Jean-Bertrand Aristide

country was passed over to the French as if it were a baton in a relay race as opposed to an Island that contained other human beings. Unlike the Spanish, the French gained more from ruling over Haiti, which was then known as Saint Domingue. The colony, which was slave based was soon producing sugar and coffee at a very successful rate. Fed up with the oppression and exploitation by the French, a violent slave uprising occurred, and Haiti became the first free black republic in the world in 1804. This however did not end foreign involvement in Haiti’s political affairs. In 1994 US involvement in Haiti continued when U.S President Bill Clinton sent 20,000 troops to help reinstall the first democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who was…

Just like South Africa, Haiti had a rushed timeline where they were expected to deliver their findings based upon the de facto government, which had previously overthrown president Jean-Bertrand Aristide in a coup d’état. The Haitian government had very limited funding when they were tasked to gather the evidence and testimonies from thousands of victims. Despite these challenges, the commission was able to complete their task just one day prior to the departure of president Aristide. With his…

The article looks at the second ouster of then-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and compares the violence surrounding his removal to past political violence in the country such as the armed mob led by Louis Jean-Jacques Acaau to try to take control of the government in 1844. Importantly, she says, “In the 200 years Haiti's elite has squabbled for power, René noted, its members never built a state that redistributed wealth or provided things like education, health care, roads or electricity”…

It is apparent that Euthyphro does not truly know what piety is; therefore, his soul is not in the best possible state since he has false beliefs. Certainly, money can buy education; however, it cannot buy true knowledge, which can only be attained through one 's desire and persistence to do philosophy. True knowledge, unlike wealth, is embedded within oneself. Even if Euthyphro had money to buy education to know what piety truly is, he would not know until he does philosophy. Bertrand Russell…

Eric Russell: High school english teacher, Advanced Placement Coordinator, yearbook advisor, husband, father of three, and my Helene Tucker. Dick Gregory once wrote, “Everyone’s got a Helene Tucker, a symbol of everything you want” (pg. 168). Symbol, by definition, means a mark or character used as a conventional representation of another. My high school english teacher, Mr. Eric Russell symbolizes me in many aspects of life, such as, accomplishing goals set in life, achieving infinite, intimate…

This essay will summarize the article, The Value of Philosophy to Individual life by Bertrand Russell. Russell’s goal of his article is to explain the everyday uses of philosophy and how philosophy influences human’s life both directly an indirectly. Russell also discusses how philosophy expands the human knowledge of what could be. Philosophy, according to Russell, frees our minds from the imprisonment of common sense. Therefore, this essay will explain Russell’s work and the point of his…

What in the Tractatus is Wittgenstein Talking About? Early Wittgenstein seems to suggest that sentences of natural science have meaning, without being able to give meaning to the way of which we understand those sentences. This dismisses philosophy as only a tool to help clarify claims of natural science. However, he uses philosophy to come to this realization. He makes the realization that the way he explains his own findings are in fact a violation of those findings stating, “My propositions…

Kylin Munger Intro to Literature Poetry Analysis Due: 2-23-18 Poetry Analysis: “Daddy” and “How Do I Love Thee” Sylvia Plath was an author in the Modern Era in which she wrote her poem entitled “Daddy” (Plath). In her poem, Plath reflects the Modern Era in which her attitude and words convey the relationship she had with her father. The second author, Elizabeth Barrett Browning with her poem, “How Do I Love Thee” (Barrett Browning) was a poet in the Victorian Era. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s…

Some would say that philosophy and the critical thinking that comes with it is as important to the mind and soul as food is to the body. This influence philosophy has on an individual has been argued as having various degrees by innumerable scholars. One such that makes the case for its relevance is Bertrand Russell, in his The Problems of Philosophy, most notably in “Chapter XV: The Value of Philosophy.” In his writings, Russell strongly illustrates the value philosophy holds and the importance…

The Matrix: Final There is an assurance that at one point in life, the end will come for each individual and everybody will perish at one point. For now, as humans and living things, we are all doing what we do best, exist. However, imagine if the life one believes to be a part of was not actual and in fact, it was all just a virtual concept in the mind. Having had watched the film, The Matrix, this paper analyzes comparisons between appearance and reality to the writings of Bertrand Russell’s,…