Dana Point

be reading about is someone who is very strong with her work and someone who puts other people before them. I chose to shadow a very nice lady named Dana Clarke, she sits with my grandmother and is so amazing to her. I never knew how much somebody could make a difference in your life until Dana became apart of our big but somewhat small family. Dana continues to be one of the many role models that are in my life, she has a kind heart that's willing to help anybody and everybody if they need it.…

their own which is dangerous to have around slavery time. Butler portrays her main character, Dana, as a strong minded women which is mostly why she was able to survive the slavery era when she went. Cooper, on the other hand, depicts her character as fierce and determined. Each women struggled but acted differently. Butler had Dana act out in desperation. Meanwhile, Copper had Always act out in power. Dana was adopted so she had little to no idea about her family history. When she travels to…

Dana Scatton, 17, is wise beyond her years – and she seems to epitomize perfection. Dana holds her tiny baby bump last summer, months before Dana holds her tiny baby bump last summer, months before her brain cancer diagnosis. (Photo: COURTESY OF THE FAMILY) She’s beautiful, funny and confident, with incredible faith in God and a smile that shows her strength. On New Year’s Eve, Dana sits on a bed, wearing black leggings with pink flowers that matched her pedicure. Her parents, Lenore and…

to different feelings on time travel. The largest similarity in Kindred and The Time Machine is the use of a first-person narrator. In Kindred, the narrator is Dana, a twenty-six-year-old black woman living in California in the 1970s. The reader can tell that Dana is the narrator because of the use of the first person pronouns: “‘Dana.’ He spoke softly. The sound of his voice seemed to put distance between me and the memory. But still… ‘I don’t know what to tell you,’ I said” (Butler 15).…

revolves around Dana, an African American writer living in California in the year 1976 and her mysterious trips to pre-Civil War Maryland. How she is being sent back to that time is unknown, but after the initial few trips, she realizes she is being sent back to ensure that her bloodline continues; and this begins with saving a young, white boy named Rufus. This novel forces the reader to be in Dana’s thoughts and actions all the time, as it is written in first person from her point of view.…

What is interesting to take into account is that Dana is in the same country as she was once free, however now being in the nineteenth century, she is stripped of her freedom. Dana was aware of the events that took place and the mistreatment towards colored people, however she comes to a empathetic reality of experiencing what her ancestors had to struggle through, when she is faced to serve her masters and be treated with little to no respect. Dana states in her second trip to the past that she…

Caneville. On the night of May 21, 2005, Dana Kendall, age 20, met up with some of their friends at The Caneville Community College parking lot to drive over to The Heavy Burger to eat. Vanessa Foley, age 19, and her passenger, Mo Lancaster, age 18, saw Dana and their friends. Vanessa pulled into the lot to check it out. As Dana and Miss Vanessa have had prior disputes to this night, Dana wanted to leave. Therefore, they left as quickly as possible. As Dana left, their friend Robin followed…

In the Novel Kindred, Edana, The main character of this science fiction novel begins when Dana experience a severe dizzy spells that causes her to travel back in forth between; the 1800 and 1900 century. Throughout this essay I will point out evidence that will predates the 18 century time frame and focus the reader's attention to the 17 century and into the development of 18th, and 19th century And the beginnings of the heinous treatment white people bestowed upon black people despite their…

African- American women named Dana living in the 1980’s who abruptly develops the ability to travel back to the times of slavery which dates back to 1816. Later in the novel, it is revealed to readers that Dana is being drawn back into time to save her bloodline which is repetitively being put in danger. Thus, if she does not complete the task at hand she and her ancestors will never be known to man or ever have ever existed. However, due to the color of her skin, Dana encounters many challenges…

the same thing, but react in very different ways. Some ways are more favorable than others. In the book Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, many of the characters go through this such as Dana, Alice and Rufus. Although the same general thing happens to all of them, they react in different ways, some good and bad. When Dana suddenly gets transported back in time without Kevin with her, she faces the crisis of being away from him very well. They just got married and felt perfectly happy, but certain…