...Jason Dean Dr. Thomas Lyons English 3360 September 1, 2011 Fredrick Douglass Journal In his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, an American Slave, Douglass invites his audience to view slavery from the inside out. The obvious irony is that the vast majority of his audience, initially, was of the same race as the villains depicted inside his book. Douglass used his experiences both as a spectator and participant in slavery to highlight and challenge the hypocrisies in society he found that were born, bred and sanctioned by the institution of slavery; one in particular was the interpretation and uses of Christianity by slave owners as means of empowering slavery instead of empowering the slaves. From the implied validation of slavery via the Curse of Ham to the deplorable acts inflicted on slaves by men viewed reverently as men of God within their communities, Christianity, a religion embedded with the teaching on the tentacles of peace, miracles and love served largely as a banner of confusion to a group of people whose need of those tentacles stood second to none. The curse of Ham is a biblical reference to the Book of Genesis 9:20-27 where the story is told of Ham having a curse placed upon his son after Ham’s father Noah, after Ham saw his father nude. Black Africans were viewed by many as descendants of Ham, which in the minds of some white Christians at the time validated slavery. Douglass disarms the Ham argument early in the book when...
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...F rederick douglass was born into slavery sometime in 1817 or 1818. Like many slaves, he is unsure of his exact date of birth. Douglass is separated from his mother, Harriet Bailey, soon after he is born. His father is most likely their white master, Captain Anthony. Captain Anthony is the clerk of a rich man named Colonel Lloyd. Lloyd owns hundreds of slaves, who call his large, central plantation the “Great House Farm.” Life on any of Lloyd’s plantations, like that on many Southern plantations, is brutal. Slaves are overworked and exhausted, receive little food, few articles of clothing, and no beds. Those who break rules—and even those who do not—are beaten or whipped, and sometimes even shot by the plantation overseers, the cruelest of which are Mr. Severe and Mr. Austin Gore. Douglass’s life on this plantation is not as hard as that of most of the other slaves. Being a child, he serves in the household instead of in the fields. At the age of seven, he is given to Captain Anthony’s son‑in‑law’s brother, Hugh Auld, who lives in Baltimore. In Baltimore, Douglass enjoys a relatively freer life. In general, city slave-owners are more conscious of appearing cruel or neglectful toward their slaves in front of their non‑slaveowning neighbors. Sophia Auld, Hugh’s wife, has never had slaves before, and therefore she is surprisingly kind to Douglass at first. She even begins to teach Douglass to read, until her husband orders her to stop, saying that education makes slaves unmanageable...
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...14-5 Frederick Douglass, Independence Day Speech (1852) The most important African American leader of his time, Fredrick Douglass had a profound impact on American notions of slavery. Born in slavery, Douglass escaped at the age of 20 and began writing and speaking against slavery. His volumes of autobiography including “Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, an American Slave” (1845) were among the greatest of the slave narratives and are now considered classic examples of American autobiography. As a speaker, newspaper editor and writer, Douglass’ influence was great. He knew and aided John Brown in his efforts, welcomed the Civil War and until his death in 1895, spoke against Jim Crow laws and lynching. This famous speech is a masterful example of Douglass’ use of irony in illuminating the hypocrisy of the celebration of Independence day. Fellow citizens above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the mournful wail of millions! whose chains, heave and grievous yesterday, are, today, rendered more intolerable by the jubilee shouts that reach them. If I do forget, it I do not faithfully remember those bleeding children of sorrow this day, “may my right hand forger her cunning, and may ny tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth”! To forget them, to pass lightly over their wrongs, and to chime in with the popular theme would be treason most scandalous and shocking, and would make me a reproach before God and the world. My subject, them, fellow citizens, is American...
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...Dehumanization Essay Dehumanization can be described as a behavior or process that undermines the rights and individuality of others. Fredrick Douglas was born into slavery in 1817. He was often beaten and whipped. He lived a rough life as a slave. He taught himself how to read and earned his freedom. Solomon Northup unlike Frederick was born a freeman, he was then kidnapped and sold to the Red River region of Louisiana. For the next twelve years he was property of several different slave owners, where he was whipped and beaten. Before he was freed by some northerners. Dehumanization happened to both Fredrick Douglas and Solomon Northup in the 1800 hundreds, and they both had to persevere to overcome it. “They ain't hired help. They're my property.” - Edwin Epps. (1:43:01) Edwin Epps was a mean slave owner. We constantly whipped and beat his slaves. Patsy one of his slaves went to get soap from the neighbor because she picked twice as much cotton as any other slave, and when she got back she was whipped twice as much. He also raped her. He was often drunk, and when he was drunk he got angry and violent. He didn't see his slaves as humans but as property that he could do whatever he wanted with them....
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...Freeman Brown Dr. J. Jones English 112 23 September 2013 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself, is a powerful piece that flings the reader into disgust of slavery from the very instant he starts writing. In doing so, he directly appeals to the readers emotions and continues to do so at various times throughout the story. Douglass also uses a logical appeal about midways his story. Implying freedom as common sense, he begins to rhetorically provoke the reader to question the morality of slavery. Within the very first paragraph written by Frederick Douglass, the reader is subjected to tidbits of the pitiful situation he and other slaves were in. He writes “By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant.” (Douglass, 17) That statement both dehumanizes them by comparing the life of a slave to that of an animal, and establishes aversion toward those who owned slaves. It makes one feel sorry for him. Perhaps, even allowing you to think, “Awe, poor guy doesn’t even know how old he is.” Douglass is indeed upset while writing this and intends to induce anger within the reader as well, for the purpose of abolishing the evil that is slavery. He is sure to expose the desires of slave masters by throwing them at fault to the deed of withholding such pertinent and common information. Surely one in high social...
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...Analysis of Fredrick Douglass’s Narrative David W. Blight is a professor, who teaches as of November 2, 2015 American History at Yale University. Blight obtained his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1985 with a thesis titled “Keeping Faith in Jubilee : Fredrick Douglass and the Meaning of the Civil War.”Before Yale University, he taught at Amherst College for thirteen years. He has wrote many annotated editions on slavery and as of late, he is working on another biography of Fredrick Douglass.He has received a handful of awards, these include: Lincoln Prize,Bancroft Prize,Fredrick Douglass Prize, Merle Curti award and James A. Rawley prize. Anyhow The introduction by David Blight was very well constructed and It would’ve helped if...
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...important historical articles; Fredrick Douglass “What to the slave is the fourth of July” and David Walker’s “Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World”. The essay will attempt to discuss the very famous speech Fredrick Douglas made in 1952 as well as David’s Walker’s appeal while comparing and contrasting both the appeal and the speech. Afterward, a summary will be given and a conclusion will be drawn. As we look throughout history, one would argue that we couldn’t find a more appalling and unjust act as that of slavery. Slavery played a major role of not only history but of an innumerable amount of American people. In David Walker’s appeal and Fredrick Douglass what to the slave is the fourth of July, men and women of African American descent struggle with the reality of slavery and the cruel results and affect it had on people like themselves. Fredrick Douglas was one of the most influential African Americans of his day, in spite of his inauspicious beginning, he was born into slavery on a plantation in Maryland where he was called Fredrick Augustus Washington Bailey. Douglas always suspected that his father was his mother’s white owner, Captain Aaron Anthony. He spent his early childhood in privation on the plantation then he was sent to work as a house slave for the auld family in Baltimore. There, he came in contact with printed literature and quickly realized the relationship between literacy and personal freedom. With help from Mrs. Auld, Douglas learned how to read and...
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...Organizational Behavior Psychology Term Paper By James Bishop Instructor: William Lucht Rachel Carson Elementary School, a subsystem of the Montgomery County Public Schools, was built in 1990. The goals of the school are to maintain the proper education for its students. Rachel Carson provides the setting for my examination of various organizational theories. The theories under examination are McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y and Weber’s Bureaucratic Theory. McGregor’s Theory X assumes that people are basically lazy and need to be coerced into performing effectively. I illustrated this by comparing the teachers to management (these are the individuals who give rewards and recognition to get students to work). I also compared the pupils to workers (individuals needing coercion to fulfill expectations). McGregor’s Theory Y assumes that individuals seek autonomy. This theory is best depicted by Rachel Carson’s administration and its teachers. Teachers are allowed to manage their classrooms with minimal administration intervention. Weber’s Bureaucratic Theory believes organizations should function like machines using the concept of bureaucracy. This concept was best depicted by the entire Rachel Carson staff and how it abides by the rules set forth by the Montgomery County Public Schools. Montgomery County Public School System was established in the early nineteenth century. The goals of education for the school system were adored in 1958. Since then, the goals have...
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...Theoretical Framework Operations management is the business function that plans, organizes, coordinates, and controls the resources needed to produce a company’s goods and services. It involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient in terms of using the least possible resources as needed, and effective in terms of meeting the customer needs. Needs are the basic forces that drives consumers to take actions and engaged in exchanges. The desire to satisfy these needs is what motivates a man to act, but the satisfaction of these needs must be done in the order of their priority so that a higher need does not strongly motivate a person unless the next preceding lower need has been substantially satisfied. For each society there is a set of needs perceived by the people that they feel should be satisfied as part of the development process. It is usually recognized that needs could be generated by physiological deprivation or by a positive desire to have something. It is also recognized that those needs generated by deprivation are typical and that usually one of needs is based on attaining certain goals. The humanistic approach espoused by Abraham Maslow, leader in Humanistic Psychology believes that Thus man is perpetually wanting animal. Ordinarily the satisfaction of these wants is not altogether mutually exclusive, but only tends to be. The average member of society is most often partially satisfied and partially unsatisfied in all of his...
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...mills for sale. The company was founded 70 years ago by Pete Bunyan. The current CEO is Paula Bunyan, the granddaughter of the founder. The company is currently evaluating a 7,500-acre forest it owns in Oregon. Paula has asked Steve Boles, the company’s finance officer, to evaluate the project. Paula’s concern is when the company should harvest the timber. Lumber is sold by the company for its “pond value.” Pond value is the amount a mill will pay for a log delivered to the mill location. The price paid for logs delivered to a mill is quoted in dollars per thousands of board feet (MBF), and the price depends on the grade of the logs. The forest Bunyan Lumber is evaluating was planted by the company 20 years ago and is made up entirely of Douglas fir trees. The table below shows the current price per MBF for the three grades of timber the company feels will come from the stand: TIMBER GRADE PRICE PER MBF 1P $575 2P $555 3P $530 Steve believes that the pond value of lumber will increase at the inflation rate. The company is planning to thin the forest today, and it expects to realize a positive cash flow of $450 per acre from thinning. The thinning is done to increase the growth rate of the remaining trees, and it is always done 20 years following a planting. The major decision the company faces is when to log the forest. When the company logs the for- est, it will immediately replant saplings, which will allow for a future harvest. The longer the forest is allowed...
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...energy that flows from enthusiasm for the firm’s strategic intent. We believe that the task of focusing intellectual and emotional energy is as important for top management as allocating financial responsibilities—unless every employee feels a deep sense of responsibility for success, and has a clear channel for contribution, global leadership, will remain elusive.” (Hamel and Prachald, 1994). Thus, we must manage our businesses so employees—advise from management—must have a clear channel for how they can contribute. To this end, is there a venue that exists that will give the worker on the assembly line the same sense of direction as the CEO? We will first test a remedy proposed in the 1960’s by published management theory mentor Douglas McGregor. McGregor’s perspective was that management was more that simply giving orders and coercing obedience; it was a careful balancing of organizational needs with those of the individual. He defined these individual needs through psychologist Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. During McGregor’s writings the leading social movement in his arena was support for Maslow’s arguments. By applying the idea of a hierarchy of needs to the work environment of the mid-and late 1850’s, McGregor offered a new theory of management that promised to unlock the creative potential of the American workforce and bring about a new...
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...Douglas MacArthur: The Big Chief in America and Japan General of the Army, Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), is well-known in the history of army in the United States and one of the soldiers who served the United States for more than a half-century. He was born on January 26th, 1880, at the Little Rock Barracks in Arkansas and grew up on outposts of the western borderline in which his Army officer father, Arthur MacArthur (1845-1912), was positioned. He later mentioned about the experience in his early childhood, “It was here I learned to ride and shoot even before I could read or write–indeed, almost before I could walk or talk.” (History.com) MacArthur was talented and candid; besides is best known for his crucial parts in World War II and following reconstruction of Japan. In this paper, his educational and political background, political challenges and accomplishments, and also relationship with particularly the United States and Japan are going to be explicated. EDUCATIONAL AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND Douglas MacArthur spent his entire life in the military of the United States. He lived in a far-off region of New Mexico in his early childhood in which his father, Arthur MacArthur Jr., instructed an infantry company charged with guarding settlers and railroad employees from the Indian "menace." When he was a teenager, Arthur served with division in the Union Army, and he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor after all for showing a courageous assault up Missionary Ridge...
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...Political Frame: Intro to frame: The political frame assumes that competition for scarce resources creates an emphasis on power, conflict, and organizational politics. (Roddy 2010) subordinates contesting decisions. Shafritz, Ott, and Jang (2005) offer a definition of power: “Power is the ability to get things done the way one wants them done; it is the latent ability to influence people” (p. 284). There are two basic benefits to understanding organizations through this definition. First, this definition emphasizes the relativity of power. Second, it reminds the reader that conflict and use of power are often not about outcomes, but rather methods, means, and approaches (Shafritz, Ott, & Jang, 2005). {Roddy:2010th} organizations are redefined as “complex systems of individuals and coalitions, each having its own interests, beliefs, values, preferences, perspectives, and perceptions” (Shafritz, Ott, & Jang, 2005, p. 283). {Roddy:2010th} The political frame is rooted in the power and politics organizational theory which describes organizations as places where power is exercised in the allocation of scarce resources (Durocher, 1996). The source of this power is found through authority, expertise, controlling rewards, and personal power or characteristics (such as charisma, intelligence, communications skills, etc.) (Bolman & Deal, 1984). {Roddy:2010th} many have gone on to define politics as the tactics and strategies actors use to articulate...
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...BOOK REVIEW: AN AMERICAN SOLDIER IN WORLD WAR I xxxxxxxxx History xxx xxxx November x, xxxx An American Soldier in World War I Any individual in one way or another is part of History just by living during a certain time period. This setting takes place during World War I. Through a soldier and his fiancée their constant letters written back and forth to each other also serve as an avenue for the reader to understand in more detail what transpired during this horrific war. Amazingly, by using these letters a new historical book was born, “An American Soldier in World War I.” George Browne, Brownie, chooses to enlist in the Army when the United States declares war with Germany on April 6, 1917. In early, July Browine was processed into the army and was assigned to the 117th Engineers Regiment, 42nd Division. Preparation and training became of utmost importance. This account took place around September 29, 1917. The preparation for the men was unfortunately limited. The shortage of equipment was one major issue. With the means being unavailable, only certain drills like elementary, close order, and those of the brigades existed. The training of the officers and soldiers alike was a very aggressive lifestyle. On the other hand, they participated in wholesome games while making many lasting friendships. On September 2, 1917 they finally arrived in France. The trip over to France from the United States was not positive. It took forever across the Atlantic Ocean...
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...Who is the Greatest Canadian of the Twentieth Century? Thomas Clement Douglas was born on October 20, 1904 in Falkirk, Scotland. He was often called Tommy. He and his family immigrated to Canada in 1911. They settled in Winnipeg, Manitoba. When Tommy was 10, he had a bone infection in his leg, osteomyelitis, which needed many operations. None of the operations helped him and his family could not afford to send him to a special doctor. He was extremely fortunate when a visiting surgeon volunteered to operate on him for free. He was also a minister and a politician. Tommy Douglas is the greatest Canadian due to the fact he achieved Medicare, became the first national leader of the NDP and fought for social programs even in the presence of strong oppositions. Tommy Douglas learnt from the experience of his sickness the importance of doctors. The sickness and how he was saved was his inspiration for the Medicare. He wanted everyone to receive the Medicare they needed, even if they did not have a great deal of money. During one of his speeches as a politician, he said, I came to believe that health services ought not to have a price-tag on them, and that people should be able to get whatever health services they required irrespective of their individual capacity to pay. This inspired him to work hard so as to make health care available to all Canadians at no cost. In 1959, Tommy announced the plan to establish a medical insurance called Medicare. He faced...
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