Haiti

Unlike the majority Haitian immigrants, I do not have a sad story. Instead, I have multitudinous nostalgic memories; I am thankful for that. My family and I we did not leave Haiti due to financial struggles. In Haiti, we lived in the second biggest city and one of the most peaceful places in the country. As a merchant, my father traveled in and out of the U.S. buying and selling products. From primary through high school, I studied in the most prestigious private school in the area. After high…

can be reached; However, Slaves have always demonstrated their opposition and adversity. Those slaves that jumped into the ocean to escape bondage made decisions for themselves, and there are many more cases of African slaves displaying agency like Haiti, Palmares, and the movie Sankofa. Specific factors were likely to promote agency in slaves. Politically, when there was unrest and disturbance slaves took inspiration…

hurricane, named Mathew, has killed many people in Haiti. It is a dangerous hurricane that it is moving away from the Bahamas and it is traveling toward the east coast of Florida. This hurricane is a powerful tropical cyclone over the Atlantic Ocean that was formed from a vigorous tropical wave that moved off the African coast. The United States is being threatened by the hurricane which means that we are in danger. The last time this hurricane hit in Haiti, it killed 283 people and destroyed…

The Shoe Drive January 12, 2010. The day the devastating large-scale earthquake demolished Haiti. Growing up in Los Angeles and being born at the turn of the century, I never saw the amount of destruction the Earth could cause. Of course, as we get older it becomes more difficult to escape reality, but when you’re younger it’s easier to tune it all out. The earthquake in Haiti ignited a fire in me that would never burn out. For a few weeks post-earthquake, an immense feeling of guilt…

Have you ever loved someone so much, you’d give an arm for them? Not the expression, no literally give an arm for? Growing up in Haiti with my brother, I remember teasing and pushing him around, because thats what big brothers are supposed to do. One of the things I remember most vividly about him was waking up every morning to play soccer with a tennis ball we found, and racing each other all through town with our hands behind our backs pretending we were cars. Everyday wasn’t always…

On Tuesday, January 12, 2010, which was during the time I was in Haiti. It was one year before I even came to the U.S.A. That day, in the morning, I went to school and everything was alright. The school that I went to was open 7am to 2:45 pm, when school was over that day I planned to stay after school to study for one of the exam that I was going to take the next morning, but I didn’t stay, I went home. When I got home at 3:30 pm, I said hi to my parents. I was getting ready to go to my aunt’s…

that they are today. This includes revolutions or even protests. They have a wide variety of small gatherings to whole countries fighting, but they usually have an impact on the modern world. I researched the United States (Tecumseh), Mexico, and Haiti for these types of nationalism. The United States has many forms of nationalism, but I focused on Tecumseh. Tecumseh was a Shawnee Indian during the 19th century. He spoke out against the indians being dependent on the “whites” and that they…

The article “The Secrets of Haiti’s Living Dead” by Gino Del Guercio is an attempt to explain the phenomenon of zombies appearing in Haiti. Guercio begins his article by describing one case of the suspected zombies where a woman named Angelina Narcisse was approached by her brother, Clairvius, who was thought to be dead for eighteen years, and how he used childhood memories to prove that he was actually her brother. Guercio then continues the account with Clairvius giving a detailed account of…

The “Rock” Moment “It’s that time of year again and you are all officially juniors. It is time to start planning and fundraising. Where do you want to go for your senior trip?” In April of 2017, my senior class took a trip to Haiti. The high school I went to was a small private school and every year the senior class gets to choose where they want to go for their end of the year trip. It can be anywhere in the world, but if it is outside of the United States then it must be for missions. In…

my life was the first time I ever went to Haiti, the summer of 2013 was the first time I ever went to my parent’s hometown country, I was excited to go because I was going to see my grandma and grandpa, cousin’s aunts and uncles and many more that I haven’t seen in years My first trip out of the united states was when I was 12 years old after finishing my 6th grade year, my parents and my 2 older sisters Rebecca and Zipporah went to Haiti for vacation. It was an 8-hour flight,…