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Today whenever you look on the television, mainstream media showcases Haitians in a negative light, resulting to misleading stereotypes and accusations of Haiti and Haitians in general. They always appear to have skin dark as night or that Haitians are the great whisperers of voodoo and dark magic. Majority of their government is corrupt and unjust due to the unfairness of money distributed in the country and poverty rising every year. Most hurtful of them all, is Haitians are poor and live in shacks made out of aluminum sheets and tires held together by the AIDS virus. Even after the unfortunate earthquake that Haiti had encountered in 2010, people were still condemned Haitians and their country, but now with sympathy in their eyes. All

Dr. Farmer understood that their horrid living conditions would have to change in order for his patients to heal. Dr. Farmer knew that Haiti itself would be unable to make this transition, which is why relying on the wealth, generosity and action from others around the world, to provide adequate necessities for the Haitians became such an important task. When his patients were given a better quality of life, they began to maintain health. For most Americans, we would be unable to fathom the undesirable living conditions, but at the same time understand why diseases run rampant in such an awful economic environment. Without the interdependence of the wealthy around the world and humanitarian belief that we are all human and deserve to be treated with equality, compassion and love, Dr. Farmer may not have been able to succeed as well as he did in Haiti. Kidder (2003) states “You want to see where Christ crucified abides today? Go to where the poor are suffering and fighting back, and that’s where he is (pg. 79).”

Haiti had lots of challenges in running in their own government and remained unstable until today. Haiti was no longer protected by the French and were taken advantage of by other powerful countries. They were essentially trading one exploitive world power for another such as Germany who began to trade at unfair rates with the Haitian Republic. “But if the cost of maintaining power and continuing to enjoy the spoils of the state was the spoil of the nation, they were quite willing to sacrifice the nation.” (Trouillot, 1990). Merchants were fine with the financial, military and political instability of the Saint Domingue state, and had an interest in the succession politically because it meant that their jobs of exploiting the state would be more or less

Illness and disease along with poverty still plague Haiti today. The effort to try and recover from the most recent earthquake tragedy has Haitians concerned. The conditions that they have endured in the past just to survive are worse than the conditions brought on by the earthquake. Some Haitian natives feel the Government is moving a bit slow in cleaning up and getting

Furthermore, the Nacirema seek help of the “temple” or “latipso” for other serious illnesses, comprised mainly of medicine men and other female specialists. The culture’s devotion to rituals is undeniable as a considerable sum is required for the service of the “temple,” although “these temple ceremonies may not cure, and may even kill the neophyte, in no way decreases the people’s faith in the medicine men” (173). This belief of the “temple” constitutes checking in to the hospital to treat diseases in the American culture. Often times a significant hospital fee needs to be paid for even a short visit and it is not guaranteed that one would be healed as a result. The American culture’s “ fundamental belief…human body is ugly and its natural tendency is to debility and disease” can help explain the society’s faith in hospitals

The people get to vote for their leaders. The laws have to be passed up just like in the U.S.A. People get a big say in things, like I told you the people get to vote for their leaders. The president or the guy who is in charge does not just say something and then it will happen. The law has to get passed up through the other branches of government first. The people of Haiti get to pick what career they want to follow, instead of the man/or woman in charge telling them what they have to be. I think the type of government Haiti has is a good one but it depends on who is running it. The man running it is Jovenel

The decision making is coming from the top, from the elite, from those people who do not really understand what is happening at the bottom, where most of the people are. Furthermore, Haiti seems to be plagued by corruption where the top take president. This structural inequality is even seen in the local health initiatives such as that of the Centre pour Development et la Santé (CDS), or family planning center. Maternowska sheds writes about the hierarchy that is in place, which have profound effects on the health experiences shared by the community. Instead of having a center that is helpful to women, the staff, especially those at the top which include Doctors. They ignore those who speak the Creole dialect and not French. The staff tends to have no respect and there is no quality of care. What was very shocking, is the fact that Haitian women are being used as test subjects for clinical trials of birth control methods. Even worse, the clients have to pay for these

I argue that while the author does well to argue his thesis in a logical sequence, in the narrative the author fails to include a direct Haitian perspective, which is integral to the readers’ understanding of life in port au prince as they lost far more in the catastrophe. Furthermore he fails in his attempt to provide a solution that is economically suitable and thus dismissed short-term models that could benefit the population. Finally blinded by journalistic ambitions I believe that his excessive coverage of his breakthrough story on the cholera out break overshadows the earthquake story, as it becomes the main focus toward the end.

Haiti is located between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It occupies one third of the Hispaniola Island, the other two thirds belong to its neighbor: the Dominican Republic. It measures 27, 750 sq km, just a little smaller than the state of Maryland. It is unfortunately located in a highly active hurricane area prone to storms and flooding between the months of June to October. Haiti is the poorest country of the western hemisphere. Political turmoil is part of the country’s history. Currently it counts with a democratically elected president, Michael Martelly, as Chief of State and a Prime Minister, Laurent Latmothe, as head of the government. A new president is elected every five years and the president cannot serve consecutive periods. The Prime Minister is appointed by the president and ratified by the National Assembly. The National Assembly is made up of 30 senators, elected by popular vote for six years terms and 99 deputies, also elected by popular vote, for four years terms; a little bit complex

It has been an ongoing problem for the last 3 years, and is continuing to make front page news. If you haven’t heard about the junior doctor’s strike then you’ve either been living under a rock or you’re part of the BNP, who have still failed to recognise the issue. In total, there are over 55,000 junior doctors in England - representing a third of the medical workforce. So how can our NHS possibly function when strike after strike is reducing our staff and as a result our patients care?

In order to understand Haiti we must first put ourselves in their shoes. At one stage or another, every man, woman, or child will be faced with at least one issue that is now happening in Haiti. The issues involving Haiti has been a popular topic for the past two years. Since January twelfth two-thousand and ten. There are many factors which influenced the development of Haiti. Many people have abandoned Haiti over the past years. They have also given up hope for Haiti. Haiti is heralded by economic issues both political and social, foreign issues, military issues (minustah), presidential issues, and the recent earthquake. I plan to explain each of these factors in detail and give

Fixing the corrupt governments of both the countries is the best start to making them thrive. Living with leaders who continually fail to keep their promises may be disheartening, but the country continuously grows and improves with each presidency. As for Haiti, their main focus should be to replenish the environment, and provide solutions for the AIDS epidemic through foreign help. Preserving the environment proved helpful for the people of Dominican, and is something that Haiti should mimic, as well as attempting to find new exports such as

In recent months, our media has been saturated with the controversial topic of junior doctors taking strike action. I personally think that junior doctors are being selfish in this case. For 24 hours, many hospitals will only be able to provide emergency care; thousands of operations and appointments will be cancelled. The doctors will be on the first of three planned strikes after talks between the government and the doctors’ trade union, the British Medical Association (BMA), broke down this week. They are protesting against government proposals to introduce a new contract. The plans would see doctors receive a rise in their basic rate of pay, but make demands including a requirement to work more, and for lower rates of pay, in the evenings

Seven days a week. More unsociable working hours. Extra premiums on weekends will be lowered. These are the main reasons why junior doctors are striking. This is only a handful of the drastic changes that the Secretary of Health, Jeremy Hunt has imposed since being appointed in 2012. It is very transparent as to why junior doctors choose to strike however there are drawbacks to doctors striking. This project will help to uncover how this new working contract is affecting junior doctors to an extent where they feel as though striking is appropriate. There will be an evaluation of whether the striking is worth taking part in and whether it is a dangerous to strike on working days. Finally, a conclusion will be draw alongside a solution for both parties: the Government and junior doctors.