Dana Point

The main question my group members Laura Aday, Daniela Mejia-Lagos, and I discussed were how food regulation could be enhanced. The topic had dealt with food regulations in agriculture, livestock, and business. Poor food regulations in these areas could lead to health problems, norovirus outbreaks, and other forms of illnesses to the world population. The best solutions to my subtopic, which is business, was for the improvement of workers’ protection and universally accepted food safety laws.…

In Dana Gioia’s article “ Why Literature Matters” Dana Gioia makes a claim that the amount of young Americans shown in art and literature has decreased tremendously. To support Dana Gioia’s claim he does surveys and quotations from famous authors. Dana Gioia’s purpose in writing this article is to grab the attention of young Americans and change their thoughts about art and literature. Dana Gioia is helping young Americans understand how important it is to read. In Dana Gioia’s sixth paragraph…

In this essay I will be explaining how Dana Gioia builds an argument to persuade his audience that the decline of reading in America will have a negative effect on society. In my essay, I will analyze how Gioia uses one or more of the following features to strengthen the logic and persuasiveness of his argument. While reading the article, ‘‘ Why Literature Matters” by the author Dana Gioia, Dana makes a good statement that, argument claiming the levels of interest from young Americans have shown…

difference between what a black woman is allowed to do in the 1970’s than in the 1800’s. Dana is able to publicly pursue her writing career, while marrying a white man. The progression of the American black woman is a form of feminism. This same feminism was seen in Dana’s ancestor, Alice. She explored her version of freedom by committing suicide, and no longer being a slave to her sorrows. However, the personalities of Dana and Alice, along with other female slave characters, changed from what…

that was not accepted by their relatives. One day Dana travels from her life in L.A. 1976 to antebellum south; a plantation in Maryland 1815. She travels back in time several times to ensure the survival on Rufus Weylin a white child that throughout the book becomes a explosive slave holder and one of her ancestors. Across the novel she has no choice but to help his relative, because without his existence she and her family would never come to be. Dana takes both the psychological and physical…

bar trivia knowledge, but also as a warning? Unlike textbook readings of the past, where you have to wonder what it must’ve been like, Octavia Butler makes the readers of Kindred to actually place themselves in the 1800s, making them emphasize with Dana-our time traveling heroin-and the other slaves. Reading Kindred, one has to wonder, has anything really changed? There is still horrible cases of racism and prejudice in the United States, more than 300 years later. Is that due to power and…

woman named Dana Franklin, of whom suddenly happens to gain the ability to travel back in time spontaneously. Dana travels through events of the antebellum south, and faces many harsh obstacles along the way. Dana's battle through many tough situations and her journey through the past could not have been even remotely survivable without her immense bravery. It is incredibly difficult to describe the events that took place on Dana's journey, a testament to the suffering…

novel, Kindred, the protagonist, Dana, is involuntarily wrestling with the urge to not conform to the ways of the antebellum Southern culture she has been forced into due to a time traveling sensation. Her psychology unknowingly embraces her ancestor’s patterns of behavior in this time instead of maintaining a surface-level imitation she intended to keep since her first encounter with this phenomenon. This uncontrollable submersion into slave-holding Maryland commands Dana to not only comply…

experience on the Weylin plantation than Dana and the effects of that are evident through the altered viewpoints on Ante-Bellum South culture which the two express. This explicit difference in their treatment results in the divergence of their sub-consciences. Both arrive at the plantation with a severely anti-slavery stance with their 1976 liberal ideas constantly fighting the values of 1815 Maryland. At the start of the book Kevin continuously nags Dana in the hopes…

juxtaposition of all that Dana might have been if she had been born into 1800s slavery. Dana is always looking towards the future where she can be free again, but Alice does not have that to hold on to. Ultimately…