Haiti

state of mind and comes home with a disorder. A little girl is raped, and now she must live in a constant fear of men and she goes through all the effects of rape. Every case of PTSD is sad and deserves help, for example the issues Haiti is having right now. In 2010, Haiti had an earthquake that killed over 300,00 people and left over a million people homeless. A group teamed together and started the project called “Relief for the Spirit”, and their job was to run a therapy group to teach coping…

of the revolution there were 500,000 slaves, 30,000 affranchi (free people of color), 15,000 mulatto (mixed race people), and 15,000 blacks had purchased land and bought their freedom. This diverse group of people were the majority of residents in Haiti. Most of the black population was pro-independence because France was not giving them their rights. The French government was indecisive about giving slaves and diverse people the “Rights of Man” and as soon as the rights were given they would…

Haiti resides in the Western Hemisphere on one-third of the island of Hispaniola between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean. Haiti was the first African country in the world to gain its independence in 1804. From the beginning, the right to education was a matter of discussion and the first constitution was published in 1805, stating that education will be free and compulsory at every level (J. 164). This small island is the fourteenth poorest country in the world and is the…

Today we don’t see a genocide but deportation of not only Haitians but Dominican born Haitians as well. People in favor of the deportation of Haitians say that it is not fair that the Dominican Republic, being a poor country, has to constantly help Haiti and its people. While others see it as an ethnic cleansing similar to the genocide that Trujillo oversaw. Then and even now, the racial tension is intense and any small thing can trigger this tension leading to an outburst within the two…

control over the colonies. Before the end of this war 100,000 of the 500,000 blacks and 24,000 of the 40,000 whites were killed. On January 1, 1804, Dessalines declared the nation independent and renamed it Haiti. France became the first nation to recognize that Haiti is now independent. Haiti became known as not only “La perle des Antilles” but, as the first black republic in the world, and the second nation in the western hemisphere to win its independence from a European…

plaguing the country. For example, in 2010, Haiti was devastated by a 7.0 earthquake that killed about 230,000 people and injured 300,000. Then in 2016, Hurricane Matthew destroyed over 500 schools in Haiti contributed to a tremendous loss in their agriculture and livestock (Bliss, 2013). Haiti already battles supplying their citizens with the basic living necessities and when natural disasters likes these occur, it makes it even more difficult for Haiti to achieve economic stability. As a…

estate. The Haitian Revolution, from 1791 to 1804, was a revolution in one of the French colonies, called St.Domingue (present-day Haiti). This revolution is mainly about how the enslaved Africans revolted against the brutal conditions in the Haiti sugar plantations. These two revolutions are connected because the events in France incited some of the major events in Haiti. For example, slave revolts were inspired by the drafting of the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen. In addition, the…

Although 1700-1914 saw both the Americas and Africa face extreme pressure from European powers, which outgunned and outnumbered them in every battle, the American Revolution ideologically paved the way for various Latin American peoples to pursue the freedoms that were starting to develop around the world. On the other hand, Africa saw most of its imperial resistance as futile in the face of these more developed and powerful nations, who completely disregarded existing social, political, and…

Another method that was used by Martin Luther King jr. to resist social oppression in Birmingham Alabama is the nonviolent direct –action program which involve four steps, collection of facts to determine whether injustices are alive, negation, self-purification, and direct action. This is what King said about the effectiveness of his program in his Letter from Birmingham jail, “nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such a creative tension that a community that has…

Haitian American culture has been a long-surviving and well-adapting culture. Starting with the indigenous people that occupied the island, before Christopher Columbus’ arrival in 1492. Columbus, being a conqueror for Spain, claimed the island of Haiti for King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella and named it Hispaniola meaning “little Spain”. From thenceforth the indigenous people of the island were killed off during gold conquests and the ruling of the Spanish by forced labor and diseases. With very…