Discoveries can encapsulate the experience of discovering something new‚ evoking a sense of curiousity and renewed perceptions of ourselves and the world. A self-discovery can emerge from a process of confrontational encounters‚ allowing the individual to realise their fundamental purpose of exploration. The memoir ‘The Motorcycle Diaries’ by Ernesto Che Guevera‚ follows Guevara’s endeavour around Latin America‚ where he discovers the social injustices foregrounding the continent. He is exposed to
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Heart of Darkness: Notes Women: Marlow and Kurtz believe women symbolize decency and purity -Women represent goodness: men need to see this purity to balance with the evil they have seen Marlow believes women are the keepers of illusions (naïve); they live in a dream world -these illusions are needed for the white men to justify colonialism -"It’s queer how out of touch with truth women are! They live in a world of their own and there had never been anything like it and never can be. Some confounded
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not have a lot of money. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) it’s a country in Central Africa‚ there you would see many men miners who are not allowed to work because their age but they are just forced to work by some groups of armed people who force those kids to work for them. They also kidnap them and make girls their wife‚ or making them their slave to stay at home‚ working and making the house clean. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (RDC) it is a country with all kinds of mineral. Those
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Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness encompasses many themes and concepts dealing with the very nature of humanity and its complexity. This novel is set up in two different locations‚ the Thames River and the Congo River. Conrad uses these two rivers to represent the different cultures that clash in this novel‚ which are the "civilized" and the "savages". While exploring these two different worlds Conrad exposes the human nature at its core through the characters in this novel proving that not
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In “Rape of the Congo: Understanding sexual violence in the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo‚ Sara Meger argues the function of sexual violence in the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The use of rape as a weapon in the DRC’s war must be understood from the interaction of two dimensions: the structural influences of military and the individual motivation of combatants. Masculinity is understood as something that must be achieved by one in order to fulfil social expectations
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"There is...a machine. It evolved itself...and behold!--it knits....It knits us in and it knits us out. It has knitted time‚ space‚ pain‚ death‚ corruption‚ despair and all the illusions--and nothing matters. three evident themes include death‚ corruption‚ and despair. During Marlow’s journey into the "heart of darkness‚" death‚ corruption‚ and despair became the manifest themes of the novel. First of all‚ Marlow came face to face with death several times throughout his voyage. Marlow finds out
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Marlow’s journey in Heart of Darkness‚ by Joseph Conrad‚ traverses not only the volatile waters spanning the Congo‚ but also ventures in to his unconscious self. It is a voyage into the depths of the human heart and mind‚ leading to enlightenment revealing of the crevices of the hell existing within each and every one of us. Although through Marlow‚ Conrad depicts a journey into the Congo‚ his use of symbolic language evokes that it is something much more profound‚ a journey in to the self. Starting
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The instability in the Congo has multiple factors both as a result of colonization and the circumstances of the years following independence. The exploitation of the national recourses for foreign interests‚ the lack of sufficient and legitimate government in the transition period and civil war and violence in the years following independence. David Samuels discusses the problems seen in late formed states in his article “The State”. He notes the importance of natural resources‚ peaceful government
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After the interrogation‚ he asked me if I would like to join the Belgian Resistance. I said yes‚ and he told me to go with the man who had carried me back to the barn‚ Arthur Cohen. Arthur told me that he was a Jewish man who was living in Belgium when the Nazis invaded—instead of evacuating‚ Arthur decided to stand up
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entirely by a single European man: Leopold II‚ King of the Belgians. Recorded history of the Congo began with Portuguese arrival on the west-coast of Africa in the late 15th-century; further colonization was limited to the coastline as equatorial diseases and terrain proved too hospital for Europeans‚ leaving the Congo Basin unobtainable and unwanted. It was not until some 400-years later that the Congo found a hospitable suiter‚ an ambitious Belgian king whose inadequately-small kingdom instilled him
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