Essays Tagged: "Guyana"
Guayana
Guyana is a country located on the northern coast of South America. It is bounded on the north by th ... ica. It is bounded on the north by theAtlantic Ocean and on the east by Suriname. On the south side Guyana is bordered by Brazil, and on thewest side is Brazil and Venezuela. Guyana achieved its indep ... . Guyana achieved its independence on May 26, 1966 when it broke awayfrom Britain.Land and ResourcesGuyana has three different major geographical regions. These consist of a belt of soil whichranges f ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geography
All about Piranha
live in and around South America. They are widespread throughout the rivers of Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Paraguay, Brazil, and central Argentina.Piranhas live in packs, or shoals. They spend most o ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology
An account of The People's Temple Mass suicide and Jim Jones's persuasion and propaganda
(Dickerson 2). The demise of the People's Temple and the killings of over 900 people in Jonestown, Guyana were due to the Temple's contradicting beliefs, Jones's growing insanity and abuse of prescri ... an government. Because he commanded the largest single protestant movement in California (and later Guyana) history, he was able to command his some 10,000 members to 'block vote,' or to swap their se ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith
Comparison between Half-Caste by John Agard and Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan by Moniza Alvi
in another country and moved to England at an early age, where as John Agard was born and raised in Guyana and then moved to England during early adulthood. During this essay I will be comparing the i ... dulthood. His parents were mixed of race, his father black and mother from Portugal but was born in Guyana.The author of Presents Form My Aunts In Pakistan, Moniza Alvi moved to England at a very youn ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Poetry
The History of Social Work in the Caribbean
of this essay, specific focus will be on two of its English speaking countries namely Barbados and Guyana.Compton and Gallaway (1990) defined Social welfare as "an organized set of norms and institut ... between the mid 1300s and the mid 1800s which were adopted by English colonies such as Barbados and Guyana. It should be noted however that these laws were not established due to the declining social ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
Chagas
ina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. It is sometime ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Teaching moral development to school children in the Caribbean
ue to their own religious beliefs.When we look at certain Caribbean islands like Jamaica, Barbados, Guyana and some other territories have different customs and in relation to moral development meanin ... o moral development meaning that it might be acceptable to attend school bare-footed and in rags in Guyana but not in Barbados because of our economy is high as well as our moral standards.Evaluating ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
Does the Caribbean have an independent judiciary?
elve independent countries:- Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Lucia, St. Kitts-Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago ... me Minister and the Leader of the Opposition, while in the Constitution of Co-operative Republic of Guyana contains similar provisions: both the Chancellor, who is President of the Court of Appeal of ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
How does grief from violent deaths differ from other deaths?
ke, and therefore maybe this is how grief ought to be tackled through a person's inner strengths.In Guyana there has be more than its fair share of sudden violent deaths over the last few years. Many ... ggle to see justice don, deny themselves a proper mourning period. Grief counseling is available in Guyana, but is seldom offered in sudden violent death situations because our culture does not readil ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
The Jonestown Tragedy
rt the group. When Jones and about nine-hundred followers moved to their new remote location in the Guyana jungle known as "Jonestown," odd occurrences were reported and many began to question the exi ... Jones was extreme but they did not have a choice. Many of the Peoples Temple members believed that Guyana would be, as Jones promised, a paradise. Instead, everyone (including children) ended up rais ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Miscommunication in R.K. Narayan's short stories: "A Horse and Two Goats", "The Watchman", and "The Evening Gift"
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
Peoples Temple
of the cult called The People's Temple and he drove his followers to commit mass suicide/murder in Guyana in 1978.Intro I. You are scared.A. You are in the jungle and craziness surrounds you.B. Every ... on and wanted to leave the United States.B. He moved his group to the jungle outside of Georgetown, Guyana and started Jonestown.C. There Jones could manipulate his people's lives completely.D. Jones ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Immigration in an Anthropology Perspective
One of those groups that have influenced the American way of life is the people of the Trinidad and Guyana. To be more specific, the people of East Indian descendants. From since the Early 1980's the ... e of East Indian descendants. From since the Early 1980's the first wave of Immigrants arrived from Guyana and Trinidad. Some came legally but most entered illegally. They all came for a chance at a n ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Het regenwoud in zuid amerika
of een aap. De witkraaggierzwaluw, de blauwgele ara, de brulaap, het grijsgroen doodshoofdaapje, de Guyana-toekan, de slingeraap en de amazone leven ook in de top van de reuzenbomen.2 Daarna komt de k ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
What is ethnicity and the issues faced by Guyanese people?
the reader more at-ease with the concept of ethnicity and understand better the particularities of Guyana and the issues faced by Guyanese people.An ethnic group or ethnicity is a population of human ... presumed common genealogy or ancestry, culture, language and any other social aspect of their life.Guyana's society historically always have had a heterogeneous population due to the different coloni ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism
Story of my life
chooler.Everything was so confusing to me. I did not know that there are four different seasons. In Guyana there is only one; you can wear a light top everyday but here you have to wear sweaters or a ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
Jim Jones:raper or murderer
bout relations inside the church, So with that Jones moved all his followers to renovated jungle in Guyana he named it "Jonestown" where he cut down trees and built cabins. In order todo this he had t ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
Bullying
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature