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    Uncle Tom’s Cabin has been called many things: the novel that started the Civil War and the most important piece of American literature among them. It tells the story of a slave named Uncle Tom whose journey through many owners, abuses, and hard times is amassed in a strong rhetorical piece of abolitionist writing. Despite its massive influence, very little dramatization of the novel has taken place. There is, to date, one play and one black and white movie made of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. This is for…

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    There is no doubt that the novels of Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black by Harriet E. Wilson have many similarities. Both of the novels were written in the 1800’s long before the Civil Rights Act was ever written. The character of Tom (Uncle Tom’s Cabin), and Frado (Our Nig), appear to me, the reader to be the strongest similarity between the two novels. In the story of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Tom is an African American slave living on an…

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    In Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom lives with his Aunt Polly in St. Petersburg, Missouri in the nineteenth century. The author manipulates time to advance the story to make it seem as if all the events took place in a matter of days The setting is critical to the story because all of the main events happened in the town. The tone of the novel is knowing. Adventure is the theme. Tom is the protagonist of the novel. He was sneaky and conniving and did what he wanted,…

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    Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American abolitionist and the author of Uncle Toms Cabin, a book that disputes one of the most controversial issues of all time— slavery. Born into a family of theologians and preachers, Stowe grew up in Connecticut, and she had very little contact or knowledge on the reality of slavery in the South. Stowe was soon exposed to the severity in a city near Kentucky, which is where she began to see firsthand how poorly slaves were treated; and the more that was exposed…

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    The first article showed that if there was ever a publication occurrence to show the belief that timing is extremely important; “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was it. Frederick Douglass celebrated that she had “baptized with holy fire myriads who before cared nothing for the bleeding slave” while in the North. In the South things were different; her accusation of slavery through the hateful character of Legree was compared to a “malevolent” outbreak on the foundation of marriage, as if she had selected a…

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    and the current date (3 pts) - an introductory paragraph (3 pts.) - a paragraph on her life that fully addresses the answers you found for questions 1-11 (the focus of this paragraph should be on her life and what inspired her to write Uncle Tom’s Cabin) (3 pts.) - a paragraph about her novel that fully addresses the answers you found for questions 12-18(the focus on this paragraph should be the reaction her novel cause both nationally and internationally.) (3…

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    and had done other great things that contributed to the well being of others. Stowe however believed that her best valuable purpose in life was to be an author. This proved to be true , when she released her world famous book titled Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The book gave thousands of families a new perspective on slavery and its’ cruelty during the Civil War. Although Stowe did not necessarily, physically fight in the war , she still made an effort to fight a large scale issue on the national level…

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    many different possibilities on the outcome of the universe, but it just so happen to fit. Many things could have been extremely different such as: law of physics, different arrangement of planet and/or stars, may have begun with bigger or smaller big bang, and many of the planets in our universe could not have allowed for human habitation. Or…

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    same. However, cosmic consciousness is not a priority on Earth, and very few are trying to achieve it. According to astrophysics, all the matter existing in the universe today came from a single infinitesimally dense point that expanded after the Big Bang explosion. Although the atoms that make up all matter, including life, are continually being flung further apart in an ever-expanding universe, they were a…

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    Small businesses are vital to the success of the economy. Each year brings more national chains displacing locally-owned businesses throughout the country. We see big business chains replace unique establishments all the time. Over 90 percent of businesses are considered small businesses. Not only do they provide success for the future, but also because they meet local needs (i.e. hairdresser, financial consultant, plumber). Small businesses benefit both the economy and consumers because they…

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