History of Haiti

For my interview I chose to interview my 56 year old aunt Mara, from my mom’s side of the family. We share similarities in that we are both Dominican-American, the difference being that I was born here, where she lived the first thirty-Five years of her life in the Dominican Republic, then assimilated into American culture. In the Dominican Republic she was a doctor of medicine, she practiced there for five years until she married her second husband, who was an American citizen. Mara had three…

The Enemy is a horror novel written by Charlie Higson, published in 2011. The Enemy is a book written in present day London about zombies. The zombie disease started in New York and anyone over sixteen contracted it. Any group of zombies are called Grownups, while separately they were mothers and fathers. The children took shelter in groups in different locations, and in time built small fortresses. All of the fortresses are named after the town that they were in. all the kids in London started…

slaves had little to no rights. They were considered property, they had to work everyday, and their living conditions were horrible, causing the majority of them to die young. These inequalities fed a will to be free in the enslaved residents of Haiti. The majority of Haitian slaves having come from a background of freedom amplified the urge to revolt. At the time that the revolution began, the upper classes were in complete disorder. The ideas of the French Revolution had impacted the Gens de…

The Haitian economy along with the economy of many other nations were greatly impacted by the Haitian Revolution. The French colony Saint Domingue with its tropical climate, whose export depended on farming and trading. Saint-Domingue produced over 60 percent of the world’s coffee and 40 percent of the world’s sugar, causing it to be a very profitable plantation colony. The economy was fueled by the slavery of the Haitian people which resulted in the revolution. The Haitian Revolution had made a…

On January 12 2010, an earthquake hit Haiti. This earthquake was 7.0 on the Ricther scale which lead to catastrophic damage and 150,000 deaths. Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, suffered the most damage and lost the most people. Haiti is one of the poorest counties in the Western hemisphere and this disaster left the people of Haiti homeless and helpless. In response to this horrendous disaster and to help the people of Haiti, Crisis Relief Singapore led six teams of medical personnel and…

was mainly hit on the offshore regions of Maule. It was mainly hit on the borderlines of Nazca and South American tectonic plates. (CNN) Since 1960 earthquake, this earthquake was reported as one of the second biggest and tremendous earthquake in history. Not only did the earthquake damage 93% of the Chile’s population with no power, it generated a tsunami that hit the coastline of Chile, approximately 30 minutes after the earthquake happened. (sheltercasestudies) The after struck of the…

Francesca Duong, Forest Hills Central High School People’s Republic of China United Nations Children’s Fund: Improving Health Conditions in Haiti After Hurricane Matthew On October 4, 2016, Hurricane Matthew struck Haiti as a Category 4 hurricane. Haiti is a country extremely susceptible to natural disasters, and Hurricane Matthew only added to its list. Roughly, there has a two percent decrease in Haiti’s GDP every year from 1975 to 2012 as a result of the damages from natural disasters.…

The Dominican Republic, originally known as la Hispañola, including Haiti, was discovered by Christopher Columbus in December 5th, 1492. It is an island in the Caribbean which shares border with Haiti. In October of 1500, Governor De Bobadilla of Santo Domingo arrested Christopher Columbus and sent him in restraints to Spain. Columbus, during his third break to the new world, busy in a dispute with the representative of Santo Domingo, Hispaniola Columbus was later free and pardoned by the Queen…

Toussant Louveture from the French Haiti colony. As said before, each of these men fought for independence with a real emphasis on racial equality, but through each of these cases, this inequality manifested itself in different ways. For instance, when looking at Haiti it was a massive enslaved african population, with a pathetically small white population holding all the power, while in New Spain most of the racially inequality came from the ability…

The reason behind the massive destruction in Haiti was due to the lack of infrastructure and structurally sound dwellings. This issue stems from three other issues and they are building codes, construction materials, and population density & urbanization. All of which are an effect of Haiti being a poverty stricken country (Inside Disaster: Haiti). Since Haiti is poverty stricken it lends to the issue of people building where they want and how they can. And according to Cletus Spring, director…