While reports from the ground on the effects of the quake are spotty because of downed communication lines, geologists can use worldwide measurements of the event as well as their general knowledge ofhow earthquakes workto piece together a picture of what happened in Haiti. Sliding plates Earthqua...
What happened during the Haitian Revolution? The French Colony of St. Dominque: Before the Haitian Revolution, the island was known as St. Dominque and was the most valuable colony owned by France. Slave labor in Haiti was extremely brutal; because a large proportion of slaves would die within...
The setting for the novel is during the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. At this time in the Carribean Basin there were multiple countries with dictatorships (often through covert US involvement) including Guatemala, El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, Honduras, Venezuela, and ...
C- first semester; Integrated Math 3, but ended the year with a B-. This year I made a decision to not enter math and it happened to be a huge difference in my transcript. I studied my hardest and received a total of a 4.0 GPA my first semester of my senior year and hope to ...
Mary Celeste would sail under different owners for 12 years before its last captain deliberately ran it aground in Haiti as part of an attempted insurance fraud. In 2001, best-selling novelist and adventurer Clive Cussler claimed to have found the wreck of Mary Celeste, but later analysis of ...
At a time of enormous needs in Haiti and elsewhere, when so many Americans are trying to help Haitians by sending everything from text messages to shoes, the Salwens offer an example of a family that came together to make a difference — for themselves as much as the people they were ...
Open Document When I came to America, people told me I wouldn’t be able to learn how to speak english as quickly as everyone else. However, I was determined to prove them wrong, so every night I practiced my english. It took me a long time to practice it and to learn it. I was...
King’s a lot, but to have him at this space with all these heads being like “This is the coolest thing that’s ever happened” was a really special moment that was exactly what I wanted to try and do with Baby’s in the first place. How to support Baby’s All Right: Donate ...
This almost-documentary feeling horror is based on the real life Texarkana Moonlight murders that happened in 1946; in which a masked killer stalked the residents of that small town, ultimately killing five people. The names have been altered as well as the dates of the crimes, and some of...
Her most memorable passengers were Mother Teresa and primatologist Jane Goodall. She also played her part in history – one of her passengers was Michèle Bennett, the wife of Haiti’s dictator ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier of Haiti. She and her entire entourage were on their way from New York to ...