Three years later‚ and $7.8 billion of damages done‚ Haiti is still in shambles from the catastrophic 7.0 earthquake of 2010. The Republic of Haiti is in desperate need of restoration. The people of this impoverished nation are living in tents‚ suffering from malaria‚ and dying of starvation. Because of the earthquake‚ many buildings have been destroyed‚ wiping out businesses and schools‚ leaving adults and kids out of work and out of school. Although the cost of rebuilding Haiti is extensive‚ it
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maria Section 1 September 8‚ 2011 The main idea in the article ‘’Now as well as Then: Our early forbears” by R. Orlando Marville is about a few different groups of indigenous people Lokono‚ Kalina‚ and Garifuna. The Lokono and Kalina had very different structures the Lokonos were a simple agrarian community that settled by the water for the growth of their crops and who believed that their cacique or chief could be either both man or woman. The Kalina were traditionally patrilineal which means
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define who they are. My culture is Haitian. Like other cultures‚ Haiti has a language‚ religion‚ social habits‚ music arts‚ and cuisine. The name Haiti itself means “mountainous country”. The Haitian Culture comes from strong African and French roots. Haiti was the first independently black ruled-nation in the world. January 1st is Haiti’s Independence Day. The primary language in the Haitian culture is Creole or Kreyol. A predominate feature about the Haitian culture is festivals. Festivals are
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so much different from the world that I was living in. I never really cared until I moved to United States. My family is Haitian‚ some of my cousins are from Venezuela like me and since I’m a person that has well communication with everybody (which means I like to talk about everything to people)‚ I decided to learn other languages‚ my first language is Spanish‚ second is (Haitian Creole)‚ third is English and I know some French also. I remember when I arrive at the airport in Florida‚ I thought I
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You are not important enough to be “Dear”. It would be too formal to say “To Whom it May Concern”. I cannot say your name without cringing. Aside from formalities‚ I am writing to you to let you know that I forgive you‚ even though you overlooked the fact I begged you to stop and you ignored how I cried tears of helplessness. I do not expect or even want a reply to this letter. I would not respond or even read it if a reply was sent to me. This letter is for my benefit and only my benefit. It is
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Homasom Hippolite-Amadi Professor C. Neenan English111: Process Analysis Essay 11 March 2013. How a Nigerian Applicant Should Prepare for an American Student Visa The visa can be seen as ones ticket to a journey‚ a step forward to an adventure. The visa is issued at embassies of the desired country one wants to go to‚ however‚ the experience that comes with applying for and getting a visa can be quite unforgettable. In Nigeria‚ there are two United States embassies; one is located at the formal
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from The Emigrants by Edward Kamau Brathwaite The poem from The Emigrants by Edward Kamau Brathwaite is the thoughts of an indigenous inhabitant‚ the persona‚ thinking of the invasion that has been so abruptly brought upon them which they must now face. We know that the persona is one of the inhabitants because in line four and twelve‚ the repetition of “my” personalizes what is happening‚ coming from an inhabitant’s perspective. The themes perception versus reality‚ power‚ discovery and war
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The group of Swedish people came to America mainly for job opportunities. They started to travel here in the 1840s when a group o pioneers started a migration tradition between certain areas in the United States. This caused what they call‚ colonies‚ to form in settlements including: western Illinois‚ Iowa‚ central Texas‚ southern Minnesota‚ and western Wisconsin. The population overgrowth in Sweden was a major reason for the people of Sweden to leave their home country. Religion beliefs and political
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In The Emigrants‚ author W. G. Sebald uses many returning themes as a way to represent the struggles that emigrants repeatedly experience. Going through a traumatic event‚ such as being forced to leave one’s home‚ leads to the need for repetition as a coping mechanism. This repetition is an outlet for the emigrants‚ because they long to feel as if they have control in their lives. All of the emigrants that Sebald introduces throughout the novel have the same obsession with looking out a window‚ or
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Judith Ortiz Cofer and Ishmael Reed are the same as they have both been judged for their ethnicity. Being predisposed to racism and stereotypes just because the color of their skin. It his the thought that they have the similarity in their pre judgement because they have different American experiences. In The Myth Of The Latian Woman: I Just Met A Girl Named Maria Judith Ortiz Cofer States “ You can leave the island‚ master the English language‚ and travel as far as you can ‚but if you are Latina
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