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- 541: Heart Of Darkness 13
- ... as a way of representing opposed forces or ideas that are central to the meaning of the work. We see this used in Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad as he applies the jungles of Africa, and Europe to develop the concept of "civilization" and "the heart of darkness" respectively. Conrad is attempting to explain how even the most cultured individual can face a decision of morality and ethics when put in a questioning situation like Kurtz, one of the only decent men sent into the jungle to help the natives, is forced to answer. Europe and Africa differ in many ways, obviously by location, but more importantly, moralistically, how developed they are, and how "civilized" they had become. "Their talk, however, was the talk of sordid buccaneers: it was reckless without hardihood ...
- 542: Jim Morrison
- ... is much reasonable evidence that Jim Morrison died of a heroin overdose. Finally, the last suspicion about Jim and his death is that he is still alive. According to rumors he is living in North Africa where Arthur Rimbaud, a favorite poet of Jims, had disappeared to. Jim had also referred to his nickname "Mr. Mojo Risin" as a contact to the office after he would escape to Africa. Also, according to Steve Harris, Jac Holzmans assistant, recalls Jim asking him what would happen if he had suddenly died without warning (Hopkins 373). Most of Jims former close friends agree that staging ...
- 543: Global Warming 4
- ... that release certain heat- trapping gasses into the air. Humans all over the world need to get together and solve these problems.In the southern hemisphere, the warming is the greatest over Australia, southern south Africa, the southern tip of south America, and the area of Antarctica near Australia. In the northern hemisphere, warming is strongest in Alaska, northwest and eastern Canada, most of the Soviet Union, and parts of Southern Asia, North Africa and south west Europe. Climate has cooled in Great Britain and northern and eastern Europe. In the USA scientists found no overall warming trend in weather records kept since the nineteenth century, however keep in ...
- 544: Langston Hughes
- ... we know how and we stand on the top of the mountain, free within ourselves." In 1923, Hughes traveled abroad on a freighter to the Senegal, Nigeria, the Cameroons, Belgium Congo, Angola, and Guinea in Africa, and later to Italy and France, Russia and Spain. One of his favorite pastimes whether abroad or in Washington, D.C. or Harlem, New York was sitting in the clubs listening to blues, jazz and ... 1958); and Selected Poems (1959); The Best of Simple (1961). He edited several anthologies in an attempt to popularize black authors and their works. Some of these are: An African Treasury (1960); Poems from Black Africa (1963); New Negro Poets: USA (1964) and The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers (1967). Langston Hughes died of cancer on May 22, 1967. His residence at 20 East 127th Street in Harlem, New York ...
- 545: Aids 4
- AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Disease. It is caused by a virus. The disease originated somewhere in Africa about 30 years ago. There it first appeared as a mysterious ailment afflicting primarily heterosexuals of both sexes. It probably was spread primarily by female prostitutes there. AIDS has already become a crisis of staggering proportions in parts of Africa. In Zaire, it is estimated that over twenty percent of the adults currently carry the virus. That figure is increasing. And what occurred there will, if no cure is found, most likely occur here among ...
- 546: How to grow Marijuana
- ... resin is THC (tetahydrocannabinol). Marijuana contains from 1 - 4 per cent THC (4 per cent must be considered GOOD dope). Marijuana grows wild in many parts of the world, and is cultivated in Mexice, Vietnam, Africa, Nepal, India, South America, etc.,etc. The marijuana sold in the United States comes primarily from, yes, the Uniited States. It is estimated that at least 50 per cent of the grass on the streets in America is homegrown. The next largest bunch comes actoss the borders from Mexico, with smaller amounts filtering in from Panama, occasionally South America, and occasinally, Africa. Hashish is the pure resin of the marijuana plant, which is scraped from the flowering tops of the plant and lumped together. Ganja is the ground-up tops of the finest plants. (It is also ...
- 547: Maya Angelou
- ... Clinton, she wrote and delivered a poem at his 1993 presidential inauguration. Whole her life, Maya Angelou has been trying to make something special in the poetry, history and in the film industry of the Africa-American women. Dr, Angelou, who speaks French, Spanish, Italian and West African Fanti, began her career in drama and dance. In 1940 she and her brother moved to San Francisco to be with their mother ... is currently Reynolds Professor at Wake Forest University, Winston -Salem, North Carolina. Whole her life Maya Angelou has been trying to make something special in the poetry, history, and in the film industry of the Africa-American women. Maya Angelou made a lot for American civilization, and each Americans really looks up on Maya Angelou's life, and on all that things that she has done.
- 548: Legalization of Marijuana
- ... and the benefits as well as the harms of the plant itself. Marijuana is the name of the plant known to botanists as Cannabis Sativa. Other names for the plant exist throughout the world. In Africa, Marijuana is known as "dagga", in China as "ma", in Northern Europe as "hemp" and in the United States as either "pot", "buds", "reefer", "weed" or the more direct, "smoke". Marijuana goes back over five ... and to construct material similar to linen. Early in the Christian Era, Marijuana reached the Mediterranean countries of Europe. Its cultivation spread through the rest of Europe during the Middle ages. Hemp's progression to Africa can easily be marked through the Middle East where it remains a major cash crop. It is unknown how the plant found its way to the America's. One of the most popular theories is ...
- 549: Aids 2
- ... not all were homosexual men. Men and women who used intravenous drugs were also getting sick, as were men with hemophilia, the male and female sexual partners of people in these risk groups, immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean, and some of the infant children born to women at risk. All these varied people had one thing in common: almost absent levels of the white blood cells called T helper cells ... a big difference in the shape of the AIDS epidemic in the United States and Europe, at $15,000 or more a year they are far too expensive for use in the impoverished countries of Africa and Asia, where the vast majority of the world's H.I.V. infected people live. For these countries, the best hope against AIDS lies in the development of a vaccine that can prevent people ...
- 550: The Color People
- ... Mr.____ had been withholding letters to Celie from her sister Nettie. Nettie was the luckier of the two sisters. She had met the people that had adopted Celie's children, befriended them and traveled to Africa with them. Once there she lived among the Olinka tribe. All the time that she was in Africa she wrote letters to Celie. She never got any reply but she never gave up hope. Celie really admired Nettie, and she was a powerful influence upon her life even though she wasn't present ...
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