Creole

variety of English dialects, creoles, and accents. However, not all of these students are aware of the differences between their way of speaking and Standard American English or SAE. Although one’s English dialect or creole is valuable and functional in their home and community, increasing one’s proficiency in SAE for use in the educational setting will add to their “toolkit” of skills but may also require support. Explanation of Standard Language, Dialects, and Creoles Standard Language A…

It is often interesting viewing your world and reality through the eyes of other people, listening as they decipher and make assumptions, none all that accurate, about the facts, while you 're left to live those facts. Americans have a lot of opinions about Haiti and about as many questions too. As soon as people know that I’m Haitian, I get flooded with questions that I highly doubt they want the answers to: “Why is Haiti so poor?” “Do you do voodoo?” “Where does all the relief money go?” “Why…

Social Problem There is not enough services and support for employed, low income adults. I came to realize this issue because there was a time in my life when I was homeless, and I was practically told that there would be no immediate help available to me since there are no adults under the age of 18 who live in the same household as myself. My mother and I were evicted from our home in December 2014, just a few days before New Year 's Day. For confidentiality, I will refer to my mother as…

Maya Angelou, a renowned American poet once said ‘We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated’. Being a poet of African descent, she was able to manifest this in her poems by making a connection to Africa and its history. Similarly, David Diop, a contemporary of Angelou was of African descent but he was born and raised in France. Even so, he spent a significant amount of time in West Africa which helped him connect with his mother nation. His works were mainly on political…

Louisiana Creole cuisine originated in Louisiana. This type of Creole cooking uses influences from the general cuisine of the Southern United States and from populations present in Louisiana before the sale of Louisiana to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. Louisiana Creole blends primarily French and Spanish cookings styles as well as West African, Amerindian, Hatian, German, Italian and Irish influences. In this cuisine, and from French influence, there is a large emphasis on…

Caribbean. In Texaco, Chamoiseau spoke about this type of situation. In Martinique, there are two main languages that are spoken in a community, French and Creole. French is thought to be the language spoken by the intellectual and well-educated individuals while Creole is thought to be spoken more amongst the poor, uneducated individuals of Martinique. Creole is a combination of African languages, French and other language while French is the colonial language that is part of the fundamental…

were the Creoles, people with pure European blood, but they were born in the Americas. The Creoles, quite wealthy, owned land, but they held very few governmental jobs even though they took up nearly a quarter of the population. Lower yet came the Mestizos, the Mestizos had mixed native and…

because they know that cannot pronounce the word parsley without a Haitian accent. I think that René Philoctète through this novel tries to convey the difficulties of " Haitian-creole roots as a central part to define Haitian culture. Since it is a hard realty to remember that the Haitian slaughter of 1937 occurred using Creole as a critical Element that condemned Haitian destiny. This happens because this novel satirizes Trujillo 's ridiculous and sarcastic myth of Dominican nationality.That…

as if the dress worn by a woman from Puebla was a costume. Calderón’s entry demonstrates that while Creoles utilized unifying rhetoric promising Castas of legal racial equality, the legacy of colonial Spanish America and its inherent inequality would persist years after. With growing discontent toward their Spanish-born counterparts, the Creoles…

had died in 1888 to raise money for herself and her six children. Chopin was raised by her French Creole mother and Chopin married a wealthy New Orleans cotton broker. She used her life and childhood to help her write the story. Within her writing, Chopin used her background to depict the lifestyle and dialect of the Cajun area of America. Chopin gave Bobinot and Caxlixta characteristics of a Creole person including the dialect they used and their names to help imagine the setting. From the…