Essays Tagged: "Antigua"
Compare the condition of white indentured servant with that of the slave in the seventeen- century Caribbean.
onto the market of the English Caribbean island in the 1640's, Barbados, St. Christopher, Nevis and Antigua largely remained in search of a staple crop upon which ambitious English planters could capi ... e islands of Barbados especially, as well as the smaller Leeward islands of Nevis, St. Christopher, Antigua and Montserrat. Large work forces were needed to cut and produce the brown Muscovado sugar f ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Central & Southamerican History
Globalization: The False Imagery.
mies, such as those of smaller, less stable countries. A rather good example of this is the case of Antigua, a small island in the British West Indies. Antigua has been culturally dominated and seemin ... d its traditions. For instance, in the case of education, Great Britain sent over English people to Antigua to be in command of some of their schools. The English people were more often than not very ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Gender Bias Expressed in Women's Literature
he Caribbean, Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl" is a short story about how it was to be a girl growing up in Antigua. This short piece is one of Kincaid's best representatives of the theme of a young woman's r ... unique way so the impact of the unfair treatment of women on her island would be more clearly seen. Antigua is steeped high in tradition and resistance to change is quite common; moreover, women in Ki ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
Discussion Jamaica Kincaid
it... on Sundays try to walk like a lady, and not the slut you are so bent on becoming" (3).Born in Antigua in 1949, Jamaica Kincaid moved to the United States to attend college. Her works are semi-au ... i-autobiographical, and deal most frequently with two particular themes. The first theme deals with Antigua and island life in the Caribbean. Kincaid captures the essence of the island through realist ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
"On seeing england for the first time" by J. Kincaid.
Jamaica Kincaid grew up on the dependent island of Antigua. As a result of this, she had a very biased outlook on what England meant. She wrote about h ... ed in such a way that it was made out to be more beautiful than it really was. Due to the fact that Antigua was a British colony, Kincaid makes reference to the fact that the people of England were ev ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
Pride And Prejudice
phasized place, in Mansfield Park and Persuasion, together with the hazards of the journey when the Antigua estate has to be visited. The abolition of slavery echoes in a form that reveals exquisitely ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
A Small Place
Fundamental Theme of "A Small Place" Antigua is a small place and A Small Place is Antigua. A small place where once upon a time there wa ... r past and imprisoned by their future. Not long after Christopher Columbus discovered the island of Antigua, it was settled by Europeans. The Europeans, as said by Jamaica Kincaid, "used, enslaved and ... for wealth and power, to feel better about their own miserable existence"¦"¦"¦.Antiguans are the descendants of those noble exalted people, the slaves." And I believe that still, ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Annie John Book Report
l disaster takes place. In the beginning of the book, Annie explains how her own mother was sent to Antigua from Dominica when she was only sixteen. There was a huge storm which got the boat get lost, ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
A Short Story Analysis: "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid, born Elaine Potter Richardson, is originally from St. John's, Antigua (Britannica). She was born in 1949 and three years later she had learned to read by attendin ... all Place" was written in 1988 and is a three part essay that talks about the spoiling of her home, Antigua. "Lucy" was written in 1990 and is very similar to the idea of "Annie John". "The Autobiogra ... nions. Sienna Powers wrote "In Kincaid's prose, we seem to watch her grow from green immigrant from Antigua barely out of her teens to the woman who, by the time of the end of her sting at The New Yor ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
The Effects of Neo-Colonialism
ssing the reader. Through out the novel the author points out the sad rundown state of her homeland Antigua. This state is firmly placed on the degenerative effects of neo-colonialism. The first effec ... e effects of neo-colonialism. The first effect of neo-colonialism discussed in A Small Place is the Antiguan economy. ?You look closely at the car; you see that it?s a model of a Japanese car that you ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
The Gap Between Fact and Fiction Jamaica Kincaid "On Seeing England for the First Time" V. S. Naipaul "Jasmine" discussing myths in society
..the place you will go when you die but only if you have been good” (209). Kincaid grew up in Antigua which is one of the British Isles; therefore the school systems would enforce teaching Briti ... oppose this myth. The myth suggested that England is a pristine and ideal Country; the residents of Antigua looked up to a Country of such merit. Although it is common knowledge that one cannot grow u ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Authors