vicissitudes, the way that the world or a person prospers one day and declines the next

一栄一落: vicissitudes

Haiti (a country in the Caribbean)

allocate / deploy

contradiction, inconsistency, conflict

to be inconsistent with, to be in conflict with, to contradict

life / Literally, person's past. Used when speaking about the former life of a dead person.

The act of following in sequence; succession. / A sequence of things arranged in order; succession.

happen consecutively

completion of the first step