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Gail McGovern HAITI EARTQUAKRESPONSFOURYAR PDAT JANUAR 2014 Total Funds Spent 341612Water Sanitation1610Disaster The American Red Cross received 486 million in relief and recovery efforts t. Can we predict what the climate of Haiti might be like?. Based on lesson by Beverly . Feldkamp. , VLHS, Michigan.. Christopher Columbus described the island of Haiti:. “Its lands are high; there are in it many sierras and very lofty mountains…all are most beautiful, or a thousand shapes; all are accessible and filled with trees of a thousand kinds and tall, so that they seem to touch the sky. I am told that they never lose their foliage, and this I can believe, for I saw them as green and lovely as they are in Spain in May, and some of them were flowering, some bearing fruit, and some at another stage, according to their nature.”. Symbolism. . Residents attach tremendous importance to the expulsion of the French in 1804, an event that made Haiti the first independently black-ruled nation in the world, and only the second country in the Western Hemisphere to achieve independence from imperial Europe. The most noted national symbols are the flag, Henri Christophe's citadel and the statue of the "unknown maroon" ( . Japan and Haiti Earthquakes. ... Mercy, Sunny, Alex, Wei, and Teru. ... IB1 Geography . ... April 2013. Area maps - location and plate tectonics. .................................... 2010 Haitian Earthquake. Haiti in World History. •. First Black Republic. in the world. . •. Second independent. country in the. western hemisphere. after the United. States.. . . Republic of Haiti. . in Haiti from 1946-1956. Tonya St. . Julien. FIU Combined AADS MA/PhD in History Program. Florida Conference of Historians. Florida Southern College. The history of Haiti’s tourism industry in the 20. 1492 - 2008. 1492. 1500`s. 1697. Christopher Columbus claimed the island for Spain. He established the first Spanish settlement in the Americans.. Indians had all died out from disease. . France gained control of the western third of Hispaniola.. Port Au Prince/St.Marc, . Haiti. One tent City, about 1000 families and . 5000 people. Pastor Renes and the guest house we called our home for 4 days. It was our turn to get our hair braided inside while the others painted beds outside. January 12. th. 2010. simulator. In Italy it was one town, and a few villages - not a large urban area. . In China, it affected a large area and big towns, but. . no city. . In Haiti, in a big city like Port-au-Prince, with so many structures coming down, the falling. Shaquilla . Terry. Department of Public Health . Haiti Development. Studies Center. HDSC. Outline . Introduc. ing the problem. History of . Waste . M. a. nagement . in Haiti. Current Means of Disposal . Revolution in Haiti. The vast majority of Saint . Domingue’s. population were enslaved Africans. .. Other groups included native people, French plantation owners, people of mixed-races. Combo of traditional tribal religions and Catholicism/. Tectonic plates are huge rock pieces within the earth’s crust. The plates are usually marked by fractures or fault lines formed when the plates tear apart or slide or collide past each other. This results in a change of the earth’s interior masses which send out powerful shock waves with enough force to alter the surface of the earth. The shock waves can thrust up cliffs and open huge cracks on the ground leading to an earthquake event. . of a force is a measure of the tendency of the force to rotate the body upon which it acts.. FORCE. Terminology. FORCE. = F. pivot. distance. = . d. lever arm. The distance must be . perpendicular. Haiti Ministry of Public Health Haitian Medical Association Association of Haitian Physicians Abroad UCOP September 2010 Safety Meeting. Developed by Karen Hsi, UCOP EH&S Student Intern. UCOP September 2010 Safety Meeting. . Over the Next 30 Years, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Predicts for the San Francisco Bay Area :.