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John LaFleur II Louisiana's Creole French People: Our Language, Food & Culture

500 Years Of Culture

Language & Literature
English
21946 Words
Ages 14 and up
1025
0

In this provocative and poignant book, 500 Years Of Culture: Louisiana's Creole French & Metis People, Food, Language and Culture, I seek to provide my intelligent lay readers appropriate and useful scholarly resources which illustrate that a pre-Acadian culture of Canadian and North American Métis roots, to which was added European, African and later Spanish elements combined in both “Upper” and "Lower Louisiana" resulting in a multi-ethnic, but distinctly unique Louisiana Creole culture. Though reminiscent of other kindred Creole cultures and people of the world of the former French Empire, she remains unique. This unique historic, but forgotten culture existed prior to the arrival of the Acadians, and its cultural and linguistic traditions resulted in Louisiana’s historic “Creole” culture. This multi-ethnic culture's food ways, language and social traditions were hijacked and promoted as if it was something totally new in the 1970s and 80s, and then relabeled "Cajun" with no regard for the pre-existant and dominant history and sensibilities of the non-white ethnicities who were the true originators and creators of Louisiana's long indigenous and pre-Acadian culture! It is my hope to sufficiently demonstrate through this historical narrative, which is both passionate and humorous, how greed, ignorance and commerce joined hands in relabeling Louisiana's historic multi-ethnic Creole French and metis culture as if Acadian-Canada was the source of this remarkable and unusual culture which remains foreign to anything in Acadie! Informative and well-researched, I submit to you the reading and caring public, this revision which is also a much more readable, better edited and supplemented text. In this book, for example, a badly needed chapter on the cultural relationship between Louisiana Creole and Haitian Creole culture is provided and will prove to be a great source of help in avoiding needless confusion of these two separate, but kindred cultures. Though small, this little book will no doubt, prove to be a powerhouse of jaw-dropping facts, as it is an uproariously humorous expose' of one of the most popular cultural forces in America and across the planet today! And, notwithstanding our best efforts, sometimes typographical errors and misses occur. For whatever imperfections of text remain, I take full responsibility as I also apologize to you dear reader. [more]

Keywords: Cajun culture, Creole culture, Creole-Metis Culture, Louisiana French & Creole Languages, Louisiana Creole People

$4.99

Kudakwashe Vengai A New Culture

My Revolution, Your Revolution (Book 1)

Self-Help
English
2680 Words
Ages 10 and up
83
0

This is a long poem about change within ones self. The Author rumbles about the process of change [more]

Keywords: Culture, Revolution, Zimbabwe, Africa, Political Change, Arab Spring, BLM, Change

$0.99

Matthew Arnold Culture and Anarchy

Essay
English
56234 Words
No Age Recommendation
484
2

Culture and Anarchy is a series of essays by Matthew Arnold. According to his view advanced in the book, "Culture is a study of perfection". His often quoted phrase "[culture is] the best which has been thought and said" comes from the Preface to Culture and Anarchy: The whole scope of the essay is to recommend culture as the great help out of our present difficulties; culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world, and, through this knowledge, turning a stream of fresh and free thought upon our stock notions and habits, which we now follow staunchly but mechanically, vainly imagining that there is a virtue in following them staunchly which makes up for the mischief of following them mechanically. The book contains most of the terms - culture, sweetness and light, Barbarian, Philistine, Hebraism, and many others - which are more associated with Arnold's work influence. [more]

Keywords: culture and anarchy, matthew arnold, essays, history, politics, psychology, literature and art, humanities, civilization, social science, philosophy, cultural studies

$2.99

Julie Steimle Culture Clash 2005

Travel
English
4836 Words
No Age Recommendation
519
3

As a teacher traveling in northern China, one experiences an array of cultural weirnesses as well as eye-opening [more]

Keywords: travel, China, culture, culture shock

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Camp Group gGmbH, www.respact.org RespAct Handbook Welcome Culture

RespAct methods for working with newly arrived migrants

Education
English
2447 Words
Ages 8 and up
155
1

RespAct is a methodology, used in sports and democracy projects, that enables children and young people to examine their living environment, examine political and social problems in their local area closely, and find solutions to them together. Through sports and confidence-building exercises participants gain self-confidence and work more constructively as a group. This handbook includes three variants of the RespAct project week, each of which has its own specific focus for learning environments with children and young people affected by forced and voluntary migration. These variants are Diversity and Identity, New Literacy and Vocabulary and Environment. This book is designed so that educators can take the right amount of content and apply it to their learning situation; the entire handbook can be implemented as a curriculum for a project week, or individual elements or units of the handbook can be applied for specific classroom goals. [more]

Keywords: education, migration, trauma, games, methods, welcome culture, school, teacher

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WILLIAM S. LYON Culture in the Philippines

Language & Literature
English
9435 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
0

Philippine Bureau of Agriculture. Farmer's Bulletin No. 2. CACAO CULTURE IN THE PHILIPPINES By WILLIAM S. LYON, In charge of seed and plant [more]

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Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude Fruits of Culture (Illustrated)

Fiction
English
28818 Words
Ages 14 and up
206
0

The Fruits of Enlightenment, aka Fruits of Culture (1889) is a play by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. It satirizes the persistence of unenlightened attitudes towards the peasants amongst the Russian landed aristocracy. In 1891 Constantin Stanislavski achieved success when he directed the play for his Society of Art and Literature organization. Tolstoy created the first, incomplete draft of the play in 1886, along with The Power of Darkness. Three years later, his children and wife persuaded him to complete the manuscript sufficiently for a house performance in Yasnaya Polyana. Tolstoy initially denied the proposal but quickly took the lead in directing the amateur actors; the cast included twenty six of his children, two nieces, a court prosecutor from Tula and a judge from Moscow. This first performance was held December 30, 1889. According to Sergey Tolstoy, the 1889 play deliberately reflected the realities of Yasnaya Polyana and the neighboring country estates, even using the real names of Tula gentry for the stage characters (these names were replaced with purely fictitious ones later). The first performance washed out the border between imaginary characters and the real personalities playing them, removing the fourth wall between actors and the audience; it was never reproduced in this form ever since. The audience received the play well, and it was reproduced by Tula amateurs, including Tatyana Tolstaya, in April 1890, with the proceeds donated to a local orphanage. The second performance was attended by Maly theatre actor Alexander Yuzhin and independent theatre director Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. [more]

$1.49

Htay Win The Yangon guide and culture

The local tour guide

Travel
English
7671 Words
Ages 12 and up
375
2

This is the artificial intelligence of the local tour guide in Yangon. The book features the commentaries of the local tour guide for the common attractions in Yangon and how Yangon culure is. The knowledge and expertise of the local tour guide are written in the book. The book includes the main tourist attractions which one shoud not miss when one visits Yangon, Myanmar and the knowledge one should know while travelling in Myanmar. The book represented the AI works as a local tour guide and it gives the necessary information to you as the human tour guide does. You will enjoy reading the book even though you do not visit Yangon, Myanmar. [more]

Keywords: Myanmar guide book, Yangon guide, Myanmar culture, Shwedagon pagoda

$2.99