...Jordan Patton 11/2/2012 Communications-Mark Neumann A Small Place Essay Reality is how we perceive the world and that reality can be changed to circumstances and through communication. The reality can be altered to fit a certain group of people so that they will only ever see the beauty in the place that they are visiting. In A Small Place they expose this factor in the so called beautiful place of Antigua, but in actuality Antigua is disguised by beauty to hide the poverty and the corrupt government that has morphed these natives into something that they never should have been. The culture altered into some hybrid that would be pleasing to the upper class and to the tourists that would come to visit. The setting of Antigua is almost standing still, things seem the same day to day to the villagers when it is described in A Small Place. But it real reality the government is in control, they speak English instead of their native tongue or its horrible slang described by Kincaid. The schooling is horribly lacking mostly shown by a library that has been damaged and needs to be rebuilt for the last ten years. The sign that is posted on the library refers to the colonial period of Antigua, which is before the time that the English took over with their ways. This is something that is not normally seen to tourists, they see a laid back way of life with simple people. But the people themselves did not choose this style, they did not wish for the education to be denied...
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...A Small Place Essay British colonization is what led to the corruption of Antigua and society through the eyes of Jamaica Kincaid. The book shows the significance of the arrival of outside countries and people and the effect it had on Caribbean islands. Through Kincaid’s various views throughout the book, perspectives range from viewpoints of tourists traveling to the Caribbean to viewing society through the eyes of Antiguan natives; even through the eyes of Jamaica Kincaid herself as a young child during the colonization periods. Kincaid’s sour tone throughout the text shows her passion for her home country and its history as she feels Antigua has been and is corrupted by the outside presence of other nations. A majority of A Small Place is expressed through Kincaid’s personal point of view and, consequently, is written in the first-person. However, she tends to write in the second-person point of view when she’s referring to tourists and even early English colonists. Her constant use of “you” in her writing makes her claims more personal and strong in distinguishing the dislike for what the tourists represent. Her tone even gets more aggressive at times. “Do you ever try to understand why people like me cannot get over the past, cannot forgive and cannot forget? There is the Barclay’s Bank. The Barclay brothers are dead. The human beings they traded, the human beings who to them were only commodities, are dead.” (Kincaid 27) Her claims towards the tourists are...
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...A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid Viewing the world as a tourist and saying you actually experienced the place you traveled to would be naive. Actually getting to know the place is a bit different. You see the poverty and corruption, the struggle and then the beauties and differences. But getting to that point is also quite difficult. Jamaica Kincaid writes about tourists and traveling, and takes us on a tour of an island called Antigua. This is an excerpt taken from A Small Place. The author writes in second person addressing the tourist (who can be us the readers or any tourist around the globe). Kincaid writes in a tone where even I despised myself for traveling. She has the ironic and provocative voice that might offend the reader. I myself have witnessed tourists at a young age and I did envy them. I thought I was going to get stuck in this polluted city my whole entire life. I saw them frolicking the beaches and drinking white wine while eating gyros as I sat behind my uncle's bar wanting to have fun too. But I have also been a tourist laying on a beautiful beach as a young man served me sushi and a pina colada. Jamaica writes “But some natives-most natives in the world-cannot go anywhere. They are too poor... They are too poor to escape the reality of their lives; and they are too poor to live properly in the place where they live, which is the very place you, the tourist, want to go”(119 Kincaid). This quote made me think and realize that being a tourist is “ugly”...
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...A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid is an effective non fiction text because of the use of blunt words and phrases. Kincaid was able to give me one side of a story that I may have wanted to look past. As a result of this, Kincaid left me with the feeling of guilt. Throughout the text, I questioned many things about myself. Whether it was the way I act on vacations or if I was actually “an ugly person”. These effective tools that Kincaid used, such as having me question myself and think in a different perspective really enhanced the message she was tried to get across. Tourists, such as many of my relatives, who travel to the Dominican Republic each year, might not see themselves the way the natives of that particular place do. While on...
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...Sweet honey in the rock: Are My Hands Clean? Song. Group of women who have roots in the civil rights movement. 1985 origin. This song places the black diasporic people as the consumer vs diamonds are forever doesn’t visually offer you a black diasporic consumer.West is channeling an activism that takes place through you and the wallet. * This is an individual action of activism. Your actions connect you to the collective but its only about you. * *think about purchasing power as part of forming and narrating consumer culture. * Community manifests through consumer based or internet based sense of community. * Whats the difference in audience interpretation between sweet honey in the rock and kanye west. * Homogenization or capitalization on the distinction between cultures to make them more marketable. * How global forces of trade intensify cultural traits. * “You” in life and debt was referring to white americans. But false representation. Well incomplete anyway. * In the film: there is a world in this somewhere but I cant getinto this right now. * Listen to the you vs we in the place of consumption. The identity shifts. * Roots the movie: look it up. * Genealogical study boomed in the wake of this tv series. Xpecially in the black comm. * Tourism was centered as a developmental strategy (especially in Jamaica, Senegal, third world and developing countries) * Tourism becomes linked to this roots phenomenon. * Slave...
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...relate to the different cultures around the world. This narrow-mindedness is created by a tiny knowledge of circumstances. We are simply informed of all the misery, corruption and extremism outside our nation, with only all the appalling facts mentioned in the media world – the distance between nationalities is increased all the time, which makes it hard for people with different cultures to meet and communicate. If a foreigner came to your rescue, while you were in the most need of aid, how would you react? This issue is one of the main subjects in the short story Eating Sugar. The British short story Eating Sugar is written by Catherine Marriman, and was first published in Getting a Life by Honno in 2001.The set of the story takes place in the mountains in Thailand with an omniscient third-person narrator. We are introduced to a married couple, Alex and Eileen, who are on holiday in Thailand to visit their daughter, Suzanne. Alex, the father, is very suspicious of the natives, but in the end he overcomes the suspiciousness. Eileen anxious behavior makes it possible for Alex to suppress some of his fear, which makes him seem only uninterested. To try to describe his character I find it appropriate to use Duane Hanson’s, Tourist 2, a sculpture, from 1988. Duane Hanson sketches a typical image of tourists with cameras and Hawaii-shirts. This could be used as a parallel to Alex and Eileen’s behavior. They are only in Thailand to visit their daughter. They prefer to...
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...Yuanxiang Zhang Chapter 14 mainly discusses of planning a career in hospitality industry. The first thing this chapter talks about is the career planning steps, which includes the need for career planning. It provides step-by-step instructions to guide the reader how to recognize the need for career planning by exploring the personal interests, skills, values, and even personality. Another aspect for career planning is to identify whether you are choosing to doing a job with passion or doing a job because “you have to”. It tells us an important thing that to be careful to make a good decision so that you will take no regret for the next decade. To illustrate the effects of finding fulfillment on a job, there is a simple formula we should always keep in mind, which is motivation +ability = performance. Indeed the word “motivation” can be referred as your passion to work. It is the initial element for you to be successful no matter what professional areas you are getting into. The textbook uses two people to illustrate various individual factors in career decision making such as preferred location, this factor will likely to be a personal factor that tells where and how far you can go. Some people like Contina would prefer to work at a local property where she graduated. It might provide her a relatively stable working environment and less working pressures, but at the same time, it will also limit her ability to obtain many opportunities and develop further professional skill...
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...teenager and her elder sister Ra who is aged twenty two years. The play takes place in a solemn setting down in a small apartment bedroom. The room does not contain a lot of things; it is empty except for some few basic properties that make a bedroom. They events of the play take place at Long Beach in the California region. Michael Golamco has used the story in bringing out loneliness as a theme in the play and its consecutive results in the people affected by it. The play has some points as its plot develops where the instances of loneliness are stressed. It has been revealed either in a manner where the affected expresses it directly or in a way that the audience or the reader has to imply it indirectly. This theme is so diverse in the play and one is able to identify it even as it exists in isolations in the play. Throughout the play, Golamco has portrayed Vuthy as the character to portray this theme. Vuthy has featured in a number of scenarios where he has expressed his concern for the loneliness he is experiencing. Perhaps as a result of his own action or probably, as a situation he had no option as it was natural. One of the instances where this has been pictured is when Ra tries her best not to have her brother, Vuthy, to go with her. She tries to give her reasons to convince her of how he should be grateful of the fact that their auntie is coming to pick him with his computer to her place. Also, she tells him that “it would be bad to move you right now, put you in...
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...the past and the future. Her past was joyful and optimistic, while her future is dreary and uncertain. It is interesting that the author chose to discuss the sun because the sun is the center of our solar system, making it a pivotal element of our lives. This goes to show the sheer magnitude of change for the narrator. Later on, the narrator stated, “If I had to draw a picture of my future then, it would have been a large gray patch surrounded by black, blacker, and blackest”(lines 57-59). The black is an image of utter despair, and that was how she felt about her future in her old home, which is interesting because it contradicts the bright sun. However, she went on to day, “What a surprise this was to me, that I longed to be back in the place that I came from…”(lines 60-61). This further exemplifies the complicated nature of the problem. She did not like where she was when she was there, but when she left she wanted nothing more than to go back. The author also incorporated images of nature. The most memorable instance of this was how her realization of her new life entered, “...like a flow of water dividing formerly dry and solid ground, creating two banks…”(lines 37-39). This thought provoking simile shows the audience how divided her former sense of self and her expectations of the future are. She describes her past as “so familiar and predictable,” and her future as “a gray bank, an overcast seascape on which rain was falling and no boats were in sight,”(lines 39-43). This...
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...All of us have had personal experiences with small business—as an owner, employee, friend, or relative of an owner, or in other relationships. Explain one or more such experience(s) you have recently had. I recently quit my job as a production coordinator and BCBG. This was a large company and in the end I realized that the benefits of a large company did not outweigh what I was losing in terms of personal job satisfaction. I returned to a much smaller business which only has 7 employees, including myself. I find that this provides me with more opportunity to learn all aspects of the business and gives me a more solid base of knowledge to build upon when I go to start my own company. After returning to a small business I found myself sleeping better at night and being excited to wake up in the morning and go to work, never knowing what fun tasks the day held for me. My coworker is always available and since she has personally done every job in the entire company, is a walking encyclopedia of knowledge and is able to answer every question I have. I also enjoy having a direct communication line to the owner of the business and approvals for projects and tasks are instant! I love it and couldn’t be happier. Best career move I ever made. 1.4) Distinguish between a small business and an entrepreneurial venture. If you were to start your own business, which would you wish it to be? Why? According to the text, a small business is independently owned and operated...
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...pancreas. The glands of the digestive system are accessory organs because although food does not pass directly through them, they help the process, breaking down the toxins or waste digestion produces. There are four stages of digestion. The first stage takes place in the mouth where the action of teeth and saliva combine; chewing and partially digesting the food so that it will pass more easily along the oesophagus. Saliva contains the enzyme amylase which acts on cooked starch. The ball of food that leaves the mouth through the action swallowing is known as a bolus. The tongue pushes the bolus to the back of the mouth towards the pharynx, a muscular tube behind the mouth. The food passes into the pharynx and down to the oesophagus. In the oesophagus the chewed food is carried from the pharynx to the stomach by a muscular contraction known as peristalsis. The lining of the oesophagus secretes mucus to ease and lubricate the passage of food. The second stage of digestion takes place in the stomach. Food enters the stomach from the oesophagus via the cardiac sphincter, a valve that stops back flow of the stomach’s contents, and leaves it through the pyloric sphincter into the duodenum, the first part of the small intestine. In the stomach the gastric juices contains the enzymes, hydrochloric acid which neutralises bacteria and activates pepsin, and the pepsin then acts on...
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...tribes in the uplands. Christian migration from the Visayas and Luzon islands in the early 1900s opened its vast, fertile lands to agriculture. The town we chose to have a business is an untouched place at a small barangay at Barangay Kamanga, Maasim, Saranggani Province, Philippines. It’s just really a small baranggay with a small population, it’s about 200-300 people living there. The Mangelen and Garcia family owns that place and it is located near Lemlunay, one of the famous destination in Sarangani Province. We would like to add more great destination in Sarangani Province so that the economy their will improve and more investors will come. The specific location description we want to put up the business is at a beach that has a small cliff and a mountain at the other side. Surely people will love it because of its an untouched beauty, an eco-friendly environment, a relaxing place where you can unwind and have fun, having a fresh air, and a friendly community. There is a small houses near the specific location we want to put up the business but the Garcia Family is planning to relocate the people who are living there besides they own the area and because of that they can easily relocate the people there easily. There is also a school near the location of the business, it’s just a small school of elementary and high school level. The wet market is just 10 minute away drive near the location. The famous Lemlunay is just a 5 minute drive from the location, the IML resort that people...
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...Index 1 – Question 1 2 – Question 2 3 – Question 3 List of Exhibit Exhibit 1 – 4Ps Exhibit 2 – Brand Identity Prism; Kapferer (2004) Exhibit 3 – Situation and Complication Page 3 Page 4 Page 6 Page 3 Page 4 Page 6 Question 1 – In the period of 1972 to 1993, why do you think that Snapple flourished when so many small Start--‐ ups premium fruit drinks stayed small or disappeared? The growing success of Snapple can be explained with 2 of the four principals of marketing mix. Marketing mix describes the set of tools that management can use to influence sales, in the traditional formulation: the 4Ps of marketing—product, price, place, and promotion. Analyzing the case is perceived that Snapple differentiated themselves through Place and Promotion. After they turned a marketing executive his chief for sales and marketing the company redefined its promotion strategy and expanded its distribution. Regarding Place, the merit was to keep the expansion of the current distribution model at a sustainable pace, growing consistent in the East coast and them to the rest of the country. The company has been kept simple and under the model of small distributors. About Promotion, with a limited budget, compared to the giants of the beverage industry, one of the biggest accomplishments of the new promotion strategy was the alignment of the product with the average citizen using real people and real situations, the promotion should follow the motto of the product: 100% Natural. In addition...
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...residential neighborhoods, this place is constantly alive with people coming and going. I find myself humming along to the sounds of music coming from a group of young college kids who have set up their instruments and are performing on the courthouse lawn for all to enjoy. A gentle breeze picks up and with it is carried a glorious scent of bbq wafting over from one of the local restaurants. This place plays host to many festivals throughout the year. From where I am seated I can see the strings of white LED lights strung throughout the trees on the courthouse lawn. In the evening these lights are turned on creating a lovely ambiance. This is the type of place where the waitress at the diner knows your name and order as soon as you walk in the door. This is that small town America that for so many years I looked for and finally have found. I sit on the steps of the old courthouse here in Denton, Texas. The courthouse square is packed with all sorts of people. Many have walked here from a few blocks away due to the limited parking options. Just a few feet from me, an amateur band of college kids have set up and are using the courthouse lawn as an open air practice studio. Walking about the square, darting in and out of the waves of people, I duck into a diner. The waitress is chatting with one of the locals. This is the type of place where you get the feeling everyone knows each other. There is definitely a small town America feel to this place. In some ways it is like the...
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...to swap places with them. They also think others have it better than they do. Appearances are most often deceiving. People form their perception of others based on material possessions and things that’s visible to the eyes. This poem “Richard Cory” is based on people’s perceptions of him and how wrong they were. The poem uses many litrary devices to explain what the speaker is trying to get the readers to see. I will only use these three to prove my points; point of view, setting, and repetition. The speaker’s point of view is first person because he is one of the characters in the poem. In the first stanza the speaker introduces his character with, “We people on the pavement looked at him:” (line 2). The first two words, “we people,” shows that the speaker is talking about more people, including himself. He also show how they all noticed Richard Cory. I almost get the feeling that they stop and stared as he passed. The speaker indicates that everyone was of the same mindset. In the second stanza, “In fine, we thought he was everything.” (line 11). This quote is expressing what the group was thinking. In their mind Richard Cory was the epitomy of wealth. He was a celebrity. The speaker also uses this quote, “To make us wish we were in his place,” (line 12). to show that they were envious of him. The word, “us,” in this line indicates that the entire town are also characters in this poem and the speaker represents them all. The setting is a small town....
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