Culture of Jamaica

Mary Seacole, the yellow woman of Jamaica, was born in Jamaica in 1805. Mary’s father was British Army officer and mother known as a healer. At the time many Jamaican’s were still enslaved, however Mary’s mother had been freed and was able to work. Observing her mother’s work, Mary learned her skills and use of herbal remedies. Mary was educated in the home of a patroness who she lived with from 1821 to 1825. When are patroness became ill, Mary returned home from England to help care for her.…

Some of the most important natural resources for the island of Jamaica are sugar, bananas, coffee, and cocoa. Jamaica is one of the world’s largest producers of bauxite. Those resources are only 4 of many other natural resources. Some other natural resources such as , crude oil, clay, and limestone help benefit their country. Those resources help benefit their country by making cement, creating large or small industries. Also they help create new jobs for people. The trees in Jamaica’s many…

Bob Marley was born February 6, 1945 to Norval Marley and Cedella Booker in Nine Mile, Jamaica. His birth name was actually Nesta Robert Marley, but his parents quickly changed the name because they realized that it was too feminine. Norval Marley left behind his family, and passed away before Bob could ever meet him. His childhood was spent in rural areas, while living a few years in the ghettos of Jamaica. Marley was nicknamed “White boy”, because his skin was much lighter than the other…

As a powerful weapon, Reggae music can forcefully stop mental slavery with its symbolic musical strategies. Reggae musicians such as Bob Marley, Skip Marley, and Stephen Marley have effectively opened the minds of the African and Afro-Caribbean people from the immoral education of mental slavery. According to Ennis Edmonds, the reggae musicians are “telling Blacks the truth about their African roots and African identity” (pg. 29). For instance, in Skip Marley’s song “Lions”, he has powerful…

American movie directed by Stephanie Black. It examines the economic and social state of affairs in Jamaica, and specifically the impact on that of the International fund and also the World Bank's structural adjustment policies. Its start line is that the essay a little Place by Jamaica Kincaid. The result, she argues, has been the destruction of Jamaican business and agriculture, the top of Jamaica as a self-sustaining economic entity, and its conversion into a marketplace for North American…

about why he became a freedom writer through music is because through all the problems in the world he decided to reunite his home with music. He knew fighting would kill him considering the fact that he was almost assassinated, but he still reunited Jamaica. Not everyone tries to reunite a whole country through music. Do you really believe music can reunite a whole country? Although this question may be silly to ask, I believe that the main reason why the country was reunited was because he is…

Jamaica is an upper middle income country with the largest population in the Caribbean. For decades, Jamaica has fought with low development, high government debt that are declining the country’s economy. Over the last 30 years, real per capita GDP improved at an average of just one percent per year, making Jamaica one of the slowest growing developing countries in the world. The government increasingly collected debt, which stretched to 145 percent of GDP in 2012. As of 1 January 2017, the…

Reggae a Semente The warm sunlight hits you even before the reggae beat begins. In the music video for Reggae a Semente's "Can You Feel?" a red and white van with a "Coexist" sticker in the window rolls slowly down the highway on the edge of a city, a journey interrupted only by shots of the band smiling and jamming in a skate park. Whether they're driving, walking, or lingering under an overpass, they pose the same question: can you feel the spirit? As comfortable as the overarching mood is,…

Jamaica is known to have an everlasting climate and fascinating geographical features. Jamaica is located in the Caribbean Sea and is a member of a chain of Islands known as the Greater Antilles. The other countries in this chain are Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and the Cayman Islands. Jamaica is the third largest country out of all of them with the area of 4,244 mi2. Interestingly enough, Jamaica is the exact size of Connecticut! The Caribbean Sea is the body of water that completely…

Rastafarian are stuck and set in they ways to an extent that any other groups viewpoints are dismissed violently, that is one of the reasons why persons that seek to domicile in the continent of Jamaica find it difficult to fit comfortably and settle, it’s either they way or well, they way. In addition marijuana is legalized because they believe it enhances their spiritual growths ascension and in essence leads to the motivation for they utopian mindset which I assume is probably the reason…