Over the years, God has had two faces. On one instance, he had the heart of mother Theresa; the Red Cross; UNICEF; Father Monsignor Richard Albert and sometimes the Salvation Army. On another occasion, he was a hungry boar with the kindness of intent to maim and mow humans like the Tsunami. Although God is ‘love’, has understanding and knowledge of all things, some members within Christendom and Other religiosity have made him out to be a vicious monster, lacking in basic tolerance and...
On July 1, 2004, an associate of mine, who is a student of the prestigious University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, asked that I assist her in drafting a letter for a parent who wants her son, who was not placed in one of traditional high school by the GSAT results, to attend the noble St. George’s College. The mother of the 12-year old boy is fearful of the child’s father temperament in regards to their son. The father, on the other hand, believes that his child must attend the College....
INTRODUCTION Since men’s early recognition of self, and a basic understanding of the unbounded universe, they have used various plants in aid of their social development. Be it as it may that the resulting experiences are oftentimes highly deceptive because of a particular epistemology, peoples continue to work assiduously in order to attain a particular lifestyle what Maslow called “self-actualization.” This reality is the thrust behind the increasing dependency on external stimu...
In retrospect, I spent one entire year in an eleventh grade English Language class in which the teacher who had a Masters Degree in English, from the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, found the need on one occasion to write on the chalkboard. Being that I was a primary non-communicator of the Queen’s dialect and that I was fed a rich diet of the African and European languages combined (i.e. patois), mastery of Standard Language proved a burdensome task to say the least. My la...
By Paul Andrew Bourne, MSc. (candidate), Bsc. (Hons) Economics and Demography Introduction Albert Einstein, the renowned physict and pioneer in his contributions of natural phenomena to the natural sciences, in an attempt to display his academic prowess and show the scope of his ‘ideashanal’ made a sweeping position statement on economics that reads “The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my view, the main cause of our evils. Production is carried on f...
INTRODUCTION The global world in which we all reside is predominantly governed by capitalist ideologies. Those ideological constructs are the thrust behind globalization, in that globalization speaks to the political, economical and social integration of the world economies. Due to globalization, the furthest geographic locality from one nation is brought into close proximity to another by way of electronic media. One of the introductions of this phenomenon is cultural pluralism. Whe...
INTRODUCTION Poor people have to meet the increasing price of foodstuffs whose extra cost does not necessarily mean an increase in nutritional value; indeed in many cases much of the food in advanced societies is losing its food value. Andrew Webster, 1970, p.16 Individuals, families and groups in the population can be said to be in poverty when they lack the resources to obtain the type of diet, participate in the activities and have the living conditions and amenities which are ...
Introduction Marxian theorizing represented a significant growth of the postulations of some the greatest representatives of beliefs, economic idea, and socialism. Those positions are the essence, a fusion of German philosophy, English economic thought, and the best of French socialism (Rob Sewell, 1994). As such, it was that Marx matured under an atmosphere of Hegelianism and its unavoidable influence – through radical Hegelianism and the Young Hegelians (Jim Blaut, Hegelian and Marxis...
By Paul Andrew Bourne, MSc. (candidate), Bsc. (Hons) Demography /Economics On Sunday May 9, 2004, an article written by Mr. Mark Thompson appeared in the Sunday Herald under the caption, Studying overseas still costs more than in Jamaica, in reference to the undergraduate programmes offered by the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus. Such an article was written without any understanding of the epistemological framework of economics. Why? The author does not understand the crit...
INTRODUCTION MANY inhabitants within our world have been researching a wide range of social phenomena that directly affect human’s existence. The fact is there are voluminous reproductive health issues that influence human population, and the quality of life that people enjoy. Those issues if not understood and carefully monitored may have catastrophic consequences on man’s future existence. Hence, those issues will continue to be of fundamental challenge to technocrats. In this p...
William Edward Burghardt DuBois, to his admirers, was by spirited devotion and scholarly dedication, an attacker of injustice and a defender of freedom Gerald C. Hynes W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) DuBois was born to Alfred and Mary Burghardt DuBois on February 23, 1868 in a small New England village of Great Barrington, Massachusetts...
INTRODUCTION Jamaica is the third largest landmass in the Greater Antilles of the West Indies. The island is located 90 miles south of Cuba and 100 miles west of Haiti. Its mountainous terrain spans an area of 235 kilometers (km) long, 80 km wide and covers a land area of 10, 991 squared kilometers. The country got independence from Britain on August 6, 1962, when the human population was 1,624,400 (STATIN 2001: xxvi). The nation’s population rose from 1,624,400 (in 1962) to 2,607,632...
As a partial new convert of democracy, which is primarily due to the constant indoctrination of Westerners’ theorizing on the matter, I have come to believe that the United States’ (US) in-depth conviction on the issue can only be likened unto absolute freedom. Was I naïve? As this concept is the furthest from the truth. The mother of all theorizing on human democracy hoisted a democratically elected leader. She threw into political oblivion, a constitutionally elected ruler. To make matt...
I was named Paul Andrew Bourne by my parents Janet Green and Percival Bourne. The Victoria Jubilee Hospital, Downtown Kingston, is where I was born on December 5, 1968. Besides having lived with my mother, I was also raised by my stepfather, Alfred Beckford. Some people asked, “Can anything good come from the ghettos?” Despite that claim, I am the first of three children for my mother; and I was raised in the communities of August Town and Waltham Park. Those communities are volatile i...
As someone who has taught in the public sector for approximately fourteen (14) years, I have had to learn ‘good’ customer relation skills and have come to expect the same from others with whom I do business. I had countless cogent experiences with individuals in Customer Service at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, which speaks to a trend in ‘poor’ service from that department. However, it appears that some of the ‘customer service and billings’ representatives are either untr...