Director’s Remarks Dear Delegates‚ Welcome to the UNHCR of the 4th Annual HighScope Model United Nations. I‚ Reyhanillo Yusuf Andikasim‚ am your Director for this conference. The Co-Directors for the UNHCR will be Angelina Sachi Adinda Allessandra Kondo and Wafina Mario. We have experience in multiple Model United Nations across Indonesia. Our hope is that we will be not only able to lead the committee‚ but to educate‚ befriend‚ and work together with you‚ the delegates‚ in order to create
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you agree? 4. Why does he have to shoot the elephant? Empire operated? What does this tell us about the way the British B. “The Wood That Weeps”‚ King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild 1 Why did life get much worse for the Africans of the Congo in the 1890s? 2. How can this be seen as an example of globalization? 3. How do you think Europeans such as King Leopold would or could justify this kind of imperialism? C. Queen Liliuokalani‚ Hawaii’s Story (1898) 1. How does Queen Liliuokalani
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of Tanganyika on‚ 20 July 1922. Unlike other colonies‚ Tanganyika didn’t suffer from European Settlement.1 Ruanda-Urundi (now Rwanda and Burundi) was mandated to Belgium on 31 August 1923. On 1925 Belgium formed between Ruanda-Urundi and Belgian Congo an administrative union.2 The Kionga triangle was given to Portugal and they added it to their colony of Mozambique.3 How successfully was it run? It was a failure because “it masked the hidden agendas of the Mandatory powers‚ suppressed minority
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hired Henry Morton Stanley to be his right-hand man in Africa. For half a decade‚ Stanley traveled the Congo setting up posts‚ building roads‚ and persuading chiefs─practically all being illiterate─to sign treaties with Leopold. The treaties‚ some of which doctored to Leopold’s benefit‚ were then put to use by the Belgian monarch (Britannica). Rubber was booming during that time‚ and the Congo free estate had one lucrative source of wild rubber‚ and it was the Landolphia vines in the Central African
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life”‚ I was 10 years old when I saw something scary that had never happened in my whole life. Early in the morning‚ I saw a wild animal appeared in my neighborhood while I was still back home‚ the Democratic Republic of Congo‚ my native country. The Democratic Republic of Congo is located in central of Africa where there is all kind of animals‚ just as in other countries around the world‚ but they live in wild forest‚ and some are captured and securely kept at the zoos for the public view without
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extract as much wealth as possible the from the Congo‚ although he also claimed the altruistic motive of bringing western civilization to the "backward" African people. While imperialism in certain parts of Africa had beneficial results‚ in the Congo‚ where Heart of Darkness is set its results were truly horrific‚ leading to the enslavement‚ mutilation‚ and death of many Africans. It is estimated the ten million Africans were killed while the Congo was under Leopold II ’s control. This part of the
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The Democratic Republic of Congo is the second largest country in Africa‚ and it’s located slightly above the equator. The DRC is bordered by Angola‚ the Central African Republic‚ Burundi‚ Rwanda‚ Sudan‚ Tanzania‚ Uganda‚ and Zambia. They are the poorest country in Africa‚ yet it is considered by many to be the richest country because of its natural resources (Rural Poverty Portal). Located in the DRC is many valuable resources such as tin‚ tantalum‚ and tungsten.There are seventy-five million people
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Main articles: Middle Eastern and North African music traditions‚ Arabic music‚ and Middle Eastern music North Africa (red region on map below) is the seat of ancient Egypt and Carthage‚ civilizations with strong ties to the ancient Near East and which influenced the ancient Greek and Roman cultures. Eventually‚ Egypt fell under Persian rule followed by Greek and Roman rule‚ while Carthage was later ruled by Romans and Vandals. North Africa was later conquered by the Arabs‚ who established the region
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they do believe that the virus is zoonotic‚ or animal born. They believe an animal host that is native to the African continent maintains it. A similar host would be monkeys associated with Ebola-Reston. Cases of Ebola Virus have been found in Congo‚ Gabon‚ Sudan‚ the Ivory Coast‚ Uganda‚ and Zaire. In Liberia an individual with evidence of an infection but showing no apparent illness has been reported‚ and in England a lab worker became ill‚ but it was just the result of an accidental needle
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of punishment‚ the person was groaning in pain but the punishers were pitiless‚ and they said that the punishment served him right. When compared to the main chosen passage‚ the two passages connect to show how‚ throughout the story‚ the natives of Congo were savagely treated by their Belgian colonial masters. Conrad uses the word nigger in both passages to show the kind of disrespect the white person had for the natives during the colonial
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