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    Creole Language Analysis

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    In this article they have kept their focus on what are ‘creole’ and ‘pidgin’ languages and what the public has generally understood by the two languages. Creolist do not agree with the precise definition of the two terms, nor do they specify that how many languages have been considered under the two categories. It is a language that represents speech-forms that do not have any native speakers and is generally used by the people, as a form of communication, who do not share a common language. The stage of development and worldlinessof any pidgin depends upon the intensity of how much interactive it was among its users. Muhlhausler (1986) makes three basic cetagories of such language: (1) Jargons; (2) Stable Pidgins; (3) Expanded Pidgins. Creole:…

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    Caribbean. Because of this, it can be inferred that she is a spy from the U.S. even though she may not know it. Her observations are about what life is like for the Creoles, and non-Creoles, the positions of women in society, and what life was like in the urban areas and in the rural areas. The Creole’s life in St. Domingue before the revolution was good for some of the Creoles. Hassel comments on “One of them, whose annual income before the revolution was fifty thousand dollars … now lives…

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    women. Mentioned by Chopin early in the book, Edna was a Kentucky-born Presbyterian who married into the glamorous world of the wealthy Creole culture. This puts her at a disadvantage, as she never truly feels “at home” within the Creole society; she is simply included due to her marriage with Leonce, a well-to-do Creole. By marrying Leonce, she sacrifices her old lifestyle in Kentucky, to assimilate to the new expectations she has in New Orleans. As a wife, Edna does not have the opportunity…

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    Creole American Culture

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    Merriam Webster defines an individual who is “creole” as “a person of European descent born especially in the West Indies or Spanish America.” (“Creole”) With this definition, almost every individual is or knows someone who would be considered creole. Over four hundred years ago, thousands upon thousands of Africans were resentfully transported to the distorted new world with the intention to be bargained for. Even though they were stripped from every physical attribute that they called their…

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    We flew into mainland Haiti, but the village we go to, Sous A Philippe, is on a little island called La Gonave about 6 miles off of the mainland coast. So we took a 6 hour boat ride out on the bluest water I have ever seen. Arriving on the island was surreal. Seeing the village and the people for the first time was overwhelming. They greeted us with such warmth. The children know no stranger; they immediately ran up to us, took our hands, and started babbling on in Haitian creole (their native…

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    Stereotypes In Haiti

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    Haiti is filled with beautiful stores, hotels, provinces, movie theaters and many more. I dislike how people think we speak “Haitian”. For the ones who doesn’t know, our main language is French and Haitian Creole. When people find out we have all these buildings they act shocked and start asking questions. “Where did they find the money? Did they steal it? How could they afford it? I thought Haiti was poor!” That is where they are wrong, the journalist/ reporters in the United States always…

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    Summary: Risk Comparison

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    Haiti is a low-income Caribbean country with a population of close to 10.7 million. (Overview of Haiti, 2017) Haitian Creole and French are the official languages. According to research foreign investors have major concerns with market challenges for Foreign Direct Investment(FDI) inflows. They were estimated in 2015 to only have an inflow of 104 million dollars for the entire country. (Overview of Haiti, 2017) Haiti is known for having very high port fees. Which makes it very difficult for…

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    not belong. This is especially true for people that originate from a country or culture that differs from their parents’. The movie Somewhere Between by Linda Goldstein Knowlton focuses on the story of four teenage girls: Ann Boccuti, Jenna Cook, Haley Butler, and Fang "Jenni" Lee. What do these girls have in common? They were all adopted from China and brought overseas to live with their new American family. Throughout the movie, you learn a lot about the girls and and their upbringing, the…

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    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…

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    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…

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