Le salut de familles [Part2]. Pasteur DIDI MALEMBO

Blog #7 INTRODUCTION

Life is moving by change from one thing to another. According to the nature, every second, minute, day, month, and year is changing things that surrounding the world. One day as every days, people of  Puerto Rico perceived change coming to their land and brought them from Spanish colony to U.S control in 1989 after the Spanish-America war. That was a new story and beginning started for the Island. As new colony U.S. supposed to stablished a new constitution, politic, culture, and language over the Island. However, why did English not become the first language in Puerto Rico after colonization? After doing my researches, I found out that English did not become the first language in Puerto Rico after colonization because the Island was Spanish colony for 400 years, their culture is already based on Spanish, and the majority of Puerto Ricans speak Spanish fluently. 

MY REASERCH PAPER

On my research paper, I am planning to give all the details about why there is a language issue in Puerto Rico. However, I know that it will not going to be easy for me to found out all the information that I need which going to help my readers. The most important thing is that I already found the basic sources that going to help me to write an academic paper. My big question is "Why did English not become the first language in Puerto Rico after colonization". To be specific, many things happed after U.S possessed the Island. For example, Spanish-America war, political problem, economical problem, and so much more. According to my research, Puerto Rico was colony of Spanish for 400 years that fact penalized them on many aspects of their lives because they been so longer under Spanish colony. They are Spanish culture. Moreover, I keep searching for more information to be able to present a true and certain information. Regarding to my topic, it seems lake, it going to be challenging and hard for me to explain all the reasons, but I would.

REVISION:

"Tetiyette and the Devil"

In the story "Tetiyette and the devil" the author demonstrates the story of a woman who had only one young girl, whose name was Tetiyette. However, Tetiyette was very hart to be satisfied and different with other girls of her generation. In this story the author illustrated animals to represent two young men who come to ask for water and to married her. she said not to them because of their appearances. In contrarily, When the devil come he put on his very excellent clothes, decorated himself with gold that he owned, and wore his nice suit.
According to the author when the girl saw the devil she was please to give him water and to married him "The young girl looked down to see the young man, and found a good-looking gentlemen. She was pleased"(p.2). Before, they get married her mother gives her an instruction that she supposed to follow but she did not care about it. She lied to her mother.  Finally, the devil married her but in several time the devil started eating her. First, she cried out to her mother but she could not do anything to her because she was on bed. Secondly, she call upon her father "Oh, papa! Oh, papa Bel-hair drum! Is a terrible devil!" (p2). Her father also could not do anything to her because he warned her already to beware. Finally, when she call her little brother while he did something to her because she was his only sister. He took a knife and go to the room where they were he slit devil's belly and Tetiyette was move out.

The Difference Between "Little Cog-Burt" and "Cotton Candy"

According to Phyllis Shand and Dora Alonso in their stories "Little Cog-Burt" and "Cotton Candy" both authors explain different things that happened in Caribbean. First of all, those books explain two different stories that took place in two different islands while one in Dominica and the another one in Cuba. The books present almost the same reality but in different ways. However, in the beginning of each book, the authors started by introducing their stories with trees. For instance "Little Cog-Burt'' used Christmas tree fairy and the poinsettia trees, on the other hand, "Cotton Candy" explains about the butterfly how it was dancing above the trees.

On the contrary, both stories happened in different seasons. To the left, Little Cog-Burt had happened between summer and spring according to the author "In England the same thing had happened every year, at the end of the children's summer holidays." To the right, Cotton Candy occurred during summer season in moment that butterfly was dancing above the trees. Furthermore, those insects with two pairs of large flying easily in summer season. According to the author "It would fly down, lighting on a radiant morning glory; gather its wings, making them vibrate with a delicious quiver, and at the same time, move its light legs over the wine-colored petals." In contrast, both actors of those books, they were from two different sex types, however, Cog-burt or Richard was a boy but Lola in Cotton Candy was a girl who lost her mother "On her mother's death, the spinster felt an alleviating remorse which made her dissolve into tears." She struggled by seeking who have to married her but her mother going against that situation. After, her mother's death, she start doing her own business by selling fabrics and cosmetics door to door but later she start selling lottery tickets. 

Tetiyette and the Devil

In the story "Tetiyette and the devil" the author demonstrates the story of a woman who had a girl how someone can be affected by making a bad choice. Also,it helps readers to understand how, it is important to listing to what parents said because they have experience. According to the author "That child was very hard to please, and no one to her taste." (p.1)
Her habit leads her to be attract by appearances that was not good. The author explains that she was the one girl-child of her mother. One day as her mother was outside of the house, one man came to her with goat's image to asks her a drink of water. The next day an other man came to her mother with pig's image to do the same thing. Even though, her mother was asking her for those who want to married her, she was not paying attention. But the third one come with strategies by using...

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico is my Island's choice for this project. Also I have many things to say about it not only because I went there, but as tourist, I love this Island. Fist of all, Puerto Rico is located between the Caribbean sea and the north Atlantic Ocean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands. Puerto Rico is the third largest island of US and the 82nd in the world. According to my researches, I found out that the island's population was made by aboriginal people. But, when the Columbus come to there second voyage things begging to change because the Spanish took over Puerto Rica. In Puerto Rico their official language is Spanish as citizens of America they speak English as well but most of people are bilingual. In addition, the island is surround by different races and multiple cultures. Moreover, the political status of Puerto Rico is that of an unincorporated territory of United States, and it is a sovereign nation nor a U.S. State.Puerto Rico music come from many sources, for instance, Spain, West Africa, Europe, the Caribbean and, in the last century, the USA.

 

Their wide and rich variety of music is Bomba that become today Reggaetón but their culture is based on boleros of Rafael Hernandez that comes from salsa.