Salvador de Bahia was founded by the Portuguese in 1549 and is one of the oldest colonial cities in America. It was also founded by the french in 1510. It was the first capital of Brazil from 1549 to 1763.This densely built colonial city can be recognized by its religious, civil and military colonial architecture from the 17th to the 19th centuries. Salvador de Bahia is a mixture of European, African and American Indian cultures of the 16th to 18th centuries. It soon became a major sea port for trading goods such as sugar to Africa and other parts of the world.…
A. Before the L'Aquila earthquake in 2009 people were starting to prepare for a earthquake but not a 6.3 earthquake. However, there was miscommunication between the scientist and the people of L'Aquila. Since earthquakes are the hardest natural disaster to predict, nothing is always 100 percent accurate. The seismologist involved with the making of predictions did not want to scare the people and make them prepare for an earthquake that was not going to come, when the seismologist were not even postie of the earthquake coming.…
Minutes into Gloria Hurtado’s seventh-grade math class at Santa Rosa Middle School on Thursday, a rumbling noise erupted from the intercom. It sounded like a major earthquake, and Hurtado’s 35 students immediately knew what to do: drop, seek cover and hold on. “Duck and cover! Duck and cover!”…
The New Madrid Earthquakes were the largest series of earthquakes the United States have ever experienced. They were over a period of three months, with two major earthquakes in January and February of 1812. The effects were significant including formation of a lake, fissures forming in the ground, resulting in few deaths.…
“At 4:53 p.m. on Tuesday, January 12, 2010, Haiti plunged into horror” (Lahens, 2010, p. 9). The earthquake affected three and a half million individuals, left two hundred and twenty thousand people dead, and destroyed four thousand schools (DEC, 2015). It is safe to say that Haiti’s recent history has been dramatically shaped by the 7.0 magnitude earthquake (DEC, 2015) that struck in 2010. Understanding both the gravity of and the world’s response to the 2010 earthquake is essential in understanding the destructive relationship that has existed between Protestant medical missionaries and Vodun practitioners. Before exploring the historical and spiritual concepts of healing in Haiti, an overview of the current context of Haiti post-earthquake…
There were 220,000 casualties (http://www.dec.org.uk/articles/haiti-earthquake-facts-and-figures).…
Unlike the East coast, the natural disaster that is most common in the West coast is earthquakes. As common as earthquakes are, there are only so much we know about the elements involved; such as fault lines. The topics discussed are what and where earthquakes occur, its history, and earthquake preparation in California. Earthquakes are known worldwide as a shaking of the ground. However, this just how people see the phenomenon where destruction follows.…
The Haiti earthquake has been a disaster, because everything got destroyed and a lot of people died. This earthquake happened in 2010 on January 12. It said that three million people were affected by the earthquake in 2010. The earthquake has been so bad that 300,000 people were injured. An lot of people didn’t have homes for awhile.…
The Conquest The history of El Salvador begins with the time period in which indigenous people resided in the country. According to Roy Boland, in Culture and Customs of El Salvador, The Spanish conquered El Salvador in 1524; the spanish found the country was divided into three states (13). The spaniards hegemonic influence finally converted El Salvador into a Spanish colony after twenty six years of indigenous resistance(Boland 14). Such conquest brought violence, diseases, and poverty to the indigenous people.…
fter the earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010, the number of Haitians doubled to 2 million, most of whom illegally crossed after the border opened for international aid. Human Rights Watch estimated that 70,000 documented Haitian immigrants and 1,930,000 undocumented immigrants were living in Dominican…
Haiti is another extremely poor and poverty-stricken country that has struggled to develop due to their lack of a stable economy mixed with their vulnerability to natural disasters. These catastrophes consistently and aggressively occur without enough time for Haiti to repair from their last disaster. (Ex, the repercussions of the 2010 earthquake were never fully accommodated for, let alone the aftermath that hurricane Matthew has now forced upon Haiti). Consequently, 60,000 Haitians were internally displaced after the 2010 earthquake and Brazil welcomed 75,000 Haitians seeking refugee status. (3000 have already left this year due to Brazil’s economic recession.)…
Mexico City: The Birth of a Civil Society Being one of the worst earthquake to ever hit Mexico, the 1985 Earthquake of Mexico City struck in the heart of the country and brought consequences that would later prove to shape the citizens sentiment towards the government and its officials. It sent the country into a frenzy and their inability to properly manage rescue operations proved to be fatal for the thousands of people who relied on the government to save their life and the lives of loved ones. It lead to ordinary citizens establishing themselves as unofficial government workers, taking the roles of rescue aids and policeman. The sudden need for citizens to rely on each other instead of on the people supposed to assist them, created a sort…
My mother, Maria, was born and raised in San Salvador. San Salvador is the capital city of El Salvador, is the smallest country in Central America, and for her childhood and teenage years, the country was in a civil war. This civil war started in 1980 and lasted 12 years. In the summer of 1990, Maria decided to visit her eldest sister, Fatima, for the winter holidays. Fatima and her first daughter, Karla, had first immigrated illegally to Houston, Texas in 1983 with the help of Mexican Coyotes – “people smugglers” who helped with the migration of people across the Mexico–United States border, and then finally to Vancouver, Canada in 1985 where she gained refugee status for herself and her family.…
An earthquake is the phenomenon that a huge energy suddenly released and appeared in the Earth’s crust when two moved plates slip past one another. The earthquakes usually happen in the convergent boundaries, divergent boundaries and transform boundaries. In the three kinds of boundaries, the convergent boundary often produces the largest magnitude earthquakes. Because when the two plates collide strongly in the convergent boundary, the extreme pressure and the great friction will appear. So the convergent boundary is more likely to have a large magnitude earthquake.…
On planet earth, calamities that have devastating effects have occurred over the years with some natural being and others happening as a result of human interference. Disasters are always undesirable in any part of the world and bring about significant losses in life and property. Among the most severe calamities in the world since the old ages, earthquakes stand out as one of the most severe disasters. Earthquakes are calamities that cause a massive loss of life and property any time they occur. They are caused by diverse circumstances, and they have numerous effects on the people living in the area that they occur.…