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- 211: Heart Of Darkness
- ... a trip to the Congo. This novel is said to possibly be an autobiography of Conrads life at sea. This is said because Conrad was a seaman for a many years and went into Africa many times. The story is so powerful that even after 100 years, we still struggle with its meaning. This story has been retold by Francis Ford Coppola in the film Apocalypse Now. Chinua Achebe has recently explored Conrads ideas on imperialism. Achebe believed Conrads book presented a racist view of the people of Africa and Achebe in his own book, Things Fall Apart, presented imperialism through the eyes of the Africans. The story of Heart of Darkness is being told to four men on the deck of the Nellie ... found the horror of the inner soul within him. In this interpretation the novel is about self and human discovery. Conrad may be telling us about himself searching for his inner self. In this view, Africa is just a symbol for the human soul and the human soul from the beginning of time. Conrad even compares the trip up the river to a trip to the beginning of time (Conrad, ...
- 212: Heart Of Darkness
- ... nature, the insensibility of reality, and the moral darkness. We have noticed that important motives in Heart of Darkness connect the white men with the Africans. Conrad knew that the white men who come to Africa professing to bring progress and light to "darkest Africa" have themselves been deprived of the sanctions of their European social orders; they also have been alienated from the old tribal ways. "Thrown upon their own inner spiritual resources they may be utterly damned by ... be so corrupt by their absolute power over the Africans that some Marlow will need to lay their memory among the 'dead Cats of Civilization.'" (Conrad 105.) The supposed purpose of the Europeans traveling into Africa was to civilize the natives. Instead they colonized on the native's land and corrupted the natives. "Africans bound with thongs that contracted in the rain and cut to the bone, had their swollen ...
- 213: Heart Of Darkness
- ... traveling to the African Congo on a "business trip". He is an Englishmen through and through. He's never been exposed to any alternative form of culture, similar to the one he will encounter in Africa, and he has no idea about the drastically different culture that exists out there. Throughout the book, Conrad, via Marlow's observations, reveals to the reader the naive mentality shared by every European. Marlow as ... millions from their horrid ways"(18-19). In reality, however, the Europeans are there in the name of imperialism and their sole objective is to earn a substantial profit by collecting all the ivory in Africa. Another manifestation of the Europeans obliviousness towards reality is seen when Marlow is recounting his adventure aboard the Nellie. He addresses his comrades who are on board saying: "When you have to attend to things ... in the name of imperialism! The Europeans feel that this is an honorable battle, and therefore, all get emotionally excited and fight with all they have. Marlow, however, sees it differently. He is now in Africa where reality broods. It's lurking everywhere. The only thing one has to do to find it is open his mind to new and previously 'unheard' of ideas. He looks at this event and ...
- 214: The Giraffe
- ... in length. The male weight can range to 2420-4250, and the female can range to 1540-2600. The Giraffes can stand up to 18 feet long. They mostly live and come from sub-Sahara Africa. Giraffes are herbivores, and their long necks help them to reach the leaves and shoots of thorny acacia trees. The Giraffes scientific name is camelopardalis which is the Latin version of comeleopard. During 46 B ... a s shorter neck. Scentist say that the okapi looks a lot like ancient relatives of the giraffe that are no longer alive. In the past, the ancient giraffe relatives lived in many parts of Africa, Europe, and Asia. Some were larger than okapi and some smaller. At one time or another, many types of giraffe- like animals lived on earth but only the giraffe and the okapi were left. The ... said that god made the giraffe after finishing the camel with spots like a leopard. The ancient Romans believed a similar story and called the giraffe a camel-leopard. Giraffes were rarely seen outside of Africa. In Europe and Asia, they were very rare and became very valuable that kings gave them to other kings as presents. In some parts of Africa, people believe that giraffes tails are a lucky ...
- 215: AIDS
- ... 1990s but had not yet developed clinical symptoms. In addition, although the vast majority of documented cases have occurred in the United States, AIDS cases have been reported in about 162 countries worldwide. Sub- Saharan Africa in particular appears to suffer a heavy burden of this illness. No cure or vaccine now exists for AIDS. Many of those infected with HIV may not even be aware that they carry and can ... officially called human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and considerable evidence demonstrates that it is indeed the causative agent for AIDS. A second strain that has been identified, HIV-2, is thus far relatively rare outside of Africa. Little is known about the biological and geographical origins of HIV. Apparently, however, this is the first time in modern history that the virus has spread widely among human beings. Related viruses have been observed ... with transmission between homosexual men accounting for about 60 percent of the cases. Heterosexual transmission in the United States accounts for only about 5 percent of cases but is a significant mode of transmission in Africa and Asia. About 21 percent of AIDS cases occur in intravenous drug abusers exposed to HIV-infected blood through shared needles. Current practices of screening blood donors and testing all donated blood and plasma ...
- 216: Heart Of Darkness
- ... nature, the insensibility of reality, and the moral darkness. We have noticed that important motives in Heart of Darkness connect the white men with the Africans. Conrad knew that the white men who come to Africa professing to bring progress and light to "darkest Africa" have themselves been deprived of the sanctions of their European social orders; they also have been alienated from the old tribal ways. "Thrown upon their own inner spiritual resources they may be utterly damned by ... be so corrupt by their absolute power over the Africans that some Marlow will need to lay their memory among the 'dead Cats of Civilization.'" (Conrad 105.) The supposed purpose of the Europeans traveling into Africa was to civilize the natives. Instead they colonized on the native's land and corrupted the natives. "Africans bound with thongs that contracted in the rain and cut to the bone, had their swollen ...
- 217: The African Penguin
- The African Penguin The small African Penguin lives in south and southwest Africa. It only stands about twenty-seven and a half inches off the ground and weighs about six and four tenths pounds. The African Penguin is black and white. It has a broad black band that ... also called the Black- footed Penguin or the Jackass Penguin. They are called this because of the loud braying noise, which the little penguins make. This species is the only species that breeds anywhere in Africa. It breeds on some twenty islands, from Hollams Bird Island off the coast of Namibia to Bird Island in Algoa Bay. At one time the population of the African Penguin was quite large but some ... success due to starving pregnant penguins. And finally one of the biggest man caused reasons of the decrease in the African Penguin population was the spills caused by oil tankers going past the coast of Africa. The penguins in the water could not escape the oil and were killed. There were also some animals that caused the decrease in population of the African Penguin. For example there was an increase ...
- 218: The Hot Zone
- ... These are all level-four hot viruses. That means there are no vaccines and there are no cures for these killers. In 1976 Ebola climbed out of its primordial hiding place in the jungles of Africa, and in two outbreaks in Zaire and Sudan wiped out six hundred people. But the virus had never been seen outside of Africa and the consequences of having the virus in a busy suburb of Washington DC is too terrifying to contemplate. Theoretically, an airborne strain of Ebola could emerge and circle the world in about six weeks ... epidemiologists who are the real-life Indiana Jones' of the virus trail. Some like Dr. Joe McCormick, Karl Johnson, and CJ Peters spent years tracking down deadly viruses in the jungles of South America and Africa, some narrowly escaping death. Their work is filled with courage, brilliance and sometimes petty rivalries. Others, like Dr. Nancy Jaax have lived rather conventional lives, aside from the fact that they don a space ...
- 219: Abortion In America and Elsewhere
- ... It would be an advantage to consider looking for answers in other countries. Nations struggling with this same issue may give insight into possible reasons or causes and effects from various laws and sanctions. South Africa presently is in a state of political reform and struggles with social identity. However, because it exists in this state, issues such as this are highly controversial. Clearly from looking at the huge majority of ... Despite the overwhelming 80% majority of South Africans who do not support the practice of committing an abortion it has recently become legalized and protected by the law. The action of legalizing abortion in South Africa provides insight into the values and objectives of the South African government. The ANC (African National Council) is surely attempting to demonstrate its political influence on the people of South Africa, forcing them to submit regardless of their personal beliefs. Clearly this shouldn't be. The same scale of benefits that monetarily provides for various surgical procedures also supports the funding of abortion. One of ...
- 220: Heart Of Darkness
- ... a few different meanings. Conrad uses this term in various ways to characterize social, political and psychological affairs in order to help the reader get a feel of his attitudes towards things, such as colonialism, Africa, and civilization. The first impression of the word "darkness" in relations to this novel that I understood was its reference to racism. This, I got from the way Conrad writes about the White people and how they treated the natives (Black), in Africa. During the colonization of Africa, forced ideals of a race that thought of themselves as more superior than those who occupied that land before them existed. This is demonstrated as Conrad writes about how the Whites completely dominate the ...
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