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Twentieth Century Science Fiction
440 wordsKindred was the very first book by Octavia Butler that I read. Unlike many science-fiction writers, she spends no time discussing the dynamics of time travel, which for a tale of this emotional magnitude, is a good thing. Kindred is hard book to read and it leaves you with so many questions; I have never looked at history in quite the same way. That is the hallmark of good writing, when it leaves you with much to think about. Also, Octavia Butler was the only black woman writing science fiction ...
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Man Of His Time Brutal And Vicious Rufus
599 wordsDana and Rufus might look like friends from the outside, but Dana's feelings for him are quite different from what we think of them. To begin with Dana sees Rufus as a child needing or relying upon her protection. For instance, when Dana saved him from drowning in the river. Secondly, she views him as a man of his time. In another words Rufus personality is the way that any other man would have been in that period of time towards his slaves. Lastly, he is a ruthless and vicious slaveholder, whic...
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19 Th Century Brook Farm
882 wordsThe Brook Farm Institute of Agriculture and Education, was a short-lived utopian experiment in communal living. "Brook Farm, a cooperative community established in 1841 in West Roxbury (now part of Boston) was a joint-stock company run by leaders of the philosophical movement known as transcendentalism. " ("Perspectives In American Literature Guide" Online) Brook Farm was formed to combine the thinker and the worker. "As thinkers, mankind have ever divided into two sects, Materialists and ideali...
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Field Hockey Team Members
1,189 wordsChristina Dana and I began to map out our strategy at the end of our freshman year. After reading the generic inscriptions everyone had scrawled in our yearbooks - have a great summer, stay cool, wish I'd known ya' better - we pledged to become popular. It wasn't like we were unpopular. We definitely have friends and, most importantly, we have each other. We " ve been best friends since junior high and it's almost like we function as one person. Sometimes we complete each other's sentences or we...
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Field Hockey Open Campus
1,187 words... "I'll see you later, " she calls In the next few weeks, I'm lucky to spend any time at all with Dana. Mostly I spend my free time working on the English assignment we were supposed to do together. It seems like she's always ducking plans with me for field hockey. We still talk every night and eat lunch together every day. Somehow, Like yesterday, I was waiting for her at our lunch table when I saw her sit down at a different table with Stacey and some of her friends. Dana motioned for me to ...
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Electronic Media Print Media
1,202 wordsElectronic media is inferior to print media due to the fact that electronic media can be bias, selective, and evasive for the purpose of entertainment. Electronic media serves as a form of entertainment with a main goal of serving their ratings rather than serving the people. It would seem that Postman would agree with this theory since he describes electronic media as a form of entertainment rather than a reliable source of information and facts in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death. Lets star...
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Religious Beliefs Double Edged
1,658 wordsDuring the period when the Celts existed, which is approximately 800 BC - 400 AD, they were just a little tribe compared to other large civilizations such as the Romans and Greeks. They still managed to conquer many regions and prove victorious in most of their battles. Who were these Celts that survived numerous struggles? Where did they originate? What kind of social structure did they have? What kinds of beliefs did they have? What sort of weapons and armor did they use in battle? What were s...
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Wal Mart Death Row
1,078 words... pro-homosexual lyrics. Other states including Virginia have followed suit by passing the same law. This means that millions of dollars in stock could potentially be removed from companies such as Time Warner if the state decides it doesn't approve of any one album produced by that company. This gives the government a huge amount of power and control over the artistic content of a company's label. Local governments practice censorship even more often than the federal government. In Detroit, M...
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Rufus And Kevin Kevin And Rufus Dana
404 wordsIn Octavia Butler's Kindred, Dana unfortunately discovers the significant similarities between her trusted husband, Kevin, and her corrupted ancestor, Rufus. Both Rufus and Kevin have the privilege of being white males, which is to their advantage in slave times. Also, both Kevin and Rufus appear to share a bond with Dana. Both men care for her and want the best for her. Both Rufus and Kevin were white males. This worked to their advantage because white males have the most power in slavery times...
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X J Kennedy Literature An Introduction
782 wordsIn the Unholy Sonnet; after the Praying by Mark Jarman and Batter my Heart, Three-personal God, for You by John Donne, there lies very common subject matters. Both poems are expressing a feeling that the author has about his religion and its purpose in his life. Yet, although the subjects both poems are addressing are the same, the messages being delivered are slightly different. The likenesses within both of the poems are very great. They are similar in that the both are talking about their com...
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Traveling Salesman Short Story
1,075 wordsThroughout Franz Kafka's short story "The Metamorphosis" the main character Gregor undergoes many mental and physical changes. He is just a normal man in a normal family who wakes in what he thinks is a dream at first, but then has to come to terms with that he really is now a giant living insect. Gregor is a traveling salesman who comes home only every once and a while, but after he wakes one morning and realizes that he is a insect his life goes on a down word spiral that not even he can end u...
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Addison Wesley Longman People Can Relate
696 wordsRealism can be defined as an attempt to reproduce the surface appearance of the life of normal people in everyday situations (Kennedy 1410). Basically realism is a situation that normal people can relate to based on their own experiences. Realism is extremely prevalent in the play Death of a Salesman. The characters in the play all have real world problems. Lack of money is one of the problems, which is a problem for many people. There are also many conflicts within the family; the biggest is ov...
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Artistic Talent Computer Animation
1,403 wordsAnimation Computer Animators Computer Animators Animation as an art form has been around for almost one hundred years. From the earliest days of hand drawn cels, individual pictures strung together, to the complex rendering of 3 -D virtual worlds, animation packs peoples lives. Do you wonder how the computer-animated movies are made or want to become a computer animator? Computer Animation is a fast growing field. There are many different areas to of animation, computer animation is what this pa...
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Side Effects Ha Ha
3,952 wordsHolistic Body Healing Through Homeopathy Eeeww you just threw up on me! my friend yelled, as my vomit splattered to the ground. Gross, look at that! Ha, ha, ha! yelled a boy, as the whole school looked at me and laughed. It was my first day of intermediate school and I had a cold the night before. That morning before school started, I took some antibiotics so I would fell better and have a fun day at school. To my surprise, the medicine did not make me feel better. In fact, it made me feel even ...
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Greek Culture Modern Day
576 wordsGreek mythological stories Hospitality HOSPITALITY Greek mythological stories contain many entertaining features: terrible monsters-Medusa and Hydra-, adventurous heroes-Perseus and Hercules-, and amazing gods-Zeus and Athena-. In addition to entertaining the reader, Edith Hamilton's Mythology contains many Greek values and morals that can educate the reader. Many scholars study these values to learn more about the ancient Greek culture. One particular value shown throughout Greek myths is hospi...
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Leaves Of Grass American Public
1,712 wordsWhat was Walt doing at this time? Late in 1854, Whitman was working in carpentry. He is assumed to have started his writings for what would later be known, and published as Leaves of Grass in late 1854 or early 1855. One of his brothers once commented that Walt would get an idea while working, write it down, then take the rest of the day off. How did Walt get his book published? Allen contends that Walt probably sought out a commercial publisher to take his book at first, though there is no ment...
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Fathers Death Wrong Hands
475 wordsPower itself contains two sides, depending on the individual who possesses it. Power is like a plague, very contagious. Power in the right hands creates freedom, peace and fairness. Power in the wrong hands induces despotism, tyranny and persecution. In the novel Kindred, composed by Octavia Butler, power corrupted characters constantly. Power corrupts human emotions and turns friends into foes. Power leads and individual to feel very superior. Most of the times possessing the power can destroy ...
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Im Afraid Washington Dc
1,648 wordsThis story Pen Pals Forward: This story was written based on the X-Files characters created by Chris Carter and Ten Thirteen productions. In no way this story is being used to infringe or defame these characters or the X-Files television series. The story is based on my speculation of what happened to Agent Fox Mulder s sister when she was a child. According to the writers of the X-Files, this story has no affiliation to what really happened to Samantha Mulder when she was a child, as no one rea...
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Religious Beliefs Double Edged
1,655 wordsDuring the period when the Celts existed, which is approximately 800 BC 400 AD, they were just a little tribe compared to other large civilizations such as the Romans and Greeks. They still managed to conquer many regions and prove victorious in most of their battles. Who were these Celts that survived numerous struggles? Where did they originate? What kind of social structure did they have? What kinds of beliefs did they have? What sort of weapons and armor did they use in battle? What were som...
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Wanted To Find Football Player
1,576 wordsImagine yourself, if you can, strapping up a helmet before the big game, stretching your legs out before the 600 meter rely, or taking a few warm up swings before you step up into the batter? s box. There are probably a lot of things going through that stubborn head of yours. Now imagine those same things with the thought of having to think of how you will make time to study for the big biology exam the following day. All right now you can quit imagining things. Thousands of student athletes hav...
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