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Haiti Research Paper: One of the most frequent misconceptions that students have about history is that the events of the past, and the actions of individuals in the past, have no connection to the world of today, nor any impact upon it. The belief is that history has no effect on the modern world because of the distance in time (and space), between historical events and the present day, because of the distance between the lives of the historical actors and the student’s own, and between past events and the contemporary, present-day world.
In August of 2012 there were still 400,000 people in Haiti living in tents as a result of the January 2010 earthquake in the country. The purpose of this Research Paper is to emphasize the fact that events from Haiti’s history, from the time of the Revolution onwards, have had a major impact upon Haitian life into the present day, and were a contributory factor in why the 2010 earthquake had such a devastating impact upon the country and subsequent efforts to rebuild.
When researching your paper, you must investigate the following four areas:
1) The racial caste system in place in Haiti prior to the Revolution;
2) The 1825 settlement between Haiti and France, and how that materially affected Haiti’s future;
3) The relationship between the US and Haiti, and the cause of the American occupation of Haiti from 1915 to 1934;
4) The Duvalier dictatorships of 1957-1986.
Once you have given an overview of the historical event, you should then show how each one contributed to the problems Haiti faced when rebuilding after the 2010 earthquake. These reasons are not self-evident, and you MUST show direct links between cause and consequences, between the historical event and the present-day problem(s) they caused. Failure to address any of the four areas will lead to the loss of 25% of your grade.
Your paper should not be a ‘data dump’ of all you can find about Haitian history after independence, but a focused research paper that looks to answer the question of how Haiti’s past has affected it in the present.
Structure:
• Pages 1-5: your research paper, which should consist of five full pages of text
• Page 6: your bibliography of sources
• Overlong papers will be penalized
Format:
• Your paper should use a minimum of six (6) sources, which must be books or academic journal articles. You can use journal articles you have accessed online via the MSU library system (see under the ‘Research’ tab on Angel), and can also use books found in electronic form (e.g. Google books).
• For online sources, you must provide author, title, and publication details for e-books, and article title, journal title, volume, page numbers, and stable URLs for online journal articles, and not just copy the URL from your browser. Failure to include proper citations WILL be penalized!
• Newspaper articles are NOT academic journal articles, and are not acceptable sources for this assignment (as they do not give citations for their sources and are thus often unreliable, especially regional, non-national newspapers).
• WIKIPEDIA is not a permissible source! Anyone giving Wikipedia as a source will be docked a full grade point off their grade for the assignment.
• You may provide your citations in whatever format you are most comfortable and familiar with, be it footnotes, endnotes, or in-text citations.
• Type your paper in Times New Roman, 12-point font, double-spaced.
• Insert page numbers bottom right.
• Papers must be submitted in Microsoft Word format (‘.doc’ or ‘.docx’ file format).
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