Bayou

The Woodlands TX Homes For Sale Twenty-eight miles north of Houston, where the Hardy toll road spills onto I-45, find yourself in the heart of The Woodlands TX. The Woodlands, TX real estate agents call this “The Number One Master Planned Community” of TX. Officially celebrating its Grand Opening in 1974, The Woodlands now consists of ten “villages” bordering each other and skillfully plotted into the beauty of the Piney Woods along wooded parks, greenbelts, and hiking/biking trails. Today…

Kate Chopin’s short story, Desiree’s Baby, is set in Louisiana in the mid nineteenth century on two white-owned plantations. The story discovers the psychosomatic bearings of slavery and racial discrimination. The physical abuse and violence that was a part of slavery are present only on the borders of the story which was disguised in Armand Aubigny’s “strict” dealings of his slaves. Armand sees certain things in his lifetime, Desiree, their son, and his slaves, but as ordinary properties,…

Sometimes it 's a secret place, but it does not have to be. Most people like fancy things but it doesn 't take much to make me happy. My favorite place to go is a little fishing camp in Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi. This little yellow camp on the bayou may not be special to anyone else, but it 's special to me. There have been so many good times and memories made here. This isn 't everyone 's cup of tea because everything to be done is outside. I love it but I also love being outside. We usually…

Houston Houston, Texas has in the past come under scrutiny due to a number of stereotypes associated with it. Although some of these stereotypes are believed to be true, most of them are false. The following are some of the common stereotypes levelled against Houston. First, it is assumed that a majority of the people in Texas are related or acquainted with tycoons in the oil industry (Bever). Second, Houston citizens are considered to always be in possession of guns. In addition to…

a long time ago. About three to four thousand years ago to be exact. According to Mcphee, the main channel of the mississippi is now the quiet little “water” of Bayou Teche. This is known for a few distinct reasons. The Bayou Teche follows the general path of the Mississippi; moreover, it “mimics the shape of the Mississippi.” The Bayou Teche and Mississippi, in fact, are only one…

Festival Acadiens et Créole did just that. In 1974 the first event that took place to get the celebration of Cajun Créole culture rolling was the Festival de Musique that was a one-day event that took place to honor Cajun or Zydeoc music. Secondly the Bayou Food Festival was moved to allow the celebration or Cajun cuisine and Cajun music to be combined. The last piece of the puzzle that makes all three of these festivals come together to create the big Festival Acadiens complete is the…

saturday I could have never imagined what would happen in the following days. The hurricane would not move away from us. We were pummeled with rain. My street was filling up then draining constantly. About monday our street became connected to the bayou, therefore it could not drain. Then about that time the had to release water from the two dams to help prevent them from breaking. But at this point it wasn’t all bad. With the water flooding…

Then two collections of short fiction titled Bayou Folk and A Night in Acadie were published in 1894 and 1897, respectively. It was also during 1894 that the chilling short story The Story of an Hour was published in VOGUE. Then in 1899 what most consider her greatest work was published, titled The…

Racism in New Orleans, Louisiana has historically been reflected in settlement patterns throughout the city, dating back to its founding in the early 1700’s. The first settlers favored well-drained uplands and shunned the swamps and marshes as dangerous, instead relegating African American slaves and native Creole people to these areas. Post-civil war, these settlement patterns were only exaggerated as the racial geography of the city shifted toward what is now considered a “classic southern”…

brown soft clay which at one-point symbolized freedom. Being that Southern University land at some point in history was a slave planation. To the left I notice the Red stick. I have been told the red stick was placed in the ground on the bank of a bayou at a place known as Scott’s Bluff, to settle a border conflict over hunting grounds between the Houma Indian Tribe and the Bayougoula Indian Tribe. It is now about 7:30 am, the sunlight beams down the river signifying the glory of the…