Michèle Bennett

A major issue at the center of Danticat’s novel, “The Dew Breaker” deals with the brutal military dictatorship of Haiti. There are numerous chapters in Danticat book where she expresses how brutal the Presidents army, the Tontons Macoutes, were to the citizens of Haiti. Danticat depicts the misery, violence, and suffering of the Haitian people under the hands of President Jean-Claude Duvalier and his military personnal. The novel showcases how the supreme power of Duvalier was exercised, through the macoutes, to commit crimes against humanity by personal accounts of numerous characters within the book. President Jean-Claude Duvalier ruled Haiti from 1971 to 1986, when he was forced to flee. He succeeded to President after his father’s death at the young age of 19. He governed Haiti far longer than any other President as he announced him to be Haiti’s President for Life[1]. Duvalier is known for his brutal crimes against humanity by way of the macoutes, his military army. Duvalier would have the macoutes “round-up citizens” of Haiti to have them come and listen to him deliver a speech. The macoutes would scout the public and offer young men the opportunity to join their military group in exchange for a life of luxury. This was a lucrative way of conducting business for the President as well as the macoutes[2]. Danticat depicts the misery, violence, and suffering of many Haitian individuals under the hands of this President and his military by the use of numerous characters…

I kept my cool walking out of my manager’s office. Keeping my emotions off my face has never been particularly difficult for me. However, at this moment the struggle was real. I slightly clenched my hand and flashed a fake smile while walking past my co-workers and their gray dull cubicles. The second I was out of the office, I dropped the smile and continued the 15 minute walk to my car. A small hint of relief hit me when I entered my car. I could finally release this pent-up energy inside and…

Carrying dust up to 200 miles off the Atlantic coast, the storm blackened cities and traveled at over 100 miles per hour. Animals and insects fled south and a woman believing the storm marked the beginning of Armageddon, killed her child to spare her the horror. And while Hugh Hammond Bennett was delivering a speech to Congress about soil preservation, dust rained down on Washington D.C. and blackened out the sun. Congress passed his legislation. This is something that Liberal News got on April…

However, the problem for curing the land was still unsolved. One man who thought he could change that was Hugh Bennett. Hugh Bennett was a soil scientist who had long declared that the problem of the dust bowl was due to soil erosion. The settlers had torn up the prairie grass that for thousands of years had held the topsoil down and then the soil had dried up with the drought; devoid of an anchor, the soil could be carried away by the high prairie winds. Bennett wanted to replant the grass and…

Unfortunately for him, when the next election came, there was a new president who promised, “Happy Days Are Here Again” (pg.131), this was President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt tried to reassure people that their money would be insured. This was the creation of the Emergency Banking Bill, which said the government would insure your money and back your dollars. Next Roosevelt needed to help the farmers, so he added Hugh Bennett to his team, who was there to try and help the farmers, realizes…

products (Greenhouse, paragraph 6). It is not a surprise that “we are a culture consumed by image” (Bennett, paragraph 2) rather than by education…

1, 2016 at the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center in D.C., there was a legislative hearing on Gun Violence Prevention. The hearing took place at 9:00am, and the purpose of it was to increase sufficient gun legislations to keep communities safer. The hearing also tried to address the needs of the poorer communities and give them a chance to receive trauma counseling. The Chairperson was Michele Goodwin and she was presenting on behalf of the public affairs committee. The main members who were…

accessed on www.hoovers.com. 3. Jay Conrad Levinson and Seth Grodin, The Guerrilla Marketing Handbook (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994). 4. See Irving J. Rein, Philip Kotler, and Martin Stoller, High Visibility (Chicago: NTC Publishers, 1998). 5. See Philip Kotler, Irving J. Rein, and Donald Haider, Marketing Places: Attracting Investment, Industry, and Tourism to Cities, States, and Nations (New York: Free Press, 1993). 6. See Carl Shapiro and Hal R. Varian, “Versioning: The Smart Way to…