women who had worked in such fields. One of them that particularly stood out was Cathy. Cathy was expected to work 16 hours a day and was promised a certain sum of money in her employment contract but never received the full amount (Ehrenreich & Hochschild‚ p.116). Her boss also took her bank book and and any legal documents she had so she would not be able to get money from
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have an impact on one’s work environment seems almost a non-issue. However‚ Hochschild is not saying that; rather‚ Hochschild looks at the effect of emotions in the workplace‚ but also the interaction of those emotions with the work itself. The author’s interest in this topic began at an early age‚ 12‚ when she recounts an event in her life: her parents‚ part of the U.S. Foreign Service‚ entertained diplomats. Hochschild describes the question that came to her mind as she looked up into the smiling
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Adam Hochschild What some have considered to be the first international scandal of the modern era took place in the Congo from 1890 until 1910. King Leopold II of Belgium was at the head of this so-called scandal. Although Europe and the rest of the world seemed to have forgotten the victims of these crimes‚ there is a considerable amount of material to use when attempting to recreate the horror that took place in Leopold’s Congo. This is exactly what Adam Hochschild is attempting
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rubber boom‚ the Congo already had matured rubber trees‚ so Leopold wanted to stay ahead of the game while he still could (Hochschild 159). While in the past workers could be chained together and whipped to make them obey‚ rubber trees were scattered across the forest and vines were located in spots that required careful scaling of trees‚ so a new strategy had to be used (Hochschild 160). Making rubber was a difficult‚ painful process involving travelling deep into the forest in a desperate search for
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massive carnage has remained virtually unknown in the United States and Europe? 2. Hochschild writes of Joseph Conrad that he “was so horrified by the greed and brutality among white men he saw in the Congo that his view of human nature was permanently changed.” Judging from Hochschild’s account and from Heart of Darkness‚ in what way was Conrad’s view changed? How is this true of other individuals about whom Hochschild writes? In what way has this book affected your view of human nature? 3. The
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Adam Hochschild’s “King Leopold’s Ghost” is an account of a man’s rise of power who was very cruel and did unimaginable things. When I began reading‚ I wasn’t sure where the novel was going‚ but I soon caught on to what Hochschild was revealing. As the story begins to unfold he tells a story of King Leopold II of Belgium who managed to seize land next to the Congo River in Africa. King Leopold used political manipulation and lies to get what he wanted. King Leopold had everyone fooled that he was
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outline “the catholic version of the person” (Hochschild. The Catholic Intellectual Tradition At Mount St. Mary’s University). Additionally‚ the tradition sees intellectual pursuits as an equal pursuit of God. The intellectual as spiritual lends itself to representing people as both spiritual and physical beings‚ and thus capable of combing both earthly and heavenly knowledge in pursuit of the truth. Indeed‚ the existence of truth is
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In King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild‚ Adam Hochschild highlights King Leopold’s greed for the the Congo by detailing the earliest history of Africa’s colonies and the key roles that some explorers played during his reign. Hochschild put his novel together to were it’s vivid and is a novelistic narrative that helps the reader get a clear image of the magnitude of horror perpetrated by King Leopold and his minions. There were many men and women associated with the beginning of Leopold’s reign
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The European Colonization of Africa In the late 20th century Africa was forcefully conquered and colonized by Europe. The accounts of this horrific colonization are revealed in Adam Hochschild ’s "King Leopold ’s Ghost: A Story of Greed‚ Terror‚ and Heroism in Colonial Africa‚" which unveils the brutal nature of Belgium ’s conquest and colonization of the central African country Congo. This conquest began with Belgian King Leopold II‚ who grew up with minimal expressions of love and affection
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George Orwell‚ “Shooting an Elephant”; Adam Hochschild‚ King Leopold’s Ghost (excerpt); Queen Liliuokalani‚ Hawaii’s Story (excerpt) A. “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell 1. How does Orwell express his disillusionment with imperialism in this essay? 2. What do you think he means by this sentence?: “One day something happened which in a roundabout way was enlightening. It was a tiny incident in itself‚ but it gave me a better glimpse than I had had before of the real nature of imperialism
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