Gingerbread Houses In Haiti

Making a gingerbread house is a Christmas tradition for many families. With attention to decorating trees along with houses, spending time with your family, as well as making traditional family recipes. So from time to time I’m quite sure your family and yourself have made a gingerbread house before in your lifetime, but altogether I'm sure you've never put a twist on any of them. A lot of people claim the premade box kits or create everything from scratch. But I will be telling you how to assemble a gingerbread house out of graham crackers.

The key lessons that have been learnt from the event is that those in charge of ensuring the safety of Haiti’s citizens need to recognize the risk of their location and acknowledge the advice of seismologists for any future seismic events. The implementation of early warning systems and the use of SMS messaging as seen in Japan would greatly reduce the hazard of an earthquake. In addition, environmental management is crucial for the long term survival of Haiti, strategies to reduce deforestation and claiming back land unsuitable for housing would lead to better soil quality and less risk of landslides and liquefaction to buildings should another event occur. However, the main lesson to be drawn from the disaster is the need for proper construction techniques and guidelines. Education and training to provide construction workers with enough knowledge to make future infrastructure earthquake

The area of New Orleans, Louisiana was one of the places that was strongly influence by Haiti. The City of New Orleans has the richest culture compare to others Urban area in the United States. Haitian life and elements is found in the tradition of voodoo. Which is still a part of the Culture in New Orleans today. Elements of the Haitian language was contributed to the Creole language. Which people speak in New Orleans and areas around it.

From the start life has always been a battlefield for me and my family. In Haiti my father had studied to become an engineer despite his poor upbringing and my mother had worked multiple jobs to help support the family. Life in Haiti had already been tough but after a coup d’état and an election there was finally hope that Haitians would have to live under a repressive government no longer. The new government created hope which was then solidified when Duvalier announced his candidacy, by this time he was already a well-known physician that took part in many public health campaigns. My father remembers when Duvalier was elected, with promises of rebuilding a broken country and the happiness that followed, but this did not last. Shortly after

The culture of Haiti is a various mix of African and European elements due to the French colonization of Saint Dominguez. I chose to research this culture for two reason one reason being that I have a friend who is Haitian and I never understood why she did what she did, or even her mother. The second reason is because many people in Haiti is associated with voodoo, and that’s something I personally wouldn’t get to involved with due to my religious views. Throughout this essay we will see in detail the differences in culture from ours to theirs. We will learn about their primary language, religion, their different values and beliefs and last but not least their social practices. While reading on Haiti I started to appreciate their culture more due to the fact that know.

What does the average American really know about the country, Haiti? Is the lifestyle 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.

One moment you find yourself in a bed, surrounded in soft, fuzzy, and comforting blankets, and the next you are in the streets, hungry, cold, and desperate. Homelessness can happen to anybody, anywhere, and at any time, usually when you least expect it. When you’re homeless, warmth and food are hard necessities to come by. When without a home, finding work can also be troubling as well. People walk by homeless people all the time without casting a single glance in their direction. Many forget that they, too, are people with problems equally as upsetting or harrowing as everyone else’s. One of the worst places stricken by poverty is a country by the name of Haiti.

Hickory Estates is a community where buildings in the 1920’s through the 1940’s where build very quickly. This community has sloping streets, and is located above the Clearwater River. This area has single-family homes constructed with multistory, and wood-framed built homes. The population of this community is 6412 residents. Due to the era the homes were built in, a typical problem is the connection between the wood frame and the foundation. The lack of steel reinforcement can cause major damages due to its weak points0. An earthquake can cause the wood frame to come off its foundation, foundation cracks, the chimney breaking at the roof line, and the cripple walls (the walls between the top of the foundation and the floor diaphragm) to crack. This is why Hickory Estates has 8% of homes that will be uninhabitable after an Intensity IX earthquake.

Brief history… Haiti takes up about 1/3 of the land of the island Hispaniola, neighboring the Dominican Republic. The whole Island was once under the control of Spain in 1942 after Columbus made an appearance. In the 17th century, France colonized on part of the Island and renamed it Saint-Dominigue. It wasn’t until 1803…300 years, tens of thousands of African slaves, and one hierarchal social system later, did this chunk of land become the independent republic, Haiti. (1).

1492 - Christopher Columbus accidentally lands on present day Haiti and Dominican Republic and conquers the island for Spain,naming the island Hispaniola.

At St. Ignatius of Antioch Catholic Community, my church, there is an annual mission trip to Beaumont, Haiti which I am unable to attend due to age requirements. Two years ago, one of the nurses from my church, Amy, returned from the trip with a story that would change my life forever. She had attended a father and daughter that had traveled 50 miles on foot to find the nearest hospital. The daughter was dying of dehydration and malnutrition. The fact the Amy had revived that young girl was heartwarming and fulfilling even for me. Amy is my inspiration and my idol. We have discussed on numerous occasions of the rewarding as well as the challenging aspects of nursing. But one thing she said stuck with me, "If nursing is your truest passion and

The current therapeutic frame reflects the professional values and attitudes for working with an early childhood population. The population specifically is Haitian children three to five years of age. The children are part of a local head strat program located in Miami, FL. The children's first language is Krio and often have difficulties with the English language. An element that will affect my therapeutic frame for working with this population is the Haitian culture. Furthermore, there are fundamental principles in the Haitian culture that translate to respect and honor. For example, in the Haitian culture children are taught not make eye contact as a sign of respect. Another aspect of their culture is greeting each other with a kiss on the

In many parts of the world, rituals are considered a religious or solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed to a prescribed order. Rituals such as voodoo is so spiritual that it is considered to be a religion, and it is the dominant religion of Haiti. To us, the practices and descriptions of Voodoo belief may sound superstitious, but if you take a moment to imagine what the miraculous healings of Jesus may sound like to a person practicing voodoo, they too would think it is superstitious. Voodoo is taken very seriously by many of the natives; not just unlettered peasants, but also man intelligent and learned members of the Haitian society.

Haiti's background in religion stems from tribal rituals in voodoo and forced roman Catholicism from the slave trade. When the different tribes from Africa were brought to Haiti as slaves, the tribes stronger religious believes combined and voodoo was practiced. This voodoo played a huge role in their rebellion as they prayed and made sacrifices to their Gods for strength. Voodoo was a key part of Haitian life from the beginning of the formation of the country, and still plays a huge role today as voodoo is the number on practiced religion in Haiti. Voodoo is a religion of violence is wickedness that is destroying the hearts of the people, corrupting the nation. Voodoo is primarily practices among the peasant which makes up the majority of

According to the Haitian government, by the year 2020, there will be a national shortage of 500,000 homes. Haiti’s government housing practices are far different from other countries. “Critically, and counter to international best practice, Haiti lacks a government ministry for housing and urbanization, and responsibilities lie in competing entities scattered across government ministries.” (Republic of Haiti. N.p.: U.S. Govt., n.d. Haiti Advocacy. Web. 26 Sept. 2016.). These government ministries were essentially in charge of several different aspects of the housing industry in Haiti. “Before 2011, national social housing policy was administered by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor through the division of Social Housing Promotion and