development was credited as key to Haiti’s economic betterment. Despite the earthquake in the areas in and around the capital city‚ millions of Haitians were forced to move to these IDP camps due to harsh economic circumstance in the countryside. Haiti has had a housing sector crisis even before the earthquake‚ which was estimated at 700‚000 units. Additionally‚ at least another 250‚000 houses were damaged by the earthquake resulting in the housing sector suffering a total damage of USD 2.3 billion
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Vanessa Fantauzzi Student St. Petersburg College Research supported by http://www.globalsurance.com/resources/dominican-republic/ The Dominican Republic shares the Caribbean island of Hispaniola with Haiti. The island was reached by explorer Christopher Columbus on his first trip to the New World from Europe in 1492‚ and was inhabited by indigenous Tainos before the arrival of Spanish colonists. Traditionally a sugar producer‚ the economy of the Dominican
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30-Crash Course World History Video Notes The Haitian Revolution 1. The _____________ colony in Saint Domingue began in the 17th century as a pirate outpost. Its original French inhabitants made their living selling leather and a kind of smoked beef called boucan. 2. After 1640‚ the boucan-sellers started to run low on beef and turned to robbing Spanish galleons which as you’ll recall were loaded with _____________mined from South America. 3. By the middle of the 17th century‚ many of them invested
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Coursework Essay: Examine at least THREE dramatic devices used by any TWO playwrights studied in the course and discuss their effectiveness in terms of audience response and/or plot development. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary (n.pag.)‚ drama can be defined as‚ “a composition in verse or prose intended to portray life or character or to tell a story usually involving conflicts and emotions through action and
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Slave revolution. Before it became an independent nation‚ Saint- Domingue (currently Haiti) was a French colony. Saint- Domingue started as an outlaw territory. Saint Domingue attracted a great deal of naval‚ deserter castaways and indentured servants. These were mostly single men seeking good fortune in the New World. “When the colonies were founded and at the moment when Africans began to be brought in to cultivate them‚ there were no or almost no European women present” (Dubois and Garrigus‚
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communities and the desperation that they stand in front of. The Kingdom of This World (El reino de este mundo)‚ a novel by the Cuban author Alejo Carpentier‚ published in 1949 in Spanish‚ is a work of historical fiction which conveys the story of Haiti before‚ during‚ and after the Haitian Revolution against the French colonisers‚ as witnessed by its protagonist‚ Ti Noel. Ahmadou Kourouma’s first novel The Suns of Independence (Les soleils des indépendances)‚
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Sunday‚ September 9th‚ 1739 was a pivotal day in history in the climb towards freedom for enslaved African Americans. On this day‚ what became known as the Stono Rebellion‚ was led by Jemmy‚ an Angolan literate slave. He was most likely owned by the Cato family‚ who lived just north of the Stono River‚ so he was also known as Cato. 20 other enslaved Africans congregated and made a plan to go to Spanish Florida where they sought the freedom offered in Saint Augustine for slaves who managed to successfully
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there and the founding of the Republic of Haiti. The Haitian Revolution was the only slave revolt which led to the founding of a state. Furthermore‚ it is generally considered the most successful slave rebellion ever to have occurred and as a defining moment in the histories of both Europe and the Americas. The rebellion began with a revolt of black African slaves in August 1791. It ended in November 1803 with the French defeat at the battle of Vertières. Haiti became an independent country on January
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Caribbean. Because of the harsh conditions and rigorous demands on the plantation many slaves died rapidly. The origin of the plantation system was as a means to control economic‚ political‚ and social power in Caribbean society. With the exception of Haiti‚ which won its independence in 1804 through revolutionary battles‚ the independence of the British Caribbean slave’s came some years later. The slaves believed that they would come to enjoy the equal rights‚ as their white former masters‚ but the era
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slave revolt in history. With every revolution comes questions such as; why did they revolt? What lead to the revolt? Were they successful? What was the end result of the revolution? The revolution of the French colony of St. Domingue‚ now known as Haiti‚ was justified because the Haitians formed a new state with a new successful government‚ they separated from France‚ and the Haitians achieved their own rights as humans. Every revolution has a cause‚ no country would overthrow their government for
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