http://www.wardmin.info The Academic side of life Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:03:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The copy: Let's assume I'm an island. I've got a casino that looks like / the Taj Majal. Golf courses men adore. And if skin divings your pleasure. I've got that too. The best in the world. I'm Grand Bahama Island just 2 1/2 hours from Times Square and that's what I ... http://www.wardmin.info/2009/07/ministry-of-tourism-ads-from-1968/ So I finished the third chapter. That wonderful piece entitled "The economics of smiling: A history of the Bahamian Courtesy Campaign." I don't think it's that bad and my supervisor agrees with me, which is a good thing. I must say that Duncan McDowall, my super, is very good at ... http://www.wardmin.info/2009/07/a-brief-history-of-a-deadline/ I finished a chapter of my thesis. Finally. I realized last week that what I thought of as one chapter was really two. So I split it in half. The good news is of course that I ended up with a completed chapter, completed by my self-imposed deadline. The better ... http://www.wardmin.info/2009/05/chapter-two-is-done-sort-of/ The presentation yesterday went well. I enjoyed the experience. No pictures though, so apologies for that. I'm toying with the idea of making the presentation a podcast or a youtube video or something. The google powerpoint leaves a lot to be desired... Found this little link on the web and ... http://www.wardmin.info/2009/02/after-the-show/ "What? Nobody got shot?" Representations of Caribana violence in the Toronto print media Research Project, April 10, 2007 Group members: Shane Bentham Franciene McLeod Edward Minnis Nassim Shirvani The festival of Caribana is marking its 40thanniversary in the city of Toronto this year and it has become quite the cornerstone of a typical summer of fun within the ... http://www.wardmin.info/2009/02/what-nobody-got-shot-representations-of-caribana-violence/ Here is the poster from the upcoming LACS conference. If you are in Ottawa on the 27th of February please stop by. [caption id="attachment_150" align="alignnone" width="194" caption="Inaugural Ottawa Latin American and Caribbean Conference"][/caption] http://www.wardmin.info/2009/02/ottawa-lacs-conference-poster/ I'm gearing up for the first Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) Conference in Ottawa on the 27th of this month. So I'm going through and pruning the presentation that I gave in Toronto. I'm clearing up little factual and grammatical errors in the text, in my Word version and ... http://www.wardmin.info/2009/02/upcoming-conference-and-other-news/ Note: I wrote this essay in 2001 for English 120 at the College of the Bahamas. It was published the following year in the course booklet as a "Sample Informal Argumentative Essay." The essay has some baby fat that needs cutting, and I hope to get to that later, ... http://www.wardmin.info/2009/02/why-wendy%e2%80%99s-is-as-bahamian-as-the-bamboo-shack/ A few posts back I asked... When did the first “Courtesy Campaign” begin in the Bahamas? This was Pindling’s “Look Up, Move Up, The World is Watching campaign.” I just need a date and some details… An answer to the question is January 4th 1968. However this is the answer to ... http://www.wardmin.info/2009/01/roots-of-bad-service/ This is a sort of correction to the info-graphic that appears in the powerpoint presentation, the "Look up, Move up, The World is Watching" Courtesy Campaign began January 4, 1968 and not mid-1967 as the slides suggest. Update: The slides have now been corrected. http://www.wardmin.info/2009/01/infographic/