UWI Project 1


  • Own Voices: A Conversation with Gibrey Allen

    By Kandice Thompson Gibrey Allen is the director of the 2020 film Right Near the Beach which examines Jamaica’s cultural approach to sexuality and grief. The film follows Miles after the loss of his son Jeff to a brutal hate crime. Allen also plays the Miles’ son Mike who returns to Jamaica for his brother’s…

  • Cyber Violence: Vocal and Keyboard Warriors Behind the Screen

    The article “GLITCH RACISM: NETWORKS AS ACTORS WITHIN VERNACULAR INTERNET THEORY,” written by adelinekoh critiques the reasons behind the increase of online racist and sexist activity among the video game community. In the article, Gabriella Coleman, states in her 2013 Association of Internet Researchers keynote address that “Anonymous is depicted by the popular press as…

  • Artificial and the active Intelligence

    “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change” Einstein. He believed that once a human is intelligent he or she must be able to introduce change and adapt to the change given. In 1956, three Logic theorists: Allen Newell, Cliff Shaw, and Herbert Simon invented a program to mimic problem-solving skills which was the…

  • MP: Felecia A.

    Here is padcast that was created to inform you My name is Felecia Ashman. I am a finalizing student at the University of the West Indies. My favourite part of my degree is the Literature element of it. I absolutely love education and I have the passion to inform. “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and…

  • The growth of Writing through Globalization

    Fiction and non fiction writings have evolved to the modern virtue of marketing one’s work through social media platforms. I do not believe I’m the only person who measures and compares fiction as oppose to non-fiction. The art of writing whether creative or real lives scenario is an intriguing phenomenon of expressing the brain (mind).…

  • MP Khaylia B.

    Hello dear beautiful reader! I am Khaylia Brown, a little church girl that resides in the ‘country’. I’m a university student whose major is plant biology and a minor in creative writing. I am an active reader and prasie dancer, and poetry is my new found talent. This course is a stepping stone to receiving…