Career Development: Critique, Story Come to Bump!

Critique, Story Come to Bump! by Denise N. Fyffe Title: Story come to bump! Authors: Peter Espeut Source: The Daily Gleaner, July 5, 2006   ‘Story come to bump’, is an enlightening article written in the prestigious Daily Gleaner, on July 5, 2006 by Peter Espeut. He is a sociologist and executive director of an environment…

Education and Training: How Education and Gender Impact Work – Part 3

Education The community needs individuals to perform a wide array of crucial functions if it is to prosper but if a community elects to reward only a small number of those functions, say, entrepreneurial success, then a condemnation of that society ensues. As a neo-Darwinian, John Dewey believed the key to survival is diversity not…

Developmental Psychology: Examining the Designs to Study Development, in Psychology

Examining the Designs to Study Development, in Psychology by Denise N. Fyffe   Developmental Psychology is the study of physical, perceptual, cognitive, and psychosocial changes that take place across the life span (Sdorow, 1993). It can also be looked at as the changes that take place throughout a person’s entire life span. These changes may…

Education and Training: How Education and Gender Impact Work – Part 2

The History of Work Since Philosophy is the art, which teaches us how to live, those who are most successful in the state are those who have the most interest in prolonging the state as it is and according to (Fowles, 1964, The Aristos) they are also those who have the most say in the…

Education and Training: How Education and Gender Impact Work – Part 1

Introduction "Philosophy is a field of study in which people question and create theories about the nature of reality. It includes diverse subfields such as aesthetics, epistemology, ontology, ethics, logic, metaphysics, and law. Philosophers concern themselves with such fundamental and mysterious topics as whether or not God(s) exist, what is the nature of being and…

Career Development: Examining Environmental Problems of the Kingston Harbour

Career Development: Examining Environmental Problems of the Kingston Harbour by Denise N. Fyffe   Kingston Harbour has played a significant role in the history of all the groups that have lived on the surrounding land. The waters of the Harbour have provided to a wide variety of people ranging from the Tainos, the Spanish and…

Education: Examining Primary to Tertiary Education in Jamaica

Jamaica is regarded around the world for its rich culture – especially its music, white sand beaches, friendly and highly educated people. The visitors that traverse its shores bring in millions of dollars making it a popular Caribbean destination. Examining Primary to Tertiary Education in Jamaica Being the third largest, English-speaking Caribbean country, it is…

Jamaican Poetry: Jamaican Parent and Child

By: Denise N. Fyffe. Copyright © 2012, Poetess Defy, Denise N. Fyffe Me as a woman so strong and divine, Will tek care of my picknie, with love and time Me as a woman bold and free, I am ashamed, I don’t want my picknie doing manual work, Like me. Tough love I know, tough…

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

The free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wings in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky. But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage his wings are clipped and his…

Career Development: Article Critique of Your Personal Development Plan

Article Critique of Your Personal Development Plan by Denise N. Fyffe   Article: Practical career tip – Your personal development plan Author: Roselyne Raelly Source: Jamaica Observer Our personal and career development is not an overnight achievement. It is a process that should expand over the period of our lives. As we grow and develop,…