Write an essay about Kindred and any other book, poem, TV show, song, or
movie of your choice. You must focus about half on each.
Prompt: Kindred and your chosen other text are both about the past, the present, and the future–or the old
and the new. How do they similarly or differently interpret, value, criticize, or hold onto the past? What are
the lessons that the two teach us about memory, history, women, and/or slavery (or any other important
topic)?
Organization: You may organize the paper how you please. I recommend two pages double spaced (at
least) or around four paragraphs total. Write freely but write aiming for clarity. Try to leave some time to edit
the essay before submitting.
Your body paragraphs should answer the prompt by discussing similarities and differences in the movie and
book. Remember to highlight a few significant similarities between the two. For example:
Too broad: Slavery
Just right: Stories of journeys and time travel (from past to future and future to past)
Just right: Both first-person narrators seem to write from the future.
Finally, your conclusion should address why you think it’s important to read or watch art about the history of
U.S. slavery. Why is the fictional (not beholden to reality) art (whether or a poem, a novel, or a movie)
important to read, instead of or in addition to more strict history? Try to include the phrase “Like Kindred
shows us…” or “Like [your other text] shows us…” to help make your point.
What Sparked the Study?
This examination was started by Stanley Milgrim, a clinician at Yale University. His objective was to concentrate on the contention between submission to power and individual still, small voice. He analyzed the barriers of “compliance” as avocations from WW2 and needed to perceive how it associated to the manner in which people act under a tyrant.
The Experiment
Utilizing a promotion in the paper, Milgrim chose members for the investigation. A member was combined with someone else (An individual that thought about the trial). They had a fixed attracting of straws to see who might be the “student” and who might be the “educator”. Since the draw was fixed, the member was consistently the educator. The student was taken into a room close to the instructor and was tied to cathodes. The educator went into the following room and was welcomed by an electric stun machine. The stun machine contained stuns from 15 volts-450 volts. In this trial, there was likewise an experimenter, played by an entertainer.
The educator tells the student a rundown of words and gives the student a progression of tests that included naming a word and requesting that the student review its accomplice. The educator was advised to regulate a stun each time the student committed an error, expanding the stun each time. The student intentionally found the solutions wrong to test the instructor. At the point when the stuns got more dangerous and the instructor cannot, the experimenter utilized four unique intends to encourage the educator to proceed with the analysis.