By Paul Andrew Bourne I was named Paul Andrew Bourne by my parents Janet Green and Percival Bourne. The Victoria Jubilee Hospital, Downtown Kingston, is where I was born on December 5, 1968. Besides having lived with my mother, I was also raised by my stepfather, Alfred Beckford. Some people asked, "Can anything good come from the ghettos?" Despite that claim, I am the first of three children for my mother; and I was rai
In retrospect - Seaga: Wise or ignorant in his utterances By Paul Andrew Bourne The Most Honourable Edward George Phillip Seaga, leader of the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), has been battered, bruised and left for dead. Nevertheless, like a Phoenix, he is still searching for one last reign at the helm. However, despite the seemingly unwitting approaches that he has taken in the past, the letter to Bruce Golding, party
Debbieann Sealey and Paul Andrew Bourne M.Sc. (pending), B.Sc. (Hons.), Dip. Edu. 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
Paul Andrew Bourne, B.Sc. (Hons); Dip. Edu. Capitalist ideology is the main source of interpreting the socio-political world since the late fifteenth century. (Addo, 1985, p.20) This Eurocentric edifice is generally promulgated as the ontology of this social and physical universe. Europe has not governed the world since its inception but their philosophy is so similar to that of the Greek-imperialism, the Roman-supremacy and the Baby
Paul Andrew Bourne, B.Sc. (Hons); Dip. Edu. The World Health Organization (W.H.O) is to be lauded for its involvement in the advancement of women’s ‘rights’ in the context of reproductive choices, and its effort in the coinage of a conceptualization and an operationalization on the phenomenon that is important in social research. This organization coupled with the United Nations (U.N) has extensively researched numerous po
Paul Andrew Bourne, B.Sc. (Hons); Dip. Edu. Many developing countries continue to grapple with deficient economic resources, reprehensible government policies and a robust hegemonic class that maintain the exploitation of the laboured class. These societies have a social welfare system that does not ameliorate the wellbeing of the poor. With time, it is revealed that the demagogues are primarily concerned with self, associates and the
By Paul Andrew Bourne The life of many Jamaicans has been mesmerized by the quality of ‘local programming’ offered by CVM and TVJ television stations. The programmes aired by both media houses have offered nothing even to the dead. If the directors of programming at both institutions were half as witty like street boys, the level of artistry in local production would have created "Jamaica hood" appeal in movie consumption never
Paul Andrew Bourne In English for Academic Purposes, Lalla (1998, pp.175 – 200) posits that the most crucial aspect to essay writing is its introduction. She forwards the position that, a good introduction establishes a focus for the writing. The focus, she declares, is established through a thesis statement. To attain the focus throughout the composition, one needs a formal plan. This allows the writer, to structure his/her
By paul andrew bourne B.Sc. (Hons) Economics and Demography Human development has replaced the classical economists’ conceptualization of development much 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 con
Paul Andrew Bourne, B.Sc. (Hons); Dip. Edu. INTRODUCTION Contemporary societies hold particular social prejudices through their interpretations of the world, which unfold in their actions, policies and thesis. Many systems are designed against stated groups. Single mothers are oftentimes viewed as outcast, and if they are young – the label is ‘whore’. This group is marginalized by societies in comparison to t
Paul Andrew Bourne, B.Sc. (Hons); Dip. Edu. The hegemonic supremacy and categorization of the Jamaican landscape is primarily the justifiable reason for the plethora of sophisticated demonstrations in some zones and this is an indication of the social hemorrhaging of the masses. Many of those happenings are caused from the lack of monologue of the business constituents. The elitists have exponentially benefited from playing the proletariat
By Paul Andrew Bourne, B.Sc. (Hons) UWI Kirszner and Mandel (1998, pp.3-20) in an article titled Writing Essays, posit that writing goes through a series of interrelated processes: "planning", "shaping", "writing", "revising", "editing" and "proofreading" before there is a finality of thought. Without planning, the writing process is oftentimes a maze to which the writer has no end in sight. The prelude to any form of effective
Paul Andrew Bourne, BSc. (Hons) Demography and Economics Fair trade" or "Fairtrade" aims to guarantee not just fair prices, but also the principles of ethical purchasing. These principles include adherence to [International Labour Organization] ILO agreements such as those banning child and slave labour, guaranteeing a safe workplace and the right to unionise, adherence to the United Nations charter of human rights, a fair price that
AUTHOR: Mohammed TEXTBOOK: Contending with Destiny: The Caribbean in the 21st Century EDITOR: Professor Kenneth Hall and Denis Benn Paul Andrew Bourne, B.Sc. (Hons); Dip. Edu. INTRODUCTION Mohammed (2000) in "Contending with destiny: The Caribbean in the 21st Century" forwarded a viewpoint on the changing roles of women in Caribbean societies that exposed some of the socio-cultural biases
By Paul Andrew Bourne, MSc. (candidate), BSc. (Hons.) The government of Jamaica and by extension the ruling People’s National Party (PNP) through the Minister of Education, the Most Honourable Mrs. Maxine Henry-Wilson, recently took a principled and land marked position. They argued to allow all the current students (May 2004) of the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, to write their April/May 2004 examinations despite the can
By paul andrew bourne, M.Sc. (pending), B.Sc. (Hons), Dip. Edu. The department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work within the Faculty of Social Science at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, recent carried out a quantitative/qualitative study of adolescents. The research was to explore urban St. Catherine adolescents’ reproductive health practices and their survivability. A group of social researchers carried out thi
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By Paul Andrew Bourne INTRODUCTION The education system is a mode of psychosocial and cultural socialization for all societies (Haralambos and Holborn, 2000). It is through this medium that many children are exposed to the requirements of an organic society. Societies function on the basis of solidarity; the purpose through which the educational institutions is to fashion. Despite the primacy of the family in the s
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By Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc. (pending); B.Sc. (Hons); Dip.Edu. INTRODUCTION Many peoples throughout the world and in particular Jamaica conceptualize health and health care as the absence of physical pain or any such indicators, and therefore they address those symptoms. This is a simplistic perspective that some have on the subject but health is the absence of illness and the psychosocial well-being
By Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc. (pending); B.Sc. (Hons); Dip. Edu. William Edward Burghardt DuBois, to his admirers, was by spirited devotion and scholarly dedication, an attacker of injustice and a defender of freedom Gerald C. Hynes W.E.B. (William Edward Burghard
By Paul Andrew jBounre, M.Sc. (pending); B.Sc. (Hons); Dip. Edu. INTRODUCTION Political Sciences cannot be viewed in a vacuum from the other sub-disciplines within the social sciences as it is continuously interfacing with subjects like sociology. The branch of study in the social sciences that looks at socialization is sociology. As such, in order that a comprehensive evaluation of this topic be forwarded to reade
by Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc. (pending); B.Sc. (Hons); Dip. Edu. Introduction The doctrine of sociology emerged in the nineteenth century from the major discipline of philosophy; and it is primarily accredited to Auguste Comte. Despite Comte’s formulation of the terminology, sociology, and its basic tenets, the subject was also fashioned by Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim and Max Weber. Many academia and other pundits
By Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc. (pending); B.Sc. (Hons); Dip. Edu. Introduction Marx theory on economic socialism represents the bedrock upon which many postulations emerged including conflict and dialectics that are tenets of a social space in explaining the functioning of society. His thesis played a pivotal role in the formulation of the functioning of dialectic materialism in justifying consensus in capitalist society, and