Creole peoples

capable. Lower middle class. Married parents. Heterosexual. Single. College freshman. Usually when I share these facts with people, they begin to play their own movie of who they think I am. However, these surface level facts only offer a limited view, a snapshot, of who I really am. While these are details play a part of who I am, they are not my sole being. Anytime I tell people that I am from Miami, all that comes to their mind is big celebrity houses, sun-filled winters, and of course, who can forget

(Feminist Writers). “Kate wrote fictional novels; her most known novel is “The Awaken” and short stories; her most known short story is called, The Storm” (Feminist Writers). “Chopin’s fiction details the social and sexual subtleties of the Cajun and Creole culture in which she lived during her childhood and marriage” (Feminist Writers). “Chopin represents ironic and seven daring treatments of the sexual, racial, and moral underpinnings of polite southern Louisiana society” (Feminist Writers). “The

motherhood, marriage, and conformity. Edna Pontellier, the female protagonist within the novel, grows to desire independence and control over her life. Throughout the story, Edna epitomizes a feminist attitude by defying the regressive standards of the Creole culture, as exemplified through Chopin’s use of literary elements including symbol, setting, and character development. Edna gradually sheds her fictitious self in attempt to become an

The Relationship of The Awakening and Creole Society 	In The Awakening, Kate Chopin brings out the essence of through the characters of her novel. In this novel Edna Pontellier faces many problems because she is an outcast from society. As a result of her isolation from society she has to learn to fit in and deal with her problems. This situation causes her to go through a series of awakenings that help her find herself, but this also causes problems with her husband because she loses respect

as a language that results from two different people who are not able to speak a each other language so they can interact with and understand each other. This is situation can be a result of different circumstances like war, colonization, slavery and international trade. Some definitions of pidgins although are pidgins have no static definitions : Ferguson (1971) refers to pidgins and creoles as simplified speech used to communicate with people who are considered unable to understand normal

Isabel Craik Linguistics 10 Linguistic Analysis French and Haitian Creole The Similarities and Differences French Creole is one of Haiti’s two official spoken languages, the second language being French. Currently, there are about twelve million individuals who speak the language, and then pass it on to their children. Creoles are developed from pidgins (a simpler version of a language to unite two foreign languages) and are developed over generations. Pidgins are merged languages that have

however the most popular language spoken over the past 400 years has been a Virgin Islands Creole English, as well as Dutch Creole. The U.S. Virgin Islands became an English speaking country in 1917 when the island was formerly the Danish West Indies. Over the years Virgin Islanders have communicated with each other with a dialect some Virgin Islanders call “broken English”, although some scholars call it Creole English. Virgin Islanders have also made up many expressions of wisdom and truth handed

in an interview for the journal “contemporary literature” how the richness of his poetic voice is coming from the multicultural background of/ and language lived in him; “French creole”, English “creole” and “English”. He definitely show the importance of owing this estates, fact that make him unique. By using creole, the poet was able to describe landscapes that are singular and which have the power to claim their complete integrity including the past, degrade, history and its effect.

located in northern South America, with approximately 90% of its square miles undeveloped and the vast majority of its inhabitants living along a ten-mile strip of the coast, this coastal area mainly inhabited by and containing the highest population of Creole speakers’(Holbrook 2001) . According to Holbrook, “The social situation in British Guiana is complex due to several factors, these being the colonial history of the country, the importation of African Slaves, the political history, and even government

the areas now known as New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Canada. In the middle of the eighteenth century approximately four thousand Acadians moved into South Louisiana, into the region around Lafayette and the Lafourche Bayou country. This group of people brought with them the French language. Over the years the Cajun dialect emerged. Many say Cajun is not just a dialect but an entire language of its own. The Cajun dialect differs throughout the state of