History of Haiti

DIntroduction Haiti a small country near the equator. I think that Haiti is a developing country because they have a limited amount of clean water and natural resources. Haiti Economy Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. World Bank data put Haiti's GDP at just over $11.9 billion in 2011. With a population of 10.12 million people, that translates to a GDP per capita of only $1,179. What little economic resources Haiti has are highly unevenly distributed. The 2010 UNDP HDR…

To some people the years 1994,1998,2008 and 2010 are just years. But to the people of Haiti, these years are the years that changed their lives drastically. Through the loss of loved ones, homes and so much more. The Haitian people display courage and resilience because they have still found ways to come back despite the odds. The Haitian people are a people that overcome many dangerous and serious natural disasters. Especially, the 2010, 7.0 earthquake that killed over 100,000(Mothers,…

Jean Jacques Dessalines had distinguished himself as the lieutenant of L’Ouverture since he joined the rebellion in 1791. When L’Ouverture was removed from office in 1802, Dessalines fought for the French in favor of them reconquering the colony. Although, “after Toussaint’s capture and deportation in 1802, Dessalines deemed that the war was now a revolution for total independence rather than colonial autonomy with emancipation.” (Twa). With this statement came the realization that in 1803…

"Sometimes, though, you have to wonder if the planet itself in not conspiring against this humble little nation." says Pitts. Haiti is political instability from all the earthquakes. Haiti is always dealing with the fact that, its all part of life. They mourn but they get back up and start to rebuild there homes because that is what they have to do. We need to realize that we can help them get back on their feet that they are not alone in this time of trouble. Humanity is a great theme expressed…

made me very nervous because when I remember in my home country of Haiti, Voodoo is a serious subject, nothing to play with. Though the thought of going to this place made me extremely uneasy. Second, I packed up my gear and got in the truck with him. Formerly, on a daily basis, Drew and I go out in the county…

Words are extremely powerful; perhaps if people understood what a single phrase can make an individual do, feel, or think, we would think not only twice but rather three or four times before we went on in speaking our minds. The United States of America symbolizes freedom; the statue of liberty located in the city of New York, is a good representation of what we as Americans are guaranteed. Freedom of speech, the right to follow any religion, and the right to love and marry whoever we want are…

Massacre River is a novel about the "Parsley Massacre" " perejil" which is mainly centered around a young couple who falls in love. They are, the Dominican Pedro Brito and his beautiful Haitian wife Adèle who both live in Elias Piña. This is a city located close to the massacre river boarding between the Dominican Republic and The Republic of Haiti.This novel makes reference to the massacre or genocide happened in the Dominican Republic in 1937. The president Rafael Leonidas Trujillo ordered…

African culture is discernible in every culture – through black people’s suffering and discrimination, they were able to create different types of art all over the world. Since the time of slavery, African Americans created music with hidden messages in them, longing for the freedom and opportunities every human being should have. Through these songs, black people instilled a hopeful feeling in themselves and their children, passing it on to the present day generation. Black artists of today,…

To gain a better understanding of the African American family, one must study the African philosophy and cosmology. By learning about the philosophies origins and its five themes, the black family will be able to harmonize itself and begin to see what is wrong with research done by people like E. Franklin Frazier and Daniel Moynihan. Once this is accomplished the black family can free itself from western conceptual incarceration. There are five central themes in African philosophy and cosmology…

civilization as beginning nearly 5,000 years prior to the first slaves landing in North America. Perhaps the greatest injustice ever conferred onto the African diaspora in America was the large-scale insistence on minimizing the vast and bountiful history from which they originated. W.E.B Du Bois, in writing The Souls of Black Folk draws a powerful comparison between this categorical miseducation that was necessary to perpetuate slavery in America, and the further miseducation that was necessary…