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For the illustrated explanation the focus will be on the CREOLES. This term, come to find out, has no established meaning. In other words the defintion has changed a few times before and is continuing to change. This happens because people of different generations use the word help verify their “ancestry” background and who they are ethnically speaking. When the word CREOLE was first developed it was used to distinguish those who were from Spain and had went to America or were French or of a French descendant. CREOLE, like many words, is a word that using two parts of speech, giving it two ways to be used. The parts of speech this word takes on are noun and adjective. CREOLE can be used to describe a person, place, or thing, or simply to stand as the noun. The term however in French does not take on the same speech form. In French it still functions as a noun or an adjective but it takes on the rule where the adjective comes after the noun, not before, like in English. This word relates to Kate Chopin because she wrote about CREOLES in her stories that pertained to New Orleans. While the term CREOLE once differentiated the French and Spanish, it could also be related to African Americans in New Orleans. When the word pertained to African Americans it did so to exhibit that they were slaves-whether free slave or not African Americans or darker Americans had been given this name in New Orleans.

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The above link will forward you to a page that will allow you to see a photo of the Three Kings.

The visual response used for this project is the film Three Kings. This film is about three men who are stationed in a middle east country for war. Throughout the film they navigate from to city to find some gold that was being hidden by a terrorist group. as the three men secretly move the gold from one location to another they help refugees that are living in the areas if the war zone.
Though Three Kings is not an example of an artistic response to war, this film does engage in the subject of war. This is true because war, like politics, involves scandals. This includes romantic scandals and political scandals. This movie shows how some men and women who we trust to protect our country see to have their own agenda while they are overseas fighting a war. It also true because going to war means that men, and women, must leave their families to go over seas to protect the lives and freedom of so many other people in the United States and that is exactly what the characters in this film do.
The theme of the movie is that soldiers in war will do anything to protect the lives of the refugees in the country they are fighting in as well as the lives of the people of the country they are from while efficiently fulfilling their own needs and wants.

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