Mission Trip To Haiti

Diverse individuals with distinctive stories apply for school each year. Some with stand-out encounters, others an ability that separate them from others. Be that as it may, for me my experience, culture and trials are what decide my uniqueness. Conceived from the poorest nation in the western hemisphere, Haiti where I lived with my persevering mother (after the death of my dad when I was 10 months) providing for us through her little business. Until the overwhelming quake that struck my nation in 2010. This disastrous occasion changed my viewpoint in life. I left my past life alongside my mom in Haiti. I packed material possessions alongside the adventures and memories that I experienced throughout the years and went to a foreign nation to close relatives. I went to

59 percent of Haitian live in poverty and do not have their basic necessities. The Giver is a novel that was read as a class and also the article "Haiti in Crisis". In The Giver the people live in a utopia and have a perfect and happy life. The people who live in The Giver's community have a complicated free life and do not have to deal with the world problems. In the article "Haiti in Crisis" by Bryan Brown and Patricia Smith it explains how Haiti is a very unfavorable place and they are trying to rebuild from the horrific things that has happened in their past.

Sarah is not your average girl. She lives with her mother, Mary, who works three jobs to support her two children. Sarah, nor her little brother Benny, has ever met their father. He went to prison when Sarah was just four years old for drugs. Sarah has always hung out with the rougher crowd. Sarah does not really apply herself to school. Her mother is very worried she will not pass with the grades she has, so Mary decides she is going to have Sarah go with her grandmother, Betty, on a mission trip to Haiti. Betty is an active member in her church and always goes on trips with her parish to help people in need.

When I think of Haiti I think of music, waves crashing and beautiful homes and places to be but, all I know is that Haiti is in the Caribbean islands and it is an island. My parents have not gone to or lived in Haiti so my parents have no idea of what it looks like. But the thing that makes me feel bad is that people think that Haiti looks very poor but they are wrong.

The country that I chose to research for my paper is Haiti. Haiti is located in Cuba and Puerto Rico. Haiti shares the Island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic. The capital of Haiti is Port-au-Prince, and the population is 9,996,731. Haiti has two official languages French and Haitian Creole. About 2.1 million people of the population live in Port-Au-Prince, which makes the capital an extremely congested city.

The American dream, as invented by James Truslow Adams in 1931, was an ideology of how The United States of America gave each man a life that was better ,richer and fuller through opportunities of abilities and achievement. Even before the 1900s, early Euro-american settlers deemed America as a blank slate, allowing them to obtain a fresh start. This eventually lead to immigrants from different ethnic backgrounds and environments coming to America to experience these new possibilities and opportunities. As we know, the United States has been one of the world’s major global superpowers, supplying third world countries with resources to aid them in their success through means of education, funding and donations. One of these countries is Haiti,

that is much more dependent on international charity than on its own economic power and leaders that are better equipped at begging than leading.

Introduction: Today, developed societies are fabricated on obtaining information about the current world through multi billion dollar news corporations which can be be accessed from televisions, papers, websites, and radios. Since the general public is accustomed to this manner, these substantial publishers can effortlessly mold the population's beliefs to suit their desired ideals by reporting on news with incorporated propaganda and subjectivity. So when it's becoming perplexingly more difficult to access factual information about current world events, you have to to analyze whether the source your obtaining news from contains any political agendas, subjectivity, or assumptions. If none, the truth can then be founded upon evidence,

The success of the US&R task forces deployed to Haiti demonstrates their versatility and value as national assets. The Haiti earthquake amounted to the first time domestic FEMA US&R task forces reinforced the two USAID task forces during a foreign disaster response. Together, the United States US&R task forces were accountable for a substantial number of live rescues, 47 of 134 in total. This establishes the greatest number of lives saved in a collapse rescue environment in the history of the FEMA US&R program. Fortunately, none of the US&R task forces suffered any major work site related injuries in spite of the magnitude of rescue operations. The successful performance of the FEMA US&R task forces validates the overall concept of operations, strategy, tactics, training, and equipment as well as the national approach to US&R preparedness.

Haiti was once the first black independent republic in the world and the richest island in the Caribbean. Today Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and one of the poorest countries in the world. What could have happened to Haiti in almost two hundred years of history? The country experienced repeated civil war and foreign intervention. Haiti is not isolated from the international world. Thus, it was not out of concern for ordinary Haitians that the United States intervened in Haiti. It was out of concern for profit and stability within the United States' own backyard. The purpose of this paper is to show the negative aspect that the United States had played in the government of Haiti.

The first thing that I found interesting was the disaster in 1995 at Montserrat. The volcanic eruption covered the island with ash for two years. The government set up an exclusion zone and evacuates that zone, unfortunately that is where most people farm and live. In 1997 the volcano erupts, and the people are on their own to evacuate, and not all of them make it out safely. It is amazing that only 19 people died, and over half of the island is uninhabitable.

In August 1492 Christopher Columbus left Spain on a voyage to discover new land . After 36 days of sailing he set foot on an Island called “Hispaniola” and claim it for the Spanish. Hispaniola is know today as the Dominican Republic. The Spanish maintain control until the French came in and took the Western third of the Island which is known as Haiti today. According to The World Fact book Haiti was wealthy while under the control of France. However, the cost of wealth came with the price of ½ million slaves. In 1791 the Haitians decided that they no longer wanted to be slaves and fought for their independence. (Dubois pg. 5) Haiti would be come the first black republic to declare independence in 1804.

Thank you, partners, and thank you World Vision for the donations we received for the poor here in Haiti. We sent blankets, towels, sweaters, and even some handmade blankets to the people of Peyi Pouri. This is one of the poorest areas of Haiti. It is also on top of a mountain and it gets very cold at night. The little children shake with the cold. We have no words to say “thank you!” These items were new, FIRST CLASS and simply beautiful! Imagine how the people and children felt! Thank you, World

I had a dozen great ideas for my college application essay. I’ll tell the story about my life-changing mission trip to Puerto Rico, I brainstormed. Or better yet, I’ll write about my brutal injury, and how the pain of bench warming made me work harder the next season. Almost immediately after I sat down at the computer, “College Essay Topics to Avoid” popped up in my Facebook feed. Intrigued, I clicked on the article; much to my dismay, every idea I had was listed.

It was stated by the Global Exchange that in order to raise exports, countries are incentivized to provide tax reductions and subsidies to export industries. Public assets such as woodland and government utilities are sold to foreign investors at extremely low prices. The IMF has compelled Haiti to open its market to the imported greatly subsidized US rice. However, on the other hand it has prevented Haiti from subsidizing the local farmers. A US corporation called Early Rice is at present offering almost 50 percent of the rice which is used in Haiti. The IMF has also been criticized for the absence of transparency and accountability in their activities. The IMF is financed with the money of taxpayers, however operates behind closed doors. Members of the communities who have been affected by their policies do not take part in the decision making of conditions of the loans. The IMF has also denied the recommendation for public scrutiny.