Blooming with the pouis: critical thinking, reading and writing across the curriculum: a rhetorical reader for Caribbean tertiary students / Paulette A. Ramsay ... [et al.]

Influenced by the principles of writing across the curriculum, Blooming with the Pouis provides students with a range of readings selected to enhance the development of writing skills in all academic disciplines. Multidisciplinary in approach, the Reader presents selections from Caribbean literature, culture, geography, history, education, religion, economics, and the pure and applied sciences, which help students expand their vocabulary and improve their critical thinking skills. Concise, yet comprehensive, Blooming with the Pouis enforces the perception of reading as both an academic pursuit and means of engaging society. Using both classic and contemporary Caribbean writings, students are exposed to a full volume of expository and argumentative material. The Reader is divided into four sections: exposition, argument, mixed modes and additional readings. It contains excellent examples of discourse types as well as several exercises to improve students'analytical skills. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface ................................................................................................................ xiii Acknowledgements ............................................................................................. xv Introduction ....................................................................................................... xxi SECTION 1 EXPOSITION EDUCATION 1. 2. 3. Early West Indian Society and Education .................................................... 1 M.K. Bacchus A Brief Historical Sketch of Tertiary Education in the Commonwealth Caribbean ................................................................. 3 Errol Miller Geography in the Caribbean Classroom ....................................................... 6 David Barker GENDER & FAMILY LIFE 4. 5. 6. 7. The Impact of Family Structure on Children ............................................... 17 Maureen Samms-Vaughan Children Caught in the Crossfire.................................................................. 21 Maureen Samms-Vaughan Gender Division – The Sowing .................................................................... 25 Barry Chevannes Red Thread’s Feminism ................................................................................ 31 Linda Peake and D. Alissa Trotz MUSIC & CULTURE 8. All Hail, Nutmeg ......................................................................................... 41 Wendy-Ann Brissett 9. In Celebration of the Patty .......................................................................... 44 Barbara Gloudon 10. In Search of the Perfect Patty ....................................................................... 47 Alex D. Hawkes 11. African Feasts in Trinidad ............................................................................. 49 Maureen Warner Lewis 12. The Spirit of Garvey — Lessons of the Legacy ............................................. 57 Rex Nettleford 13. How the Captaincy Evolved ......................................................................... 62 Trevor McDonald 14. Introducing Bredda Anancy .......................................................................... 67 Louise Bennett 15. Honduras ..................................................................................................... 70 Rachel Sieder RELIGION, HISTORY & POLITICS 16. Atlas: Excerpted from A History of West Indian Cricket ..................................... 75 Michael Manley 17. Oil and the Twentieth Century Economy 1900–62 ....................................... 78 Bridget Brereton 18. Small Islands, Big Media: Challenges of Foreign Media in Covering the Caribbean............................... 83 Matthew Roberts 19. Costa Rica ................................................................................................... 89 Kathleen Royal and Franklin Perry SCIENCE & THE ENVIRONMENT 20. What to look for Under the Sea ................................................................... 95 Ralph Robinson 21. Flowers, not Flirting, Make Sexes Differ – Caribbean Hummingbirds .......... 98 Susan Milius 22. Coral Killing Dust ....................................................................................... 100 Sarah Simpson 23. Major Caribbean Earthquakes and Tsunamis: A Real Risk .............................. 103 Woods Hole 24. Environmental Guidelines for Housing in St Lucia ...................................... 107 Fillian N. Dujon 25. What You Should Talk to Patients with Hypertension About: A Special Focus on Nutrition ...................................................................... 112 Emily Rose 26. Parasitology ................................................................................................. 122 J.F. Lindo and T.S. Ferguson SECTION 2 ARGUMENT Introduction To Argument ................................................................................. 131 EDUCATION & SCIENCE 27. Computers in the Mathematics Classroom ................................................... 141 John Hayter and Mike Egan 28. Biotechnology – Relevance for Caribbean Agriculture ................................... 144 P.U. Umaharan 29. Inefficiency of the Educational System ......................................................... 146 Elsa Leo-Rhynie 30. The Right to Write ...................................................................................... 150 Paulette A. Ramsay FAMILY LIFE 31. Womb Rights .............................................................................................. 155 Clinton Chisholm 32. Outlook for the Future ................................................................................ 157 Elsa Leo-Rhynie 33. Are Caribbean Youth in Crisis? ..................................................................... 161 Oliver Mills HISTORY & POLITICS 34. Women in Caribbean Literature: The African Presence ................................ 167 Leota Lawrence 35. The Arawaks Arrived Before Columbus ........................................................ 176 Phillip Sherlock 36. White Women and Slavery in the Caribbean ................................................ 181 Hillary McD. Beckles 37. Livestock Farmers and Marginality in Jamaica’s Sugar-Plantation Society: A Tentative Analysis ...................................................................................... 188 Verene Shepherd 38. A Small Place ............................................................................................... 195 Jamaica Kincaid 39. The Plight of the Guyanese Migrant Worker ............................................... 200 Mark Brantley 40. Putting on the Dog ..................................................................................... 203 Morris Cargill 41. Shackled to the Past, Trapped in the Present ................................................. 206 Wendell Abel MUSIC & CULTURE 42. Caribbean Music and the Discourses on AIDS ............................................. 211 Curwen Best 43. A Review of Paulette Ramsay’s Aunt Jen ........................................................ 218 Curdella Forbes 44. On Reggae and Rastafariansim – And a Garvey Prophecy .............................. 222 Pamela O’Gorman 45. Dutty Wine ................................................................................................. 227 Stephen Vasciannie 46. Vile Vocals .................................................................................................... 229 Carolyn Cooper 47. Migration and Remittances: A Case Study of the Caribbean ......................... 232 Wendell Samuel SECTION 3 MIXED MODES 48. The Manifestation of Tawhid: the Muslim Heritage of the Maroons in Jamaica ........................................... 237 Sultana Afroz 49. Jamaica’s Muslim Past: Disconcerting Theories ............................................. 250 Maureen Warner-Lewis 50. The Meal is the Message — The Language of Brazilian Cuisine .................... 256 Roberto DaMatta 51. Trophy and Catastrophe .............................................................................. 260 Gordon Rohlehr 52. U-Roy the Originator .................................................................................. 267 Kevin O’Brien Chang and Wayne Chen 53. Emancipate Yourself from Mental Slavery ..................................................... 272 Rupert Lewis 54. The Sovereignty of the Imagination ............................................................. 280 George Lamming 55. The Legacy of Our Past ............................................................................... 283 Pauline Christie 56. Gender and Attitude to English ................................................................... 289 Beverly Bryan and Gwendolyn Shaw SECTION 4 PASSAGES FOR ADDITIONAL READING & ANALYSIS 57. Hens Can Crow Too: The Female Voice of Authority on Air in Jamaica ...... 297 Kathryn Shields-Brodber 58. ‘Soy una Feminista Negra’ – Shirley Campbell’s Feminist/Womanist Agenda ... 309 Paulette A. Ramsay 59. The Early Use of Steam Power in the Jamaican Sugar Industry, 1768-1810 ... 326 Veront Satchell 60. Trinidad’s Free Coloureds in Comparative Caribbean Perspectives ................ 333 Carl Campbell 61. Laryngeal Tuberculosis: Diagnosis and Prevention of Dissemination ............ 354 F.E. Ologe and S. Segun-Busari 62. Chronic Heart Failure .................................................................................. 358 Dharam Sawh 63. Jamaican Reggae and the Articulation of Social and Historical Consciousness in Musical Discourse .................................................................................... 362 Jorge L. Giovannetti Writing in the Digital Age — The Internet and Research .................................... 370 Glossary ............................................................................................................. 373 "Influenced by the principles of writing across the curriculum, Blooming with the Pouis provides students with a range of readings selected to enhance the development of writing skills in all academic disciplines. Multidisciplinary in approach, the Reader presents selections from Caribbean literature, culture, geography, history, education, religion, economics, and the pure and applied sciences, which help students expand their vocabulary and improve their critical thinking skills. Concise, yet comprehensive, Blooming with the Pouis enforces the perception of reading as both an academic pursuit and means of engaging society. Using both classic and contemporary Caribbean writings, students are exposed to a full volume of expository and argumentative material.The Reader is divided into four sections: exposition, argument, mixed modes and additional readings. It contains excellent examples of discourse types as well as several exercises to improve students' analytical skills."-- Provided by publisher Influenced by the principles of writing across the curriculum, Blooming with the Pouis provides students with a range of readings selected to enhance the development of writing skills in all academic disciplines. Mutlidisciplinary in approach, the Reader represents selections from Caribbean literature, culture, geography, history, education, religion, economics, and the pure and applied sciences, which will help students expand their vocabulary and improve their critical thinking skills. Concise, yet comprehensive, Blooming with the Pouis enforces the perception of reading as both an academic pursuit and a means of engaging society. Using both classic and contemporary writings, students are exposed to a full volume of expository and argumentative material. The Reader is divided into four exposition; argument, mixed modes and additional reading. It contains excellent examples of discourse types as well as several exercises to improve students analytical skills.