Tag: Colonization

Identify at least three challenges that Caribbean women face as evidenced in the stories you have read. Cite at least two stories for each challenge. Discuss the ways women cope and succeed as evidenced in the stories you select.

Write a critical/analytical essay discussing the challenges women face in the English-speaking Caribbean and their ways of coping and surviving as evidenced in the stories assigned for this class. Do not include references to Annie John or Crick Crack Monkey.

Nunez, Elizabeth and Jennifer Sparrow. Stories from Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers
at Home and Abroad. Seal/Avalon, 2006. 10: 1-58005-139-1. This is an anthology and contains stories by all the writers to be discussed.

Make a plan and Identify at least three challenges that Caribbean women face as evidenced in the stories you have read. Cite at least two stories for each challenge. Discuss the ways women cope and succeed as evidenced in the stories you select.

1. Class and color discrimination: Senior, Marshall, Nourbese Philip, Edgell, Hopkinson.

2. Gender discrimination: McWatt, Hemans, Brand

3. Limited economic options for women in the Caribbean: Leach, Brand, Powell

4. Police corruption and violence against women: Mordecai, Cezair-Thompson

5. Alienation experienced by white Caribbean women: Rhys, Cliff

6. Struggles for educational opportunities for female children: Collins, Pollard, Hemans, Cliff

7. The consequences of emigration ( leaving the Caribbean): Levy and Marshall

8. Coping with the social, psychological, economic effects of the history of slavery and colonization: Melville, Hopkinson

must included in text citations from book.

Describe the origins of at least three English Colonies and place them in the context of the English monarchy. How did the rulers and rules of England help create the different colonies that you describe?

Colonization

Describe the origins of at least three English Colonies and place them in the context of the English monarchy. How did the rulers and rules of England help create the different colonies that you describe?

From 1781 to 1789 the new states were organized under the Articles of Confederation.

Explain the strengths and weaknesses of the Articles and then detail some of the events and problems that led political leaders to organize a Constitutional Convention.