During twelve years from 1791to 1804, the French colony Saint-Domingue, known today as Haiti engaged in the most triumphant slave revolt in the world. The Haitian revolution was the result of the cry for freedom of black slaves, it gave birth to the first independent black nation as well as new views on slavery and freedom. This topic was chosen to demonstrate how a third world country, Haiti positively impacted the world in the past. This investigation explains the revolution, its purpose and
The Invisible Man Chapter Summary Chapter 1 The narrator remembers his grandfather, who was a freed slave but still not get equality and on his deathbed sought revenge against white. In the present time the narrator recalls giving a speech recommending black humility and the whites like it and he is taken to repeat it for the town leaders, but the leaders also arrange a “battle royal” and the narrator is beaten. It is a recurrent dream. Chapter 2 The narrator remembers his college and that he had
Summary Chapter 1 & 2 This book narrates a firsthand experience of the author of working on a trading floor in Solomon Brothers. The story starts with Mr Gutfreund, chairman of the company, going to John Meriwether, a board member, and asking him to play a single hand of Liar’s Poker for a million dollars. Meriwether was considered one of the best traders on the Solomon Brothers trading floor and Gutfreund had the reputation of being a shrewd manager who always had a purpose behind whatever he did
1 Mental illness – a key public health issue The World Health Organization upon acknowledging the significance of global mental health defined health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” (WHO, 1946, p.1). This apt definition led the dictum that “there is no health without mental health” (WHO, 2004, p.10), with endorsements from reputable organisations such as the World Federation of Mental Health, EU Council of Ministers