2010 Haiti earthquake

Do people ever feel like they just want to kill? In The book Native Son, by Richard Wright, tells the story of a Black man named Bigger. The book follows Bigger and unveils the story through his eyes and peers through his thoughts, emotions, and actions. The story takes place in the south side of Chicago where many Black Americans who flee from the south in search of better lives in the north and during the time was when discrimination against African- Americans were an everyday occurance. There…

“Desiree’s Baby” is a fiction based short story written by Kate Chopin. The short story is set during the time of slavery on a Louisiana plantation, going through what it was like during racism. Desiree, who was taken in by wealthy landowners, falls in love with a man named Armand. Armand falls deeply in love with her also, but has a reputation for having slaves or mistreating them like they weren’t human. The young couple soon have a baby boy, but something seems strange about the adolescent.…

“Invisible Man” is a novel written during the 1930’s. Written by a black author, Ralph Ellison, it could be seen as an attempt to illuminate the invisibility pertaining to the social difficulties faced by blacks. Central to this attempt are the motifs of invisibility and blindness. Ellison demonstrates these different, physical and mental states on different levels through allegories depicting the real acts of savage black people were subjected to. In this essay I will discuss how Ellison…

In “Exclusion, Island Style: Citizenship Deprivation and denial in the Caribbean”, Kristy A. Belton analysis how the denial of the human right to nationality impacts people daily life. She mainly focuses on how the denial of a nationality impacts people of Haitian descent in the Caribbean. She looks specifically at the exclusion of people of Haitian descent from citizenship in the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic; two democratic countries seen as the most civil liberty and political right in…

There is more going on within Haiti than what meets the eye. Edwidge Danticat has exposed the real deal and the destruction that is going on inside the Republic of Haiti. In this essay, a deep analysis of Edwidge Danticat’s “Brother, I’m Dying” and the present negative effects on the country that the U.S. and Haiti’s political situation has influenced. The country was negatively affected by brutal violence, poverty, and the lack of freedom. The Haitian people have very restricted freedoms. Most…

Haiti was French colony and Latin America was spanish but independence was paramount in both and changed these areas forever. The outcomes of independence movements in Haiti and the Spanish Americas were similar because they both ended successfully and with independence from the colonizing nation, a difference however was that in Haiti the revolution ended with a complete social overhaul and the re-arrangement of social…

intervention by the British, Toussaint had taken control of the West and Northern part of the island.14 By 1804 the enslaved had freed themselves from the institution of slavery January 1, 1804 Saint Domingue declared independence and renamed itself Haiti its original Arawak name and inspired many revolts in North America. The Antigua Conspiracy 1736 occurred in the British West Indies under the following conditions: economic distress and famine, the social structure of the slave holding regime…

Literacy is a fundamental skill that all people, regardless of race or social class, need to develop in order to convey ideas and communicate them intellectually. But two hundred years ago, learning to read and write was not a privilege. During this time, and even today, many factors play a role in determining the difficulty of reaching literacy, such as the time period a person lived and where, the color of their skin, and even what determined or denied their basic rights as human beings could…

of Utopians citizens every single day. While Haiti, a country that went from slavery to independence to falling into debt from France. Utopians live a better life than Haitians because Utopia establish trust among their citizens while Haiti continues to have corrupt politicians in their government that is not enabling them to move forward. Therefore, reading Utopia Book II, The Caribbean: A History of the Region and Its People, and Plunging into Haiti: Clinton, Aristide, and the Defeat of…

Island Possessed: Presentation Paper Island Possessed by Katherine Dunham is a beautiful introduction to Haiti. The book is comprised of stories, recollections and historical facts about the island that spare no details; good or bad. But the book causes the reader to reevaluate the definitions of good and bad while reading. Is good really good and is bad just different? Her articulation of emotions toward the historical Haitians, Haitian Vaudun culture and the people put into perspective how…