After the battle of Verti?res, Dessalines has declared Haiti?s independence on January 1, 1804. After winning the Independence war, Dessalines met using the heroic leaders and asked Boirond-Tonnerre to write the Declaration of Independence with the newly Republic, which was then changed from French Saint-Domingue to Haiti. A few lines of Haiti?s Declaration of Independence by Boiron Tonnerre follow: ?In order to write the Declaration of our Independence, we have to hold the skin of a White man (Frenchman) for parchment, his skull for inkstand, his blood for ink along with a bayonet for pen?. Dessalines was then chosen with a council of generals (blacks and mulattos) to assume the office of Governor-General. Nine months later, he proclaimed himself Emperor Jacques 1er in September 1804 and ruled Haiti until his assassination on October 17, 1806. Mine was at the bathroom the morning I got the email from Escape Adulthood speaker and expert Jason Kotecki and his wife, Kim, informing me that I was chosen as THE Adultitis Fighter of the Month. I had NO idea what that meant so I visited their site and found blogs from others who had been chosen in prior months. These everyone was amazingly awesome! They lived lives that I aspired to get like. Why had they chosen ME to get in this elite circle? Darkness and lightweight are themes that run heavily through Van Gogh's work. Darkness and light reflected his wish create beauty, his feelings of inadequacy, and the desire to touch the souls of males. For instance, Starry Night draws the viewer to the painting of your sleeping village using its swirls of light and it is rich evening sky.