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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 Book Report

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    Angela Williams RED090 Kindred When Kevin and Dana arrive back in 1976 they make love. Feeling lost‚ Kevin and Dana agree they felt most at home on the plantation. Kevin seems to be an image of Rufus‚ and the Weylins and their houses are similar. Kevin grew out his beard during the years he was there to help disguise him‚ because he was helping freeing slaves. He is unable to remember how to operate any device like the TV or typewriter. Kevin gets upset and angry at Dana as she gets dizzy. When

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    Racism In Kindred

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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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    Sweeney Todd

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    “Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber of Fleet Street” Review By Laura Harding I got the pleasure of spending an evening at the Devonport Choral Society’s production “Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber of Fleet Street” on the 29th of May 2009 at the Devonport Entertainment and Convention Centre. I went there expecting to see a decent and professionally neat show by the Devonport Choral Society and was pleasantly surprised to experience watching something much more than that. Visually the production was very

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    Amanda Todd

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    Research on Amanda Todd: Cyberbullying Research on Amanda Todd: Cyberbullying Todd’s suicide received widespread‚ international media coverage‚ much of which included a link to Todd’s YouTube video and an email address provided by the RCMP appealing for information from the public. Within 24 hours of the appeal‚ over 400 tips were received.[9] The RCMP has stated that its investigation was hindered by the amount of false information in online postings after Todd’s death‚ and scams claiming to

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    Hallucinations In Kindred

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    Dana‚ from the novel Kindred‚ experiences these so called “hallucinations” or as she would call them‚ “time travels”. There is no specific data showing what the real explanation for why these episodes occur but one possibility could be that Dana has the ability to time travel to past years meet people that had an effect on her in present day. When someone time travels‚ there body and mind goes with them and they disappear from reality. Time travel is usually by choice and the time traveler is aware

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    Kindred Analysis

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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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    Todd Anderson

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    Todd Anderson: New kid doesn’t like to read. He is shy‚ caring; roommates with Neal‚ has big shoes to fill because of how much his brother was apart of the school when he went there. Neal is a honest kid. Neil Perry: Kills himself‚ main part in the play mid summers night stream. His father is a jerk. His family isn’t very rich. Charlie Dalton: Wants to be call Nawanda‚ very sarcastic‚ outgoing‚ Loyal‚ Carpe Deam‚ punch Cameron in the nose. Knox: In love with Chris‚ takes her to the paly

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    Derrick Todd Lee

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    some of the worse that exist. Fear is inevitable in the area that the crimes are occurring and people seek ways to make themselves feel safer‚ sometimes taking extreme measures. This was the case when Derrick Todd Lee was playing his game around the Louisiana State University campus in Baton Rouge. Derrick Todd Lee grew up in small-town St. Francisville‚ Louisiana with his mother‚ father‚ and siblings. Shortly after his birth‚ Lee’s father‚ Samuel Ruth‚ left the family. His mother thought this to

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    Cameron Todd Willingham was thirty six years old when he was accused of murdering his three children and executed. Forensic evidence determined that a fire was set in the house on purpose‚ and Willingham’s conviction was largely based on this evidence. After several professional forensic scientists reviewed the case‚ they concluded that there was no evidence that the fire was set on purpose. Along with scientists disproving the fact that the house was set on fire on purpose‚ one of the witnesses

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