After the Haiti earthquake of 2010 many lives were destroyed. The people were suffering from loss of loved ones as well as loss of property and possessions. “More than 220,000 were killed in the January 12, magnitude-7 quake, and an estimated 2 million people are living in temporary shelter in Port-au-Prince…The earthquake caused an estimated $7 billion in damage.” Haitians were suffering and in need of assistance.
This photograph describes what Haiti looks like for miles. Destruction and devastation. The lost, worried family and the remains of the hurricane are the most prominent elements of this photograph. When looking at this picture the eye is drawn the the dirty, young girl. She expresses sadness and concern.
In Haiti at least 50 percent of the population don’t go to school! People in Haiti also only make about 1,800 a year. (Brown and Smith). In The Giver by Lois Lowry The society is a welcoming society. They each have jobs and make money and enough money to feed their families and live in homes.
In today’s ultra-polarized world it's common for people to see something only through one point of view, skewing their opinion. This phenomenon is often referred to as a “single story”; a term popularized by a prominent Nigerian author in her TedED talk titled “Dangers of a Single Story.” Reflecting this theme author, Edwidge Danticat's novel “Krik? Krak!” describes several different short stories surrounding the setting of Haiti. Many people think of Haiti as a war-torn country with mass suffering. Danticat although acknowledging this in her novel she writes about the good.
In the repercussion of a magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck Haiti near Port Au Prince in January 2010, people started dying from a organism that Haiti had never experienced before. The massive outbreak would become the world’s largest Cholera epidemic in decades. In Deadly River: Cholera and Cover-Up in Post-Earthquake Haiti by Ralph R. Frerichs, the author recounts Renaud Piarroux’s experience during the Cholera outbreak in Haiti and the political upset that ensued in the impoverished country. In the aftermath of the earthquake, Renaud Piarroux, a French epidemiologist, was asked to investigate the outbreak of Cholera by the Haiti government.
One community has shelter, food, and necessary needs, on the other hand 13% of Haitians required assistance for food, shelter, and medical care. The Giver by Lois Lowry is a book about a society that is perfect. People get chosen their positions for the rest of their life so they do not have to stress about what to do. In the article “Haiti in Crisis” by Bryan Brown and Patricia Smith, there are many people in poverty, and they struggle to build up any homes and a government to help rebuild the country. In this situation the more structured and functional community is The Giver’s community.
Haiti is a country that has a very risky political environment. The country has been known to be beset with radical protests that have even turned violent. The environmental devastations have also had a substantial effect on Haiti’s political arena. “Perhaps the biggest challenge facing Haiti’s government is rebuilding the country in the aftermath of the devastating 2010 earthquake and reconciliation. Lack of transparency in the using foreign aid is also an important related issue and the prime cause of poverty and inequality” (bricefoundation.org).
Whereas in the article “Haiti in Crisis” their world from falling apart. Most people are homeless and barely living. They do not know what to expect and everything is complicated. The Giver’s community is definitely the most desirable place to live than Haiti.
Historically, Haiti has been oppressed, first by the slave owners that brought them to Haiti from Africa, and then by countries like the US. Despite all the despairing past, Haiti has a vibrant culture. “Haiti had its own music and literature. Paintings by Haitian artists hung in European and American museums. The people of Haiti had created their own complex religion, Voodoo … It was a system of belief that seemed all the more worth studying because it was so widely misunderstood and ridiculed” (Kidder, 2004, pg. 81).
Haiti is traditionally known to be a poor, rural, and undeveloped country. In Dieumeme Noelliste’s article titled “Poverty and The Gospel: The Case of Haiti” she states that although
Krik? Krak!, a collection of short stories, depicts the life of Haitian despair and hope for change. Through these stories of Haiti within Krik? Krak! , Edwidge Danticat shows the paradoxical effects of
Joshua Morgan Oral Communication Professor Currie General purpose-to inform Specific purpose- my classmates will be able to convey how I grew to have an intimate relationship with Haiti Central idea-Haiti has a special place in my heart Intro Attention grabber- Haiti is not a large country, Haiti 's border with the Dominican-Republic is only 159 miles. To put that in perspective, if you were to drive along the border at 60 mph 's, it would only take you 2 hours and 39 mins.
A utopian community is a community of perfection, nothing is wrong. In a utopia there is no crime, no sadness, no problems, no anger, nothing wrong. Some characteristics of a dystopia are limitation of knowledge, no free will, no love, no happiness, and in many cases crime. In The Giver many readers may struggle knowing that the community in The Giver is what it is, a dystopia.
In the newly independent Haiti, all Haitians were defined as "black," and the notion of being black in Haiti was not an issue of phenotype but, “of a commitment to the values of equality and freedom and an opposition to colonialism”. Thus, generating a psychological shock to the emerging intellectual traditions of, “an increasingly racist Europe and North America that saw a hierarchical world eternally dominated by types representative of their own somatic images”. In Haiti, all citizens were legally equal, regardless of color, race, or condition, and civic participation was extended to all Haitians, and citizens were encouraged to utilize their freedom by expressing their rights. In the aftermath of the revolution, it became important to Haiti, that emancipation would be permanently maintained for all citizens of
Haiti, a sovereign state located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, is one of the world 's poorest and least developed countries. Same to other developing countries, Haiti developed agriculture instead of industry. Furthermore, Haiti is a country which always happened flooding, droughts, hurricanes and other meteorological disasters that were mainly caused by climate change. These disasters did affect Haiti a lot in the aspect of economy change, diseases like malaria or cholera caused by tropical Cyclone hotspots and vulnerability and adaptive capability of this country. First of all, hurricanes and droughts caused by climate change produced a very big effect on economy of Haiti.
