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    Black Caribbean Children

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    Black Caribbean children experience significant disadvantage in the British education system. Discuss In a Guardian article (January 2002) by Diane Abbott‚ MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington‚ she mentions how African and Caribbean children enter the education system doing as well as whites and Asians in tests until they reach the age of 11 when the descent begins. While some people blame gang culture and rap music for the decline of educational achievements amongst black pupils‚ specifically

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    Question: Which one theoretical perspective is most suited for understanding the Caribbean extra-regional relations with the United States and Europe? Support your answer with concrete example of United States and Europe’s relations with the Caribbean in specific contemporary issues of the region. The Caribbean can be described as an archipelago of islands that stretches from the Yucatan and Florida peninsulas southeast to Venezuela‚ with the Greater Antilles (Cuba‚ Dom. Republic‚ Haiti

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    The economic challenges facing the Caribbean The Caribbean is far from immune from the global economic crisis. Although many Governments initially thought themselves safe from its effects it has become apparent that every nation will see: • Falling remittances from nationals overseas; • A significant decline in tourism/visitor arrivals (forecast by some governments to be down by between 30 and 40 per cent for the year); • volatile exchange rates and in particular the a fall in income

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    Location and Definitions of the Caribbean Origin of Caribbean — The word ‘Caribbean’ is said to be derived from the indigenous people’s name for themselves‚ ‘Carib’. The term ‘West Indies’ which is often used interchangeably with Caribbean is the name given to the region by Christopher Columbus in 1492. — As with the inexact name of the region so to is there little agreement on what area is included within the Caribbean. Different criteria are used to define the region.

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    Time and Location : TR‚ 12.15pm – 1.30pm in KIA-NE1. West Indian History : This course is a survey study of the historical processes that have contributed to the molding of the Caribbean from earliest times into its present-day form. This course is designed to provide an interpretative framework for the study of Caribbean history. Bearing in mind the amount of time and space to be covered‚ the class will focus on major historical periods‚ general themes‚ and the most significant people and events

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    Caribbean Studies Paper

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    CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL REPORT ON CANDIDATES’ WORK IN THE ADVANCED PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION MAY/JUNE 2010 CARIBBEAN STUDIES Copyright © 2010 Caribbean Examinations Council St Michael‚ Barbados All rights reserved. 2 GENERAL COMMENTS The Caribbean Studies examination comprised three papers — Paper 01 consisted of 15 compulsory short-response questions‚ Paper 02 consisted of eight essay questions of which candidates were required to answer four‚ and Paper 03 was the Internal Assessment

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    factors that have led Caribbean migrants living in the metropolitan countries to create a home away from home: According to a definition taken from Wikipedia a metropolitan area is a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories‚ sharing industry‚ infrastructure‚ and housing. A migrant can be defined as one that moves from one region to another by chance‚ instinct‚ or plan. The Culture of migration that characterizes Caribbean societies sees migration

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    Sistema Económico Latinoamericano y del Caribe Latin American and Caribbean Economic System Sistema Econômico Latino-Americano e do Caribe Système Economique Latinoaméricain et Caribéen Food Security and Food Prices in Latin America and the Caribbean: Current Situation and Prospects XXXVI Regular Meeting of the Latin American Council Caracas‚ Venezuela 27 to 29 October 2010 SP/CL/XXXVI.O/Di N° 11-10 Copyright © SELA‚ October 2010. All rights reserved. Printed in the Permanent Secretariat

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    slavery and has been described as the "Silent Crime of the Caribbean". Regional organizations such as the Association of Caribbean States‚ CARICOM and the Organization of American States have all expressed their displeasure at the rapid increase of human trafficking cases in the Caribbean. This growing practice impacts many nations across the world and the Caribbean has recently been drawn into what is being called a “global panic.” In the Caribbean the group causing the most concern in regards to Human

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    anxious to expand and become rich. Realising that her monopoly was in danger she set out ‘to nip in the bud’ the plans of the other Europeans. Some methods she put in place or referred to were: Papal Edict & The Treaty of Tordesillas The Caribbean also referred to as the New World was ‘discovered’ by Spain in 1492 on Christopher Columbus’ first voyages from Spain. Immediately after his return Spain professed that this entire area was theirs‚ however it became effective in 1493 when Pope Alexander

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