Born June 22‚ 1909‚ in Glen Ellyn‚ Illinois‚ near Chicago‚ Dunham enjoyed the security of a middle-class suburban existence for the first four years of her life. Her father‚ Albert Millard Dunham‚ was a tailor who had his own business in Chicago. Her mother‚ Fanny June Guillaume Taylor‚ who was twenty years older than her husband‚ was an assistant principal at a city school. Dunham’s life changed drastically though‚ in 1914‚ when her mother became seriously ill and died‚ leaving Albert to raise Katherine
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Wanda L Vazquez Professor: Valerie Quackenbush November 14‚ 2010 ENG 163 Dominican Republic is a beautiful place. It is located near Central America‚ is nation on the island of Hispaniola. It borders Haiti. It is the second biggest country on the Carrabian Island‚ after Cuba. The whole country measures the area of 48442 km2. Its capital is Santo Domingo and is in the south coast of Dominican Republic. Dominican Republic is also made up of many islands. There are four rivers in Dominican Republic
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led a revolt against the French. Just 7 short years later‚ the same people led another revolt against the Spaniards and took control of the Dominican Republic. While the Spaniards would take back the island of Hispaniola‚ it was short lived as the Haitians overthrew the Spanish a short time later. However‚ that all changed in 1844‚ when the Dominican people fought back‚ thus establishing what we now know as the Dominican
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Vulnerable Population Paper Introduction The vulnerable population chosen for this paper is Haitian immigrants. Topics of discussion will include description of the population‚ significant problems related to their vulnerability‚ related health and social problems‚ an evaluation of adequant of current strategies to break the cycle of vulnerability‚ ethical implications of current strategies‚ and proposed community and public health nursing interventions in roles of manager‚ advocate‚ teacher‚
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Amelia Hintzen delves into the critical examination of the historical components regarding Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo and his imposition of government campaigns against Haitian migrants in the early 20th century. Hintzen posits an unstudied dimension of analysis which includes a failed plan to massively deport Haitians which inevitably led to the 1937 border massacre which left thousands dead. Hintzen examines the degree to which the Trujillo regime enacted violence in attempts to forcefully
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all black magic‚ spells‚ and séances? Is this media portrayal of Voodoo the only way of life and what is Voodoo‚ any way? These questions come to mind when someone wants to know the truth about Haitian culture and life in Haiti. Haitian culture consists of deep rooted religious beliefs‚ music‚ and Haitian cuisine. First and foremost‚ voodoo is not just black magic‚ spells‚ and voodoo dolls that everyone associates with what has been portrayed in the movies and television shows. For example‚ the
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earthquake with 7.0 magnitudes. Many Haitians suffered while others lost their lives. The earthquake shred many homes leaving many people homeless. Many towns got ruined and wrecked‚ even cities got ripped apart and drowned. The churches were crumbled and schools and banks. The best and fanciest hotels in town were crumbled
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Hatian Revolution DBQ The Haitian Revolution was a period of conflict in the French colony‚ it led to the elimination of slavery there and the founding of the Haitian republic. The three documents that I chose are documents 2‚ 4‚ and 8. The point of view of document 2 is Toussaint L’ Ouverture (the leader of the Haitian Revolution). The point of view of document 4 is Henry Adams. The point of view of document 8 is Europeans. All of these point of views gave us insight on how everyone saw the revolution
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| * http://web.archive.org/web/20070928160208/http://www.windowsonhaiti.com/wucker1.shtml * | CloseHelp | * The River Massacre: The Real and Imagined Borders of Hispaniola Michele Wucker Sending letters directly between the Dominican Republic and Haiti has only recently become possible. For most of the last sixty years‚ their postal services routed the mail ninety miles north to Miami as if the two countries had decided that they no longer shared the island of Hispaniola. This is
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Trujillo was a dictator tat was obsessed with fare skin and even went the extreme of treating the Haitians extremely poor. He even went as far as orchestrating a massacre of over 20‚000 Haitians by the Dominican soldiers. This act was known as the Parsley massacre‚ because in order to identify who was Haitian or Dominican‚ the Dominican border guards would ask people to pronounce Parsley‚ because Haitians had difficulty saying the word. The massacre included women‚ children‚ and Dominicans who tried
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