Patois

took my heart and my keys and my patience/ You took my heart on my sleeve for decoration/ You mistaken my love I brought for you for foundation” (Rihanna). Rihanna is one of the first mainstream artists who has been able to incorporate elements of patois into her music. Through doing so she incorporates the Creole identity. Creole as a language is one that is very understandable and deeply rooted in the history of the area. There are many different creole languages throughout the Caribbean. But their

The web oppression describes an individual’s privilege, power, and access to resources. The farther away persons are from the center of the web, the more oppress they are likely to be. Based on the individual’s combined positions in society will demonstrate how much access they have to certain resources. Some resources include money, employment, assets or ownership of a home. These positions can also affect someone on the personal, cultural and structural level. For example, a homosexual person

If I were ever stuck in an island and a rich man asked me to marry him, I would say no, especially if he was my father. Surrounded in a small isolated island, avoiding American commercialism is too hard to ignore, especially if you want to go to America. In the CCNY theatrical adaption of the musical book “Jamaica” by Yip Harburg, Fred Saidy and Harold Arlen, director and choreographer, Keith Lee Grant conveyed the witty life of Savannah and her friends in the Caribbean island of Jamaica. With its

dress, or speech habits of a particular group or a historical period or event. For instance, the death of an airline stewardess in James Dickey's "Falling"? There is no sections written in dialect,slang, or foreign words, as with the Deep South patois of Sterling Brown's "Ma Rainey"? The poem is a reality poem about real life. It infers about memories, nature, and the cycle of life and death. Things can only stay beautiful for so long, but the circle of life will continue. The ending seems like

Language is used by different people in various situations. As an aspect of study of the relationships between codes and social structure, diglossia is an important concept in the field of sociolinguistics. The term diglossia refers to a situation in which two dialects are used by a single language community. The Greek word diglossia normally refers to bilingualism in general, but was first used in the specialized meaning explained by Emmanuel Rhoides in the prologue of his Parerga in 1885. The

Andrea Studebaker November 18, 2015 ENG 1113 CRN 12896 E4FD Police Brutality in America On April 12th, 2015, a young man named Freddie Gray, was arrested for allegedly having an illegal switchblade on his person. That same day, Gray entered a police van for transport, seemingly fine. Only to leave that same police van half an hour later, in a coma, with severe injuries to his spinal cord. Thirty minutes is all it took, for a seemingly healthy man, to end up in the back of an ambulance.

estimated population is 2,668,380 and has three major cities: Kingston the capital, Montego Bay, and Spanish Town. Its Terrain is Mountainous and coastal plains, and contains great Tropical climate. Jamaica has two official languages: English and Patois/Creole. In addition, Jamaica is well known for its Reggae music and for its beautiful beaches with crystal clear water. Jamaica became independence in 1962 and formed a Democratic Constitutional Parliament System of government similar to the United

It is Oppen’s network of non-accumulative connecters and “successive happenings” which resists the artistic urge to historicize or monumentalize ontological experience. The Series endeavors to enact the disconnected nature of human reality, language, literature, and community. Empirical experience presents itself less like a story and more like a multilayered texturing, a layering of perception and time. Ruth Jennison describes the kind of multi-lateral movement found in the text: The system connecting

I live in a country where I can meet people from all cultures and walks of life on a daily basis, yet still I have felt like a stranger in this “melting pot”. In the United States, the idea of diversity is a term I have heard many times when speaking of ways to heal the past of slavery and segregation, but I think that in the current political climate, diversity is seen as an enemy to the American way of life. I am an outsider in the country I call home, and my cultural background has impacted the

individuals who perform a race other than the one they were designated at birth, like Dolezal: Some individuals actively resist imposed categories by “performing” race in a subversive manner. A white person, for example, might take on the linguistic patois and stylistic gait we commonly associate with contemporary blackness. Over a person’s life course, they may “switch” racial identities—or be transferred to a new racially defined group, as a result of changes in state-based racial classification,