Cajun Essays

his flair for writing short story narratives to reflect Cajun culture in Louisiana. This essay explicitly focuses on analyzing his works: “Floyd’s Girl” and “Easy Pickings” and how they convey the same root message: cultural preservation. Gautreaux’s emphasis on religion, food, language, community cohesion, and devotion to the land of Louisiana all serve to endorse cultural preservation amongst Cajuns. In addition, his ability to present Cajuns and Southern-Americans as polar-opposites stresses an

The Cajun Traditions and Co-existence with other Cultures My Grandmother, born in Lafayette, Louisiana, is African, French, and Native American. The origin of our Cajun ethnic group can be traced back to the Acadians who were mostly French Speakers coming from Acadia (Klingler, Thomas and Chantal 275). Currently, the population of Cajuns has a great social impact in Louisiana. Their presence in the community led to the interaction with other ethnic groups such as the Africans in which they shared

This short story is quite diverse from Katherine Mansfield’s other stories, for starters there's a deeper and more elaborate visualization of scenery, rather than character analysis. Peculiarly it was written in third person, yet it sounds as if the reader can hear Miss Brill through the pages and example for such accusation follows, “There were a number of people out this afternoon, far more than last Sunday. And the band sounded louder and gayer.” These sentences were conducted in the third person

Cajuns are famous for for many things such as their unique dialect, their music, their live life to the fullest motto, and of course their cuisine. Cajun cuisine is a very old version of french cooking that mirrors their ingenuity, creativity, adaptability, and survival began in the Southern parts of France. Which they brought with them when they traveled to Nova Scotia, and after their expulsion when they brought their style to Louisiana. They are seen as colorful people, which can be seen in their

Boiling crab is a popular seafood restaurant known for their Cajun flavored seafood boil concept. The very first Boiling Crab first opened in Garden Grove, California. They have now expanded all over California as well as the other states. They serve variety of seafood such as shrimp, clams, mussels, crab, lobster, fish and crawfish. Cajun fries, chicken wings, corn, and garlic noodles can be ordered as a side as well. Their seafood is ordered by the pound and consumers have a choice of 3 to 4 different

In the bayou of Louisiana the natives have thick Cajun and French accents. They are specifically as being stereotyped as involved with black magic, voodoo dolls, obsessed with death, party animals, and chain smokers. New Orleans is below sea level. The graveyards are mostly comprised of above ground tombs

and behavior. Music stems from all over the world and is created from different national identities, races and ethnicities. Zydeco and Cajun music styles are just two of the many music styles that represent a confluence of styles and cultural backgrounds. They share a multitude of similarities and differences when it comes to the style of music. Both zydeco and cajun music styles address a number of issues related to identity, ethnicity, class, race, and gender. The music style associated with Creole

The book I chose to write about is The Cajuns: A People’s Story of Exile and Triumph. A lengthy title, and an even lengthier tale, it goes into the journey of the Acadians and how they survived their ordeals and thrived. The author, Dean Jobb, goes into great detail and engaging storytelling to capture their essence. Our story starts with a glimpse of the deportation, but as we turn the pages the author goes into the landscape of what Acadia was and how the name came to be. Dean Jobbs tends to interchange

instilled in me a self-perpetuating desire to serve others and that motivation grew with youth ministry and spiritual leadership involvement throughout high school. It was not until my first job at a health club named Cajun Fitness, however, when this motivation lead me to healthcare. As a Cajun Fitness employee, I was responsible for initiating new club memberships and for providing fitness or dietary guidance to new clients. Effectively fulfilling this role rested upon my ability to create a comfortable

For my service leaning assignment, I volunteered at the Conroe Cajun Catfish Festival in support of the Montgomery County Food Bank receiving donations at the festival entrance. In volunteering at the event, I learned the differences in service learning, volunteerism and community service and will provide details in what I learned a about each. I will also provide details and examples of teamwork, communication and networking experiences gained while at the event. A brief overview of the Montgomery

different ways of doing things. Like cajun culture it is unique. The food we eat, the music we listen to, and the cloths we wear and other factors. There is another rare culture that I am interested in it is black culture. There are so many different accusations about them like they are thieves, they love chicken, excedera but most of them are false. In my eyes everyone is the same we just do different things or have different ways of doing the same thing. Cajun culture is a great example. Like the

Wayne Toups is the leader of a band that plays strictly Cajun and Zydeco music originally from Louisiana, making them referred to as ethnic content. In the Cajun music industry, there are many different subgenres of Cajun music itself. These would be Traditional Cajun music, Country and Texas swing Cajun music, Dancehall Cajun music, Cajun ‘Renaissance’ music, and Contemporary Cajun music. Wayne Toups is in the Contemporary Cajun music with the type of music he plays today. This style of

Both Cajun and Creole Seasoning come from immigrants to Louisiana. These two spice blends represent a combination of Old and New Worlds and a mixture of cultures, much like other spice blends throughout history. Cajun seasoning is the product of the Acadians—Canadian Frenchmen forcibly relocated to the United States by the British. Creole seasoning is the product of different immigrant cultures including those from Italy and Ireland as well as from Africa. Both blends contain European spices but

Gordon Into to exceptionalities November 19, 2015 Orchid of the Bayou The book is about a girl of Cajun decent named Fischer, who suffers from Usher syndrome. It causes deafness at birth and increasing tunnel vision. While growing up living in the bayou her parents and family thought she had a mental disorder. Throughout the book she provided memories and stories throughout out her time living in Cajun culture. When she got older she went to the Louisiana School for the Deaf at the age of six. It

syntactical approach the black men use is their central cause for their freedom. Although the black men are using masculinity to gain their long coming freedom, the cajun community are fighting to keep their masculinity. The father of Beau Boutan, Fix Boutan, feels that over the years his masculinity has began to diminish. Fix thinks that if the Cajun community lashes out against the black community that their masculinity can be restored. Fix also believes that if he doesn’t go against the black community

throughout the day by a number of African Americans, because “The catalytic event is the murder of an abusive Cajun” (Sullivan 1640). Beau’s murder shows that racial conflicts were so bad even people who were not involved in his murder wanted to stand up to the Cajuns. The African Americans come together to take a stand for what they believe in “the murder of a son of a prominent Cajun in the black quarters precipitates their stand.” (Davis, 259-260). The cause for Beau’s murder was eventually

time of slavery. A Gathering of Old Men is a dramatic mystery novel set in Louisiana during the 1970s depicting one white women and seventeen black men that each confess to a Cajun racist work boss’s murder. Gaines uses characters to depict the past, present, and future racial relations of the South. The Cajuns are still holding onto the old racist ideals that governed the South. Fix represents the past racial relations in the South, which is inequality between the races. Fix’s ideals

Leon Professor: Ron Waddy English 1B March 10, 2017 The Boucherie: Multi-Cultural Acceptance The Boucherie is a story by Stephanie Soileau, that centers in Cajun community that deals with multi-cultural acceptance. The author employs plot to convince the reader of this theme. In the story, Khalid is a kid from Sudan, that moves to the Cajun community and is constantly experiencing rejection by the local residents. The community that is present in the story is a representation of modern American

“I’m from Louisiana, and that’s where I got my start in Cajun music. There’s a huge music scene down there centered around our culture. Those are people that are not making music for a living. They are making music for the fun of it. And I think that’s the best way I could have been introduced to music.” Haster Hays. I relate to this quote because it tells how music has a big impact on our lives. Music can express our different types of emotions that we may feel on certain days. In the Novel Excerpt

saw you go away las’ night, Alcee, with those saddle-bags.” Alcee, on the other hand, has no evidence of using French Creole in the story. Because of the lack of dialect, Alcee’s language works to create not only a power dynamic between Creoles and Cajuns, but also between males and females. However, Alcee is not the only character in the upper class who’s dialect affects “At the ‘Cadian