The Big Truck That Went Essay

We as citizens of the United States, appreciate helping others in this world. We donate money, time, supplies, our love, to help create something new. To help change someone 's life for the better. My grandfather, whom I call Tom, has spent all of his adult years dedicating all of his time on a nonprofit company called IMEC America. They donate old hospital supplies all over the world to countries in need. He is someone I look up to, and has influenced my life in many ways, and has shown me that even no matter what you do in life, even if it does not benefit you, it can change your life in such a positive way. One thing Morrie said that had a lot of impact on me was, “The truth is, when our mothers held us, rocked us, stocked our heads-none of us ever got enough of that. We all yearn for some way to return to those days when we were completely taken care of-unconditional love, unconditional attention. Most of us didn’t get enough.” (p.116) When I was growing up, all my parents could think about was when they were going to get their next drink or next high. I was cared for sure, but I could tell you, they were never just in the moment

According to Samuel Lagerlof “Culture is what remains when that which has been learned is entirely forgotten” (as cited in Usunied,1996, p.94). Every single country in the world possesses his own culture no culture is more important than another. They’re just different. However, Haiti’s culture differs from the United States in three major points; Values, religion, and norms.

Sometimes the Earth is cruel. This is stated by the award winning journalist Leonard Pitts stated in his essay Sometimes the Earth is cruel. In this essay Leonard points out how the people from Haiti have had a rough time when it comes to nature and disasters of the like. Leonard all talks about the past of Haiti and and colonialism made it so poor. When the major powers of the world exploited Haiti and made it the way it is. With these things we can see how Pitts thought process.

Haiti is prone to many kinds of natural disasters due to many reasons one of which being deforestation leading to Haitians leaving and becoming independent. “Since the earthquake, more than 600,000 Haitians have fled Port-Au-Prince searching for food, shelter and work among their rural kin. With no other resources, they will be forced into subsistances forms and charcoal for sale.” (The Daily Beast). This explains how Haitians are scared of having another devastating natural disaster and they know that their government won’t do anything for the affects and will do anything to avoid it. Not only does Haiti have poor infrastructure in the sense of roads, buildings and more but it effects their water which is potentially deadly. “The country’s 10 million people had drinking water from springs and rivers and wells and a broken-down municipal water system in the capital...But a great deal of the water was loaded with bacteria and parasites...chemicals and other pollutants.” (Joseph B. Treaster). This goes to show how Haiti doesn’t spend money on their own water system leading many vulnerable to diseases. Not only does Haiti not have the resources due to money issues for attempting to fix their infrastructures but they still want to be independent. “Haiti immediately needs $40 million to get its grid back to pre-quake status and pay its 2,500 workers...the payroll above is $15 million a month-as well as provide power to million of Haitians who can’t afford it.” (Associated Press). This explains how Haiti can’t pay for their infrastructure if they can’t even afford to pay for their workers. Haiti’s government wouldn’t help the country after a disaster due to them using money on themselves and things which generally aren’t beneficial to the to the people and the

This paper will discuss and analyze the healthcare system in Haiti on an economic, social, political and demographic point of view. Also, how does the healthcare system impact the family and how it affects the elderly and the community. I chose to discuss on Haiti healthcare system because it ranked one of the worse healthcare systems in the world and the information I gathered was rather interesting. A healthcare system is an organization which consists of healthcare professionals, other staff and resources that work together to deliver care to the community or target population.

In the wake of the devastating earthquake of 2009 and the other subsequences that rocked Haiti into complete chaos, had the Haitians in great need of help. The U.S. is only minimally involved with Haiti, but it is not our fault. Most of Haiti’s problems result from an extremely corrupt government (Aronson 1). To provide Haiti with healthcare, housing, and schooling, the U.S. needs to learn to help the Haitians alongside of their government while keeping the culture alive. Therefore, the U.S. as a whole should find a way to persuade the Haitian government to let America provide the Haitian people with the basic human needs.

If you have read the writing piece by Leonard Pitts, "Sometimes, the Earth Is Cruel" then you will understand why they think they are being treated cruelly and unfairly. The "bad guy" in this scenario would be, plainly, Earth and the victim would be Haiti. It mostly focuses on Haiti and what has happened throughout the recent years but it is actually talking about all the poor countries that can't catch a break. Countries like, but not limited to, Congo, Niger, Burundi, Mozambique, and so much more. Being treated cruelly is willfully causing pain or suffering to others and/or feeling no concern about it. In this case the people of Haiti might think that the earth is willingly trying to cause them pain and suffering but the earth is just a planet so it just causes pain and suffering sometimes. Like Leonard said though, it is actually the people's fault. All these disasters and sufferings are all caused by "human hands, by human greed, human corruption, human economic and predation." It also says that "Sometimes, the earth is cruel" and it gets bad, it is bad, and we just have to deal with it and go on with our lives.

Conditions for the small country worsened as a devastating earthquake struck Haiti in 2010, and over 300,000 people were killed, and 1.5 million were displaced, leaving them homeless. Just months after the earthquake hit, Haiti experienced the worst cholera outbreak in recent history, killing thousands, and infecting more than 6% of the population (Cook). Despite efforts from humanitarians and charities around the world, things never seemed to get better as access to clean drinking water and safe shelter became scarce. As the environment became virtually uninhabitable, many Haitians came to the United States, seeking asylum, and an opportunity to better the lives for themselves and their

Haiti is a very poor nation and I experienced many very bad things in my life while I lived there. I was afraid all this might bring others and me down, so I always tried to stay positive, but bad things can always happen. That’s the way it always seemed to be in my life. If you look at the biggest Haiti disaster, it is the earthquake. My family and I were safe, but not the rest of the country. I was so happy the earthquake didn’t happen where my dad’s side of the family lives, because I already have seen too many bad things in front of my eyes. I have witnessed too much destruction, pain, and suffering.

My entire life I have wanted to help people. I have tried to stay current with world events and keep educated on how they occur and how best to fix them. I try to promote a progressive agenda and volunteer for multiple organizations. However, because I live a short bart ride away from San Francisco and because I identify as bisexual and most of my friends are on the LGBTQ spectrum, one problem that is very important to me is LGBTQ rights — in particular issues faced by LGBTQ youth. In 11th grade I gathered up the courage to join GSA. Within the club I worked hard to solve problems faced by LGBTQ youth in my community. I helped form the school's first pride event, organized a fundraiser for LGBTQ youth homelessness, taught my peers about LGBTQ identities and orientations, and proposed and helped lead a campaign to get gender neutral bathrooms on my school’s current and future campuses. While not a end all solution, this work

Transition-My beginning experience of Haiti began when I saw an introduction video to Mission Hope in

They get their houses destroyed time after time and yet they get a enough courage and want to rebuild everything, there are kind people that Pitts says that donate their money and there are times that when there are many injury that people even donate their blood. There are many people that get hurt when theses natural disasters hit there is not enough medical help or medical assistance to help people get better. Although there is a large chance that everything will be destroyed within months or if they are lucky years. Even though there are multiple people that come to help them recover and rebuild the area and provide health care for those in need. All the volunteers that come to help with out anything in return, and yet all theses people continue to help through all the natural disasters. The volunteers are a large part of how these haitians get the opportunity to rebuild their homes, this takes us back to the fact that it is sometimes cruel because the Haitians are given these lovely people that have given their time to help them

More than 70 percent of Haitian immigrants from 2008 to 2012 most resided in South Florida, Boston, Orlando, Atlanta and New York (MPI, 2017). The earthquake which happened in Haiti on January 12, 2010, left many Haitians without homes and many died. About 1.5 million people were displaced. The U.S government added Haiti to the list of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designated countries (Migration Policy Institute, 2017).

Since 1990, the world has reduced the number of people who live in extreme poverty by over half. But that still leaves 767 million people living on the edge of survival with less than $1.90 a day.2 The numbers of world hunger has gone down by a lot, but yet world hunger is still going on. Some of the poorest countries in the world have few to no jobs, and the few jobs that there are, are paid very little each day. Survival is key to these people and with the little money they have, it’s hard to do that. Across the globe, conflicts consistently disrupt farming and food production. Fighting also forces millions of people to flee their homes, leading to hunger emergencies as the displaced find themselves without the means to feed themselves.3 Across the world so many people are struggling for food because of war. This can happen because the countries are poor or air raid can strike things that were helping to grow food and to have fresh water. People get pushed out of their home and then the hunger population grows, by a lot. Natural disasters such as floods, tropical storms and long periods of drought are on the increase -- with calamitous consequences for the hungry poor in developing countries.3 Natural disasters, it happens. Things such as tornadoes, hurricanes and floods leave people to starve. These horrible things happen, it’s just what we do about it that makes a difference. As

Haiti, a sovereign state located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, is one of the world 's poorest and least developed countries. Same to other developing countries, Haiti developed agriculture instead of industry. Furthermore, Haiti is a country which always happened flooding, droughts, hurricanes and other meteorological disasters that were mainly caused by climate change. These disasters did affect Haiti a lot in the aspect of economy change, diseases like malaria or cholera caused by tropical Cyclone hotspots and vulnerability and adaptive capability of this country.