Essays on Whipping

The “Rules of the Plantation” document highlights the overseer’s code of conduct during American slavery. Its 23 provisions or rules raise managerial and ethical issues in the current managerial, capitalist work environment. One provision that is especially interesting as related to the current managerial practices is number 10, which is also critical for the nowadays work ethics. Rule number 10 of the “Rules of Plantation” documents indicates that “The negroes must be made to obey, and to work [], with very little whipping” (Southern Cultivator 103). Therefore, the whipping, a physical punishment, was accepted as a work practice. The ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is one of the most famous novels by the American romantic writer. While the novel is well-known for its depiction of the relationships between the characters, and the romantic plots and subplots, the novel also has great value as a historical study of the Puritan period. Puritan society was a highly gendered society, with strict gender roles for men and women, and a well-established patriarchal society. Explorations of the novel, and of the depiction of Hester’s character, her punishment, and her actions in the novel can help reveal whether Hawthorne was realistically ...

There are those who would justify the enslavement of humans by pointing to the enormous amount of wealth generated through that enslavement and that that enslavement was a sacrifice to which blacks willingly, though unwittingly, took part. If that were a valid assessment of the enslavement of so many for the benefit of so few, then its validity would sit on the testimony of those who were enslaved. However, that testimony, as found in Fredrick Douglas’ Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglas does not support such an outlandish premise. On the contrary, Douglas’ Narrative witnesses the atrocity that ...

Business Plan

Contacts: [Toronto, Canada] Business Description Foodies Company is a for profit company that is going to offer dairy products, free of artificial flavors and chemicals. The fresh products will be offered to the consumers. The purpose of the business is to increase the health awareness among the people, offering them healthy, quality and free of the artificial flavored products that directly impacts on their health. Initially, the company will offer milk, butter, yogurt, cream and cheese. No artificial sugar, carbohydrates and sodium and any other flavors as well as chemicals for its preservation and sanitizing will be used in ...