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Elizabeth Cauvin Capstone

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​Welcome to Haiti. 
 
My name is Elizabeth. I am a young Haitian-American lady. For my capstone, I decided to do something that will help me figure myself out as an individual. I also did this because I wanted to broaden up my knowledge about my culture. I was not born in Haiti, but my father decided to relocate himself to the United States to start a new life for my mother and her two sons at the time. After a year a two without the love of his life, my father was stable enough to bring his wife and two sons to America, so that they can get the better education and opportunities they deserve. Being as though, I was not born in Haiti I wanted to do something that will better help me connect with my culture other than speaking the language, creole, frequently. 
 
There are two parts to this capstone, the first part is a research paper on the country Haiti and my father’s journey to America. The second part is the mini course I taught. In my mini-course, “Welcome to Haiti”, I taught the students games that my parents would play as a child, I taught them basic conversations and numbers 1-10 in Creole and had them listen to Haitian music.

How does food supply affect life expectancy?

Posted by Elizabeth Cauvin in Statistics · Isakowitz · B on

The food supply affects life expectancy is proper nutrition. Eating healthy is the most effective and sometimes expensive way to decrease the fear of diseases ending your life or causing major complications. According to Audre Biciunaite, “.The most obvious explanation behind the connection between life expectancy and income is the effect of food supply on mortality. Historically, there have been statistically convincing parallels between prices of food and mortality.”


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Overall, the life expectancy of my countries are in a positive correlation. Haiti's correlation is all over the place because climate change and earthquakes. Japan and Germany goes in a positive correlation because they both have equal amounts of food supply and decrease and increasing life expectancy. This is because in places like Haiti, food is scarce because they have a lot of natural disasters that makes the food supply decrease and as a result, life expectancy drops. In the other countries, Natural disasters are less likely to occur so, food supply is leveled and so their life expectancy.

In the graph above, there are two images of graphs from gapminder. As you can see Haiti’s data is in a S shape. In the data, you can see that Haiti has had some decrease in food supply and life expectancy. The cause of that is because of the climate changes and natural disasters occurring. When looking at Japan’s data, overtime life expectancy and the food supply is increasing. Then life expectancy starts to increase more than food supply starts to decrease. The cause of this is because people traveled to the countryside to get their food and in the early stages war was reasonable. When looking Germany’s data, the life expectancy and food supply is increasing. These data points show the increasing and decreasing of food supply and life expectancy throughout the years.

Living in a country like Haiti is difficult due to the common natural disasters including severe storms, flooding, landslides, drought and the devastating earthquake that rocked the country on 12 January 2010 that have been occurring for the past two decades. A lot of people who live in Haiti, such as some relatives of mine, do not have access to water, electricity, health benefits or somewhere that is clean/sanitized. The cause of food supply decreasing is because of the storms. A lot of Haitians grow everything they eat and go fishing. When huge storms hit them, the food supply decreases drastically. “According to the latest WHO data published in 2015 life expectancy in Haiti is: Male 61.5, female 65.5 and total life expectancy is 63.5 which gives Haiti a World Life Expectancy ranking of 144. You can see the top 20 causes of death data and rankings for Haiti by clicking on the links below or select the full country health profile at the bottom of the page.”

In a country like Japan, food is their culture. They have a wide variety of food. Being as though their food plays a major role in their country, “uniquely reflects the natural environment, regional diversity and underlying value system of this resilient country, says Brendan FD Barrett”. Their food supply are always increasing in numbers because everything they eat are grown from the ground by them. Then the food supply started to decrease a bit because people stopped farming and they started to import goods from other countries which increased in Japan. The largest amount of imported food comes from the United States followed by China, of course. According to nbc news by Geoffrey Cain, a globalpost correspondent, “The Japanese have the highest life expectancy of any major country. Women on average live to 87 and men to 80 (compared to 81 years for American women and 76 for American men). The Japanese can live 75 of those years disability free and fully healthy, according to the World Health Organization.”

In germany, the living is fair… not too bad. According to Better Life Index, “Germany performs well in many measures of well-being relative to most other countries in the Better Life Index. Germany ranks above the average in education and skills, work-life balance, jobs and earnings, environmental quality, social connections, housing, personal security and subjective well-being.” When looking at the graph, germany has had a steady increase of food supply. “According to the latest WHO data published in 2015 life expectancy in Germany is: Male 78.7, female 83.4 and total life expectancy is 81.0 which gives Germany a World Life Expectancy ranking of 24. You can see the top 20 causes of death data and rankings for Germany by clicking on the links below or select the full country health profile at the bottom of the page”.

These countries have different data. Some of the life expectancy depends on the food supply whereas the food supply depend on the life expectancy. In haiti, life expectancy has been decreasing over the past two decades due to natural disasters that made a negative impact on the food supply. The citizens of Haiti depend on their crops to feed their families and survive. In Japan, food supply is increasing and so is Life expectancy. In japan, they have a strict diet. Mostly growing their food, but then they started to import specific foods such as soy and wheat. One thing that I found interesting is that Japan has the highest life expectancy in the world because the diet they stick to is healthy. As they get older, they start to eat more vegetables. A combination of small portions, lower-calorie foods like fish and vegetables, and beautiful eye-appealing dishes all contribute to a longer and healthier lifespan, argues Naomi Moriyama in her co-authored book "Japanese Women Don't Get Old or Fat: Secrets of My Mother's Tokyo Kitchen." In Germany, the life expectancy and food supply are increasing in a steady rate. As far as making a living, Germany has been living well in debt free. They rank the highest in education and skills which is a plus to making a living.

Life expectancy of my countries are in a positive correlation. Haiti's correlation is all over the place because climate change and earthquakes. overtime life expectancy and the food supply is increasing. Then life expectancy starts to increase more than food supply starts to decrease. The cause of this is because people traveled to the countryside to get their food and in the early stages war was reasonable. When looking Germany’s data, the life expectancy and food supply is increasing. These data points show the increasing and decreasing of food supply and life expectancy throughout the years.









                                   Reference Page :


"Life Expectancy in Germany." World Life Expectancy. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Jan. 2017.

"Germany." OECD Better Life Index. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Jan. 2017.

OurWorld20. "Future of Food in Japan." Our World. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Jan. 2017.

Correspondent, Geoffrey Cain GlobalPost. NBCNews.com. NBCUniversal News Group,    17 June 2014. Web. 24 Jan. 2017.


Oral Benchmark Project - Elizabeth Cauvin

Posted by Elizabeth Cauvin in African American History - Roy - X on
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In this interview, Ms.Jones remembers her back when she was living throughout the Civil Rights Movement. Ms.Jones retraces her life and answering my questions about what she had to face back in the day. This interview that I did made me have a better understanding of the Civil Right Movement. 

Research - 
In my opinion, Ms.Jones talked about being discriminated by other people. Some research that I did :
  •  is action that denies social participation or human rights to categories of people based on prejudice
  • Nearly 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans in Southern states still inhabited a starkly unequal world of disenfranchisement, segregation and various forms of oppression, including race-inspired violence. 
  • The modern period of civil rights reform can be divided into several phases, each beginning with isolated, small-scale protests and ultimately resulting in the emergence of new, more militant movements, leaders, and organizations.
Sources :
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/civil-rights-movement/essays/civil-rights-movement-major-events-and-legacies 

EC - Hello how are ?  

Ms.Jones - Im fine

EC - Ok so um The first question is What do you know about The Civil Rights Movement?

Ms.Jones - Um I lived on the part of the civil Rights movement, and um I know that it was a time where that is was a time where minority, preferably blacks was uh outworldly demonstrating for equal rights and even our famous leader was Martin Luther king , and he um broke a lot of barriers by even uh uh um making some blacks schools in the south accept some white schools accept black students dealt with something with Rosa Parks, where she didn’t have to sit in the back of the bus, and I know in Philadelphia I uh um joined in the marches from my high school Dobbins to city hall where we uh marched into civil rights. So I kind of experienced it.

EC - Ok um What was your conceptualization of race and how it has changed?

Ms.Jones- ok Um well race is just happy dance , I mean you were born of the race of your mother and father , you don’t choose it. But basically except for the skin color , were all the same its just in the minds of people the feel that the lighter fair of skin tones are better than the darker tones. I think it ih ignorance , i think its uh prejudice , but then ever race is prejudice in some way or another even dark skin people are prejudice against the light skins. The light skins against the dark skins, and it has always been and I fill it always will be.  

EC - ok so um how did you see the role of race in society?

Ms.jones- Um I think that society now don’t really fight for anything, and I feel the racist in society now has set the civil uh the the , all of the- the uh um fight that we did for the civil right back 50 years. Um they claim that people are more acceptance now, but I feel that um racism has its own ugly face, in everything worse than it did before. And one evidence is to want to be reversed the um informative action - ok , and once they reversed that you could no longer go into court, and be heard, in the matter of race.  

EC -Hmm Ok so What do you remember from the Civil Rights Movement ?

Ms.Jones- I can remember um the the the the killing of Martin Luther King. Um I can remember the riots in Philadelphia. Uh I can remember um as as a child when they uh did the riots in my neighborhood, uh where the police liked bashed in our store door because we wouldn’t go inside. I can remember the neighbors breaking in their own store and their own neighborhoods , and stealing the products. I can remember day Martin Luther King was dead , and how silent it was that morning and uh how everybody rode in the cars and the lights on. Um I can remember breaking out of my school at Dobbins, and um with the other student body , and uh marching and singing the songs like  “we shall overcome”. Um I can remember marching around uh Girard college because it didn’t accept any blacks. Um I can remember the bombing of the churches in Atlanta where the kids got killed, so its all through by bringing them.  

EC - that’s crazy  

EC - Um, ok , so  Were you ever discriminated as a child going to school ? If so how did you deal with it ?

Ms.Jones- Absolutely I have being a dark skin of a black women, um y-your discriminated against, like I said the fairer skin of blacks  I can remember , like even when we saw blacks on t.v it was like fairer skin women , were the stars , and the darker women only got um parts as maids or nannies and things. And I can remember when they had um toys and cartoons of like “pick-a-mutant” , “blackface” , and um “Ain’t ya momma on the pancake box” (laughter) - Ok . And um it’s still here because they just had the case with the um the sports owner. Just because people don’t speak about it in public , don’t mean that they don’t feel it and speak about it within their own group. Its alive , and living in America and every other country.

EC -  Um How old were you during the Civil Rights Movement ?

Ms.Jones- um I still feel were in the civil rights movement, so i’ve been in the civil rights movement from birth- okay (laughter) - and it never stopped. I can remember my first trip going with my family to South Carolina to visit my grandmother, and I’ve must’ve been eight and I was suprised how we couldn’t go to the bathrooms , to the restaurants, um I was surprised of how some of  the Blacks lives versus the ones who wasn’t . And they stood there, they definitely had signs in places “White Only” - okay - Um I can remember  first time on my job where , and I wore a uh African type hair due , and my boss was caucasian - (The time had ran out , so I started a new one )

EC - okay were going to start off - ( still on the other question which is : Um How old were you during the Civil Rights Movement ? )

Ms.Jones- In my early twenties, was my first job when um the African hair due became popular. The first day I went to work with it, my boss just happened to be caucasian uh joke to me was “ what did you do ? Stick you finger in electric socket - Okay ( laughter) -  which ( laughter ) I didn’t find very funny - Okay ( and more laughter ) - And oh , so thats the new that one.


EC - How was it back in the day, when you were a child?

Ms.Jones- Well like - in fact , back in the day it wasn’t hidden racist. So you were very much aware of it . So um it was just an um acceptance um of a way of life. You didn’t like it , but you were aware. You knew certain neighborhoods you didn’t go in , you knew if you went to certain places, you could not go in and use the uh restrooms or be served in the restaurant.  You knew certain schools were not going to get into , so it was - you you unlike today where it’s hidden it was out there for you to deal with it back when I was a child.  

EC - What's different from today and back in the day ?

Ms.Jones- Well that was one difference is that it was clear , versus hidden. In fact, it was some of that where in the laws , I mean it was just acceptable behavior … okay. And back in the day, like you didn’t learn about black history , it was - I was an adult before I realized that blacks invented things and had a history. So um it was just a uh uh uh regular way of life , that was the reason that excited the um Civil Rights Movement because after a while people just got tired of being treated that kind of way , and that made like great men like Martin Luther king and other Civil Rights leaders um put their life on the line to change these things um because under the guidelines we all made equal.

EC - Do you know about Emmett Till , and how do you feel about his death ?

Ms.Jones- Now I’m not familiar with that name , like I said back then they did not teach us black history.

EC- Okay …

Ms.Jones- So I feel that the kids today know more about black history uh leaders  than we did , we only know the ones that was out there on the television.

EC- well Emmett Till he wasn’t like a leader he was 14 year old that got beaten brutally , and like his face was messed up , like his mom didn’t even know it was him , and she had an open casket funeral.

Ms.Jones- Ok Ok I remember that. Now the way I feel about that is just that was typical of the way they used to victimize uh blacks uh in the South and other places from the beginning in the time. I mean back to when they had uh segregation where they used hang blacks from the trees -

EC - yes they lynched them

Ms.jones- yeah well they lynched them so blacks always been in danger in certain parts of the the world that they go because their black.  And to make it more personal um I have a sister that um went to a party at a friend of her’s house who happened to be caucasian whereas she was the only black at the party , and some point they all jumped on her and uh this was right here in center city about 4 YEARS AGO . So like I said it’s just the way it is , you can’t change what’s in mind , and when they had the uh the guys of wood hoods they had children and the children had children and these are the people that are out um in the workplace now, and you went to school wit ‘em and you wouldn’t think that their attitudes had changed. They-They seem to say when they took off their hood “we’re going in but we’re coming out different

EC - yeah i agree

Ms.Jones-  Its still there because these kids and the kids of the kids are worse than them because they have been feed the stuff from birth .

EC- okay -

Ms.Jones - Alright

EC - Do you have any final thoughts ? Anything else you would like to say ?

Ms.Jones-  It’s just that I had hoped that in my lifetime I would see a change , but um it is - In fact , its coming back again in hard. its just that children of today never experienced it they way we did don’t recognized it. And they were brought up to feel that it’s not there . they don’t see where it touches - okay … because they're not aware. We were aware , so hopefully um I believe in God and I still feel that he has the final say in all this

EC - thank you for answering my questions , have a nice day .

Ms.Jones - You too.
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Lights In The Skies

Posted by Elizabeth Cauvin in Physics - Gray - D on
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Elizabeth Cauvin & Kimberly Caraballa 
West Stream 

We choose to do Lights In The Skies because we love to look at the sky and look at the beauty of the world. Also we choose to do Abstract art because when looking at the art peice we question what is cold be . What this says about us is that we are adventurous and we like to go above and beyond. 
 
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