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- 321: Heart Of Darkness 4
- ... embarks on his journey. The purpose of this journey is to find Kurtz, a man who is also employed by the Company --which is in the ivory business, and has its greedy hand spread over Africa like a malignant tumor (Gatten). Having lost control of Kurtz, the Company choose to relieve him of his post and had, before Marlow, already employed another man --who eventually joined Kurtz-- to retrieve him. With hopes of a successful recovery, of both the monster and the ivory which he guards, Marlow makes the journey down the Congo, which is never named as such, into the heart of Africa --the heart of darkness. Darkness, meaning literally, a country where the inhabitants are themselves dark. Darkness, meaning symbolically, the savage part of a man s soul. The readers, reaching the midpoint of the story, find ... he struggles between what he once was, and the evil that he now is being consumed by. Kurtz, a genius at whatever he attempted, was hired by the Company to collect and deliver --out of Africa-- any and all ivory found. Kurtz is also an extremist, and with these extremes he has been in many environments from which he learned and applied to the world in which he now dies ...
- 322: Personal Writing: My Jungle Safari
- Personal Writing: My Jungle Safari Have you ever wondered what it would be like to take a stroll through one of the exotic jungles of Africa? I know I have, and although I have never actually been to a jungle or even set one foot in Africa I still have an imagination and this is what I think a trip through a jungle would be like. I took a long breathe and held it before letting it out slowly as if it ... long time. It was so beautiful, it touched my skin and warmed me up, while the cool breeze coming from the east kept me from getting to warm. This has been my fabulous trip to Africa. I will never forget the way the heat hits you, its so different from cold Michigan weather.
- 323: Heart of Darkness: Heart of Controversy
- Heart of Darkness: Heart of Controversy Chinua Achebe believes that Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness is racist based on Conrad's descriptions of Africa and it's people. Achebe, author of Things Fall Apart, stresses Conrad's depiction of Africa as the antithesis of Europe and civilization, and the animal imagery present throughout the novella. Heart of Darkness, written in 1899 during the period of British Imperialism, concerns a British trading company and their expedition ... between the past and the present, and be forgiving of his language. The deeper the expedition progressed into the center of the continent, the more isolation was felt by the crew. In a sense, Central Africa IS the antithesis of Western Europe -- it lacks not only the hectic urban structures but also the Social Darwinist attitudes of the time. It is in this remote environment that man must face his ...
- 324: Book Report On Gods Bits Of Wo
- ... they were also bringing forth a new breed of women." The novel relies a great deal on opposition and conflict to define and dramatize the issues (tribal-modern, management-labor, men-women, French-Bambara, France-Africa, White-Black), but Sembene does'nt leave things in simplistic dichotomies or oppositions. Note, for example, the way the railroad, the trains, are portrayed as the "machine." "The machine has ground everything together this way ... Language: Sembene makes discourse and language political and cultural issues, not simply matters of communication. Most of the French colonialists do not speak or understand an African language. They believe the speech and cultures of Africa are primitive and inferior. Bakayoko's use of language in the racecourse scene (pp.213ff)--his ability to switch from one to another and thereby influence the crowd and fool the French--belies the assumption ... of Politics: In novel and film, Sembene creates a kind of "poetics of politics." Sembene is committed "to promoting and transforming traditional culture, to using the cultural developments of Western society in the interests of Africa. Sembene was (sic) more interested in finding a dialectical relationship between the two cultures than in an uncritical nostalgia for pre-colonial pure African-ness." (Laura Mulvey.) * What is the purpose of placing a ...
- 325: So Long A Letter and A Raisin In The Sun: Love and Wealth
- ... student, Asagai. He opens up her eyes to her past and culture, which she had been left behind being American. She becomes fascinated with her ancestors and wants to learn more about her true “home,” Africa. He believes there is only one kind of feeling between a man and a woman; and he has it for her. She is very flattered and doesn’t admit her love to him until he asks for hand in marriage and to go back to Africa with him. Walter Lee is very selfish in the beginning of the story. When his mother receives the money, he can only think of himself opening up a business. This is his dream and would ... fact that they are black and are proud of it. In both stories the elements of love and wealth. These two terms are very important necessities in life. People no matter where they are from: Africa, America or Asia cannot live with out any love or money. Even though most the important element in life is love of family, money always finds its way into the category of being just ...
- 326: The Heart of Darkness: Two Revolving Desires
- ... be defined as main characters. The two characters are Charles Marlow and Kurtz. Usually a novel contains only one main character. Marlow has a leading role as a man reminiscing on his past journey to Africa. Kurtz is Marlow's mission. They both present essential roles to the novel. Both Marlow and Kurtz can be defined as the main character. Charles Marlow is part of the main focus in Heart of Darkness. Marlow's story is what makes Heart of Darkness complete. The novel is about Marlow revisiting his past journey to Africa. Marlow travels up the Congo River on a search for Kurtz. Since the book does revolve around Marlow's story, it would be logical to view Marlow as the main character. However, Marlow's story ... Congo and blends with Kurtz. There can only be one true main character. However, in Heart of Darkness either Marlow or Kurtz could grasp the leading role. The two main characters have on main desire, Africa. So in conclusion, the main character of Heart of Darkness, whether it is Marlow or Kurtz, lies within the mind of the reader.
- 327: “Style Critique on The Hot Zone”
- “Style Critique on The Hot Zone” “Lassa is a Level 4 virus from West Africa, and it was one of Peter Jahrling’s favorite life forms-he thought it was fascinating and beautiful, in certain ways. He had held in his gloved hands virtually every hot agent known, except for ... a monkey house near Washington, D.C. and the Army has to decontaminate the entire facility. Luckily, the airborne strain only affected monkeys and didn’t infect humans. Preston concludes with his own trip to Africa to look at a possible reservoir of the viruses. Preston’s style is sensational journalism. He uses graphic detail when describing the effects of the viruses to make it sensational. Doctors would be brief and ... worried about a species-threatening event?” He stared at me. “What the hell do you mean by that?” “I mean a virus that wipes us out.” The final chapter, when he visits Kitum Cave in Africa, is also told in the 1st person. Preston uses the 1st person to make it more personal. He also uses it at the end in order to portray his feelings toward the subject. “ Ebola ...
- 328: The Colonial Economy
- ... New England they followed the English pattern established in the Feudal period of farmers living in villages. Most of their trade was with England and other European countries, although they also traded with Asia and Africa. For several decades their survival depended on imported goods, and they were unable to export enough to pay for them.. A century after colonization began in the North American English colonies, they had developed an ... of other European countries sought to break Italians' grip on the spice trade. Portugal was the first European country to lower the cost of obtaining spices by sailing to the Far East by sailing around Africa. Sailing West and thus avoiding North African pirates or the long trip around Africa was a possible, alternative way to obtain spices. Christopher Columbus found America when he attempted to reach China by sailing West from Spain. (The only way to get to the Far East by sailing ...
- 329: Latin American Chage
- ... The policies of General Rafael Leónides Trujillo between 1930 and 1961 perpetuated and exacerbated these issues. During his thirty-one year regime he attempted to redefine the Dominican history and dissociate them with Blacks and Africa. This ideology is symbolized by the term Hispanidad during the period of redefinition. Trujillo found that it would be most beneficial for the country to identify itself with Spanish and European ideals thus becoming the ... history were created and blacks were now referred to as Indians who were descendants of an ancient tribe called Tainos, which went extinct 400 years earlier. Hispanophile intellectuals asserted that Dominican slaves came from northern Africa so they look like Indians while Haitian slaves were from sub-Saharan Africa. The amount of hate crimes against Haitians living in the Dominican Republic greatly increased and cultural ideas such as Voodoo were repressed. The country was openly racist to achieve a goal of becoming Spanish, ...
- 330: European Imperialism
- ... so-called "racial crusaders", who were on a mission to civilize the barbaric. Along with expansion, however, came abuses from the invading powers. These flaws in European dominance can easily be noted, especially when examining Africa and Asia; the consequences, in some cases, being death by the thousands. Therefore, due to these and other severe actions during their domination of the world, Europeans should be condemned for their abuses of power ... abuse of the people for their own personal gain is a clear demonstration of one of the many flaws in European dominance. The second nation which will be discussed is Sudan, from the continent of Africa. Sudan was not a military, economic, or political threat to Britain. It was blocking, however, British domination of Africa and preventing the gain of more political power for the empire. Therefore, it had to be conquered. The Sudanese population was largely Muslim and resisted English rule. It wanted to be governed by people ...
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