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 E. Efred Francis And His literary Works.

Christened Esau Efred Francis, born on September 25, 1953 in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica is the Jamaican writer who prefers to use the format of his name, E. Efred Francis which he uses on his books and other literary works. His non-fiction works show that he is analytical and is a deep thinker. This is reflected in his creation of the concept he named: the “C.A.I.C. Principle” which is elaborated in his book, “Find Fortune From Fear-Free Future” (ISBN 9781540320360) self-published in 2016 through Createspace a subsidiary of Amazon. Also chapter 10 of the book introduces a new concept formulated by the author called “Utimatism”, which relates to the involvement and participation in higher level thinking. The C.A.I.C. principle gives techniques to enhance and maintain healthy intimate relationships. The following excerpt from the book outlines the components of the principle: “C = Commitment A = Attention I = Indifference C = Complacency COMMITMENT is the fixation of conscious will to the continued execution of an undertaking. It is like the gearbox in a motor vehicle which connects the power of the engine to the road wheels, thus causing motion. A relationship without commitment will not survive for long and even if it does it will not be a wholesome one.

ATTENTION is the focusing of one’s consciousness on the other party in a relationship engaging that person’s awareness by the doing of wonderful deeds, such as the giving of gifts, providing for comfort and so on. Relationships thrive on attention.

INDIFFERENCE is the state of being non-responsive in a relationship to stimulus of whatever type, whether negative or positive. This is usually induced by disenchantment, frustration or ignorance. Vigorous effort must be employed to eliminate indifference out of the relationship or like cancer it will slowly but definitely destroy the organism.

COMPLACENCY is a cessation of the simulating activities in a relationship that had kept the flame raging. It is aptly expressed in a song which says “you don’t bring me flowers anymore”. To be taken for granted is a repulsive aspect of complacency and it in its entirety should be eliminated assiduously for the organism to remain healthy.”

The book has been reviewed in 2018 by the ONLINNEBOOKCLUB.ORG and earned a perfect 4 out of 4 rating, with the reviewer noting that the book is of ”significant literary merit”. See attached copy of the ONLINEBOOKCLUB.ORG review. Mr. Francis, having a hearing impairment and a sight impairment has written the book, “ I See Then Light” (ISBN-13: 978-1712583784 ), self-published through Amazon in 2019, dedicating it to uplift and empower the blind and visually impaired. In that book he created the analytical tool which he called the “ACTUATION MODEL” The following excerpt from the book illustrates the mechanics of the model: “The unfolding of life driven by nature has three sets of elements that interact and interplay with each other. The actuation or outcome of every aspect of life is dependent on the degree to which you manipulate the three jointly or severally. The three sets of elements are: challenges, benefits and tradeoffs, which we could refer to as life’s ACTUATION MODEL. The three sets of elements are interconnected, interrelated and interdependent. Each element of the model will be looked at briefly and then be applied to real life situations as they relate to individuals with sight challenges pertaining to adjustment and beyond after the shock of the onset. Challenges The homogenous attitude of nature towards development of life creates conflicting interests. A farmer on a Caribbean island faces the challenges of pest control, weed control and water sufficiency in growing his crops. Additionally, he faces the challenges of hurricanes which strike from time to time. A hurricane is developed from the existence of hot and cold air. If the climate of the world was uniformly cold then hurricanes and the destruction they can wreak would not emerge. But, sunshine is essentially needed for food production and other vital considerations. Nature is aware of this hence it provides both situations and leaves us with the attendant challenges. Out of challenges comes a number of issues which are challenge-related such as impeding consequences, which are situations evolving from the efforts to overcome the challenge that will generate the actuation of the desired benefit. For example, the continuous and sometimes overuse of pesticide in the challenge of food crop production, resulting in the pollution of water resources, thus impeding the normal consumption of that water. Natural constraints are another set of situations that can arise from challenges. To underscore this point, it is obviously concluded that finite capacity cannot facilitate infinite usage, for example, if the famer keeps farming without replenishing essential minerals to the soil needed to grow his crops, he will inevitably encounter reduction in his crop-yield. Finally, inherent barriers present to this body of thought another set of challenge-related situations that are immovable and cannot be changed. For example, the progress of actuation in providing the benefit of sight in someone who is irreversibly blind must be halted with a change in direction or approach and/or modification to the ultimate benefit sought.

Benefits In a focused way, nature is not concerned about the benefit of one species over another but provides the platform for the continuity of all species which is the corollary to providing the essential balance that is critical to life in its entirety. Challenges are undertaken in the pursuit of benefits which are divided into three categories: efferent, afferent and universal. The key point is the entity that initiates the actuation of the benefit. The benefit accruing to him is afferent. Benefit accruing to persons other than the initiator but is confined to the arena of the actuation is efferent. Benefit accruing to persons in the wider society is universal. For example, a crime-fighter in an area that is experiencing a high incidence of crime takes on the challenge of reducing the crime rate. After working tirelessly at this for a while he eventually obtained positive results and benefits accrued to him in the form of promotion in rank and increase in salary. These benefits to him are afferent, because he is the initiator of that challenge. The benefits of reduced crime that accrued to the people who live in the area are efferent. Here is another example; an apiculturist undertakes the challenges to set up an apiary of bees. The benefits accruing to him manifested by increased income and supply of honey for his family are afferent. The bees are now in a controlled and safe environment, protected from the dangers of the wild are enjoying efferent benefits.

Tradeoffs A tradeoff occurs, when a person is willing to give up all or part of something in exchange for another thing. Tradeoffs may operate as a gauge, catalyst or a destroyer between challenge and benefit. For example, a hobo decides to stop forging ahead with the challenges of life which would include education, training, social mobility, family maintenance, if applicable, personal development and others, and drops out of the mainstream of society. He can be seen on the streets of many cities throughout the world, filthy, unkempt and scavenging for food from the garbage. He has effected a tradeoff which is a destroyer of benefits and sometimes without him being cognizant, that there is a dramatic increase in his challenges to stay alive. Nature does conduct its own tradeoffs. The many natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcano eruptions, droughts, hurricanes, heat waves and the cycles of plagues beginning with the Black Death which struck Europe and the Mediterranean area during the period 1347 to 1351, which altogether resulted in the loss of a great number of lives, are clear examples of this. In many of the above related instances, nature’s tradeoffs occur in that it is giving up the lives of those lost in exchange for supplementing the sufficiency of the resources needed for the sustenance of those that remained alive.” A new literary art form was created by Mr. Francis, which he called “NOUNEM” The word was coined by combining the last syllable of the word “poem” with the word “noun”. A noun is a person, place or thing hence a nounem is a poem of a person, place or thing written with a number of constraints. The title of the nounem will become a personification. The number of lines that make up the nounem depends on the amount of letters that are in the title. The first letter in the word of each line must correspond to the letters in the title and they must be larger than the other letters so that they stans out and spell out the title vertically. The body of the nouinem must relate in a relevant way to the title. In addition to being constrained to start each line with a letter of the title, the starting word must be a significant proper English word and not an auxiliary word such as: of, to, a, the and so on. Despite these constraints the body of the nounem must not lack cohesion, coherence, clarity and relevance in relation to the title. After the body of the nounem there would be two summary lines or “punch” lines, which would be used to summarize all that was said in the body or to create a special emphasis regarding the title. The first of the two punch lines should begin by repeating the title twice in keeping with the personification clause. These punch lines should be indented to keep clear from the showing of the vertical title. Examples of nounems entitled: “Jesus Saves” and “Mother” are attached. Writing nounems properly are very challenging and requires concentration, imagination, literary skill and a wide vocabulary. Mr. Francis published in like manner as the two books mentioned earlier, “You Are Invincible (ISBN) in 2014, a book of poetry, and “Wretched Of The Earth Part 1” (ISBN 9781081574338) in 2019, a novel which is a thriller. He is also a playwright and an essayist.