Presented by: Cary

Emerson

○ Life in Haiti○ The Differences of Haiti Now & Before

the Earthquake○ Causes and Effects of Haiti’s

Earthquake○ Religions of Haiti○ In Summary○ Glossary○ Bibliography

Life in Haiti

Haitian woman making mud-cookies

Children in school

Ladies in the

market

A girl getting a bathInside of her house

Badroads

inHaiti

My friend Erneson

The Differences of Haiti Now & Before the Earthquake

This is the presidential palace before the earthquake.

This is the presidential palace after the earthquake.

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<<<This is downtown Port-Au-Prince, Haiti before the earthquake.

This is downtown Port-Au-Prince, Haiti after the earthquake.>>>

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This is a cathedral in Port-Au-Prince before the earthquake.

-------------------------This is the cathedral in Port-Au-Prince after the earthquake.

Causes & Effects of Haiti’s Earthquake

Cause: The devastating earthquake wasn’t unusual in that it was caused by the same forces that generate earthquakes all over the world. An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------Effects: The earthquake occurred on January 12, 2010. By

January 24, at least 52 aftershocks measuring 4.5 or greater had been recorded. The Haitian Government stated on February 10, 2010 that 230,000 people had been identified as dead. They also estimated 30,000 commercial buildings had collapsed or were severely damaged. Haiti’s earthquake left 100,000 people dead in sixty seconds.

Religions of Haiti

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Voodoo

Catholicism

Islam

Voodoo: 70%

Catholicism: 80%

Islam: 0.04%

Sequence• Before the earthquake in Haiti, the

lives of the Haitian people were very difficult. Some lived in mud shantys, ate one meal a day and drank water from plastic pouches.

• Since the earthquake, the people of Haiti are in an even more desperate place. They live in tent cities made of sheets and sticks, they go days without food and clean water is almost impossible to find.

In Summary

In summary, I hope through this presentation you have learned more about the lives of the people in Haiti. It’s intent was to help you learn about Haiti’s religious preferences, economic status, and the life of it’s people. Once again, I hope you have learned from this presentation and that you’d like to learn more about this topic.

GlossaryEarthquake: vibrations induced in the earth's crust by

the abrupt rupture and a series rebound of rocks in which elastic strain has been slowly accumulating.

Haiti: Formerly, Hayti. A republic in the east Indies occupying the West part of the island of Hispaniola.

Mud-Cookie: made of dirt, butter and salt - hold little nutritional value, but manage to keep Haiti’s poor alive.

Religion: a specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of people.

Voodoo: A religion practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries, especially Haiti, pulled from Roman Catholic ritual elements and the animism and magic of slaves from West Africa, in which a supreme God rules a large pantheon of local and tutelary deities, deified ancestors, and saints, who communicate with believers in dreams, trances, and ritual possessions. Also called vodoun.

Bibliography• www.livescience.com• www.wikipedia.org• www.dictionary.reference.com• www.worldfocus.org• www.hartford-hwp.com