Trinidad and Tobago

At this point in the game I am about half way done with my research. My main focus is Calypso music and how it evolved. While Calypso music was evolving it gave birth to two new forms of music, known as Soca and Rapso. I am also researching those two types of music and how they evolved from Calypso and are different from each other. Throughout my research process I have gone through some struggles. At first My original plan was to research the differences in Soca and Calypso. But after further research I have found out the Soca came from Calypso and Rapso along with it. So I changed my topic to how both of those styles of music evolved from Calypso and the differences. Another challenge that I have run into was the lack of information I have found about Rapso music. I have gone through website after website, searching different things trying to get new information and I haven't had much luck. I am still working through that and trying to find any little bit of information tha

        The short story "Little Cog-burt" by Phyllis Shand Allfrey and the short story "Cotton Candy" by Dora Alonso have a lot of similarities and differences. In terms of these two short stories the similarities and differences are all over the place, but they mostly lie in the authors, main characters, and main idea of the stories.         Allfrey the author of "Little Cog-burt" was born in the Dominica in 1908. Allfrey has been into writing most of her life. She was the editor of the Dominica Herald until 1965. Then she began publication for a paper called The Star for local well educated writers. Allfrey past away in 1986. Alonso on the other hand was born in Cuba in 1910. She has also been into writing her whole life, starting with being an important role in many Latin American journals. Alonso has won awards for most of the work that she has done over the years. Most of Alonso's stories written before 1959 were written for marginalized chara

                      In the short funeral tale from Guadeloupe,  “ Tetiyette and the Devil ”  is a story of a woman with one child, who is very hard to please. In this love story gone bad, the girl made the wrong choices of picking external beauty over internal and had to deal with the consequences in the long run.  As this author writes this short story I believe she is trying to reach young people. While reaching young people she is trying to get across the point of not picking external beauty over internal. Tetiyette found out that this is very important in her short-lived love story. She picked a handsome fella instead of the ones with the good heart. She was warned by her parents for the beginning. When she ended up getting hurt by the handsome fella her parents didn ’ t even care at that point because they had already warned her. The reason I say this is because when the devil was eating her the father said,  “ Agh! I don ’ t give a damn! I had already warned her to bewa

        Christopher Columbus reached Trinidad on his third voyage in 1498. He was greeted by Arawakan speaking tribal groups. Trinidad and Tobago form the two southernmost links in the Caribbean chain. Port of Spain being the capital, located on the northwestern coast of Trinidad. To the north of Trinidad and Tobago is Grenada and to the northeast is Barbados. Trinidad  obviously being the larger of the two main islands covers about 1,850 miles. While Tobago being the smaller of the two covers about 115 square miles.         Trinidad and Tobago obtained independence from the United Kingdom in 1962. It them became a republic a few short years after that in 1976.          As to be expected the temperature in Trinidad and Tobago is very tropical with a lot of humidity. April and May being the warmest months, with the high of 90 degrees Fahrenheit. January and Feburary are the months with the coldest weather, where it gets down to about 68 degrees Fahrenheit. Although the temperature

Hi! My name is Abbey Lester and I am nineteen years old. I graduated from Archer High School in 2017. I decided to further my education at Georgia Gwinnett College, where I am a sophmore. I am currently an early childhood education major.