Haiti Earthquake “People poured out into the streets‚ crying‚ carrying bodies…” (Addley 1) Haiti is one of the poorest countries and home to more than 2 million people. Haiti was not prepared especially since Port-au-Prince‚ their capital‚ has very poorly built construction on its buildings and houses. “Haiti is a poor country with lax building standards and high population density‚ which makes buildings more likely to crumble.” (Thompson 1) Due to the earthquake and all the damage that happened
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Has globalization helped Haiti in handling the devastation of the earthquake? Haiti’s worst earthquake in two centuries hit south of the capital Port-au-Prince in 12 January 2010. Hundreds of buildings were damaged or destroyed‚ millions were relocated‚ thousands died. The BBC documental video “Surviving Haiti” showed how lives changed after the earthquake‚ how government was handling the situation and what measures were taken to help. As Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world‚ the
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Research notes for Geography final assignment: List of major earthquakes in Haiti • 1751 Port-au-Prince earthquake (18 October): According to French historian Moreau de Saint-Méry‚ "only one masonry building had not collapsed" in Port-au-Prince‚ Haiti’s capital city. • 1770 Port-au-Prince earthquake (3 June): The city was leveled in this magnitude 7.5 quake‚ which killed over 200 people. • 1783: A strong quake partially destroyed the church in Santiago.[1] • 1842 Cap-Haitien earthquake
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cooking and drinking‚ the average American uses about 100 gallons of water per day (“Water.org”). Additionally‚ they know that their water will always be clean. Now imagine Haiti‚ where the average person lives off of only 4-5 gallons of water per day‚ which may or may not be clean water (“Water.org”). Millions of people in Haiti suffer every day due to a lack of clean‚ usable water. Fortunately‚ to help combat this terrible human rights abuse‚ there’s a non-governmental organization called Water.org
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y Poverty in the Philippines Acknowledgement: We would like to thank the following who made this project successful. Yahoo.com and wikipedia.org for giving information and facts about our research. Dell for our laptop used in our research. Mama Maria’s Pizzeria for our snacks and refreshment. Ian’s Neighbor for WIFI Connection. And some people from the Poor communities who were interviewed to make this research more realistic. Dedication:
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present day many people around the world can agree with rudder’s core sentiment‚ ’Haiti‚ I’m sorry’‚ even if they do not support his argument: "Toussaint was a mighty man/And to make matters worse he was black/Black and back in the days when black men knew/Their place was in the back/But this rebel‚ he walked through Napoleon/Who thought it wasn’t very nice/And so today my brothers in Haiti/They still pay the price.” Haiti represents the international opinion of independence‚ sovereignty and freedom
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January 12th 2010 4:53PM‚ the phone rang….Hispaniola whom which I call Haiti was bawling. Her heart‚ Port-au-prince‚ was completely ruined‚ she bleed and bleed and heard the bones intensively crashing brutally against each other until they converted into ashes. Her green dress metamorphosed into a white costume‚ her veins and arteries were ripped… she had no shelter. Once she realized that her brain was damaged‚ a depression impulsively engulfed her body and left her with nothing more than a reprieving
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Haiti and the Dominican Republic are vastly different counties that have unique systems of classification of race‚ ethnicity‚ and governmental structures. The history of the countries of Haiti and The Dominican Republic shape how these countries classify race. To comprehend the demographical differences in Haiti and the Dominican Republic‚ we need to analyze how historical contexts shape the structures of those countries today. The racial data collected by Haitian and Dominican Republican citizens
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Haiti Earthquake The last major earthquake to hit Haiti prior to the 2010 was in 1984. On the 12th of January 2010 the small Caribbean country of Haiti was hit by a catastrophic earthquake of 7.0 magnitude. The earthquake struck on the afternoon of the 12th of January at 4:57pm and hit south-west of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince killing 316‚000 and affecting millions of residents. 1.5 million people were displaced and approximately 250‚000 residences and 30‚000 commercial buildings were
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struck the Port-au-Prince region of Haiti (Figure A)‚ killing more than 200‚000 people‚ leaving more than 1.5 million homeless‚ and destroying most governmental‚ technical‚ and educational infrastructure throughout this region of 3 million people. It was also strongly felt in the Dominican Republic but caused no damage there because of the significant distance between major urban centers and the epicenter. The event caused an estimated $8 billion in damages in Haiti‚ ~120% of the country’s GDP. No other
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