The novel Kindred by Octavia E. Butler‚Written in 1976 in Maryland‚ Tells a story about an interracial couple who time travels back in time to the early 1800’s to antebellum Maryland. It Is a dystopian world told in first person by the protagonist and one of the main characters‚ Dana. Dana is a young black women writer who finds Struggling to survive in maryland. Dana must go back in time to save the future of her existing family tree by saving the life of Rufus‚ who was the father of an ancestor
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Kindred by Octavia Butler displays many controversial topics such as slavery‚ rape‚ and violence‚ which can bring out some of the best and worst qualities in a human being. Dana Franklin‚ a strong african american woman‚ and Kevin Franklin‚ an intelligent white man as well as Dana’s husband‚ travel back to the antebellum south where they meet some of Dana’s ancestors and encounter situations that are eye-opening‚ which changes their views on life and gives them a better understanding of what kind
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You don’t appreciate it until you lose it…right? This quote targets the “seemingly” miniscule and insignificant aspect of our lives‚ such as the simple luxuries like cars and air conditioning. But what if it was an arm? In Kindred‚ Dana unfortunately had to learn the importance of an arm the hard way: without it. Octavia E. Butler uses Dana’s left arm as a symbol of the link between the two separate lives that she has‚ the ignorant life of the present and the deadly realistic life of the past.
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If different people started transporting between the past and the present which raise would mostly like be able to survive easier? Kindred was an interesting book about a black woman‚ named Dana that started transporting between the past and present periods. She would always transport to the past to help a white boy named Rufus before he did something that would kill him. Each time she would transport to help Rufus he would be a few years older and she would be there for a longer period of time
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Kindred Assignment Society has always been fascinated with the concept of race and gender and how these two identifications have constructed peoples’ lives. From the beginning of modern society‚ racial inequalities and gender inequalities have consumed American culture. Women who are white and of color have been oppressed for hundreds of years in America. On a structural level‚ women make less money‚ are abused more often‚ and receive less privilege than men (class notes). It has been known
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Kindred Todd a new consultant to a growing consulting firm was presented with a very unique situation when she took on her first client for the firm. Her initial information provided by her boss included intel that the client could benefit from long range planning issues and some continuous quality improvement work. While not enough information is provided in the text to truly formulate an accurate opinion of Kindred Todd I do believe that she did handle the situation to the best that she could.
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Thomas Line Advanced Managerial Finance IPO Paper Spirit Airlines This paper will be about an IPO that was filed by Spirit Airlines for $300 million dollars in September of 2010. According to www.marketwatch.com‚ Spirit Airlines is the first airline to go public in 3 years. The last airline to go public before Spirit was Gulfstream International group in December 2007. Spirit plans to use half or 150 million for cash reserves ‚ working capital‚ and other corporate purposes.
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Jack O’Brien Dr. Powell 10/04/2012 English 121 To Make a Slave Slaves do not have an option to decide whether they are born a slave or not‚ nor do they choose to be one either. In Octavia Butler’s Kindred‚ we find that a slave’s actions do not directly make them a slave‚ and nothing that they can do will affect the status quo of slavery. Rather it is the actions that a slave-owner makes that makes a slave‚ and in doing so takes away their humanity. Tom Weylin knows that he can have any
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Kindred is about a girl named Dana who is teleported from the 1970’s back to the 1800’s slave era when a boy named Rufus is in danger of losing his life. Dana faces many hardships and learns many things about her ancestors and the environment they grew up in. Tom Weylin is Rufus’s father and considered an evil man along with his son as he grows older. They both commit what this era would consider violent crimes‚ but in there time it was considered perfectly normal. Surprisingly there are many similarities
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The Hebei Spirit Oil Spill (HSOS) in December 7‚ 2007 spilled approximately 10‚900 tons of crude oil in about 10 km off the Taean coastline in South Korea. Due to the astronomical and irrecoverable damage upon the marine ecosystem and the overall living standards of the residents‚ the oil spill accident has been notoriously named as the “worst oil spill accident” occurred in Korea. Nevertheless‚ though almost a decade have passed since the outbreak of the HSOS in Korea‚ it appears that compensation
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