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MP: Natalia D
Hello readers. My Name is Natalia Downer, a final year student at the University of the West Indies Mona, pursuing a degree in Writing, Literature and Publishing. I am taking the course LITS3604 in order to deepen my appreciation for the cohesiveness of individual minds, as well as to strengthen my own voice, gaining enough…
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My Introduction to the Digital Humanities. Review of “Laurie Taylor and Cultivating Caribbean Knowledge”.
Greetings Cyber Sapiens My name is Kandice Thompson. I am a Literatures in English major, Film Studies minor at the University of the West Indies. On this day, in the year of our Lord 2022 this course, Creative Non-Fiction and Digital Media, felt like a necessity for a humanities student. In this techno-social era, navigating…
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MP: Tracy-Ann G
My name is Tracy-Ann Guy, a final year English Literature major who has been able to explore the arts through education at the University of the West Indies and the Edna College of Visual and Performing Arts. Through this collaboration, offered through the Humanities department at the University of the West Indies, I have been…
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The Death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II – A loss for Feminism
We all knew it was going to happen. I even saw someone predict her death – the exact day, & time – you know how wild twitter is. The announcement didn’t blow me out of the water. It didn’t set me into chaos with thoughts of the changes to the monarchy or with thoughts of…
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Playing class prefect for the Queen
“I love the Queen,” Prime Minister Simpson Miller was quoted in the TIME newspaper, 2012. “She’s a beautiful lady…a wise lady and a wonderful lady. But I think time come.” Mandatory Credit: Photo by Collin Reid/AP/Shutterstock (9516361a) Jamaica’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller stands in front of a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II as she…
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Brainstorming Ideas: Mental health awareness among gen z creates more mental health issues in Jamaica
Young people are more in touch with their mental health than previous generations. However, it seems as if it is a popular trend to self-diagnose oneself with a mental issue. Most commonly, depression. Is it that being more open-minded or informed opens the door to mental health issues? Or is it safe to say being…
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Daddy Issues
Fatherhood in the realm of the rap game. written by Dominic Ramsay Unquestionably, when the year 2022 approaches its end, and yearly reviews and retrospectives on the media produced this year begin rolling in, Kendrick Lamar’s name will certainly be repeated by the tongues of every music critic worth their salt when speaking about Album…
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God finally killed the Queen
How is it that we are mourning a life that is created, centered, and built on colonialism? If anything, the death of the queen should be celebrated, a long, good life she had. Her mother lived over a hundred years and she was four years short of a century. A family who seems to have…
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God Bless the Queen…’Till Death Does She Part
By Natalia Downer I consider myself someone who is typically unaware. I feel that I know enough about things that directly concern me…and block out things that I either deem unnecessary or too uncomfortable to process. One such thing is the death of Queen Elizabeth the 2nd. The Queen was someone who, as a little…
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Queen Elizabeth II is dead.
Queen Elizabeth II died on the 8th of September 2022. She was laid to rest on the 19th of September of the said year. A quick funeral some would refer to it, as in the Jamaican culture but is it really quick. I observe that financial stability and affordability are two of the most profound…
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