question no.3 The film focuses on the lives of three women of different social classes who get publicly harassed. It starts with Fayza (Bushra), a low income government employee who gets harassed in a taxi and a bus (numbered 678) on the way to work. When she arrives home she resists her husband's attempts in sleeping with her and doesn't explain why she can't sleep with him. It then moves to Seba a middle class jewelry designer who gets harassed in a stadium by a group of men while her husband
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In 1493, Columbus brought sugar across the Atlantic to the West Indies. Although commercial shipments of sugar had arrived in England since 1317, in the late 1600s and 1700s sugar growing had a firm grasp in the Caribbean. Ideal cultivating conditions, raving consumers, and a profit-centered market were the driving forces behind the sugar trade. Newly discovered and settled lands in the western hemisphere satisfied all sugar’s growing needs. Most English commoners had no idea what sugar was, let
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Caribbean Festivals at Home and Abroad Concept of Carnival/Festival Carnival brings about a "second world condition" so that when carnival comes around, another world is created and people go into that world. Notion of carnival as one of “the decentralising forces that militate against official power and ideology. Carnival as the interruption of dominant discourses “to surrender the critical and cultural tools to the dominant class and in this sense, carnival can be seen above all else as a site
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Jamaica Sugar Industry in years to come. The writer predicts a dim future for the sugar industry which once ruled the roost. Summary Jamaica is currently a top-flight sugar producing nation, however according to Western Bureau: Chairman of the Caribbean Karl James, all that could change by 2020 if Jamaica does not seek to implement new and creative strategies to add value to their product. This is very important as there will be a reduction in the price of bulk sugar. It is being recommended that
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1 THE ROAD TO HELL John Baker, chief engineer of the Caribbean Bauxite Company of Barracania in the West Indies, was making his final preparations to leave the island. His promotion to production manager of Keso Mining Corporation near Winnipeg – one of Continental Ore’s fast-expanding Canadian enterprises – had been announced a month before, and now everything had been tidied up except the last vital interview with his successor, the able young Barracanian, Matthew Rennalls. It was crucial
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Amarillo College Spanish Colony Choice of 1503 Question #1 Maricella Davis HIST-1301-002 Dr. Jim Powell March 17/2015 As one of the first settlers of the New World Spanish colonies developing in the America’s; I have some hard decisions
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In the essay "Polite but Thirsty," Yaping Tang describes her experience as well as the Chinese students's experience when they first arrive in The United States. The purpose of her writing this essay is to give the ESL teachers who work with Chinese students a comprehensive and more judicious look about the differences between Chinese and American cultures. She explains cultural adjustment process and culture shock in terms of five different customs between the Chinese and American cultures: name
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-- Name: Ron-Di’ Lacey Teacher’s Name: Mrs. P Bromfield School: Excelsior High Territory: Jamaica Centre Number: 100033 Date: October 6, 2014 Theme: Caribbean Economy and Slavery Topic: Social Relation in the Slave Society up to 1834 Hypothesis: How did the White men relate to enslaved women on a typical sugar plantation in Jamaica1750-1834? Table of Contents Content Page Rationale................................................................................................
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The Great African Slaves Slavery was a terrible thing, incarcerating poor innocent humans, wrenching them from their homes and forcing them to work for free is just simply barbaric. Often when studying the subject of American history, many people wonder why Native Americans were not slaves. After all, they were already in the Americas and there was many of them, almost as much as the European population. One of the biggest hindrances to having African slaves would be the rapid spread of European
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colonization in the 17 th century took place in the Caribbean because of the sugar industry. Europeans needed cheap labor and sought African slave labor to be used as chattel on sugar plantations. The atrocities continued for hundreds of years when finally the nation of Jamaica and Haiti fought for the decolonization and physical freedom against exploitation. These wars took place in the late 1700’s. The knowledge of the black man physically fighting in the Caribbean is contrary to the tales of the docile American
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