity. Growing up in a place like this for this long  made me obtain the kind and caring behavior that D'abadie people share. I also work at a gas station in D'abadie which also share the same norms and values. I have worked there for the past 4 years and I've seen my fellow co-workers different cultures and religions but still we all come together to complete given task, which is signs of a functional society.  As a baby I remembered attending a Presbyterian Church and was even christened in it, but as the years moved onward my family and I converted to the Pentecostal fate and currently practice this religion. I attend a church in Tacarigua called Families For Christ Ministries almost every week, where I learn how to deal with life, learn life lessons from the pastors and  learn how to pray to god and keep him at my side. These lessons learnt are carried forward into the world of work, school, and my community making me a better person.

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The simple definition of Identity is given by the fact of being who or what a person or thing is. But as learnt during this semester identity is broken into two categories, the fact of identity which  refers to a group situation where the characteristics focused on are objective attributes which are shared, and which concern the behavior of individuals and the sense of identity, which refers to how a person see the world or experiences it. With these two definitions we can derive a set of factors that can help one describe his or her identity. These factors are  Education, Race, work area, religion, Politics, History, Gender, Sexual Orientation, Geographic origin, Language and even economic'activity. Using 4 factors education, geographic origin, work area and religion I can give myself different identities and can answer the question "WHO AM I."  My name is Kevin Ali I am 22  years of age, currently I attend the university of West Indies pursuing a degree in physics. My education began at age 3  in a simple preschool close to my home  called early learning kindergarten. I don’t have much memory of it but what I can recall it was mostly fun and games where we kids learnt to do simple English and math but mostly learned how to socialize and co-operate with each other.  At age 5 I was accepted into Tacarigua Presbyterian School where I spent most of my childhood, the adventures there helped molded me into the young man I am today, with teachers helping me in both my academics and personal life. After spending 7 years there my education road led me to El Dorado west secondary (Eldorado brown). Where I spent 5 years of my life doing both academics and leisure activities and realizing that I like the area of physics.  I graduated from Eldo brown and as people said "I jumped the fence" to further my education at form 6 of El Dorado east secondary (Eldo blue) where I pursued sciences. It was soon realizes that form 6 level and form 5 level is two completely different levels of difficulty. After graduating I was accepted into uwi to study physics and thus my uwi journey began.  For the past 22 years I have been living at the same location, D'Abadie. It’s a busy where I'm located but most people are friendly and caring. There's rarely  any kind of criminal activity. Growing up in a place like this for this long  made me obtain the kind and caring behavior that D'abadie people share. I also work at a gas station in D'abadie which also share the same norms and values. I have worked there for the past 4 years and I've seen my fellow co-workers different cultures and religions but still we all come together to complete given task, which is signs of a functional society.  As a baby I remembered attending a Presbyterian Church and was even christened in it, but as the years moved onward my family and I converted to the Pentecostal fate and currently practice this religion. I attend a church in Tacarigua called Families For Christ Ministries almost every week, where I learn how to deal with life, learn life lessons from the pastors and  learn how to pray to god and keep him at my side. These lessons learnt are carried forward into the world of work, school, and my community making me a better person.