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    King Leopold II of Belgium claimed most of the Congo basin since 1876. Rather than another Belgium colony‚ this territory became King Leopold’s private resource under the name “Congo Free State”. The annexation of the Congo is considered to be the most brutal and shocking of all European colonial annexations. After international outcry from several different countries‚ Belgium officially took over the country in 1908 and renamed Leopold’s previous territory as the “Belgian Congo.” Independence was

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    One of the major impacts is psychological. Psychological impacts are ones that mess with people’s emotions. King Leopold was a man who did not care about other peoples emotions or their state of being; he cared about himself and how much money he was going to make with the Congo. To quote a Congolese states on the amount of psychological torture he put some of the Congolese people in: “I ran away with two old people‚ but they were caught and killed‚ and the soldiers made me carry the baskets holding

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    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 rainforest. Detachments of Leopold’s 19‚000-man private army‚ the Force Publique‚ would raid into villages and hold women hostage‚ forcing the men to scatter into the rainforests

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    student‚ John Leonard‚ intends to take Pepsi Cola to court regarding the promotion because he thinks he should give him the prize * What prize do you think John Leonard is claiming from Pepsi Cola? * What did he do to claim the prize? Case3: Irish Tourist

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    Daniel Vasquez Ms. Perricone English 4 Period 6 3/4/11 The Irish Rebellion of 1641‚ his mother reading Irish folktales to him as a child‚ and William Blake’s use of fiction influenced William Butler Yeats to write “The Curse of the Fire and the Shadows”. Yeats is a huge part of 20th century English and Irish literature and one of the most important writers that started the “Irish Literary Revival” and was responsible for starting a his own literary club called “The Rhymers Club”. In addition

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    Roger Casement heavily criticized imperialism by using the same concepts. He disproved both camps by pointing that imperialism neither necessarily enriched nations nor brought any benefit to the natives. With his documentary report on the Congo Free State‚ which was privately controlled by King Leopold II of Belgium‚ we could observe the

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    statistics alone pose many problems through their collection and their questionable inability of response by the police and the criminal justice system (Haughey 2012). Policies and strategies that are put in place to tackle racist incidents within the state institutions and individuals will also be addressed. Theoretical perspectives will be drew upon in order to understand the causes for racism within Northern Ireland. In 2004‚ Northern Ireland was classified as the ‘race hate capital of Europe’

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    been disheveled into a state of turmoil with freedom not being a main priority. This freedom should mean that something like the Holocaust should never happen in America. Today‚ people are already forgetting about the last Holocaust with the Jews. If people are already denying and forgetting they are made more vulnerable to was is going on‚ and if they are vulnerable they may be made subject to another holocaust. A perfect example of this is shown in They Thought They Were Free by Milton Mayer. On page

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    people. As the story begins‚ Leopold uses Henry Morton Stanley like a puppet to help colonize the Congo. He starts out helping Leopold gain support from political leaders and from large powers including the United States. Leopold tells countries that he wanted to set up a “Free State” in the Congo so he could civilize the region. He claimed that he would set up schools‚ set up trade routes‚ and creates jobs. Although‚ this was obviously just a cover up that way people would not be suspicious of

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    BIOGRAPHICAL ASPECTS IN CONRAD’S HEART OF DARKNESS Conrad wrote in his author’s note to Heart of Darkness that the novel was "authentic in fundamentals" and that it represented "experience pushed a little (and only a very little) beyond the actual facts of the case." In fact‚ many details and even characters in Heart of Darkness come from real life and also from some pages of Conrad’s Congo diary. Conrad started his career as a sailor on a French ship. In 1878 when he was at the age of 20

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