Haitian Creole Haitian Creole (HC) is a language that is derived from French and West African. It is one of the two national languages of Haiti; however, it was not recognized as such until 1987 (Etienne, 2005). Prior to 1987, the only national language of Haiti was French even though only about 10-15% of the Haitian population speaks French while 90-95% speak HC. This late acceptance date of HC as a national language is possibly due to the attitudes and feelings towards HC. Etienne (2005) studied
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Haiti, just like any country in the world has its vast history that influences what it is today. Haiti is unique because of its regional, historical, and ethnicities. Haiti has its many firsts compared to many nations: it is the first country in the Caribbean that got its independence, the first post-colonial nation that is predominantly black, and the first one that got its independence through slave rebellion which was successfully staged. Moreover, Haiti is the only country in the Caribbean who
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this novel is the most painful. It discusses Paul’s medical work in the poorest country in the world, Haiti. He details the many misfortunes of a few of his patients. After observing a growing number of AIDS patients who had no access to medical care, the countless civilians tortured and killed by the military, Paul gets to the root of the problem, which ends up to be a political issue. Haiti is a country that has been under the boot of the United States. Paul further states that the Haitian military
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Fort Robinson Fort Robinson was a base of operations developed in 1874 to use against the Northern Cheyenne and Lakota tribes. Fort Robinson was located in the northwestern corner of Nebraska and was named Lieutenant Levi Robinson who had died earlier that year. The fort is well-known as the site of Lakota chief Crazy Horse’s death in 1877, and the Northern Cheyenne’s 1879 winter escape from captivity. From 1890 to 1891, Fort Robinson also was a vital part of the military operations during
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t Economic System suited for handling natural disasters. When trying to determine which economic system would be best suited for handling a crisis of epic proportions such as a hurricane, blizzard, flood; and forest fire. One must first seek to understand the difference between the economic systems. One must also have a complete understanding of each systems strengths and weakness that may be prevalent in the circumstance that would surround such a crisis. It is my understanding that a free market
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Writing is so ingrained in our culture, as well as in other cultures, that it can often seem as natural as the speech that it represents. One’s own writing system is often seen as the best for accurately conveying ideas and all others are somehow less clear or concise. This idea stems from the inherent belief that one’s culture is superior to others. In our culture, our orthographic and verbal universes often do not extend beyond the languages and writing systems with which we are familiar. Our
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The uprising of nearly 100,000 slaves in Saint-Domingue from 1791-1804 was the largest insurrection of slaves in history. The Haitian Revolution resulted in the creation of the first successful independent freed slave state in the world, a fact that rocked the socio-political, economic, and moral foundations of the Caribbean.[1] However, in the period following the Revolution, there is a noted increase of slavery in the Caribbean as a whole. Did the success of the Haitian uprising merely serve
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folktales vibrate with tragedy, humor and the real music of Black American speech." A published short story writer by the time she came to New York in 1925, Hurston studied anthropology at Barnard, where she was the college's first African-American student. After graduation, Hurston pursued graduate work at Columbia with renowned anthropologist Franz Boas. She left New York to conduct research in Florida and in Haiti and Jamaica, and her field work resulted in the folklore collections Mules and
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is first recorded in 1819, in a history of Brazil by the poet Robert Southey, in the form of "zombi".[3] The Oxford English Dictionary gives the origin of the word as West African, and compares it to the Kongo words nzambi (god) and zumbi (fetish). One of the first books to expose Western culture to the concept of the voodoo zombie was The Magic Island by W.B. Seabrook in 1929. This is the sensationalized account of a narrator who encounters voodoo cults in Haiti and their resurrected thralls.
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life; the identities that make them unique from other ethnicities are built based on experiences and traits. On the other hand, many experts argue that ethnicity, as an occurrence is a socially built mainly as individuals select a particular part of history as well as to focus on their dissimilarity from other ethnicities. Therefore, collective ethnicities do not just focus on the somebody's skin color but also on the values and beliefs of their choice, which also includes religion and political beliefs
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