Creole

Starting with “Negro English” or “Black Speech”, these were the first denominations that African American English had. It has to do with the period of time to which they belonged, as at this time colored people would be also designated as “Negro”. It has also been labeled as “Black communication”, which makes more sense than the other two as, at least, this label is referring to the communication patterns, or the communication features, that could be found in the black speech. Also following the…

Joshua Giddings and The Gag Rule Having a strong opinion is one thing, but it takes a large amount of courage to follow through and fight in what you believe in, even if it means to try and change a country for the better. Joshua Giddings was an American attorney, abolitionist, and politician who served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1838-1859. He was censured in Congress for violating the Gag rule, under which he defended slaves gaining their freedom. When someone is censured, it…

carried out their French Creole culture. This is more apparent in Louisiana, particularly the within the port city of New Orleans, where the dynamics of the demographic changes due to the integration and racial or ethnic mixing of more whites, mulattoes, and blacks of the French colony with those of the U.S. Besides close proximity and great economic opportunity, Louisiana was a major refuge for the Saint Domingue colonizers due to the already established French Creole culture within it. There…

In the short story “At the ’Cadian Ball,” Kate Chopin depicts a seemingly perfect society with guidelines, which are articulated and unspoken, that binds everyone to their place in the hierarchy. Many of these guidelines, are made to prevent any form of free thought. They severely impede women’s lives in particular. Clarisse and Calixta are two women who struggle during this time to find and act on their ideas and thoughts. Through their personalities and their interactions with one another,…

or black, respectively), and a wide brimmed hat. The female does many spins and twirls, while the man holds her hand for balance and stomps his feet to the rhythm of the song. It is a party dance designed to reflect the everyday life of the rural, creole people in the Colombian/Venezuelan outskirts. The female spinning is meant to…

that the slaves on the boat fought back against the crew and captain to obtain freedom by navigating the Creole to Nassau, where slavery was illegal. Additionally, the text in Document A: The Daily Madisonian, clarifies, “He. told [the slaves] they were freemen. They could go on shore and never be carried away from there”. This evidence confirms that the lives of the enslaved peoples on the Creole were affected permanently. They had triumphantly resisted their enslavement by rebelling so once…

This week’s readings address the meaning of childhood, health care and medical practices in colonial Peru. However, behind these topics, both books share strong political and social bases: the relationship between the king and his American subjects in the case of Premo’s book and the intellectual debate on the medical practices in the colonial period in Warrens’ volume. The Bourbon Reforms and the Enlightenment also play an important role in explaining the changes in the relationships of…

women by simply choosing a different route than most ladies. Edna goes through a series of events in which she reacts differently, causing her to be seen as an outcast in society. Kate Chopin, the author of “The Awakening,” grew up in a Creole society. A Creole society, known for being conservative, raised Chopin to believe that most accomplishments should involve the husband. Therefore, in the novel, Chopin describes Edna Pontellier as herself.…

Laura Wade’s play, Posh, and, Kate Chopin’s novel, The Awakening are both about the lives of privileged people and are both written by women. Posh, a fairly recent play, is about a fictional dinning club at Oxford University, Riot Club, consisting of ten males members from upper classes. The Awakening written during the Victorian era, on the other hand, is the story of Edna Pontellier, a woman who frees herself from the husband and society’s expectations. Laura Wade’s Posh and Kate Chopin’s…

Kate Chopin is a famous regionalist author who is known for her feminist works set in Louisiana. Chopin typically writes about gender in different cultural and social settings (Miller). Her work “Désirée’s Baby” is about race and ethnicity during the Antebellum period in Louisiana (Miller). During the Antebellum period class and racial prejudice were at a high, and if you were apart of the upper white class, you had a lot of power. Kate Chopin shows the true colors of the character Armand…