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Students read and then identify literary elements in The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, describing characters, setting, and plot. They write original Island Adventure narrative pieces including detailed descriptions of people, places, and things. Afterward, they construct island adventure environments to illustrate the settings of their narrative pieces.
Students explore the location of the campsite of fictional character Robinson Crusoe. In this ESL instructional activity, students read an article that discusses the whereabouts of Robinson Crusoe's campsite, then have a class discussion on the article. Several activities follow the class discussion, including drawing a map, completing a vocabulary assignment and taking a quiz.
Fourth graders read and analyze Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, and participate in problem solving activity similar to television show, Survivor. Eight lessons on one page.
Students discover literary classics by reading Robinson Crusoe. For this language arts lesson, students investigate the writing techniques that make Robinson Crusoe a classic piece of literature. Students complete a creative writing worksheet and based on story elements from the novel.
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
In this online interactive literature worksheet, learners respond to 8 short answer and essay questions about Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Students may check some of their answers online.
Who was Robinson Crusoe? Kids love learning about his interesting story. First, read the simple paragraphs with your learners, and have them answer the six questions provided. There's also space for your learners to record items Crusoe had on the ship, and there's a chart for them to record verbs used in the present tense. Two other short activities, focusing on retelling, close this lesson. Some of the text is written awkwardly.
For this literature worksheet, students respond to 15 short answer and essay questions about Robinson Crusoe. Students may also link to an online interactive quiz on the novel at the bottom of the page.
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 12 multiple choice questions based on Robinson Crusoe. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
Students participate in a simulation of life on a deserted island. They work with their group to develop an island survival plan and summarize it in a journal. Students use a worksheet and challenge cards to earn points. They will be challenged to use their critical thinking skills and knowledge of islands to "survive" and return to safety.
In this online interactive reading comprehension learning exercise, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Keyes's Flowers for Algernon. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
Learners facilitate each student's comprehension of the different jobs on a ship and the job's evolutions over time. They compare/contrast certain jobs on a ship from history to today. Students work together in cooperative groups to present their combined learnings from this activity.
Dive your class into a reading of Island of the Blue Dolphins with this in-depth study guide. Breaking the novel into three parts, the resource begins each section with a focus activity that identifies a specific theme or question to be addressed in the reading. Learners are then provided with background information, key vocabulary, and a graphic organizer to use while taking notes, before answering a series of five comprehension questions. Each of the three sections concludes with extension ideas for writing and discussing key concepts from the book. Also included are reading guides for five additional pieces of writing that encourage young scholars to expand their learning and make connections between multiple texts. A thorough resource that supports students in reading and understanding this award-winning novel.
Students examine the many changes in the Tarzan character from Edgar Rice Burroughs' first novel to Disney's newest movie version to explain how student movies are often used to mirror and promote cultural attitudes and beliefs.
In this finding the area of the letters in HELP! worksheet, students use the 1/4 inch represents 5 feet scale to find the area of each letter, each letter plus the exclamation point, the total area, and the white space. Students solve five problems.
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Fourth graders demonstrate and evaluate the six traits of writing. They read and identify good writing and bad writing, utilize a rubric to self-evaluate their own writing, participate in a Reader's Theater, and publish a class book.
Understanding different cultural experiences is a challenging and worthwhile objective throughout grade and content levels. This lesson facilitates an appreciation of rural Mongolian life through a simulation of being a nomadic teen as well as other activities. The resource includes suggested partner readings of books like Hatchet and Island of the Blue Dolphins. It also provides extension activities.
Students discover the people of Mongolia. In this social studies lesson, students look at the Mongolian nomadic culture by reading a letter written by a member of the Peace Corps. They describe the different types of communities found in Mongolia and compare them to the United States.
Students participate in a simulation of life on a deserted island. They apply their critical thinking skills and knowledge of oceans and islands to "survive" and ultimately return to safety. Lesson contains adaptations for all levels.


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As concerned New Yorkers and taxpayers,
As caring advocates for animals and a better New York,
As members of rescue groups and animal welfare organizations,
As former New Yorkers, and visitors to your city,
We are appalled by the on-going horrific conditions, and lack of accountability to the public for those conditions, by the Center for Animal Care and Control (CACC). The recently released Comptrollers Report covering the period from January 1, 1999 to June 30, 2001, gives further clear evidence of the failure of the CACC to fulfill its contract and mandate. We therefore urge you, Mayor Bloomberg and the City Council, to begin at once a process leading to positive change and comprehensive reform.
The Center for Animal Care and Control, which has a contract with The
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City, was set up as a not-for-profit, quasi city agency by the former mayor in 1995, when the ASPCA gave up its long standing contract with the city. The CACC is considered by many animal advocacy groups and experts to be an abysmal failure and has been the focus of City Council Hearings and countless media reports. In light of staggeringly high euthanasia numbers--over 43,000 in 2001 alone-- and concomitant low adoption numbers - less than 6,000 direct adoptions-- in the same period, the CACCs performance has been egregious. It is clearly time for a change and the time is NOW!
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EUTHANASIA RATES: euthanasia, rather than innovative programs, prevails as the overriding solution to strays and overpopulation at the CACC. Since its inception in 1995, euthanasia numbers at the CACC have remained unacceptably high and virtually unchanged, while adoption numbers have remained stagnant and inexcusably low; statistics indicate that 76.7\% of animals taken in during 2001 were killed, up from 67.7\% in 2000, a hideous number to deal with in a so-called civilized society.
LACK OF INNOVATIVE ADOPTION PROGRAMS: direct CACC adoptions for 2001 represent only 10\% of intake. The public is forced to deal with a burdensome application process, poor screening and unanswered requests for information; there are no off-site or mobile adoption programs; there has been little or no effort to use media, billboards, or special events to increase adoptions.
NO VISIBLE OUTREACH PROGRAMS: there has been little or no effort to involve communities, organizations and the public at large in "Spay/Neuter", "Adopt Don't Buy" etc. programs, all essential to ultimately reducing kill numbers. Most of the general public is, in fact, totally unaware of the existence of the CACC.
NO EFFECTIVE PUBLIC EDUCATION or HUMANE EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN SCHOOLS, as mandated by law: with animal abuse and violence among children at epidemic levels, the very absence of such programs is reprehensible and represents a great disservice to the community.
NO SUBSTANTIVE VOLUNTEER PROGRAM: many volunteers and groups have been discouraged from participating or have left out of frustration and despair.
PROHIBITIVE ADOPTION FEES, DROP-OFF FEES AND FEES TO RESCUERS, make it increasingly more difficult to save animals. Fund-raising efforts by the CACC are minimal or insignificant. The recent increase in fees to the general public and rescue groups, is further evidence of an agency that is totally bankrupt, in every sense of the word.
PERSISTENT CACC VIOLATIONS OF CONTRACT WITH THE CITY: no shelter facilities or services are provided in the Bronx or Queens, two boroughs with very high numbers of abandoned animals, in spite of and in direct violation of local law passed in 2000.
NO PUBLIC INPUT OR ACCOUNTABILITY TO TAXPAYERS: the public is burdened by an unresponsive Board of Directors and staff, basically lacking in interest, ideas and shelter management expertise, but most of all, by the absence of an experienced and innovative Executive Director. This lack of outstanding leadership and support prevents our city from having a truly effective and exemplary shelter system.
New York needs:
a new organizational and Board structure, free of disinterested
political appointees, which includes members of animal advocacy
a new Executive Director, an advocate for animals with successful shelter or related experience, who can dialogue effectively with the animal advocacy and rescue communities and develop a plan to reduce kill numbers, increase adoptions and provide humane care for animals.
Progressive shelter and animal management programs exist in other cities. It is past time for New York City to give up its substandard conditions for homeless animals and look to successful shelter systems such as those in San Francisco and Maricopa County, AZ as role models. Animals in New York City shelters deserve more! New York taxpayers deserve nothing less!
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Updated 10:05am Monday 18th February 2013 in News By James Wilson, News Editor
A WARNING has been issued by police after it was reported that distraction thieves were operating around Knutsford's cash machines.
Police in Knutsford and Wilmslow are urging the public to think before they punch their pin number into a cash machine following two distraction incidents on Wednesday, February 6.
Sgt Andy Miller, from Knutsford Police station, told the Guardian he was urging residents to be on their guard.
"We're urging the public to be vigilant following an attempted distraction theft at an ATM in Knutsford where a woman was watched using the machine in Canute Square at around 10.40am.
"A man and woman, described as Eastern European, then tried to get her to open her bag saying she had dropped some money.
"This happened again in Grove Street in Wilmslow at around 1.19pm, but this time the thieves were successful and managed to distract her by pretending to help her look for the money. They then stole her debit card out of her hand.
"In such incidents someone will have been watching over the victim's shoulder as they typed in their pin number."
To make life difficult for these distraction thieves, residents are urged to check no one is watching when they punch their pin into an ATM or chip and pin device and always attempt to conceal the number.
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Unless the policymakers take a sincere action to this problem, economic depressions seems to be an everlasting challenge to the world.
Economic downturns and deficit are sometimes political games for the politicians. Global imbalances of this sort are not only disturbing for the country but for a whole nation which has extends with economic and social impact to other countries in this industrialized world since no one nation can stand alone. The world has been deeply integrated and countries are more dependent on one another than ever before.
United States deficit is topping its borrowing limit. Borrowing has become a tradition for years. New money has been being printed to solve the economic problems although new printed money can resolve the problem for a short term, while on the long run it just worsen the total situation since new printed money devalues the currency.
Policymakers often fail to address this problem properly. Bail outs were offered not only to banks but to countries, yet they seem to fail since a great depress has been traditional to appear once or twice in a decade. Unless the policymakers take a sincere action to this problem, economic depressions seems to be an everlasting challenge to the world.
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A project fifteen years in the making just got the final boost needed as the Roanoke Valley Greenway Commission handed the city a four-hundred-thousand dollar check.
It's something Liz Belcher, the Roanoke Valley Greenway Commission Coordinator has poured her heart into making happen.
"Certainly we are passionate about getting it done," Belcher said.
The greenway project aims to build a network of scenic walking paths through the Roanoke Valley.
To date, 26 miles of Greenways with bicycle and walking trails have been built in this valley.
A trail that's bringing in more green to the city, and to businesses owners cash registers.
Richard Mardian, the owner of Hits Frozen Treats is scooping up every opportunity he can. He even remodeled his ice cream just to accommodate people on the greenway.
A move that Mardian says more than paid off.
"Well a big share of our business Friday, Saturday and Sunday we had people from not only Roanoke, but the United States, and even this weekend four foreign countries."
Roanoke City council member Ray Ferris says the greenway is an economic driver and major tourist attraction with a two-fold benefit.
"The greenway is one of the first things that draws them here and it draws their attention. Secondly for the folks who are already here looking for more outdoor sports might not have the time to drive up to hike the Appalachian mountains, but you can certainly jump on the greenway in many places and get some exercise," Ferris said.
A success where the proof is in the numbers. Numbers that Belcher says grows by the day.
"You have to go down and see all of the people on the greenway and when you do , you know that this is great and the community loves it."
A success she says has made 15 years worth of fundraising well worth the effort.
For updates on building progress visit Roanoke Valley Greenway Commission's website.
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By Stephanie Springer - bio | email ALBANY, GA (WALB) – Christmas came a little early for almost 100 students at Albany's Turner Elementary School. Commissioner Jack Stone bought the belts for students in need at the school. He delivered them to some excited children Monday.
Many students said they've never owned a belt before, but you could tell by their reactions all 88 boys were more than grateful for the gift. Commissioner Stone says he hopes this helps a younger generation realize the importance of keeping one's pants up at an early age.
He may not look much like Santa Claus, but Stone helped nearly 100 elementary school students celebrate Christmas a little early.
"I'm happy they gave me a belt," said student Terrance Boyd.
"For some of them, it may be the only thing they get for a while. It makes me feel good about them getting their needs met," said Stone.
Assistant Principal Carrie Kirkland estimates 35 to 40 percent of the students at her school do not have belts. "On duty in the morning I see children walking up with their hands on their pants holding them up because the pants are too big for them."
We asked one boy if he had any belts. "No..." he said.
So what happens to the pants? "They be falling!"
But for many of these children, it's not because they don't want to wear a belt, it's because they've never had one. "Tears came to my eyes a while ago," said Stone. "A lot of these kids never had a belt. A lot of these kids came here today without belts."
Marcellious Jenkins says this is the first belt he's ever owned. Without the belt he got at school, he would not have any belts at home. He's only 6 years old, but Jenkins already understands the importance of keeping his pants up. "I should put my belt on because they might fall on the ground."
Last week the city passed an indecency ordinance, and commissioner Stone, who says he has been concerned with saggy pants for a long time now, hopes this will teach students at a young age the importance of keeping their pants pulled up.
"This may be one of the main problems we have now with the grown people with the pants hanging down, maybe they didn't have a belt, and maybe that's driven them to where they are," Stone said.
300 students told teachers they did not have belts, and a little more than 100 were put on the list.
The assistant principal says they took care of the boys first because they always wear pants but they also have plenty girls who would benefit from a belt as well.
Commissioner Stone says he plans to deliver more belts to students in need in the future.
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One councillor is asking for the resignation of another after a heated argument took place at Monday night's open council meeting.
The exchange occurred between Couns. Jeff Jewell and Dave Hensman after Jewell criticized his colleague for pounding his fist on the table to make a point.
"We know you're a good preacher, but you're preaching to a very phoney message on this one," said Jewell, who was quickly interrupted.
"You're out of order," said Hensman.
A brief shouting match ensued before the mayor pounded his gavel to restore order.
Jewell apologized before proceeding with further remarks, but that didn't satisfy Hensman, who went on record at the end of the night, saying, "I consider Coun. Jewell's comments to be a clear, prejudiced attack on my religious worship and freedom."
Hensman says the work he does with his ministry is separate from his work as a councillor.
In a letter to The Record Wednesday, Hensman writes, "Coun. Jewell trampled the Human Rights code of British Columbia when he publicly harassed and demeaned me, disparagingly mocking my religious work-related duties."
"This level of bullying is not acceptable in the community," said Hensman. "As leaders in our community, we cannot stand for this."
Jewell was "shocked" to hear Hensman was calling for his resignation when contacted by The Record Wednesday.
"To me, it's poor behaviour on his part," said Jewell. "I sincerely apologized and that should be enough."
Jewell acknowledged he used poor judgment "in the heat of the moment," but added he was provoked when Hensman interrupted him.
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Stadium this stadium that! I am sick of the taxpayers having to front the bill to make Wilfy richer! Our current economic climate sucks, our current government environment sucks, blah blah blah.
Look. Stadiums are expensive. There is a reason everyone here wanted the bill to NOT go to the public, as it would've failed. So I have some important questions I want answered. I have tried a few times to get answers, but I failed to follow through and/or were NOT satisfied with the answers.
Everyone says the Dome sucks ass. But I wondered why. Odin tried to help me, but only made things worse.
1- Why the hell cant they play in the TCF bank stadium? I dont buy the no alcohol reasoning because the 300+ million dollars zig wants to put in could easily fix that, as well as additional seating (tcf was designed to make expansion a possibility mind you) as well as "warming field" ability for cold weather games. The gophers have and likely will continue to suck (i am an alum mind you) and expanding will make it no different from when I was a gopher rooting them on in a 50% capacity stadium (the way it is now as I understand at TCF)
2- Why the F cant the dome be renovated? I like the noise, I like being pushed out by the air. The twinkies stadium is just as congested. with Zig's 300+ mil, the suites can be expanded/enhanced. Also this money could make additional seating up front (now that the twinkies got their stadium) making a more personal exp. for fans with $$
3- I cannot/will not buy added capacity. We have a hard enough time filling our mediocre stadium! In fact we do not even have the smallest stadium capacity for NFL teams, the cardinals, raiders, bears and colts hold that "crown" and do we really want to have to beg MORE corporations to buy unsold tickets!?!?!? If you add a mere 2,000 seats, we get to the range of the seahawks, rams, bucs, bengals, steelers, and lions!
4-Parking. Yes it sucks. Tailgating is nonexistent. I do not think it would take much to convert some land to parking/tailgating lots. I thought part of the dome renovation plan included buying out the star tribune offices to convert to tailgating lots?
5-I am sorry, I do not think using tax payer money to make z. wilf richer is in the best interest of MN. I DO NOT want them to leave however and I am torn. So far, I have written to law makers to keep them in MN no matter the cost. I just do not understand why everyone is hating on the dome so much. It works. We have a home field advantage. Why not put on a fresh coat of paint?
If MPLS wants to give it to Wilf, why not take it and make the changes? HUGE benefit for everyone involved I think. Don't even try stadium envy crap. Ive been to "the best" at Lambeau where I had to sit on a bench in the freezing weather and park on some GB fans lawn for twenty bucks. No thanks. Also I can agree about temporary jobs, but it has been proven that sports stadiums offer little to zero economic benfits for the state/city...
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LONDON (AP) — Legislation that will end a centuries-old British rule that puts boys before girls in the succession to the throne has cleared the House of Lords, and now goes to Queen Elizabeth II for approval.
The change means that if Prince William and the former Kate Middleton have a girl first, she will become queen, and no younger brother will be able to jump the line and displace her.
The legislation also permit an heir to the throne to marry a Catholic, though Catholics would still be barred from succeeding to the throne.
The royal couple's first child, due in July, will be third in line to the throne after William and his father Prince Charles.
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A dangerous sex offender is on the 10 most wanted list here in Texas. The Department of Public Safety says Timothy Rosales Jr. escaped from a Houston halfway house on Beaumont Highway.
The 39-year-old fled the Reid Center last night where he was under electronic monitoring.
His ankle monitor was apparently removed. It was found nearby.
This is not the first trouble we've seen at the Reid center. Randy Wallace knows the facility well.
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Reid Center released the following statement:
"The Reid Center is a residential re-entry center that provides temporary housing and transitional services for parolees, who have already completed their criminal sentence with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Without the services provided at the Reid Center, parolees would most likely otherwise be released directly into the community without any temporary housing and transitional services. Parolees who are assigned to the Ben Reid Center, and who again have already completed their criminal sentences, may receive authorization from their respective state parole officers to conduct community activities during the day, such as job searches and other community programs. These authorizations are reviewed and approved by individual state parole officers. The Center provides temporary housing and transitional services and does not determine which parolees are assigned to the Center. When parolees abscond from the Reid Center, authorities are immediately notified pursuant to the Center's contractual requirements."
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The "bib" worn by the Japanese monk in the photograph is a rakusu, a garment unique to the Zen school that may have originated among Ch'an monks in China sometime after the T'ang Dynasty. The rectangle worn over the heart is a miniature kashaya, complete with the same "rice field" pattern seen in the third photo in this gallery. The rice field in a rakusu may have five, seven, or nine strips. Rakusu also come in a variety of colors.
Generally in Zen, the rakusu may be worn by all monks and priests, as well as laypeople who have received jukai ordination. But sometimes Zen monks who have received full ordination will wear a standard kashaya, called in Japanese the kesa, instead of the rakusu.
The monks' straw hat is worn to partly cover his face during the alms ritual, or takahatsu, so that he and those who give him alms do not see each others' faces. This represents the perfection of giving -- no giver, no receiver.
In this photo, you can see the monk's plain white kimono peaking out from under the black outer robe, called a koromo. The koromo is often black, but not always, and comes with different sleeve styles and diverse numbers of pleats in the front.


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J'can photographer takes Londoners down memory lane at Elephant and Castle
BY INGRID BROWN Associate Editor — Special Assignment firstname.lastname@example.com
LONDON, England — Jamaicans living in the United Kingdom (UK), many of whom have not been back in years, were taken on a journey down memory lane through a photo exhibition now mounted at the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre here in South London.
The images, captured by renowned Jamaican-born photographer Neil Kenlock and date back to the 1960s, depict various social issues faced Jamaicans living here and on the island, and were mounted alongside more recent images captured by high school students from rural Jamaica who were participants in the Jamaica National Foundation Resolution Project.
Kenlock said he was inspired to do the exhibition as a part of his contribution to Jamaica 50th anniversary.
However, it was quite a task selecting from his collection of more than 30,000 pictures. He finally settled on a 100, from which 45 were selected for the exhibition.
Many of the pieces on display depicted what life was like for Jamaican communities here in the UK and the struggles they endured to raise their children while helping families back home.
"This is what some Jamaicans went through to get recognition from Britain," Kenlock told the Jamaica Observer, adding that many Jamaicans now do not know of these struggles.
Kenlock, who migrated to the UK in 1963, at age 12, honed his photographic skills through apprenticeship, as there was no formal training available in photography at that time.
He later became the official photographer for the Black Panthers between 1960 and 1972, during which he captured many images depicting struggles faced by blacks, for whose rights the Black Panthers fought.
"At that time there was no protection for blacks as there were no anti-discrimination laws and it was totally about repatriation of blacks," Kenlock recalled.
He is also credited for having started the first black lifestyle Roots Magazine that was published from 1979 to 1989 and which helped to keep blacks informed.
Meanwhile, his three favourite pieces on display are a portrait of his grandmother 'Mama Bella', which was taken on his first return trip to Jamaica in the 70s; a picture of Peter Tosh, depicting the frustration the singer felt at not making a decent living from his music; and a portrait of a Jamaican girl standing in a living room near a paraffin heater.
"For the Peter Tosh picture, taken in 1973 on Duke Street in downtown Kingston, it is a mystical image because it was as if we were not there to him as he spoke about how he was driving around in a 'beat-up' Volkswagon while his music was being sold all around the world," Kenlock told the Observer.
As for the picture of the little girl, it was one of those where a family would ask me to take a portrait of their child to send back home to show how they were doing, and here the child was standing by a paraffin heater, which was the only source of heat in those days," he said.
Diane Abbott, the first black woman ever elected to the British Parliament, and who is also of Jamaican heritage, described the photos are a wonderful documentation of nearly half a century of Jamaican presence in the United Kingdom.
"This is very unique and special exhibition and is happening at a time when Jamaicans are coming together," she told the Observer shortly after the official opening of the exhibition on Tuesday . "This is a very exciting climax with our athletes expected to win all these gold medals," she added.
Jamaican Barbara Gray, who resides in Lewishan in South East London and who was featured in one of the photographs, was pleased with the exhibition.
"It is great to see the photos on display in Britain as it reminds me of the heritage of where I am from," she said, adding that it is also great to see the connection to present day Jamaica as depicted through the eyes of the young Jamaican photographers
Alicia Glasgow, arts and media specialists of the Jamaica National Building Society Foundation, said the response to the exhibition has been overwhelming since it opened on July 15. Among the first set of visitors, she said, were 35 students from a London-based primary school, among whom were four children of Jamaican heritage.
"People have been so thrilled by the work... one lady who had not been back to Jamaica since age eight cried because it brought back memories," she said.
Ninety-odd year-old Louise Smith, who migrated to London in 1961 — a year before Jamaica gained Independence from Britain — said not only are the pictures well done, but that they brought back "personal" memories.
"It makes me remember the days when I used to carry basket with food and bucket of water on mi head and when mi used to peel sugar cane with mi teeth," she told the Observer.
Vannessa Hutchinson, a lawyer and investment banker, said the work on display was "beautifully un-offensive and politically" correct.
"We could have chosen to display pictures which would have made people cry, especially in light of the recent (London) riot, but instead what we have on display are all reflective of a people in celebration," she said.
Kenlock, in the meantime, is hoping that his pictures — some of which are already in the Museum of London — will make it to Institute of Jamaica.


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