An Analysis of Uncle Tom's Cabin
"The book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, is thought of as a fantastic, even
fanatic, representation of Southern life, most memorable for its emotional
oversimplification of the complexities of the slave system," says Gossett
(4). Harriet Beecher Stowe describes her own experiences or ones that she
has witnessed in the past through the text in her novel. She grew up in
Cincinnati where she had a very close look at slavery. Located on the Ohio
River across from the slave state of Kentucky, the city was filled with
former slaves and slaveholders. In conversation with black women who
worked as servants in her home, Stowe heard many stories of slave life that
found their way into the book. Some of the novel was based on her reading
of abolitionist books and pamphlets, the rest came straight from her own
observations of black Cincinnatians with personal experience of slavery.
She uses the characters to represent popular ideas of her time, a time when
slavery was the biggest issue that people were dealing with. Uncle Tom's
Cabin was an unexpected factor in the dispute between the North and South.
The book sold more than 300,000 copies during the first year of publication,
taking thousands of people, even our nation's leaders, by surprise.
Mr. Shelby is a Kentucky plantation owner who is forced by debt to
sell two of his slaves to a trader named Haley. Uncle Tom, the manager of
the plantation, understands why he must be sold. The other slave marked for
sale is Harry, a four-year-old. His mother, Mrs. Shelby's servant, ...
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to wage her own battle. Eva serenely fades into death, but her presence
and her dreams survive in her father and in the reader of the novel.
It is doubtful if a book was ever written that attained such
popularity in so short a time as did Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's
Cabin. "The thrilling story was eagerly read by rich and poor, by the
educated and uneducated, eliciting from one and all heartfelt sympathy for
the poor and abused negro of the south,"(Donovan 74). It was, indeed, a
veritable bombshell to slaveholders, who felt that such a work should be
dangerous to the existence of slavery. They had a good cause to fear it
too, for its "timely appearance was undoubtedly the means of turning the
tide of public feeling against the abominable curse of slavery"(Cass 35).
2. Here, she explains the way she bases her characters from and how she begins to write a story with her creative storytelling brain.
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Olaudah Equiano’s Narrative of his Life both endeavor to stir antislavery sentiment in predominantly white, proslavery readers. Each author uses a variety of literary tactics to persuade audiences that slavery is inhumane. Equiano uses vivid imagery and inserts personal experience to appeal to audiences, believing that a first-hand account of the varying traumas slaves encounter would affect change. Stowe relies on emotional connection between the readers and characters in her novel. By forcing her audience to have empathy for characters, thus forcing readers to confront the harsh realities of slavery, Stowe has the more effective approach to encouraging abolitionist sentiment in white readers.
He was finally sold to a man named Dr. Jones who was a Doctor and Cotton Planter. He was taught to mix medicines and sent to the cotton plantation. He also did work in the doctor’s home. A few months after he was then sold to a man named Mr. Smith. He was then about twelve years old. For the next eight years he would be sold to many different traders in many different places.
William Arthur Ward once said, "Real religion is a way of life, not a white cloak to be wrapped around us on the Sabbath and then cast aside into the six-day closet of unconcern." Religion is the one thing that people can usually tolerate but never agree upon. Each faith seems to have an ordained assumption that they have the correct thoughts on how to life one's life or how to think about things or the way to act in certain situations. Still, each religion has its own "sub-religions." If someone refers to Christianity, there are several different religions that are blanketed under that umbrella: Catholic, Baptist, Lutheran, Pentecostal, and Presbyterian are just a handful. The inconsistencies that are associated with everyone's belief about religion run into deeper ruts of confusion. This confusion leads people to have distorted views as to what they believe and what their religion is all about. This is no different from the feelings about slavery by Christians in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. Throughout the novel, Christianity presents itself in a few different lights; as a twisted and deformed glimmer of what religion is supposed to be with undertones of bigotry and prejudice, an innocent yet naive child that brings joy to everyone he or she meets, and as Uncle Tom himself, the standard for what a Christian is supposed to be. These different portrayals of Christian living come from Stowe's own beliefs about Christians and brings them into the light.
She is thirteen years of age who, at the start of the book, finds out that ...
William Booth once said that “God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible.” This quote expresses the range and extent of religious faith through the strength of passion and love. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, with relation to this kind of religious faith. Her novel repeatedly highlights the faith in God through the main character, Uncle Tom. Stowe ridicules northern abolitionists and southern slave owners who think of Christianity as legalistic. She asserts that Christian faith is a strong love.
An example is her torture during the majority of the book. In 6th grade she went to her friends party, and to her astonishment, a couple began making out in the closet. She called her mom to tell her what was going on and her mom told the mother ...
She fell in love with the written word when her father began sending her books. As she was writing the novel her father passed away and soon after she found herself flipping through his old books and finding little pieces of him like postcards, notes, and words that had been circled and underlined. This inspired the idea of the Letter Library, in the book, Howling Books has a section full of old second-hand books where customers can go and scribble down thoughts and underline favorite lines. Cathy says, the idea of having people leave pieces of themselves between the pages of the book intrigued her. She says it feels almost like an eternal mark one has left in the world that can't be taken back. She has represented herself and her father within the Letter Library by introducing us to the books that they shared and lines they loved. Like Rachel was asked to do, she has documented the favorite lines in her books and underlined and circled them. Books in her novel such as Great Expectations, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Cloud Atlas were no randomly chosen but instead serve the purpose of representing pieces of the inspiration behind the Letter
Critically compare the management concepts of ‘total quality management’ and re-engineering ,as they relate to a company of your choice .
Total Quality Management (TQM) is an important aspect in the modern business environment because it is a management approach that seeks to promote the long-term success of an organization through customer satisfaction. Generally, this concept entails the attitude, culture, and organization of a business or firm that seeks to satisfy customers’ needs by providing high-quality products and/or services. In essence, total quality management requires that the organizational culture to focus on quality in every aspect of the firm’s operations. This process includes focusing on doing things in the right way the first time in order to lessen waste and defects across all operations. Microsoft UK is an example of a company that applies total quality management to meet the demands of its global customers. The use of this concept to enhance long-term success of Microsoft UK is fueled by the fact that the firm’s customers amount to approximately every computer user in the world, which necessitates managing customers’ experiences. Therefore, this company provides a good example of analysis of the application of total quality management as a vital concept in enhancing a company’s long-term success and promoting customer satisfaction.
Operations management has been evolving over the past three decades with the introduction of new trends such as total quality management, which attempts to bring best practices to all areas within a company. Operations management can be viewed as encompassing supply chain management, quality management, product and process design, project management, and other topical areas defined as “the design, operation, and improvement of the systems that create and deliver the firm's primary products and services.” (Petersen, Aase, Heiser, 2011). This paper aims to explore the effect of total quality management in the field of operations management by exploring the cultural value, customer satisfaction and overall operational performance.
Total Quality Management (TQM) is part of an organization that is designed to improve the quality at all level. TQM usually functions on the main objective that the quality of a product and process is the responsibility of every individual who is responsible for the creation and consumption of products and services that are offered by an organization. The employee’s involvement in the creation of TQM is very important and it is the critical element of quality. Human Resource Management (HRM) is focused on process improvement as well as employee improvement. This enables the organization towards continuous process improvement, Training for employees and Team functioning.
Total quality management depend mainly on quality control tools and previously developed quality techniques. It is a process of continuous quality improvement which finally results in high quality products or service for customers. Total quality is the related with customer satisfaction.
Total Quality is a description of the culture, attitude and organization of a company that strives to provide customers with products and services that satisfy their needs. The culture requires quality in all aspects of the company's operations, with processes being done right the first time and defects and waste eradicated from operations. Total Quality Management, TQM, is a method by which management and employees can become involved in the continuous improvement of the production of goods and services. It is a combination of quality and management tools aimed at increasing business and reducing losses due to wasteful practices. Some of the companies, which have implemented TQM, include Ford Motor Company, Phillips Semiconductor, SGL Carbon, Motorola and Toyota Motor