Creole College Essays Samples For Students

The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life is an 1880 novel by George Washington Cable. The novel entails a story about the Creole society living in the New Orleans, Louisiana and other South Eastern regions which used intense Creole slave labor in the early 1800s. Cable wrote the novel with the intention of raising awareness about the deplorable conditions in which the creoles lived and the racial injustice that they faced. The following is a summary of the novel detailing events from the introduction to chapter twenty six about “A Ride and Rescue”.

The novel begins by explaining the life ...

Many are the times when people find themselves shifting of the languages they use and also the way they express themselves. The practice of moving forth and back between two languages at times results to partial or complete crossing over. In such situations, the end result might be language crossing. This is the code alternation done by people who are not members of the second language. This form of crossing tends to happen across ethnic boundaries as well as social groupings. People acquire distinctive patterns of communication through their ethnicity or the environment in which they are born and ...

In “The Awakening,” Kate Chopin uses quite a few symbols to suggest the true feelings and thoughts of Edna Pontellier, the protagonist of the novel, and to connect scenes that become integral to the novel’s plot. In the concluding scene of the story, Chopin vaguely describes Edna’s actions and feelings in her final moments; instead she conveys them presenting three of the most essential symbols of the novel. The bird, the sea, and clothing symbols are integral to the final scene because they connect that scene with other characters and critical moments in the book, conveying Edna’s ...

The short story “Desiree’s Baby” was published in 1893, in “Vogue”. Its first title was “The Father of Desiree’s baby” to focus on Armand’s identity and origin. The story touches important issues that plagued the South of that time such as racism, the position of women, gender inequality. “Desiree’s Baby” is one of only two major stories Chopin set in antebellum Louisiana, portraying woman character whose life is ruined by a cruel and deeply-seated racism, but intellectual readers of the day would have been aware of the complex cultural history in the background of the ...

Earlier generations believed that pidgins and creoles were wrong versions of English. It is only comparatively recently that linguists have realized that pidgins and creoles were rather new languages. Their words were largely taken from an older language during a period of linguistic crisis to fill an urgent need for communication (Holm, 2000, p. 25). This makes them appear to be deformed versions of that older language. If, however, one examines them as linguistic systems, analyzing the structure of their phonology, syntax, and word formation, it becomes evident that these systems are quite different from those of the language from ...

Cultural Representation in Native America

According to chapter four, Native American religion has become a commodity today because people have taken advantage of the practice of shamanism in order to capitalize on the potential monetary benefits that come from it. People are assigning themselves “leadership roles” but are really just vying for control and exercising their hidden agendas (Sutler-Cohen 45). Knowledge and spirituality are thus transformed into profitable commodities run by businesspeople instead of true natural healers. By saying “You can own grandma’s songs,” Sutler-Cohen is referring to the practice of taking Native symbols and religious icons and transforming them into trendy or ...

Landing pages are full of pictures with words. They are creolized texts and are very important for numerous reasons. In the search for new means of expression a person creates new pictorial story, an example of which is creolized lyrics. The role of text code along with verbal reflection the view of the world, the scale of value and aesthetic ideals of the nation grows in modern intercultural communication. Creolized texts become increasingly common in modern communication and are one of its most successful products. The awareness of the importance of creolized texts increases nowadays too as the information ...

Located in the north eastern part of Central America, Belize is famed for being the only English speaking country in Central America even though Spanish and Kriol are also widely used for official purposes. The country borders Guatemala and Mexico to the west and south respectively. The island’s size is close to 23,000 square kilometers, and with a population of about 300,000 according to the 2010 census, it is ranked least densely populated in Central America (Belize Statistical Office, 2013). The 3.15% population growth rate, however, makes it the second highest in this region after the Cayman ...

The Class Name

It`s hard even imagine our current musical life without such magnificent and diverse genre as jazz music, with its light tunes that are easy to listen, on the one hand, but with its possible complexities and progressive ways of composing and playing on the other. The aim of our current research is to discover the history and roots of jazz music, how the genre has developed in New Orleans, what it was influenced with, and what did the cultural and social variety of this city change in the cultures of various nations. Today we`re also about to ...

Abstract

Afro-Caribbean are people from Africa who migrated in the Caribbean Islands. Art by Afro-Caribbean is still tightly connected to the concept of provincial identity and inherited heritage. It is as well believed to stay Afro- Caribbean beliefs are pluralistic, thus share wide-ranging historical proficiencies. The type of art fashioned by many Afro-Caribbean people are said to be modern. This is evident with the local arts that existed in vast places of the island even before the 20th century added by the works of itinerant artists from Europe. Happy to be distinguished with their Caribbean roots, they became more focused ...

Music is known to be universal but the jazz music emanated from slavery as African slaves came with their sounds which they fused with the church sounds and folk songs and songs from Europe in a bid to find consolation in their new surroundings. In the midst of everything it was used to unite the people. While Jazz music is being credited to gaining recognition through Buddy Bolden, the story of Jazz music cannot be discussed without one way or the other inadvertently coming back to Louis Armstrong whom many have claimed to be the greatest of Jazz musicians. He ...

Latin American History: Tupac Amaru

Tupac Amaru descended from a royal family who had ruled the Inca Empire in Peru between the 15th and 16th century. The Incas was the name an empire that had stretched from present day Ecuador to parts of Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia and Peru. As a result of its wide coverage, the Inca Empire has been described as the largest in the history of the Pre-Columbian America. The empires center of origin was at a place known as Cusco. This center acted as its capital and base of operations.
In the year 1531, the Spanish people started to arrive in the ...

American English began around 1607 when the first English settlement was established in Virginia. During this period, for scholars to distinguish the English language from the present day English, they referred to the language as the Early Modern English (Wolfram and Schilling-Estes 104). Differences between the Early Modern English and the modern English can be seen in the differences in the dialects within the British English language. In addition, these dialects resulted to different dialects in the States as various people from the different speech regions settled in different parts of America.
The colonists who came to Virginia ...

Analysis of ‘The Wide Sargasso Sea’

Introduction
Jean Rhys’ ‘The Wide Sargasso Sea’ is a story that gives a detailed account of the events that took place during the last days of the colonial activities of the English people in the Caribbean region. Rhys was born in the region and she experienced some of the issues that she narrates through the story that she tells in ‘The Wide Sargasso Sea’ (Ciolkowski 341). In the story, Rhys details the many issues that affected women during the colonial times in her society. It should be understood that the story by Rhys takes a creative narrative but it ...

SUMMARY AND ATTONATION

The writer from page 150 begins by saying that sojourners hailing from New Orleans who used to drive in the afternoon would on several occasions spot two or three houses which had a beautiful and fantastic architectural features that helped them draw the attention of the public. Then there is also the aspect of religion whereby Creole is defined as a religious and also true to issue facing her and also fearless in expressing his empathy and sorrow for the an American invader who had been born in horror only to find himself sandwiched by hatred and a world of discrimination. The ...

The horror anthology series American Horror Story has derived much of its tensions and drama from the past. Some of the more unsavory elements of American history have been mined for horror, from serial killers to Holocaust survivors to the horrors of early mental institutions. In the case of the third season, Coven, the major theme is witchcraft. Set in contemporary New Orleans, the season revolves around a cold war between a white coven of witches descended from the Salem witches, and a black voodoo coven, dating back hundreds of years to the antebellum South. According to Gibson, “America’s popular cultural ...

Summary 1

People all over the universe do have different alienations culturally. Different cultures do have varying works of art associated with them. The works of art of the different groups of people try to identify people with their respective cultures. For the case of the metis, the assumption that each culture had its own corresponding art was hard to validate (Levy, pg72). This was because many of the works found in this region could not be proved to be of metis origin. Two scholars however, found that the metis had work of art which could be identified as their own. ...

Vodou has one deity in their religion, who is known as Bondye. (Olmos, 105) There are three different sides to Bondye, one of which is lwa – this side consists of a wide number of spirits who have their own different personalities, alignments (good or bad) strengths and weaknesses, and their own powers. The spirits usually come from ancestors or other practitioners who are long since dead and gone. - the lwa “provide the link between human and the divine.” (Olmos, 105) Rado and Petro lwa are the good and bad sides of Vodou, respectively; Rado represent peaceful, happy spirits, and ...

Jazz is such a unique and distinguished genre of music that delights the ear of every person who listens to it. Found in New Orleans, it grew in fame all around the world and will always be popular. Why New Orleans? The founding of jazz and what impacted it is astonishing.
The 19th century was a century that united different ethnic groups such as German, French, Irish, Spanish, African and Italian together, these ethnicities had one main thing in common – the same taste in music. How did Jazz develop and what were the main causes of it being found ...

Geography

Colombia is one of the three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia back in the year 1830. Colombia is bordered by Panama to the Northwest, Venezuela and Brazil to the East, Ecuador and Peru to the Southwest. Colombia is the forth-largest country in south America with a total area of 1,138,910 square kilometers. Colombia has tropical climate as most of it mainland is located within the tropics. The climatic variations in the country Colombia are mainly influenced by altitude. The country can be divided into climatic regions, the hot country, ortierra caliente this is ...

Composed by Kate Chopin a short story Désirée’s Baby presents passage from life of a girl without a name who finds her love and her bitter end. Désirée was found by Valmondé a wealthy and aristocratic family from the antebellum South who adopts her despite that fact that Monsieur and Madame Valmondé do not know girl`s origin. She is loved and admired not only by her new parents but also by Armand Aubigny a representative of another influential and wealthy Creole family in Louisiana. It seems that Désirée is surrounded by ...

Golub, Mark. "Plessy as "Passing": Judicial Responses to Ambiguously Raced Bodies in Plessy v. Ferguson." Law & Society Review, 39, no. 3 (2005): 563-600.

Synopsis

Homer Plessy’s decision to purchase a ticket as a white man, and to later confess that he is indeed black, was part of “a test case” conducted by the Creole community of New Orleans. As per the terms of the Louisiana Separate Car Act of 1890, Caucasians and persons of African descent were subject to traveling in different railway cars to serve the purposes of racial segregation. In the article, Golub quotes Plessy’ ...

The Haitian Revolution is thought to be the largest, most successful slave revolt in history. The slave revolt took place between 1791-1804 after which they had succeeded in not just ending slavery but also French control on the island. The Haitian Revolution was a series of revolutions that went on at the same time.
Prior to the revolutions Saint Dominigue, or Haiti as it is known today was the wealthiest of France’s overseas colonies. The colony was a major exporter of coffee, cotton and sugar all of which was grown by slaves. In the 1730’s the French ...

New Orleans is considered to be the birthplace of jazz. Though it is hard to find the origins of this musical style, it is true that the city has a lot of factors which enabled the development of jazz. First of all, its geographical position resulted in the constant mixture of different people and cultures. Nowadays, the city is a major port of the United States. It is located on the Mississippi River close to the Gulf of Mexico. This means that sailors and salesmen use this place for trade and entertainment. The location of the city attracted many ...

In the paper, I will discuss why it was New Orleans that became the birthplace of jazz. One may argue that there were bands performing ragtime throughout the US in the end of the XIX century. The whole American South was singing the blues. It is possible to name more than a dozen cities, where there were all those constituent elements which evolved into jazz music. Anyhow, it was mainly New Orleans where for the first time jazz music emerged. Further, I will dwell on reasons that led to this.
Perhaps the most convincing evidence that the birthplace of ...

Harriet, the writer of the book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” tries to bring out the evil in slavery in the society and tries to bring it out when the conditions were smoothest for the black man. In fact, the slavery was full of evils in the smoothest moments as per the black man’s view and it can only be imagined in the worst conditions that the black man underwent a nightmare. As Stowe depicts in her account, the slave holders were full of animosity as they would snatch the blacks at unsuspecting times and sell him or her for ...

Chapter 20

Essay Question #1: 10 points
Describe the art movement Fauvism. Why were they named that? Who were significant artists that belonged to the Fauves. What set them apart from the artists before them? Where did their ideas come from? Who were their influences?
Fauvism was a liberal movement where artists experimented on their color and style choices, by choosing vivid and brightest colors to being out art in its purest form. The term fauvism (coined in 1905 by Louis Vauxcelles) arose from the word “fauves” meaning “wild beasts”, because of its boldness and the shocking reaction it evoked ...

I set out to document the Haitian American culture which is representative of one of the many cultures within my family. My father is of Haitian descent. of my Dad. He is a Haitian American, born and raised in Bronx, New York in 1970. Both of hHis parents were born in Haiti and migrated into to America in the 1960s. Hewas born July 11, 1970. The culture of a person is extremely vitalCulturally identity is important especially, especially when one experiences migrationmigrates from their homeland to another country. and into America. It is more interesting to learn about the culture of ...

Culture is the root of life. It is what gives meaning to people living as one nation. What sociologists call Culture is the entire way of life a community passes from one generation to the next; here, the values, folkways, mores, history are all the same. Nonetheless, culture is an environment wherein people have ways to express themselves, that is, in the process creating artworks to be artifacts. These artifacts are the product of merging a people's culture and society - their past and their future.
Since I originated from Haiti, there is one artifact from the said Island that ...

During the Viceroyal period (1521-1700), the colony of New Spain had an incredibly strong and religious culture, based heavily in the Catholic conversion of the natives. In these first steps into Latin America, the Spanish Crown chose to impose its imperialist, colonialist values onto the native people of New Spain, turning the region itself into a Catholic mission, for better or worse. Despite this (or perhaps because of it), life in New Spain became strongly focused on traditional Spanish values, as well as an emphasis on art. While conversion was a central facet of life during the viceroyal period, the colonists’ faith ...

New Orleans

The American victory at New Orleans in 1815 reflected many of the qualities that are considered intrinsic to the American national character. Social equality, personal resiliency and an emphasis on the common good were all in evidence during the defense of the city at the mouth of the strategically critical Mississippi River. The American force that defeated the British was a multi-ethnic and populist patchwork, a collection of rugged individualists from throughout a nation that was still coalescing as a viable geo-political unit. It was led by a man who embodied the very notion that common people can possess extraordinary qualities, itself a refutation of ...

And The Role inthe Daily Lives Of Caribbean People

Culture refers to the way of life of a people. It involves and includes how an ethnic group of people carry out their activities.The culture of a particular group of people can be categorized as having different aspects to it such as the material culture, the religious culture and even the linguistic culture. The cultural practices of a group of people serve as their identifying factor giving them a sense of belonging and self-worthiness. Such practices ensure the continuity of the people’s culture protecting it against extinction and degeneration from the face of the earth.
Practices which ensure the progression of a ...