Argumentative Essay On Kindred

As depicted in, “‘You wouldn’t hurt me until something frustrated you, made you angry or jealous. You wouldn’t hurt me until someone hurt you. Rufe, I know you’” (256). In this quote, Rufus is trying to convince Dana to stay in his time. He is telling her he would not harm her. This shows how Dana has lost faith in her understanding with Rufus in which they need each other too much to hurt one another. It shows that because of Rufus’s impulsive behavior, Dana has lost trust in Rufus to not harm her. This quote shows that Dana and Rufus’s relationship has developed into one of no trust or general ground rules. It has developed as Rufus has aged. As a further matter, not only has Dana lost trust with Rufus, but Rufus has lost faith in Dana to keep him safe. Shown in, “Rufus wasn’t afraid of dying. Now, in his grief, he seemed almost to want death. But he was afraid of dying alone, afraid of being deserted by the one person he had depended on for so long” (257). In this quote, the person Dana is referring to as “The one person he had depended on for so long,” is herself. This quote shows that because of Dana coming and going into Rufus’s time, Rufus has lost faith in Dana. Rufus truly has depended on Dana to come and save him when he was in desperate need, and he

     Rufus loves her and to her ill luck she will be the one punished. Not only will she be violated body and mind but she will be stripped of the one person she loves, her husband Isaac. Rufus’s only concern is not able to have Alice and I also think because of that fear of not getting what he wants it motivates him to want her even more. Dana observes that raping a black woman is not seen as a crime. It has become an act that has generally been accepted in their society.

"Rape rewarded." He turned his head toward me and peered at me through swollen eyes. "I begged her not to go with him," he said quietly. "Do you hear me, I begged her!" I said nothing. “I was beginning to realize that he loved the woman-to her misfortune”. There was no shame in raping a black woman, but there could be shame in loving one "(p.124). Dana returns this time after 5 years and Rufus is now 19 years old. Isaac beats Rufus in bad way. Rufus tells Dana that "he'll buy Alice and let them sell Isaac". Dana is astonished and confused by his comments. Actually all her tries to change Rufus in her past time to make him better man does not

     Dana 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’s 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, which Tom Weylin’s fault. Just as Tom’s behaviour on the slaves and on his son. Finally, I will explain in more details how Dana’s feelings for Rufus are in the following

Rufus was the son of a plantation owner, she quickly learned that Rufus was a subject to the great power his dad had, he was following his father’s atrocious actions, he had the idea that everything should go his way, even if he creates utter chaos in the process. Dana discovered Rufus’s dark side, acts like turning on his friends, selling and torturing slaves, and rape were common for Rufus. His dreadful acts first surprised Dana because when she knew Rufus as a younger kid he seemed sweet and innocent. She came to a different conclusion once she saw Rufus’s carelessness for human beings when he tried to rape her ancestor, Alice. After that moment, Dana never viewed Rufus in the same way: “I had thought that eventually, he would just rape her again.” -pg 163 The actions of Rufus’s predecessors created his expectation that everything must his way or else he will have to use his power for his own good. Rufus was one of the main reasons why Dana understood how family heritage can destroy or help the future in many

This also illustrates how Dana believes she can have a lasting effect on Rufus, to steer him away from the ways of his father. However, she only has a limited period of time to shed her 20th century mentality on him. And, Rufus’ change is not gradual relative to Dana, because every time she returns, she finds Rufus years older, and acting that much more like his father.

Dana knew that she could always go home, only if she was in danger. If Dana wanted to go home for good, she would have to kill Rufus. “Then he brought up the fist of his free hand to punch me once, and again as the patroller had done so long ago. I pulled the knife free of him somehow, raised it, and brought it down again into his back.” (Butler 260). No matter what happens if she goes home, Rufus will always call her back to 1819. Dana was always free, but she was “free” limitedly her work wasn’t like other slaves. When she found out her purpose in

There is a small, isolated town in Pennsylvania that is doing exceptionally well health-wise called Roseto. Before the invention of drugs that prevent heart disease, heart attacks were a major epidemic in the US. Stewart Wolf revealed, “It was impossible to be a doctor, common sense said, and not see heart disease.” (page 6) Despite how prominent heart problems were, for some unknown reason, Roseto did not experience the same troubles. In fact Roseto had no suicides, no addiction, and little crime. Scientists proved it was not because of diet, location, nor genetics. So then why are they so extraordinary? Wolf and Gladwell reintroduce the audience to the forgotten idea of community. “The values of the world we inhabit and the people

THank you for your and Kent's support of Austin Kids First the past 2 election cycles. As you probably know there are 2 contested races for Austin ISD school board. Austin Kids First PAC has decided to endorse in only one of those 2 races, becuase the candidates in the other race didn't meet our minimum quality bar. In the at-large race we are strong supporters of Cindy Anderson. She has the experience, background knowledge and passion required to effectively serve on the board.

"The pursuit of basic human needs for companionship, affirmations, affections, solace, and love won their hearts and guided their being despite their caution," Tera Hunter said with regard to the difficulties that the African Americans faced. This idea resonates with me most as I ponder marriage and democracy so that is what I wish to focus on. In the very beginning, as this universe was being spoken into existence by God, we read that after God had made man, he proceeded to make a companion for him saying, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him [Genesis 2:18]." Man was not created to live alone, but to live in communion with his Creator and with other humans. A comparison could be drawn then;

Part of assimilation is adopting and blending cultures together. Not only did we see it in conversions, Creolization, but also in traditions. A perfect example of the blending of traditions would be the holiday Pinkster. Pinkster is originally a Dutch holiday celebrated after Easter to commemorate the decent of the Holy Spirit. Back in the early 19th century, Dutch colonized present-day New Jersey and New York. Africans and Creole slaves adopted this holiday, but added their own traditions of dancing, music with drums, and banjos. The integration of African traditions with the already establish Dutch holiday functioned as a cultural tool which aided in building a distinctive black identity (Franklin & Higginbotham, 2011). Pinkster was celebrated

Monsters. They appear in nightmares, under beds, and in the distance lurking around. This is how the world perceives monsters, but according to Webster dictionary it’s a powerful person or thing that cannot be controlled and that causes many problems. There are constant encounters with them every day because they make up who someone is. They’re everywhere, in plain sight and other times disguised, sometimes it’s easier to see some more than others. Every “monster” has malicious ways even if it’s not intentional, it’s human reaction, from little behaviors to extreme ones.

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One strategy currently active is a program put into practice by the World Wildlife Fund which allows people to sponsor injured sea turtles. This program is a very simple way for the general public to get involved, as each donation of $25 funds the rehabilitation of one injured turtle. Once the turtles have completed rehabilitation, they are released back into the oceans. (Leatherback turtle, n.d.)

Evolutionist, Charles Darwin (1809-1882), provided the suggestion that people where “less highly evolved or developed than other” and that some humans were more like their “ape-like ancestors than others in traits, abilities, and dispositions” (Bohm & Vogel, 2011, p. 27). Darwin’s theory of evolution gained credence in positivist theory, particularly with philosopher Auguste Comte (Kalfus, 2010). Darwin’s ideas assisted with the explanation of the criminal behavior involved in evolutionary theories, which Comte later utilized to propose the brand of scientific philosophy known as Positivism (Kalfus, 2010). Positivists believe that the world is governed by natural law, so if man discovered these laws, man would have also discovered evolution