Monthly Archives: January 2010
Movies for the classroom: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the Haitian Revolution
It’s a minor miracle that this documentary wasn’t yanked by YouTube for copyright reasons. In keeping with our Haiti focus, I found this excellent documentary–in suprisingly good picture quality–about the 1791-1804 Haitian Revolution. Students who only know about Haiti from … Continue reading
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The Complexities of the “Dream” — Quotes by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
When a person becomes famous, or important, he/she often ceases to have any humanity. That person becomes marble, a statue, a painting, an inanimate idol to be worshipped and adored like a vacant pagan god. Yet it is in their … Continue reading
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It takes an Earthquake…or, why we can’t abandon Haiti again
Acts of God, more often than not, expose the fallibilities of man. In 2006, Hurricane Katrina swept through the Gulf states, particularly Louisiana and Mississippi. Yet Katrina herself played second fiddle to official malfeasance, incompetence and corruption. It took a … Continue reading →
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