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Leaving Island Life

Denise Crawford

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Description:'Leaving Island Life' is the inspiring story of a woman from the small Caribbean island of Anguilla who longed to experience firsthand how people live in other cultures. In the book, we follow Miss Denise Crawford through her experiences as she encounters these different cultures for the first time. We see from an outsider's perspective what other islands in the Caribbean are like, then the USA, and finally England. Miss Crawford takes us through daily life and work experiences in each of these places as well as what she learns on holidays she took in-between. She analyzes the people and places she encounters and we grow with her as she makes new discoveries and realizations. From the contrast of her upbringing, where the community is close-knit and spends much of their time outdoors due to the warm climate, to Virginia's colder winters and indoor climate, to the struggles a foreigner faces when trying to cope with day-to-day life in London, the book is filled with humor, wonder, and wisdom. This book is an interesting study of cultural differences, how people perceive one another, and the misunderstandings that often result when one is faced with a set of rules and societal norms that they are unfamiliar with. Miss Crawford discusses her relatively sheltered upbringing and describes how this was both a blessing and a curse to her in other lands: it gave her the strong set of values and sense of herself that she needed when exploring the world, but it also dashed her expectations when she was faced with the realization over and over that bigger places are not always better nor as glamourous as they seem, and people are not always as honest and straightforward as she was raised to believe. Miss Crawford brings up important points that ought to be addressed in each culture, specifically in the USA and England, yet her love for both places is clear and she is never short of praise for the things she admires about each country. We see her through various jobs and trying to navigate a city's bus system in America, then watch as she learns to outsmart the best of cons in London and get an inner working of the rent system there. Issues of discrimination Miss Crawford faces are addressed and explained in detail. In the end, this is the story of one woman's refusal to accept mistreatment and inequality, and keep fighting for the things she knows to be right. For anyone who wants to read a firsthand account of what it's like to move to a new country and start a new life, this book is an engaging journey that sets an example of strength and perseverance.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Leaving Island Life. To get started finding Leaving Island Life, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 216

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Createspace

Release: 2012

ISBN: 1478348488

Description: 'Leaving Island Life' is the inspiring story of a woman from the small Caribbean island of Anguilla who longed to experience firsthand how people live in other cultures. In the book, we follow Miss Denise Crawford through her experiences as she encounters these different cultures for the first time. We see from an outsider's perspective what other islands in the Caribbean are like, then the USA, and finally England. Miss Crawford takes us through daily life and work experiences in each of these places as well as what she learns on holidays she took in-between. She analyzes the people and places she encounters and we grow with her as she makes new discoveries and realizations. From the contrast of her upbringing, where the community is close-knit and spends much of their time outdoors due to the warm climate, to Virginia's colder winters and indoor climate, to the struggles a foreigner faces when trying to cope with day-to-day life in London, the book is filled with humor, wonder, and wisdom. This book is an interesting study of cultural differences, how people perceive one another, and the misunderstandings that often result when one is faced with a set of rules and societal norms that they are unfamiliar with. Miss Crawford discusses her relatively sheltered upbringing and describes how this was both a blessing and a curse to her in other lands: it gave her the strong set of values and sense of herself that she needed when exploring the world, but it also dashed her expectations when she was faced with the realization over and over that bigger places are not always better nor as glamourous as they seem, and people are not always as honest and straightforward as she was raised to believe. Miss Crawford brings up important points that ought to be addressed in each culture, specifically in the USA and England, yet her love for both places is clear and she is never short of praise for the things she admires about each country. We see her through various jobs and trying to navigate a city's bus system in America, then watch as she learns to outsmart the best of cons in London and get an inner working of the rent system there. Issues of discrimination Miss Crawford faces are addressed and explained in detail. In the end, this is the story of one woman's refusal to accept mistreatment and inequality, and keep fighting for the things she knows to be right. For anyone who wants to read a firsthand account of what it's like to move to a new country and start a new life, this book is an engaging journey that sets an example of strength and perseverance.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Leaving Island Life. To get started finding Leaving Island Life, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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