Haitian

idea was to come in help to the hundreds of thousands of young students in Haiti, who faced, and still facing unfortunately, significant deficiencies in school structures and infrastructure. The Haitian Foundation for Private Education (FONHEP) has designed a Distance Learning program to teach young Haitians students some important notions of mathematics, reading, and democracy by radio. With a team of diligent and devoted professionals and an unconditional support of the state authorities and…

The Jabbawockeez is a group that started in San Diego, California. They then was part of the first season of American’s Best Dance Crew, in which they won that year. They danced to Hip-hop and it was a group that contained six teenage male members. Their costume consisted of a white masked that covered their faces, white gloves and a under body suit that covered their necks as well as their arms. According to the YouTube video titled “Jabbawockeez at world of Dance Bay Area 2014” the…

speaks in fragments, giving her a voice illustrating that her fears of dreaming have been confirmed in this moment, with the death of her husband. Then there’s Little Guy the son of Lili and Guy the child who chose the play about Dutty Boukman, a Haitian revolutionary who help Haiti gain its independence from France. However, the title of A Wall of Fire Rising comes from one of the lines in the play in which Little Guy is acting. Proud of his accomplishments, dedicated and reveals…

The Enlightenment, the proliferation of rational ideas throughout the 18th Century, has a dualistic political legacy. The paradoxes it produced were liberalism - emphasising political freedom and representation - and authoritarianism, imperialism and independence. Religion, instead of being displaced by reason, remained to influence and reflect the Enlightenment’s political legacies. Kant may stress “Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed nonage” from Christianity but…

approach to medicine is exemplified in how he sneaks beer to a patient in a homeless shelter and how he ignores the admission policy of Zanmi Lasante and essentially treats patients for free. The title of the book is also revealed as being a common Haitian proverb meaning that for every mountain that is successfully…

The Cause and Effects of Adjusting in Between Cultures Picture oneself living in a different society, where one is unfamiliar with the rules and norms that the other members of this society apply as their principles. Imagine, can one succeed in this society, without experiencing culture-shock.? In his fiction novel Brave New World, author Aldous Huxley described the life one character in the book. Her name was Linda Crowne, she was a beta plus nurse at the Central London Hatchery and…

been treated as “monstrous” outcasts. In The Wonders of the Invisible World, Cotton Mather’s account of the Salem witch trials, women are depicted as witches. In Coleman’s In the Beginning there was White Zombie, we see that first-hand accounts of Haitian culture written by a white man created the image of the zombie. When studying these accounts, we notice that when depicting minorities as monsters, the oppressor seems to feel a need to cite "reliable" sources and enhance the credibility of his…

people of Haiti, I would have to remove the thoughts of only seeing them as a country of natural disasters with no resources to overcome. Learning their beliefs, values, and ways of life will help gain the full picture to understand the history of the Haitians and the strength that they have despite the challenges that they face. Being an effective social work leader is being able to embrace the diversity of the client, help them recognize their strengths, in the efforts to make a change for the…

Laws are placed to keep us, the people, safe. We even put people out there to regulate those laws, and to offer punishment to those who don't follow them. When people resist laws it puts the lawmakers in a bad place. People who are boycotting the laws because they don't want to support what goes against their values. You can't please everyone and keep everyone safe. Opposition to anything is almost always met with a wall of stubbornness from the other side. Take, for example, abortion. There are…

thugs. In the article "Stop Calling Quake Victims Looters," Guy-Uriel Charles writes how the media stereotypes African-Americans and Haitian Americans as "looters" after a natural disaster. I agree with Charles when he states the media does portray African Americans more negatively than Whites. The media treats white people differently than African-Americans and Haitian Americans in the event of a natural disaster. The Washington Post conducted an experiment where they asked participants to…