...Catharine at a seminary. She married professor and widower Calvin Stowe, and they eventually had seven kids. Stowe started her writing career by publishing stories and essays for magazines. She went on to write travel books, biographical sketches, poems, children’s books, and a biography book with her sister Catharine. Then eventually wrote her first book, The Mayflower, in 1843. Her best, well-known novel is Uncle Tom's Cabin which portrayed the life of slavery of African-Americans. Discussion Uncle Tom’s Cabin is the initial American sequence of events to contain an African-American leading role. She was an abolitionist and creator. Her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, depicts existence intended for African-Americans below slavery (Elliot, 25-60) she was the daughter of honest spiritual principal Lyman Beecher and Roxana Foote, an extremely spiritual lady. Her mother died when she was only four years old. Her family unit was not wealthy, and consequently, she endured many personal tragedies in her lifetime. Her writing career began when she won a contest for the Western Monthly Magazine. Not long after that, she began hearing of the horrible stories of slavery and after the death of her infant son, she felt compelled to put it down on paper. She wrote her most famous anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, but critics said it was not authentic. She wanted to prove her critics wrong, so she wrote and published her second anti-slavery novel. This novel was called Dred...
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... |第二教学楼 | Acknowledgements Many people gave me support and help in the process of writing the paper. I’d like first to give my grate to my dear teacher, Andy, who generously gave me his kindly help and instructions during the whole process of my paper-writing. Then I’d like to give my many thanks to my classmates who helped me a lot with my information collecting and paper-polishing. Most important of all, I want to give my thanks to my mother university and all the teachers in the English Department, who educated and cultivated me to be a qualified graduate in the future. Abstract When Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852, the novel was a huge success. It talked about the slavery which was a controversial issue at that time. Many critics made comments on this novel. With the passage of time, attitudes to the book changed considerably. The history of African American in US has always been considered as a bitter story. In recent years, their status...
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...Uncle Tom's Cabin - change in public opinion of slavery Uncle Tom’s Cabin is the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe. This book is a realistic but fictional perspective of slavery. The key characters in the story include Uncle Tom, George Harris and Eliza. Uncle Tom is slave that is trustworthy and pious. He does not wrong anybody and only hitherto obeys the master. Being a spiritual person, Uncle Tom does his best to do what is right and obey the Bible. On the other hand, Eliza is a very beautiful slave under the ownership of George Shelby Sr., who formerly owns Tom. George Harris is the husband to Eliza and he lives around the nearby plantation. The brilliance of George caused him to invent a machine that was utilized in the factory where he works. Consequently, his owner became so jealous and decided to demote George from the factory and made him to carry out hard labor at the plantation. The setting of the story is across the Mississippi and Kentucky states (Tang, Research & Education Association 6-20). Rarely does a single work of literature transform the society or sets it on the road to a dreadful conflict. One such catalytic story is Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852). Many consider it as being among the most influential American fictional works ever published. The number of copies that Uncle Tom’s Cabin sold were numerous than any other fictional title to have been published before. Five thousand of its copies were sold within its first two days...
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...LESTER Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, & Julius Lester, To Be A Slave [Name of the writer] [Name of the institution] Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, & Julius Lester, To Be A Slave Introduction Harriet Elizabeth Beecher born on the 14th of June, 1811. She was an abolitionist and author of more than ten books, the most famous Uncle Tom's Cabin, which tells the story of life in slavery and that, first published in serial form of episodes from 1851 to 1852 in an abolitionist organ, The National Era, edited by Gamaliel Bailey (Stowe, 1852). Although Stowe had never set foot in the American South, published consequently A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, a real job documenting the veracity of her account of the lives of slaves in the original novel (Stowe, 1852). Julius Lester born in 1939 in St Louis, Missouri. Julius Lester has published since 1968 no less than thirty-five pounds, twenty-five youth (Brace, Laura, 2004). His work has won numerous literary awards. He has also written over two hundred essays and reviews for various American magazines (Brace, Laura, 2004). After being a photographer, he became a professor at New York and the University of Massachusetts (Brace, Laura, 2004). Discussion Compare and contrast the historical accounts of “To Be A Slave” and the fictional accounts in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”. Uncle Tom's Cabin The cabin of Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom's Cabin) is a novel by the author abolitionist American...
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...closer to civil war. The people were beginning to take sides and the public opinion was being swayed by authors and journalists. Two certain literary works of the 1850s, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Hinton R. Helper’s The Impending Crisis of the South, persuaded the people in the middle ground to join the North’s noble cause of defending freedom. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s more emotional story of Uncle Tom’s Cabin became the most effective novel on the American public opinion. Stowe’s work was emotional and vivid. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was widely distributed throughout the world and it energized anti-slavery forces. Helper took a more logical path in criticizing slavery and his book was mostly used by Republican candidates as campaign literature against Southern Democrats. Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin used emotional and stirring words and images into her reader’s minds compared to Helper’s use of graphs and charts to get his point across. In Uncle Tom’s Cabin imagery is popularly used and at the time when literacy was uncommon. Images helped readers understand more. Helper uses graphs and charts, which most likely...
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...SAY IT AIN’T SO, HUCK: A SECOND LOOK AT MARK TWAIN’S “MASTERPIECE” Jane Smiley’s analysis gives a very controversial view on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn due to its subdued thoughts upon what is known to many as classical American literature. Her essay concerns other author’s inspections about the issues upon slavery, and how differently they are represented in other works of literature. Smiley makes her point known that although Huck Finn is what most view as a great novel; she disagrees and states that Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin is more useful as a tool to learn about the problems dealing with slavery. From the beginning to the end of the essay, Smiley’s initial intention to bringing Mark Twain’s novel into to spot light changes. Her essay that was supposed to support Mark Twain moves more interest upon Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and seems to have replaced the luster of Huck Finn completely. She also is under the impression that the character Jim, the runaway slave also Huck’s companion in all of their misadventures was treated so poorly that the the novel as a whole doesn’t stand as an attack on racism at all. Perhaps, she must of read a different book than I, or she maybe had a few too many glasses of wine whilst reading and became over sensitive to the situation. I wish she would have given examples on how Huck’s actions should have played out towards Jim that would make her feel like the novel did suffice. The fact that Huck had several opportunities...
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...piece, Jane Smiley’s underlying purpose remains to criticize Twain in his writing of Huckleberry Finn. Smiley carries a skeptical and disapproving tone throughout her essay. Her first argument is that the last twelve chapters of the book was a complete “failure”. She supports this with the fact that the novel strayed from its central focus: the relationship between Huck and Jim. She also argues that the novel had a weak beginning as well as a weak ending and that the author did not really know the actual meaning of racism, and due to this, the novel had no deep meaning. Lastly, Smiley argues that a better novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, should be considered a greater novel than Huckleberry Finn because it carries better propaganda and holds better messages of racism. Questions 1. Literal- Is Smiley’s thesis clearly stated in the essay? If so, where is it and what is it? 2. Literal- What novel does Smiley contrast Huckleberry Finn to? Why does she say that it is a better novel? 3. Interpretive- Huck is supposed to be the hero of the story. What major aspect of the novel demonstrates that the novel is another failure because Huck was not emphasized as a hero? 4. Interpretive- What characteristics of the character Jim make him inferior in the novel, according to Smiley? 5. Evaluative- Early in the essay, Smiley says that she isn’t criticizing the character Huck, but do you think that is true? Isn’t because of Huck that Jim is seen as inferior? 6. Evaluative- What...
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...Civil War Essay Sofia Gravina Pd. 6 The American civil war had a huge impact on the literature of its time. Because of the preceding literature, it caused people to become unhappy with their surroundings. They wanted to cause a Renaissance-like movement. Many works were written very hostile to convince people of the horrors of the war. Some works also brought out the romance of the war and glorified it. The civil war transformed American literature. Literature works before the war were extremely sterile. Most of the popular works came from foreign countries, like England. There was almost no originality in writing at the time. Every American author wrote like an English author. Because of this, Americans were viewed as inferior. Even Americans themselves felt inferior. They were basically devoid of a literary culture. A feeling of inadequacy caused people to have a need to create something entirely their own. Americans felt like they had a completely different situation which called for a completely different idea of American literature. Iambic pentameter and rhyme schemes in poems were effectively forgotten and intentionally not used. American poets especially wanted to do something different with their writing. They felt very rebellious toward the English way of writing. One theme as American writing became one of a kind was a want for a moral revolution in a reader. The writer wanted the reader to look at something and think about how they could incorporate...
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...“You know the truth, and the truth is this: some Negroes lie, some Negroes are immoral; some Negro men are not to be trusted around women – black or white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men. There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire"(Shmoop). This quote is from the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In this literary piece, the search for truth in a judicial setting is the main focus. There are pieces of evidence, moral, and ethical aspects that are revealed in the book. They were used in the search for the truth. Truth is the state of mind of being real or fact. Through the ways of knowing, truth can be found. There are different ways of depicting truth. Through the arts, an artist can express him or herself and show truth through their expression. One form of art is Literature. Literature is a way of reaching truth but is not necessarily the best at “telling the truth”. Truth can also be represented in historical fiction in great literature works such as in To Kill a Mockingbird. Literature is the way that a writer can express him or herself through written language. Some might believe that literature is a more reliable way to find truth. However, there are others who might raise the questions such as “What is literature?” and “Who decides what literature is?” If questions like these...
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...101 July 24, 2011 Bill T. Jones and the Last Supper at Uncle Tom's Cabin/ The Promised Land William Tass Jones was born on February 15, 1952, in Bunnell, Florida. He and his family moved north as part of the the Great Migration in the first half of the twentieth century. They settled in Wayland, New York, where Jones attended Wayland High School. He discovered dance while in college on a sports scholarship at Binghamton University and soon began studying classical ballet and modern dance. It was here that he met Arnie Zane, a photographer who was to become his partner and collaborator. Together they studied the art of dance and became co-founders of American Dance Asy- lum, based in Binghamton, New York in 1973. Jones was tall, black, and graceful, Zane was short, white, and tough, and it was in their obvious contrast that the success of their performing partnership hinged. A gay African American who has experienced dual prejudices, Bill T. Jones has often brilliantly transformed his anger and autobiography into dance. Early he became known for highly confrontational sexually and racially charged dances that obliterated boundaries between the public and the private. He and Arnie were life and dance partners from 1971 until Zane died in 1988, and Jones has continued to direct the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Jones's Last Supper at Uncle Tom's Cabin/The Promised Land is a sprawling, ambitious dance about...
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...The story starts as Mr. Shelby and Haley, a slave trader, exchange offers. Mr. Shelby is in debt, the reason why he I negotiating with Haley to settle it. Mr. Shelby offers Haley to take Tom, a religious and trustworthy man, but Haley insists that Tom is not enough to cover the debt. After a while, a little boy named Jim Crow/Harry enters the room and Haley is impressed because he saw that the young boy is not only talented, but also has a potential to make more money. However, Mr. Shelby asserts that he cannot trade Harry because the boy’s mother, Eliza, would freak out and Mr. Shelby’s wife would not approve of it as well. Eliza overhears a part of the conservation between the two gentlemen and is certain that her son might be the subject of the negotiation of the two. Eliza approaches Mr. Shelby’s wife and tells her about the matter but Mrs. Shelby assures her that her husband would not do such thing because he never means to sell any of his servants if they are good to him. Eliza was raised by Mrs. Shelby who treated her not as a servant but as a child. Eliza got married to George Harris, a worker in a bagging factory who was so intelligent that he invented a machine to make work easier. George Harris seemed more like a gentleman than a slave. Because of this, George was taken away from his work not only because George was too smart and upright, but also because it was claimed that the machine he invented for cleaning hemp was only done so as to save work and labor. Eliza...
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...Author | Honeybourne, John | Title | BTEC national sport : award, certificate, diploma / John Honeybourne | Publisher | Cheltenham : Nelson Thornes, c2003 | According to the basic tenets derived from this research, optimum performance should be seen at levels of moderate arousal. As arousal approaches extremes (a comatose state on one end and panic attack on the other), performance will decline accordingly. The end result is a curvilinear relationship between arousal and performance that resembles an inverted-U. Landers & Arent, 2001 If the task is complex, requiring fine motor skill, the optimal level of arousal is low. If the task is relatively simple, requiring gross motor skill, the optimal level of arousal is high. Suggested 'complex' tasks are performed better when one's level of drive (arousal) is low, while 'simple' tasks are performed better when arousal/drive is high. There are different degrees of arousal (over/under arousal) and people can be affected in different ways, depending on the type of tasks they face. See graph (pg 583) The relationship between arousal and performance is curvilinear (inverted u shape of graph) 'Increased arousal improves performance up to a certain point after which further increased levels of arousal will have an adverse effect' - i.e both over and under arousal can inhibit performances. Implications: Optimum levels of arousal are not the same for all activities or all performers Optimum levels of arousal...
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...purple and any other. The main character of this novel is Katsa, niece of the king of Middluns, one of the five nations. Katsa’s story begins with her punching her distinct cousin’s nose so hard that it broke and the fragments went into his brain and he died because he wanted to touch her hair. After that event every one feared and stayed away from her, but the king learned that his own niece was a graced fighter and he fully intended to train her to assassinate people and use her as a secret weapon of terror. But Katsa refused to kill anyone and she trained in a way that she would disarm and disable people but not hurt or kill them. After ten years of training she was put to missions for the king. Because she was royalty she had to join her uncle at dinners and other royal things. Because she wanted her own freedom, she started her own secret organization that took care of unfair activities that went through in the five nations. Soon her organization grew rapidly and they started taking care of bigger things while staying a secret. This is the only things that the novel says till now, which explains that even though she under the influence of someone powerful she could do something greater with her abilities that would do great good to...
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...Response Paper: The Talented Mr. Ripley The Talented Mr. Ripley, a novel by Patricia Highsmith, raises questions of identity for both its characters and the novel itself. Protagonist Tom Ripley is a con man, impersonating at the beginning of the novel an income tax agent, not for profit but for amusement. He is then mistaken for a close friend of Dickie Greenleaf’s -- an identity which he is happy to assume. He eventually murders Dickie and assumes his identity as well. Ripley’s identity is amorphous, his ambiguous true self pushed aside in favor of less “boring” personas. The novel’s characters -- seemingly one-dimensional, easily summarized and described -- all find themselves in crisis, each desperately wanting something. Tom Ripley desires higher class status and to become Dickie, to assume his identity. He believes that “It was impossible ever to be lonely or bored...so long as he was Dickie Greenleaf," that somehow a complete change in identity would cure all ills. Dickie yearns for external validation and acclaim, while Marge wants Dickie’s affection and a committed relationship with him, and Freddie wants attention from others. Some actively conceal or ignore parts of themselves. For Ripley, this is his queerness. There are various cues to Ripley’s homoerotic desires: when he is young, he is called “sissy”; he lived with an older man who “preyed” on young men; he was “very friendly” with a male Princeton student last summer; he covets Dickie and describes the man...
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...his first successful novel, The Jungle. As he was gaining success as a writer, he also was involved in politics. When he moved to California in 1916, Upton Sinclair “founded the California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, and as a candidate for the Socialist Party, he launched unsuccessful bids for Congress.” He then went back to writing, but this time as a historical novelist. He continued writing all his life, but as he was getting older, his health started to decline. At the age of ninety, Upton Sinclair moved to a nursing home in New Jersey and died in November of 1968, (“Upton Sinclair”). As he was getting more involved in literature, Sinclair was sent to Chicago and said that he came to the city “to write the Uncle Tom’s Cabin of the labor movement.” A Socialist weekly magazine, Appeal to Reason, hired Sinclair to write an expose on the meatpacking industry. For weeks, he wondered around Packingtown, pretended to be a worker, and went into packing plants to see what was actually happening. He sought out many people who were willing to tell him about real life in Packingtown. After seven weeks, he returned to New Jersey and began writing for nine months. With the fictional family the novel was centered on, Upton Sinclair was able to relay realistic details of what he saw in Chicago, such as “ unsanitary food preparation, exploitation of workers, sleazy real-estate practices, political corruption, and much more.” Appeal to Reason started to publish the work...
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