Essays on Creole

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 ...

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 ...

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Primitive and alienated from the rest of the world. Hegel viewed Africa as a world enveloped on a dark mantle of the night. It is a land shut-up from the rest of the world and often presumed to be static from development perspectives.

Stereotypes associated with Africa includes being under-developed, unhistorical, wild, and untamed.

Definition of terms Assimilation means an adaptation of a minority group to the norms or directions of a larger group. In this case, the way of life of the minor group becomes similar to that of the dominant one (Brubaker, 534). Acculturation is the contact between individual members of groups with different cultures that produce a ...

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.

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This paper focuses on the Haitian cultural group. Haitians are a group of people whose nationality is Haiti. The term Haiti is derived from Taino Indians’ language, and it means mountainous country. Haitians speak creole as their national language. Currently, the population of Haitian immigrants is 0.3 percent of the total US population (Buchanan, Albert, Beaulieu and U.S. Census Bureau, 2010).

American Community Survey of 2009 reports that 81 percent of people with Haitian ancestry who live in the United States and aged 5 years and above spoke a language other than English at home (Buchanan, Albert, Beaulieu, and U.S. Census ...

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 ...

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According to the available literature, the Spanish language is not as clear as it was intended. This is because numerous languages of the world have influenced the Spanish language accordingly. Moreover, the Spanish language has witnessed radical evolution due to emerging changes in the world. During the initial stages, the Spanish language was pure; however, other languages have systematically influenced the modern Spanish language used in United States of America and Latin America. For instance, the word pensabas has been influenced by American language and changed to pensas (Penny 89).

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Some of the commonly known cultures that have influenced ...

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 ...

Zydeco music originated in Southwest Louisiana and it was pioneered by the French Creole speakers. The music blends R&B, Blues and Cajun music. The songs are a reflection of the rural beginnings and the prevailing economic conditions that are reflected in the song titles, bluesy vocals and lyrics of Zydeco. The music developed as a synthesis of ancient Creole music, Afro-America traditions, Cajun music, Jazz, gospel, blues and R&B. The music was often called French music and the first recording was made in 1928. It was the Creole music that formed the foundation for the music that was later to be ...

Jazz music is also called Dixieland music. Its development started in New Orleans hence the assumption of the name. Its commencement can be traced back from the nineteen tens to the nineteen twenties. It is at that time that it started spreading to other states from New Orleans. It involves swing notes, polyrhythms, syncopation and improvisation. The development to Jazz music is linked to the struggle that necessitated the end of slavery in the United States of America. In this context, however, New Orleans is to the best of our interests the epicenter of Jazz. The trend, which ...

Introduction of the Research

Sign languages have two noticeably distinct types of morphological structure, one is sequential, and the other is simultaneous. Other than this there are two common sign languages being used, American and Israeli. Both of the languages fall in simultaneous morphology and are very similar, but when it comes to sequential morphology they differ, and are also derivational. There are different types of inflectional morphology that are discussed briefly in the paper. This research was also done to bring in the similarities between sign language and spoken languages all along; in 1970s and 1980s which are the starting days of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Edwidge Danticat’s novel, The Dew Breaker is a collection of stories that connects the different characters through a shared traumatic past. In the chapter, ‘The Bridal Seamstress’, the author deals with the issue of trauma in the past, how it is experienced, understood and looked at by the victim and an onlooker . The author brings together two women, one an older Haitian woman, Beatrice who has moved to the United States and the other, Aline-a young American-Haitian. Aline, the younger Haitian American is a journalist-intern and is asked by her editor to cover the story of the retirement of a prominent bridal ...

The contact of the society in a particular community makes language be interested when investigated in sociolinguistics. The aftermath of this investigation results to new languages, those are Creole and Pidgin language. The languages emerge when two people have a conversation, and they do not speak each other’s language. It is all clear that people from different tribes, nations and ethnic groups can meet for various objections such as business, trade, sports, or plantation work. This calls for a quick means of communication. Pidgin and Creole languages have their characteristics that are capable of being used in differentiate between the two ...

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 ...

The Columbian discovery of America is one of the greatest events in the history. Columbus set the stage for the era of explorations in the Americas. From the fifteenth century to the end of the Second World War, colonial imperialism of the Europeans was a process that explored lands beyond the shores of continental Europe. It led to the exploitation of the local resources and established settlements to manage and handle the resources. The arrival of Columbus in the lands of America was an invasion rather discovery. The Columbian exchange is the exchange of crops, diseases, ideas and people post ...

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 ...

The onset of jazz music was a luxurious and monumental thing for New Orleanians. Though music was essential to life in New Orleans throughout the nineteenth century, no sound that welcomed everybody. New Orleans was a diverse place where Creole, French, Spanish, and African cultures, among others, all lived elbow to elbow, with seemingly nothing in common other than a love for music. During the 1870’s could be heard everywhere. New Orleans was filled with the folky sounds inspired by European immigrants, and the distinct beats of African and Caribbean inspired musicians. As the turn of the century approached, these two ...

Angola’s Musical Background

The history in the development of different music genre in Algeria can be categorized into two periods namely; the colonial period and the post-colonial period. During the colonial period, the music in the country flourished within its borders with little success in gaining international acclaim especially when compared to music from its neighboring countries such as South Africa. The local language Kimbundu formed the focus of the musical tunes although other artists sang songs in the colonizer’s language-Portuguese (Bram 28). However, favor soon fell on the country with development of local tastes in music grew and bands ...

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 evident identity of Louisiana as an exceptional yet unique kind of integrated cultures has been captured using many phrases by many scholars. This savory mixture has also been identified alongside its historical dishes, gumbo. Capturing this unique and complex assortment of cultures has eluded many scholars, researchers and anthropologists. Some authors have however come close to identifying this complex assortment describing tradition, folk life and folklores. A major event labeled Louisiana Purchase that occurred in 1803 played a major role in shaping the future of this state. This marked a major experiment to incorporate the very diverse state into ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Introduction

Caribbean countries are those countries that underwent centuries of exploitation through slavery and indentureship. The whole Caribbean region entails; State members of CARICOM, Spanish-speaking Cuba and the Dominica Republican, The semiautonomous states of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, The British Overseas territories, The US Territories, The US Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and territory of the US Virgin Islands.( Wharton, F.1997).

The territories of the Republic of France

The region has several cultural differences due to the existence of different ethnic groups for example, English, Dutch and French. (Wharton, F. 1997). Colonization of the region not only led to psychological, environmental, social and economic damage but also ...

Jazz appeared as a social expression of diversity coming together. When different races, cultures, histories and societies meet, usually one focuses on overcoming the other(s). But when this does not happen, what remains to happen is to start working together, build together, learn from each other, and share with the other, with openness, acceptance and joy. This leads to development, through embracing the cultures of the others. Sharing and accepting the cultural diversity lead to artistic creation, through the development of a new form of art, in the early nineties, New Orleans. Although there were focused discussions upon its ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Creole and Cajun cuisines are largely differing if looked into deeply in various relevant perspectives. However, if plainly examined and related to, the two modes of cooking are highly inter-related. Often, numerous individuals cannot easily draw the line between the two cuisines. The fact that both cuisines bear their respective origins and genesis to one culture makes them similar in some forms. The two cuisines bear their genesis in terms process and ingredients to the French cooking techniques. As such, the two processes have their culinary effects both in France, though not entirely. Basically, the two culinary processes and ...

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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 ...