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Showing 1 to 20 of 802 for “"caribbean"”.
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The Caribbean Community, the Caribbean Single Market and Economy and the CISG: Three ways of promoting international trade in the Caribbean region
… provide the reader with some insight into to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), its Single Market and Economy and the Caribbean Court of Justice. This dissertation will then culminate by addressing the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods 1980 (CISG) and the …
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Imagined Islands: A Caribbean Tidalectics
<p><italic>Imagined Islands: A Caribbean Tidalectics</italic> confronts islands -at once as a problem, a concept, and a historical and mythical fact and product- by generating a tidalectical encounter between some of the ways in which islands have been imagined and used from without, primarily in …
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Works for Caribbean Orchestra: Compositions Reflecting the Music of Grenada and the African Caribbean Diaspora
… the music and history of Grenada and the African Caribbean diaspora provided inspiration for compositions featuring a seventeen piece orchestra with an emphasis on form, structure, harmony, rhythm, melody and dynamics. This research includes four original musical compositions, tailored …
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Towards a Decolonial Caribbean Reparations Movement
… seeks to establish a decolonial framework for Caribbean reparations that is located in the Black radical tradition. It critically examines the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) reparations campaign and proposes an alternative approach that embodies, explores, and revolves around everyday …
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English Caribbean immigrant entrepreneurs in Montreal
… than the population at large, but English Caribbean immigrants, entering mainly under the Family Class category, tend to be salaried and wage earners as opposed to employers and self-employed persons. This thesis examines why English Caribbean immigrants to Montreal are less inclined than …
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Biologically Active Compounds From Caribbean Sponges
… and 1,2 dioxane acids and esters from two caribbean sponges is described. Interest in these compounds was motivated by the acid's pharmacological activities when tested in vitro against various gram positive bacteria, yeasts and fungi. The corresponding esters were relatively inactive as …
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Acoustics and manufacture of Caribbean steelpans
The Caribbean steelpan is a pitched percussion instrument that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the Second World War. Despite several research initiatives to improve the making of this relatively new instrument, several areas remain unaddressed. This thesis presents new approaches to help …
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African historical religions and Africana spirituality in the Caribbean literature: an analysis of Afro-Caribbean philosophical archetypes in contemporary Caribbean literature using Ifá philosophy as a signifying system
This research analyses the presence of Afro-Caribbean philosophical archetypes in Caribbean literature as fundamental elements in the identity formation and racial dynamics of African descendants in the Caribbean. The main focus is on the spiritual component of African historical religions and …
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Climate controls on coral growth in the Caribbean
Accurate predictions of Caribbean carol reef responses to global climate change are currently limited by a lack of knowledge of the dominant environmental controls on coral growth. Corals exhibit significant responses to environmental variability occurring on multi-annual to decadal timescales, …
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Island Rewrites: Postcolonial Caribbean, British and Irish Revisions.
… relationship between coloniser and colonised in Caribbean literature, through an exploration of texts that are re-workings of, responses to, and dramatic adaptations of European texts that form part of the colonial canon. This dissertation has as its background the overarching question of how …
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Religious language: Its role in nativizing Caribbean English
Early studies of New World Englishes, including Caribbean English (CE), were primarily concerned with their genesis. With the emergence in the 1950's of generative linguistics, the focus of language study gradually shifted to more formal, rule-based descriptions. Subsequently, …
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Climate controls on coral growth in the Caribbean
Accurate predictions of Caribbean coral reef responses to global climate change are currently limited by a lack of knowledge of the dominant environmental controls on coral growth. Corals exhibit significant responses to environmental variability occurring on multi-annual to decadal timescales, …
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Storying Our Experiences: Caribbean Students at U.S. Universities
… I explore the daily lived experiences of five Caribbean students studying at a rural university in the Blue Ridge Mountains. I investigate the personal challenges encountered by young adult Caribbean students and focus on their perspectives and coping strategies as they negotiate the racial …
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Challenging Mental Health Concerns among Black Caribbean Immigrants
… nearly all parts of the globe, including the Caribbean region. Like the U.S., this region can also be considered a melting pot of cultures, with the Afro-Caribbean population widely scattered across these island nations. Important to this investigation is the large diaspora population of Black …
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Structure, Stratigraphy and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Colombian Caribbean Margin and Tsunamigenic Hazards in the Western Caribbean and the South China Sea
The Colombian Caribbean Margin extends for ~850 km, southwest to northeast, from the Panama to Venezuela. Along the margin, the subduction of the Caribbean plate has formed an accretionary prism defining the edge of the overriding South American plate. This dissertation focusses on the late …
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Literature and cultural pluralism : East Indians in the Caribbean
… plural societies of Trinidad and Guyana in the Caribbean. It examines the extent to which the production of imaginative literature has been marked by the same ethnic divisions which have bedevilled the political, social and cultural life of these societies. For reasons explained in Chapter One, …
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Small island developing states, sustainability and the Caribbean Sea
This study encompasses twenty-seven SIDS and the Caribbean Sea. In order to detennine the pressure on the sea from anthropogenic activities both terrestrial and marine, four major components were investigated. These are (a) how land use activities on the islands are affecting the Sea (b) the …
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Genetic variation and health in a rural Caribbean village
… the population structure and admixture in this Caribbean community using high-density SNP data and global reference samples in the Human Genome Diversity Panel. We detect four distinct family clusters and admixture from African, European, and Amerindian ancestral populations that occurred 5-6 …
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