...interest in the weather. Every morning I would look at the weather predictions to determine how to dress, and what outdoor activities I would be able to do. I am a skateboarder, and in the summer I go to the beach frequently, so the weather does affect the planning of my day. The weather is interesting, dangerous, and can be life altering for some people. Used as an event planner for many day to day activities, for agriculture, flight planning, fishing excursions and even planning military maneuvers, the weather is an important factor in our lives. In addition to my experience in September 2012, another event that influenced my career choice was Hurricane Ivan. Several years ago, this catastrophic hurricane devastated the small island of Grenada. My grandfather lived there and he lost everything he owned. It was amazing to visit the island, and see firsthand the damage created. My grandfather's home built of bricks was nothing but a pile of...
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...On October 25th, 1983 the U.S. led an invasion of the small Caribbean country of Grenada known as operation Urgent Fury. Grenada at the time only had a population of about 90,000 people and had gained its independence from England in 1974 only to have power taken by the leftist Jewel Movement in 1979, after seizing power they quickly suspended their constitution. For years the country had and internal power struggle until 1983 when it ended with the deposition of the countries Prime Minister Maurice Bishop who had been trying to help the people of the country by giving them more rights and trying to build an alliance with Cuba. The United States sent a force of about 7,600 troops to fights the Grenadians and defeated them using airborne assaults, the largest assault being the one on Point Salines International Airport on the southern end of the island. The military styled government that had taken over Grenada was deposed and replaced by a government appointed Governor-General Paul Scoon. By the end of the invasion 45 Grenadian soldiers were dead along with 19 Americans, 25 Cubans, and 24 civilians. 18 of the 24 civilians killed were due to the accidental bombing of a mental hospital by the...
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...There are many global issues facing the world today, from the present financial crisis to the change in the world’s climate. A financial crisis is applied broadly to a variety of situations in which some financial institutions or assets suddenly lose a large part of their value (Wikipedia, 2009). Climate change, on the other hand, is described as the buildup of man-made gases in the atmosphere that trap the sun’s heat, causing changes in weather patterns on a global scale (Enviro- glossary). Larger countries are not the only ones that have been affected by these two issues, as smaller islands have also been affected. One such country is the small island state of Grenada. Developing countries and developed countries are all inter-connected, in that, any effect whether positive or negative on the economies developed countries affects the economy of developing countries. The first and second world countries have felt the ‘thump’ of the global financial crisis which have caused an increase in the rate of unemployment, decrease in consumer demand and spending and investments into developing markets. “The current global financial crisis is having an adverse impact on our country and on the performance of its economy” (Hon Tillman Thomas, 2009). The financial crisis has forced the Grenadian government to focus on ways to boost the economy from within, spending excessive amounts of money on stimulation packages for the economy. Unfortunately, because of this same crisis...
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...Father absence in the home is on the rise. Research shows that it has become a problem in many societies. Although information is limited or even non-existent when it comes to the Caribbean, there is knowledge that the problem exists within the Caribbean, but the extent to which it occurs, and has an impact on the lives of children found within such a situation remains unknown. It is against this background that one has chosen to embark on research in this area of increasing concern. Father absence, when defined, refers to a situation where “a child has lived for part or all of [his or her] childhood in a house without [his/her] biological father” (BoothLab, 2013). Some researches choose to include in this category fathers who are absent because of death. Others choose to exclude such fathers, because they think that it is unfair to judge them, because no one really knows whether or not they would have stayed in their children’s lives had they remained alive. Similarly, some researchers also state that the definition of father absence does not stretch to include children who have had no contact with their fathers or who does not have a good relationship with them (BoothLab, 2013). For the purposes of this study, the definition of father absence in the home has been stretched to include a number of pertinent reasons why fathers are not present in the home. These reasons include, but are not limited to death, father’s unawareness of the existence of the child, divorce, and...
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...Grenada is a small island in the southeastern Caribbean Sea. There was evidence of the country cooperating with communist Cuba, and that Cuban workers were arriving to build an airfield for modern military aircrafts. There was fear the new base would be for Soviet and Cuban spy planes. There were American medical students on the island, and Reagan made the executive decision to invade Grenada. Two-thousand American marines were sent to Grenada. The American soldiers easily took over the country and rescued the medical students. America suffered just nineteen fatalities, and Reagan claimed a Cold War victory. Effectively, the victory corroborated his promise that United States would interfere against pro-Soviet and pro-Cuban regimes (The Ronald Reagan Administrations, Commentary on 1983). Also, on October twenty-third, just two days before the U.S invaded Grenada, 241 U.S marines, who were there as peacekeepers, were killed in Lebanon by a suicide-bomber who drove a truck, with explosives on it, into U.S barracks (Commentary on 1983). Therefore, the victory also displayed Reagan’s ability to bounce back from a loss and come back...
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...the boats. It might be more effective if the assignment of charters to boats is not done when requests come in but postpone it. For example, if The Moorings would only keep track of the number of charters per day (must not exceed the number of boats from this class are available on the location) but assign the contracts to the boats e.g. 4 weeks prior to the first contract, it can save time for the agents. The assignment can also be done centralized so the agents can focus on promotion and customer relationship. Q2: Develop a pricing strategy to improve the utilization of boats in St. Lucia and Grenada? Apart from raising the fee for one-way rentals, The Moorings could decrease the price for renting a boat in the opposite of the popular direction, i.e. Grenada to St. Lucia. Moreover, it is possible to lower prices for one-way rentals either going to St. Lucia or leaving Grenada. Therefore, it might be worthwhile to get rid of assigning home ports to the boats but be more flexible about where the boats are as long as the number of boats from a certain...
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...Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals. Freedom Riders tried to use “whites only” restrooms and lunch counters at bus stations in Alabama, South Carolina and other Southern states. These groups were also confronted by arresting police officer, as well as horrific violence from white protestors, along their routes, but also drew international attention to their cause. The Cold War In 1983, the situation on Grenada had been a concern to American officials since 1979, when the leftist Maurice Bishop seized power and began to develop close relations with Cuba. Being able to see how everything unfolded and how Protesters clashed with the new government and violence escalated would show me how things can really turn. The danger to the U.S. citizens in Grenada, Reagan ordered nearly 2,000 U.S. troops into the island, where they soon found themselves facing opposition from Grenadan armed forces and groups of Cuban military engineers, in Grenada to repair and expand the island’s airport. Matters were not helped by the fact that U.S. forces had to rely on minimal intelligence about the situation. Great Depression Being able to observe on August 1935, when the Social Security Act was created would have been a good feelings. Mostly because it was passed during the Great Depression and that was a terrible era and to have something good during that time would’ve life changing. This act was to provide...
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...Krista Van Wie Introduction Who should solemnly have the power to declare war? Should it really be the presidents decision and only his decision to declare war or should he have multiple decisions on the matter? In Rachel Maddows book Drift, we see how this big decision changes threw the decades and how it affects Congress, the president, and even the American people. In the end, who’s for it and who’s against it? America’s Founding to Vietnam When the war against Vietnam started, Lyndon B. Johnson did not call up the Guard of Reserves to fight. That was not a normal for the Reserves due to the fact that they had been called right away in every war in the past. Because of this, the Guard and Reserves were “the thing” to sign up for to avoid service. Americans were not prepared for this war with Vietnam since LBJ continually sent out troops to Vietnam to avoid sending out the Guard and Reserve. In the past, according to Maddow, “when the United States went to war, the entire United States went to war.” That wasn’t the case for Vietnam. LBJ kept the war as secretive as possible because he did not want to believe the United States was at war. He didn’t send out the Guard and Reserves to avoid Congress and the United States people freaking out. So he instead increased the draft size. Johnson, according to George A. Carver, “tried to fight the war on the cheap.” This is why this war was a few decades long tragedy. Post-Vietnam Change Post-war changes came the Total Force Policy...
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...now know as Colombia, this time around, he started to focus on the poor and downtrodden, which made him popular among the people, this helped him gain more men as he swept through New Grenada, which in 15 days he had gained a large portion of, he decided to take his army back to his homeland of Venezuela, were he lost again because the oppressed racial groups still wouldn’t support the revolution for not including them. And the Spanish had beaten France with the help of Britain, so Spain was ready to come back and reorder their empire. Bolivar escaped to Jamaica, and later to Haiti. Simon had learned that his revolution would have to include all people, and he would have to create and egalitarian society. For this reason, Haiti was willing to give them supplies, he went back to the colonies were he quickly failed, but Haiti was willing to help, they gave him more guns. Simon decided he had to focus on winning over the countryside, instead of only the big cities. He quickly took back new Grenada with a very small force, but his equal opportunity recruitment meant he gained forces quickly. Once he had one in Grenada, he set up the republic of Gran Colombia, which was to encompass all of latin America, and gave the president (Simon) almost total control of the country. It currently included New Grenada, Venezuela, and Quito, which we now know as ecuador. Simon now set his eyes for Perú, which he declared himself emperor of in order to drive out sentiment of foreign monarchs. After...
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...from the mid to late 20th century onwards and attributed largely to the increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by the use of fossil fuels. Climate change is already beginning to transform life on Earth since around the globe, seasons are shifting, temperatures are climbing and sea levels are rising. Pertaining to climate change it has both natural and human causes and short and long climate forcer. Also it has dangerous effects such as higher temperatures, changing landscapes etc. In the Caribbean, the states in the region formed an organisation that is called Caricom where they joined together to work on various matters. The fifteen (15) Caricom countries are Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago. Focusing on climate changes in the fifteen (15) Caricom countries in the Caribbean, it is considered to be one of the biggest threats to nature and humanity towards them because it can bring about negative and destructive effects caused by short lived and long lived climatic forces. Mostly likely in the Caricom countries, they face potential economic impacts of climate change with their agriculture, tourism and infrastructure. According to researches, in the Caribbean the production of electricity by power companies consumes the largest amount of fossil fuels making them the greatest contributors...
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...Jamaica © 2011 The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank 1818 H Street NW Washington, DC 20433 Telephone 202-473-1000 Internet www.worldbank.org All rights reserved. 1 2 3 4 08 07 06 05 A copublication of The World Bank and the International Finance Corporation. This volume is a product of the staff of the World Bank Group. The findings, interpretations and conclusions expressed in this volume do not necessarily reflect the views of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this work. Rights and Permissions The material in this publication is copyrighted. Copying and/or transmitting portions or all of this work without permission may be a violation of applicable law. The World Bank encourages dissemination of its work and will normally grant permission to reproduce portions of the work promptly. For permission to photocopy or reprint any part of this work, please send a request with complete information to the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA; telephone 978-750-8400; fax 978-750-4470; Internet www.copyright.com. All other queries on rights and licenses, including subsidiary rights, should be addressed to the Office of the Publisher,The World Bank, 1818 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20433, USA; fax 202-522-2422; e-mail pubrights@worldbank.org. Additional copies of Doing Business 2011:...
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...Under the Silk Cotton Tree: A Healing Narrative for Grenada In Under the Silk Cotton Tree, Jean Buffong tries to recreate a prelapsarian, pristine, pre-communist, 1950s or 60s picture of Grenada that can heal Grenadian society after its violent history. What stands out in this novel is that, even though Grenada has had such a violent political history, it does not even mention politics. It is as if Buffong has given up on politics; so much so that she does not even bother to critique it any more. Yet she does critique corrupt religious figures, from obeah practitioners to those of the higher echelons of the Roman Catholic Church. This suggests that Buffong sets her hopes on a return to an African-based spirituality in harmony with nature and community, illustrated by the novel’s nature symbolism and African-Caribbean religions and folklore. In Healing Narratives, Gay Wilentz develops the idea that “cultures themselves can be[come] ill” from a brutal history of colonial conquest and slavery (1). The colonists’ violent disruption and dislocation of African communities were compounded by the psychological violence caused by the repression of the root culture and the imposition of the dominant culture; conditions which laid the foundation for sick Caribbean communities. Members of these communities suffer from the identity crises caused by the conflict between Western materialism and African spirituality. Although the enslaved Africans clung to their culture to maintain...
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...What was seen during the conflict in Grenada, was another great deal of issues when it came to intelligence that was able to be provided to the Delta operators and even the US Army Rangers and Navy SEALS who would subsequently need it during another hostage situation. The ISA had limited involvement when it came to the support that was able to be provided to the Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Airmen who saw action in the Island of Grenada, after the former government was overthrown. (Smith 2006, 92) The CIA during this period of the late 70’s and early 80’s was one that was wrought with scandal after scandal bringing much scrutiny on not only itself but that of other clandestine and covert units and operations being conducted in secret. What was seen in the conflict of Grenada, was an intelligence community separate of the ISA, which had limited knowledge of the location of the American Students that were on the Island as well as enemy force locations (including both Grenadian and Cuba forces). (Smith 2006, 93) The operation of Urgent Fury resulted in similar results seen in Operation Eagle Claw, where intelligence was highly limited to those who...
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...empirical case study and statistical analysis will be assessed. The quantitative approach included questionnaires and structured interviews. Secondary data will be used to develop research instruments (questionnaire and structured interviews to measure the data) (Glesne and Peshkin, 1992). The independent variables will include concessions, tax incentives or other measure to show the relationship between the dependent variable which includes fossil fuel usage in the Caribbean over a three years period. Structured interview will be announced with government officials and business owners of Grenada, Jamaica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines to fill any gap and short-comings before the full scale questionnaire survey. Their understanding and knowledge of (1) sources of renewable energy and the resources and the resources which are most readily available in the Caribbean, with special focus on those in Grenada, Jamaica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, (2) the barriers which presently exist to implementing renewable energy in the region, (3) strategies which have been successful implemented in other countries with similar challenges (for example, smaller economics, government interventions and subsidies, lack of public education about renewable energy) and (4) the success and failure of renewable projects. 3.3 Analytical Techniques Once the data has been collected, the next step involves organizing the data into groups of results, summarizing the results and performing analysis. Quantitative...
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...As companies and organizations grow their option to become a publicly traded or public firm is explored. A publicly traded company is one that offers securities in the form of stocks or bonds for sale to the public. It is done through a stock exchange or in an over the counter market. Before a company decides to go public it is known as a private company. The decision to go public is a huge decision that can be taken by any private company. In order to become public however there are criteria to be met and steps to be taken. This paper will highlight those steps as highlighted by the US Securities and Exchange Commission, determine the pros and cons of public firms identify major and minor markets around the world and suggest Caribbean companies that can explore becoming public companies. One of the first steps is the decision to go public. Shareholders, investors and owners of the company must agree to the decision to go public by taking the necessary votes required to do so. This can be done through a shareholders’ meeting where the relevant decisions can be made by the owners of the private stock. The firm also needs to ensure there are no discrepancies on its books and that they are aligned with the accepted principles of accounting. The firm’s lawyers and auditors must ensure that documents are legitimate. By doing so time and money can be saved in the future because corrections and certification would have been completed and documents certified correct...
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