My Personal Strengths and Weaknesses
My work experience has included working in a rental car buy back company. This role has included doing a wide range of tasks including answering phones, computer work, titles, mailing, managing export/import information…
Caribbean Crossroads of the World Art Pieces
. The current exhibition Caribbean: Crossroads of the World provides a complex view of the people of the Caribbean and, just as importantly, a view of these peoples as they have spread across the world in their own historic and cultural diaspora, taking with them their unique experiences and outlooks even as they became the A current art exhibit explores how Caribbeans remain a subject of fascination to other people who see the fertility of the islands in dual ways, both as the sexuality available of the women and the fertility of the land itself. Both of these views are a holdover from colonialism.
Gender Religion and Social Relations in the Mediterranean
This is a three page paper with analyses and summaries of the following articles, plus three questions each about each article: Marc Baer. "Islamic Conversion Narratives of Women: Social Change and Gendered Religious Hierarchy in Early Modern Ottoman Istanbul." Gender & History 16, no. 2 (2004): 425-458.
James Grehan. "Smoking and ‘Early Modern Sociability: The Great Tobacco Debate in the Ottoman Middle East." The American Historical Review 111, no. 5 (2006): 1352-1377.
Emma Loosley. Ladies who Lounge: Class, Religion, and Social Interaction in Seventeenth-Century Isfahan." Gender & History 23, no. 3 (2011): 615-629.
Allyson M. Poska. Babies on Board: Women, Children, and Imperial Policy in the Spanish Empire. Gender & History, Vol.22, no.2 August 2010, pp. 269–283.