Creole

empowerment, opportunities, and freedom from social circumstances. Chopin uses sea imagery to represent Edna’s strength. Edna’s inability to swim at the beginning of the novel illustrates the contrast between her and the rest of her social circle. All Creoles know how to swim, and she has to be taught how to do the same, just…

Food affects each individual in a different manner because of each person’s particular preference and desired taste. Throughout every day, people are influenced by different foods and become passionate about a particular style or taste. Although, it is ordinary for people to differ in their preferred style or choice of the food they desire. As a result, it is very difficult in agreeing and convincing others the superiority of an individual’s favorite food. This argument takes place in all food…

Introduction Globalization is a very broad term that, when applied to different situations, can cause some confusion. Since there are many different types of globalization, ranging from economic to environmental to scientific, a laconic definition is often hard to come by. For example, Merriam-Webster’s definition of globalization, simplified, is an intent to have one global economy whose key focus points are free global trade, constant input of financial wealth into a company without…

Family, a familiar term that can be defined in various ways. Some may define family as a group of people who are related to each other by blood, others as people who care one another. The traditional definition of family is a intimate group of two or more people who live together in a committed relationship, care for one another and any children, and share activities and close ties. I would define a family as a group of two or more people who share an emotional bond with one another, by blood or…

Feminism is inclusive of women of all backgrounds, races, and cultures, which Bronte fails to represent in the whitewashed Jane Eyre. In a rather opposite manner, various women in the novel are derogated and denigrated due to their different upbringings. When Jane first acknowledges Bertha’s existence, she reports her to Rochester as having “‘a discoloured face - it was a savage face….fearful blackened inflation of the lineaments! ...the lips were swelled and dark’” (Bronte 283-284). As Jane’s…

Adèle’s character operates as a foil for Edna’s unawakened character, and forces Edna to awaken to the fact that being a typical Creole woman (like Léonce and the rest of society urges her to be) is not the only lifestyle path she can take. Adèle is the model motherwoman of that time period; she is soft, dresses in clothing such as a dress that was “pure white, with a fluffiness of…

In the coastals land of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, live the Gullah Geechee people. The Gullah culture is blend from various groups of people. People from the coast of west Africa to the low lands were captured and brought to the lower east coast of the United States to work as slaves. Most of the Gullahs’ ancestors came from Leone, Liberia, Angola, and Guinea Bissau. The word Gullah comes from a rice growing African tribe. This was the one of the Gullah Geechees’ specialized skilled,…

A creole language is a natural language that has developed from a pidgin. In his art piece Decreolization: An arrangement from dark to light, the style is installation art which he uses the Bahraini pottery to showcase a continuum. As well as how different…

In Kate Chopin’s “Desiree’s Baby”, race and color are the separating line between being a slave or a free man or woman during the pre-Civil War era in America. Armand is a white plantation owner who is angered when he finds out that his son is black. He has come to this conclusion based on the baby’s skin color alone. He accuses his wife, Desiree, of being black and lying about her race. Armand and Desiree compare each other’s skin color to prove who is whiter than the other. Ultimately the…

several layers of language loss for decades from the native languages like Arawakan and the Caribs, the enslaved African to the current situation of the creole vernacular which is an amalgam of lost languages in that zone. Also the language of the masses there is entirely different from the acrolectal type used by the upper class in that society. The Creole speakers have resisted any attempt to make them speak the acrolectal…