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As I sit here pondering my thoughts of what to write for my I-search paper, that is due in five days, I cannot seem to get my mind off the warm weather. Back in December, I went on a cruise to the Bahamas, man that was the best weather on Earth! We stopped at a city named Freeport, which I knew nothing about. My mind craves the senses of the warm, tropical breeze, the salt water smell, and the smell of the sunscreen that is protecting the tourists on the beach from the scorching hot sun. Oh and don’t forget the warm sand between your toes. What is this place? Sally, I don’t think we are in Minnesota anymore. It really makes me want to know a lot more about this place.
What I Know:
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The Siboney Indians were the earliest settlers, who lived off of conch and fishing. A conch is “the spiral shell of a gastropod, often used as a horn.” (Dictionary.com) The shells and jewelry are the only remains, suggesting that they were here as early as 7,000 years ago. Supposedly they disappeared after they were usurped by a different Caribbean tribe, the Lucayans. “The Lucayans (also called Arawaks) were a broad group of tribes who worked their way up the Caribbean from South America's Amazon between 5,000 and 7,000 years ago.” (Bahamas4u.com) Surprisingly they believe that after the arrival of Columbus, the Spanish soon exterminated the Lucayans off the island. To this day they have a National Park named Lucayan National Park, where you can see the skulls and artifacts left behind from the tribe in caves. “Grand Bahama was given its name by the Spanish – “gran bajamar” means “great shallows” , for the vast reaches of flats and shoals in the waters off the island.” (Bahamasforvisitors.com) In the late 19th century, the first settlers in Freeport arrived. Most of the settlers lived off of fishing, which was very easy because they were surrounded by water, or they harvested lumber and sold …show more content…
But under all the friendliness of the islanders, their economy is failing. There is quite a few homeless people, and there is little to no safety net at all for the homeless in Freeport. Grand Bahama has very few philanthropists. But obviously the struggling residents of Freeport have found innovative ways to survive Grand Bahama's economic crisis. The residents have broken no laws, and are law-abiding citizens who are trying to keep swimming and not drown in the terrible economy. “ I remember hearing PLP candidates complaining about many Grand Bahamian families losing their homes to foreclosure. With no job prospects and no money in the bank to get an apartment, these people have resorted to sleeping on the various beaches on the island.” (Tribune242.com) Under all the struggle, they are decent human beings just living and surviving the way we do up here, but just in a better
...work else where especially during the boom in Upper Canada, living off as little as possible so they could provide for their families back home. This additional income and fewer amount of mouths to feed was a great benefit of having larger families back in the day. This was only up until the depression when out-migration became static as the islanders children began to return home with the lack of jobs across Canada. Population drastically increased throughout the thirties as more and more children returned home. This brought joy but also hardship as well to the families as they were forced to rely on only income generated from the harvest they could procure. To this day, the islands population continues to increase as more people flock to the province for its lust landscapes and sandy red beaches.
The cool water felt very refreshing on a warm spring day; however, anything over 50 degrees felt warm to our family who had traveled from the icy Idaho weather. My dad and we five kids waded out to where the water reached my belly button. My mom stayed on the beach. Those of us in the water splashed each other, at moments sucking in some of the salt water. To me, it tasted as if someone had poured gallons of table
As the heart of central New York, Syracuse is full of history, tradition, and community. Established in 1848, the city of Syracuse was originally centered on the Eire Canal, which made it a central communication point and an appropriate place to build new community. The city was originally called Bogardus Corners, but as the city began to grow, the postman suggested the change of name to Syracuse. The city of Syracuse is currently the home of 163,860 people who enjoy the benefits of culture, entertainment and a strong sense of community.
She started her book with tourism and ended it with it too. The tourists were the most important things that happen to their island. There were tourists in the island from the start. They had a big effect on the people of the island and their country. A lot of money came from them and a lot of places belonged to them. The tone of the author when she talked about tourists was filled with hates. She hated them and didn’t want them in their island. She hated them because it was her home, but she was the one that feels like a slave and unwelcome. Those people weren’t just tourists, some of them became the residents. People who stayed there and turned it to their home and acted like the island belong to them and not the original residents. They built their own buildings and then didn’t let the Antiguans to enter. They treated them unwelcome. “We Antiguans thought that the people in the Mill Reef Club had such bad manners, like pigs: they were behaving in a bad way. Like pigs. There they were, strangers in someone else’s home, and they refused to talk to their hosts or have anything human, anything intimate, to do with them” (Kincaid 27). They welcomed the tourists. They gave them a place to live and a food to eat, but they didn’t pay them back with kindness and that’s another reason that she hated
When the day came to leave I was woken at the crack of dawn. I was keen to get to Blackpool as swiftly as possible, not only for the football that was ahead of us but also for the famous Pleasure Beach. The coach picked us up at around 8 am and in we crammed into an already full coach. The journey down was full of laughter and friendly joking from the parents. That day, it was particularly hot and inside the coach a number of people were becoming uncomfortable. I was unaffected by the warmth inside the coach, with my earphones in I relaxed and paid more attention to the vast countryside we were passing through. The vivid scenery blew me away, with colossal hills to calm rivers that we met on the journey.
Not every individual has an opportunity to go on vacation but when they do, it is taken very seriously. "A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking," Earl Wilson says. When going on a vacation, the decision of the best place to go is the toughest to make. In order to have a successful vacation, choosing what you want to do and making a plan of it, helps the process. Therefore, the purpose of this essay is to identify the differences between vacationing at a beach versus in a city, and contrasting them. The four kinds of differences in vacationing of both are the activities that can be done, the clothing requirements, the weather conditions to do so, and the pace of life that exists during.
Jamaica 1930 was not the picture of peaceful jungles and calm sunsets that we see in travel agents’ brochures. Jamaica 1930 was a time of economic, social, and natural disaster. As L...
Jamaica is full of diversity. From religion, to ancestry, and even geography, Jamaica is always evolving. From the towering mountains all the way to the warm and sandy beaches, Jamaica is a sight to see. However, Jamaica was not always a happy and carefree place. The Jamaican people have suffered from war, disease, and slavery. Jamaica is a small and beautiful country that thrives with culture and should be studied by everyone around the world.
...xtent will this essay bring about a change in Antigua? The Antiguan scene can only be modified by the government choosing to run the country in a more manner that will benefit everyone associated with Antigua, especially its natives. The native’s behaviours are related to their jealousy of tourists, and of the tourist’s ability to escape their own hometown to take a vacation. While a tourist can relate to the idea that the exhaustion felt after a vacation comes from dealing with the invisible animosity in the air between the natives and themselves, having this knowledge is almost as good as not having it, because there is nothing that the tourist, or the reader, can really DO about it! If Kincaid’s purpose is solely to make tourists aware of their actions, she has succeeded. If Kincaid’s purpose is to help Antigua, she may not have succeeded to the same magnitude.
What many people don’t know about Jamaica is that it has a Spanish town, which was formerly the capital, Sevilla la Nueva, now called New Seville. Jamaica's social and economic development began here under the Spanish rule. The first domesticated animals and new species of plant life were brought here. In addition the first sugar mill on the island was erected at New Seville. However, by 1534 the town had been abandoned by its inhabitants because of the unhealthy environment.
Without shedding a tear, she waited patiently for the good news. Unfortunately, her son died three hours later. Mrs. Bijoux is the victim of a drive-by shooting in Nassau Village. While the Bahamas is battling against the economic crisis, the three major issues in the Bahamian society are crime, unemployment and sexual abuse. Crime is the first major issue in the Bahamas.
With an increase in legal immigration, there is a possibility that the country’s culture and identity will disappear slowly as more immigrants enter the country. In The Bahamas, many of the immigrants bring along their own culture and language, especially those whose first language is not English. This culture inclusion will eventually lead to the original Bahamian culture disappearing as more and more cultures are included into the Bahamian culture. In the year 2015, The Bahamas introduced a new event called Junkanoo Carnival. Carnival is an event that is often found in Caribbean countries like Trinidad and Tobago or Barbados but not The Bahamas. This is because those countries Carnival are The Bahamas’ Junkanoo. However, The Bahamas continued on with the event ‘Bahamas Junkanoo Carnival’ which is mostly the culture of other Caribbean
The Caymans were “discovered” by the west by Christopher Columbus on his fourth and final voyage to the new world. His two ships, the Capitana and the Santiago sighted two small islands on May 10, 1503. These islands he called “Las Tortugas” because of their abundance of sea turtles, these islands eventually became Little Cayman and Cayman Brac. Columbus’ ships were off course when they sighted the islands and did not set foot on the islands. Columbus was an unintentional witness to the yearly gathering of sea turtles to mate and lay eggs. They were so abundant that their shells were mistaken for large rocks on the beaches. The turtles yearly migration was a large influence on the islands early history.
The people that travel the streets constantly look as if they are unemployed, many of the women have children. Sadly, there is nowhere to really hangout in this area, which is why many people stay in trouble. The area has several gang groups, which marks themselves and territory by colors and graffiti. You do not see any political signs or any other kind of advertisement because it usually gets graffiti on it or taken down. The main two religions in this area is Holiness or Methodist, the main race that attends these churches is African Americans. Although English is the main language amongst this population, there are some that speaks solely Spanish. All of the schools in this location are public schools.