Review of Monique and the Mango Rains Monique and the Mango Rains is a memoir about a friendship that develops between Kris Holloway‚ and a midwife in the village of Nampossela‚ Mali. Kris Holloway served in the Peace Corps and was assigned for 2 years to be stationed in Mali. Kris was trained to “give health demonstrations‚ repair wells‚ build fuel-conserving stoves‚ plant trees‚ and protect the shoots from the ever hungry mouths of goats” (11). Kris meets and assists Monique Dembele in her struggle
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here for she was then going into the first general elections and things of that sort. Next‚ I asked Mrs. Smith if she knew any Bahamian artist or songs. She stated the late Carl Brice (her cousin)‚ Richie Delamore‚ Blind Blake‚ Eloise Lewis‚ Maurine Duvalier‚ Abigail Sharlow‚ Freddy Munnings‚ King Eric and his Knights‚ Sweet Emily‚ Pat Rolle (who sounded like Nat King Cole)‚ Peanuts Taylor and Tony McKay. For the songs she listed “Oh Island in the Sun”‚ “Island Woman”‚ “Married Man”‚ “Pretty Brown Eyes”
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Langston Hughes’s “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain‚” as quoted by Hilton Als in “The Sojourner‚” contains a passage acknowledging that he and his friends “know we are beautiful. And ugly too”. Here‚ Hughes proclaims an idea that transcends the boundaries of race and language - the pride in having survived through generations of institutionalized pain. Hughes is proud of his black identity not despite the world devaluing his blackness‚ but with the knowledge that this devaluation has not
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their students” (Danticat 1). Numa and Drouin were shot and killed just outside of the national cemetery and were not given a proper burial. Numa‚ Drouin‚ and the other Jeune members just tried to do what many other Haitians also wanted to get rid of Duvalier. Moreover‚ as a result of the Numa and Drouin incident many Haitians turned to art. The artists from this time in Haiti had inspiration everywhere. They drew inspiration from the events that happened around them and from that came a muse for them
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Henri Cartier-Bresson Henri Cartier-Bresson is one of the world’s most influential photography Masters. With his small hand camera he unobtrusively photographed people’s lives around the world. He was solely responsible for bridging the gap between photojournalism and art. He has published more than a dozen books of his work. The greatest museums in the world have shown his work. From my start as a photographer‚ I was always drawn to taking photographs of people. I feel it was only instinct
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During the interviews with Edwidge Danticat she started talking about how her life was when she was a young girl living in Haiti during the dictatorship of Jean-Clause Duvalier and eventually migrating to Brooklyn New York an the age of 12 year old. Because of the tough times Danticat’s parents wore forced to leave the country and find a better life to provide for them and their children. Then ended up in American and worked hard for 12 before seeing their kids again for the first time. While Dantica
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Considering digital image features with high volumes and video data‚ especially in real-time applications‚ the use of classic encryption methods like DES‚ AES‚ ...‚ is not efficient in terms of being time cosuming. In this article‚ a new method is proposed to encrypt digital images‚ using chos systems and utilizing DNA patterns. A central idea in the method suggested is to produce a pseudo-random DNA strand using chaos functions‚ which an encrypted strand is created‚ using the random strand and the
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In 1957 Francois Duvalier‚ a medical doctor‚ won a free and open election for the presidency. To make his power known‚ he reduce the size of the army and with his chief aide‚ Clément Barbot‚ they created the Tontons Macoutes . In 1959‚ he had a heart attack in which Barbot
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Radio Haiti-Inter was the first independent radio in Haiti. It was a major success amongst the Haitian people because of its remarkable advocacy and fight for democracy. The station was first founded in 1935 by Ricardo Widmaier for the sole purpose of entertainment‚ but in the 1960s conspicuous and outspoken Jean Dominique bought the station. He played the role of both journalist and human rights activist. His lasting legacy brings light upon the abuses of the Duvalier’s dictatorship; he founded
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"Between the pool and the Gardenias" portrays the story of a poor woman that finds an abandoned baby on the street and decides to keep her. The story is set in Haiti‚ a poor country consumed by malnutrition‚ abandonment‚ and suffering. Edwidge Danticat uses the main character‚ a poor‚ lower class‚ black woman from Ville Rose‚ to make a political commentary on the situation in Haiti. The story suggests the desire of poor people to escape their harsh reality and become consumed in a world outside their
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