Cajun Essays

  • How Does Tim Gautreaux Reflect Cajun Culture In Floy's Woman

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    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

  • Cajun Culture Essay

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    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

  • The Visualization Of Imagery In Katherine Mansfield's Miss Brill

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    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

  • Stereotypes: Cajuns Of New Orleans

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    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

  • Comparing The Cajuns: A People's Story Of Exile And Triumph

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    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

  • Conroe Cajun Catfish Festival Event Analysis

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    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

  • Black Culture: Similarities Between Cajuns And Other Cultures

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    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

  • Texas Rice Festival: A Document Analysis

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    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

  • Compare And Contrast Creole Seasoning

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    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

  • Orchid Of The Bayou Summary

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    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

  • Black Men Masculinity Analysis

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    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

  • Racial Tensions In Ernest J. Gaines A Gathering Of Old Men

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    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

  • Music In Amy Tan's Two Kinds

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    “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

  • The Boucherie By Stephanie Soileau

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    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

  • Mamou Case Study

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    In the heart of Cajun country lies a small town named Mamou. No one would ever imagine this small community could be a bastion of hope for people who are suffering from the disease of addiction. If you live in the central part of Louisiana living a life caught up in addiction, you need to be aware of the treatment resources in your region. You may not be ready today, but there will come a time when you realize it 's time to "get on with living or get on with dying." The world hopes you choose living

  • Pawn Stars: Las Vegas

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    1. Pawn Stars is a reality television show set in Las Vegas. It is episodic, and cast based. Every episode, revolves around the Harrison family of males. There is the grandfather, the father, and the son, that are all featured on the show. Every time someone comes into the pawn shop, one of them negotiates the terms with the seller. 2. The show is targeted for adult males ranging from 25-65 years of age. The show is blatantly more guy oriented because it is an all-male cast. The items that are being

  • A Narrative Essay On New Orleans

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    We?ve been through hell and back, but we still carry on. Our music our food and our good times mean a lot to us. I am a southern girl who loves cajun food and great music. There are many things that can define my culture. Things like the food I eat, the way I speak, the music I listen too, the events I celebrate, etc. In my household, we mostly eat cajun food and seafood. In new orleans, this type of food is very popular. The music I listen too also defines my culture. I like music that is loud,

  • Embedded Assessment 1: My Cultural Identity

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    am country girl and listens to country music . Although I speak English, I know some French and also some Spanish. Unlike my family, I love spicy food. Oh boy, I love me some spicy cajun food! Some foods that I like are gumbo, crawfish, shrimp, sausage and potatoes, and chicken. Even though my family likes cajun food, they don't like their food as spicy as I do.

  • Louisiana Essay

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    The melting pot of cultures created a cuisine that is incomparable to anything that exists today. Louisiana is infamous for their rich dishes such as Gumbo or étouffée and sweet treats like beignets. Cajun cuisine was developed by the Cajun-Acadians in the 1800s. After the Acadian farmers settled, their meals depended on what was available to them at that time. Fresh and salt water fish like oysters, crab, alligator, crawfish, and catfish are extremely popular in this

  • The Atchafalaya Basin

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    water at this bay. Due to the location of this bay being in Louisiana, it is known as a Cajun territory, “The adjacent terrain is Cajun country, in a geographical sense the apex of the French Acadian world, which forms a triangle in southern Louisiana...The people of the local parishes would call this the apex of Cajun country in every possible sense-” (McPhee 1). Louisiana is considered to be one of the biggest Cajun spots ever, surrounded by bayous and swamps all over. If it were not for the Mississippi