By Paul Andrew Bourne, MSc. (candidate); BSc. (Hons.) Economics and Demography Some Jamaicans habitually use the above quotation in a pejorative manner about deported individuals. This ideographic has seemingly crept into the psyche of the average person so much so that many peoples are promoting their individualized positions on the issue as ontology. Therefore, when Professor Headley’s findings on the “politics of deportees” were published on September 27, 2004, that there is no corr...
By Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc. (pending); B.Sc. (Hons.); Dip. Edu. According to Mead (1934), “language is the means whereby individuals can indicate to one another what their responses to objects will be, and hence what the meanings of objects are . . .” Within Mead’s perspective lies the essence of writing at graduate level: it is a process that is succinct, precise, logical and objective. Language, therefore, must convey its intended meanings. Embedded within language, at this level, is...
According to the passage, ‘Writing to Communicate’ effectively is governed by techniques that are oftentimes seen in ‘effective writing’ for which strategies can be given to readers that will facilitate them understanding the intent of writers (Ormrod, 1999). There are ten (10) such strategies. The use of ‘appropriate’ linguistic structure is a prerequisite strategy that aids in the process of communicating the intended message. The other examples here are precision of thoughts, which relate...
By Paul Andrew Bourne, MSc. (candidate), BSc. (Hons.) The PNP administration and the governing policymakers are eagerly promoting “performance pay for teachers.” This is rightfully so in an economy with dwindling resources and low productivity. In a global context of high-end competition, the missing element to date in the discourse is “what about those at the helm of the society?” In this nation, many people continue to advocate the fundamental issues of productivity pay incentive sc...
By Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc. (pending);B.Sc. (Hons), UWI; Dip. Edu. 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 is concrete fact. Was I naïve? As this concept is the furthest from the established academic theorizing. The mother of all theorizing on human democracy hoisted a democratically elected leader some time ...
By Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc. (pending); B.Sc. (Hons.); Dip. Edu. “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 Webster’s sociological perspective clearly shows that the disadvantaged within our societies are continuously confronted with the situation of having to meet the risi...
Introduction Since the time of Aristotle and the period of the enlightenment, researchers have used slumber to explain aspects of human behaviour. Chief among them is the issue of performance. The primary significance of this concept is to demonstrate the differences in academic performance of people through the vantage point of their sleeping habits. According to Dutch physician Herman Boerhavve, “sleep occurs because the fluid or ‘liquor’, in the brain cannot move freely as it is gradua...
Introduction Since the time of Aristotle and the period of the enlightenment, researchers have used slumber to explain aspects of human behaviour. Chief among them is the issue of performance. The primary significance of this concept is to demonstrate the differences in academic performance of people through the vantage point of their sleeping habits. According to Dutch physician Herman Boerhavve, “sleep occurs because the fluid or ‘liquor’, in the brain cannot move free...
Introduction/Background In Jamaica, the HIV/AIDS pandemic has unleashed its supremacy over the general populace. This virus is single-handedly annihilating the productive sector, and it is equally removing from the landscape of this society its future human resources. Despite the many social marketing campaign that are aired on local media, the issue of HIV/AIDS catastrophic consequences has seemingly not reached the social consciousness of the average person. This paper seeks to...
The issues of trade and the gains thereof are of immense significance to economists, sociologists, political scientists and non-academic alike. Trade directly and profoundly impacts on peoples’ welfare. As such, many proponents in favour of international trade wholesale and blindly ascribe to free trade as they see the gains from trade and the benefits there from as the saviour of participation countries. Many of them do this without critically analyzing the disbenefits of trade o...
Debbieann Sealey and Paul Andrew Bourne M.Sc. (pending), B.Sc. (Hons.), Dip. Edu. Introduction From the beginning of history dating back to Aristotle, researchers have used slumber to explain certain aspects of human behaviour. Chief among them is the issue of performance. The primary significance of this concept is to demonstrate the differences of academic performance of people through the perspective of their sleeping habits. According to Dutch physician Herman Boerhavve, “s...
A historical comparative perspective of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and its impact on the Jamaican adolescents. By Jamar Davis and Paul Bourne B.Sc. (Hons.), Dip. Edu Introduction/Background In Jamaica, the HIV/AIDS pandemic has unleashed its influence over the general populace. This happening has eliminated many peoples of the productive sectors. Despite the many social marketing campaign that have been aired on local media, the issue of HIV/AIDS has seemingly not reached t...
By Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc. (pending), B.Sc. (Hons), Dip. Edu. INTRODUCTION Development today has taken on a new sphere in that in earlier time, it were viewed as an economic situation but today, academic development has taken on a much stronger view concerning social research. In the early 1980s, there was a marked difference between social research and theories according to Booth (1994). He saw where critical world issues were not being dealt with and was leaving “skeptics” to wo...
By paul andrew bourne B.Sc. (Hons) Economics and Demography Human development has replaced the classical economists’ conceptualization of development such so that modern economists refer to this construct as including social, political and economic development. Bourne (2004) in a paper titled Development: beyond an economic perspective wrote that: Karl Marx’s theorizing on economic development was interpreted within the construct of ‘economic interpretation of history’ and ‘the motiva...
Human development has replaced the classical economists’ conceptualization of development such so that modern economists refer to this construct as including social, political and economic development. With this change in ideography, peoples’ welfare is a vital component in the new thrust. Now that welfare is measure beyond the capitalism perspective of costing, the issue of sustainable development is now a focal point of development discourse. At the heart of those discourses, lay the peo...