The Tale Of The Ambigeous Island
The topic that I will be talking about today is very interesting to me because of how diverse this small island is and how you would only see such large diversity in large countries. In the Saba island due to the islnd being traded several times from nation to nation in their past, Their culture is very ambigeous so when it came to the traditions of the culture they were divded spiritually. As GGC Carribean states " The mixture of tradition is reflected in the way the people embrace their spirituality as a part of their cultural identity". The religions that were dominant were Roman Catholicism, Angelican, Jehovah's Witness, and the Seventh Day adventist. All these Religions has different practices with caused the diveristy in culture. This also added more diveristy because the Now Dutch Island had few people practice Dutch traditions because almost everyone else celebrated aother traditon from the island the came from. However one tradition that was prominant in Saba island is the sea activites. These traditions kept up by the Europen settlers are done by everyone because this represents the fishing that was done by the native people of the Saba islands as it was the way they survived. On the island Dutch is the officil language but since the 19th century english and spanish is the language that is mainly used. As stated in the article by World Wide Travel " Dutch is the official language. Papiamento( a mixture of pourtagese, African, Spanish, Dutch, and English) is the commonly used lingua franca. English and Spanish are also widely spoken". See because of the highly prominent diversity in the island there are many different languages that are spoken but only a few are dominent. Another interesting topic I wanted to shed light on was that Saba island took part in the slave trade. Where they traded sugar and agricultural products. As stated by IExplore.com " The island took part in the slave trade, although in comparison to other carribean islands, only a small scale. Saba traded in sugar and other reginal products, but the miniscale size of the island meant that trade wasn't a massive influence". Although this did not last long it did attract alot of foreign traffic From English, Scottish, and Irish decent. This could have had an impact of the culture what ethnicities deceded to settle there.
The diversity of this Island is on of the islands biggest assets. It is what made the island, from the numerous amount of settlers that settled there to the present day cultures and traditons that reside there. It has not caused any conflicts. Even when the island was being traded from nation to nation there was no wars or any type of political fight that would cause tentions.
"The Tale of The Ambigeous Island" is a blog post written by classmate G. Maddox dealing with various facets of Saba island which he finds interesting enough to write his final paper about. The first issue I will address is that the work is rife with misspellings and grammatical errors. The most readily identified error is in the title itself: the word 'Ambiguous' is misspelt and remains that way throughout the work. Further grammatical errors, such as "In the Saba island due to the islnd being traded..." (Due to the island being traded, Saba...), and "...in their past, Their culture..." (...in their past, their culture), and "All these Religions has different practices..." (All these religions have different practices...). These are just three examples. As nearly every sentence has some sort of error, it would be impossible to correct each within the span of this assessment.
ReplyDeleteMechanically, the work tends to ramble without a clear sense of cohesion to tie together thoughts, as the author jumps straight from one idea to the next without leading statements. The author mentions 'GGC Caribbean', which I believe might refer to the Virtual Caribbean Library (VCL) but I can't be 100% sure of that since the author did not include any links or reference data. The author mentions iExplore, and then quotes two sentences (though typed manually instead of copied and pasted due to the two typos within the quotation) but once again does not include any links or other reference material.
The work is also presented as a block of text with two small images located at the bottom of the post. One image is left justified and the other is right justified. Both images are of the flag of Saba, which does not necessarily tie into the bulk of the author's post. If I were looking for information on the Island of Saba, and I navigated to this blog post, I would back out to my search engine and try again. This post needs a full re-work in order to increase readability.
I will note that the topics which the author finds interesting are factually accurate and appear to be drawn for legitimate sources, however with the many syntax, spelling, and grammar issues a casual reader might find themselves hard-pressed to take the author's statements at face value. I am sure that the author can produce a higher quality product and hope to see it from him with the next blog post assignment.
Hello Gustavious, your blog is very informative and it is clear that you put in a lot of effort into your research! I admire that you have included plenty of information about the island. I see that you have provided a lot of information regarding the religions, traditions, languages, the successful industries, etc. I like your choice on the images to correlate with your content. In addition to that, I would like to mention that you may want to cite your sources in MLA format, which was explicitly stated in the rubric. We were also advised to break up our information into smaller paragraphs. Therefore, the reader is less likely to loose interest while reading through the blog. Overall, you did a great job!
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