A Small Place is Jamaica Kincaid’s memoir of growing up in Antigua as well as an indictment of the Antiguan government and Britain’s colonial legacy in Antigua. Kincaid blames colonial rule for many of Antigua’s current problems, including drug dealing and selling off land for tourist properties. Kincaid’s critics question why, if the British are responsible for the Antiguan government’s corruption, the British government itself isn’t more corrupt. Kincaid has responded that there must have been some good people among the British, but that they stayed home. Consider each of the answer choices separately and indicate all that apply.

By 1784, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was internationally renowned as the composer of The Marriage of Figaro and consequently received a commission from the Prague Opera House to compose another opera. The resulting product was Don Giovanni, which tells the tale of a criminal and seducer who nevertheless evokes sympathy from audiences, and whose behaviour fluctuates from moral crisis to hilarious escapade. While Don Giovanni is widely considered to be Mozart’s greatest achievement, eighteenth-century audiences in Vienna — Mozart’s own city — were ambivalent at best. The opera mixed traditions of moralism with those of comedy — a practice heretofore unknown among the composer’s works — creating a product that was not well-liked by conservative Viennese audiences. Meanwhile, however, Don Giovanni was performed to much acclaim throughout Europe.

In the 1960s, Northwestern University sociologist John McKnight coined the term redlining, the practice of denying service or charging more for service, to customers in particular geographic areas, areas often determined by the racial composition of the neighbourhood. The term came from the practice of banks outlining certain areas in red on a 5 map — within the red outline, banks refused to invest. With no access to mortgages, residents within the red line suffered low property values and landlord abandonment; buildings abandoned by landlords were then likely to become centres of drug dealing and other crime, thus further lowering property values. Redlining in mortgage lending was made illegal by the Fair Housing Act of 1968, which 10 prohibited such discrimination based on race, religion, gender, familial status, disability, or ethnic origin, and by community reinvestment legislation in the 1970s. However, redlining may have continued in less explicit ways, and can also take place in regard to constrained access to health care, jobs, insurance, and more. Even today, some credit card companies send different offers to homes in different neighbourhoods, and some auto insurance companies offer 15 different rates based on zip code. Reverse redlining occurs when predatory businesses specifically target minority consumers for the purpose of charging them more than would usually be charged to a consumer of the majority group. Redlining can lead to reverse redlining — if a retailer refuses to serve a certain area based on the ethnic-minority composition of the area, people in that area 20 can fall prey to opportunistic smaller retailers who sell inferior goods at higher prices
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