By Paul A. Bourne, 2006 Like a seed I began in the open firmaments of the heavens battered by the very elements of nature to make me strong in a milieu that oppresses, dictates, and abuses but I’ll rise – like a flower, I bloomed with light’s rays like a flower, I was groomed by years like a flower, I unfolded with grace like a flower, I am the living years but watch and see – I’ll be your treasure because of these years I see me with years - a cistern that absorbs t...

By Paul Andrew Bourne, December 25, 2006 What is life without a story, and what is a story’s essence without its moral as it pains the psyche to know that you’re alone on a trail of love’s trajectory – because someone seeks the selfish end to the tale so… I cried in pain’s anger and, I laughed in emotion’s whisper, I saw the end in the end and wept with a poor man’s wealth I saw the heavens opened to accept my pain– as I reach to hold the wind in my grasp but was I in...

By Paul Andrew Bourne, December 26, 2006 I stood in a daze, searching for something, anything – to which I knew not then, I felt the void, that emptiness crept upon me with a shake’s precision for prey for the purpose was undefined but the message was clear I wanted something, except nothing I was there, looking, for … but that place, I knew it not I could feel that sense of closeness but I saw it not – I wanted so desperately to hold it, what? the make of my sta...

by Paul Andrew Bourne, 2006 Like a seed I began in the open firmaments of the heavens battered by the very elements of nature to make me strong in a milieu that oppresses, dictates, and abuses but I’ll rise – like a flower, I bloomed with light’s rays like a flower, I was groomed by years like a flower, I unfolded with grace like a flower, I am the living years but watch and see – I’ll be your treasure because of these years I see me with years - a cistern that absorb...

Paul Andrew Bourne, B.Sc. (Hons.); Dip. Edu. Caldwell (2001) encapsulates the monograph of Abdel Omran, a Co-coordinator for National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, in a succinct matter in an article titled ‘Population Health in Transition’. He chides Omran’s ‘epidemiologic transition’ as lacking in depth and limited in scope, but equally agrees that diseases may result in mortality and he also forego the explanation of an epidemiolo...

Paul Andrew Bourne, 2006 ABSTRACT From a religious perspective, the evolution of man is embodied in a natural construction of a God whose function it is to fashion all the physical entities. This process ceases with the explanation of the Supreme Being, a spirit, unfolding his/her artistry in science, technology and biology to create a universe of immense interconnectivity and socio-physical solidarity with man at its pinnacle. He/she molded a man from the ground, and then he/she m...

Paul Andrew Bourne, 2006 Department of Sociology The University of the West Indies, Mona Kingston, Jamaica: West Indies INTRODUCTION One scholar, writing in the early 1900s, argues that language is more than the phoneticians’, grammarians’ and etymologists’ tools of dialoguing and/or techniques of formal writing; it is the emergence of a society’s expressions and cultural history, which underpins the social and system integration of the people (Firth 1937). A...

Paul Andrew Bourne, 2006 INTRODUCTION I know that in writing the following pages I am divulging the great secret of my life, the secret which for some years I have guarded far more carefully than any of my earthly possession; and it is a curious study to me to analyze the motives which prompt me to do it. I feel that I am led by the same impulse which forces the unfound out criminal to take somebody into his confidence, although he knows that the act is likely, even almost ce...

Paul Andrew Bourne, 2006 INTRODUCTION I know that in writing the following pages I am divulging the great secret of my life, the secret which for some years I have guarded far more carefully than any of my earthly possession; and it is a curious study to me to analyze the motives which prompt me to do it. I feel that I am led by the same impulse which forces the unfound out criminal to take somebody into his confidence, although he knows that the act is likely, even almost certain...

The Tourism Product – Challenges, Contributions and Transformation By Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc. (pending); B.Sc. (Hons.); Dip. Edu. Introduction "The economic gap between rich and poor countries has widened over the past ten years. However, to create new industries and to transform rural life in Asian, African and the Caribbean and Latin America countries is a gigantic task. The relevance of tourism to this situation is that income from international travel can bring the foreign e...

MYTHS AND FACTS: THE LONG MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT INTRODUCTION Paul Bourne, M.Sc. (pending); BSc. (Hons.); Dip. Edu. Topology of typology - Jamaica Eastern Jamaica represents extremely steep and rugged topography with the crest of the Blue Mountain Range reaching 2254 m within about 10 km of the coast. Landscape in eastern Jamaica is geologically young (Quaternary). It is seismically most active part of the island and appears to be undergoing geotectonic uplift. Watersheds are...

By Paul Andrew Bourne Over the decades, the elitists among us have continued to "scuff" at Creole (Patois) as a language. This is because of its "mediocritic" origin and the social class associated with its usage. In order that finesse is brought to this discourse, a position must be provided on what constitutes a language. In addition, we must be able to comparatively analyze those factors in order to establish whether or not Creole is a language. We need to move this debate beyond social...

ALBERT EINSTEIN - WAS HE CORRECT . . . ? 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 mai...

Religiosity and Hiv/Aids Impact on well-being among the elderly: A Scientific model of the discourse By Paul Andrew Bourne Religiosity From theologians’ perspective, spirituality and religiosity are critical components in the lifespan of people. They believe that man (including woman) cannot be completely whole without religion. With this fundamental concept, theologians theorize that man cannot be happy, lowly depressed or feel comfortable without a balance of spirit and body (Wha...

By Paul Andrew Bourne Inflation is a monetary phenomenon Mishkin (2003, p.11). It is created by ‘more money chasing too few goods’. When goods and services are scarce in a particular locality, an increase in money supply will only fuel a higher valuation of those commodities. The reality is businesses and government are forced to pay higher costs increased products and so further cost increases are inevitable. This phenomenon affects the economy through a multiplier effect of pri...