Belgian Congo

and in Hamid's situation, he is aware of his influence by Conrad due to the closeness in circumstance amongst Conrad and Hamid. Joseph Conrad is a Polish lived in England, thus, Hamid is a Pakistani lived in America. Conrad personally visited the Congo before writing his novel and he wrote about a place he knows, likewise, Hamid has been to America and studied at Princeton before composing his novel. Both novels reflect a real journey of their authors. Conrad wrote about a political situation at…

Europeans marched across the world conquering and forcefully colonizing. Imperialism is depicted through people suffering under brutal rule by Europeans. For example, the Belgian monarch, King Leopold II, sadistically maimed children for minor offenses such as taking a break from hard labor. Countless other regions, including the Congo, Nigeria, the Americas, and India, were conquered and torn apart by destructive imperializers. Despite much cruelty by the imperializers, ultimately the…

Born in 1902, Hughes instantly had two dreams to go to college and become a writer. And although he might be well known for his expressive poems, his real interest was in theater. According to Brenda Murphy from Bloom’s Literature, “He wrote more than 60 plays, 23 in collaboration with others and 40 as sole author” (Murphy). It’s very amazing to know that his real passion is for theater, but he is well known for his poems. Langston Hughes spent most of his days studying English and writing,…

Walter Plecker, joined by pianist John Powell and ethnographer Earnest S. Cox, were the three leading figures of the Anglo-Saxon Clubs. Together, they were part of a broad movement in the 1920s and 1930s to develop policy inspired by eugenics. Rooted in the Progressive Era ethos of reform, eugenic theories proved palatable to a large segment of the public—welfare workers, public health advocates, and white supremacists—committed to applying the principles of biology and medicine to what they…

Military organizations are often subject to intense debate these days. Many believe that military operations in various parts of the world are detrimental to the goal of world peace. Conversely, there is also the view that the military and military entities can actually help to facilitate and foster peace around the world. This view may seem counter intuitive to some, but unfortunately, the world can be a very scary and dangerous place. All throughout human history, people of all races,…

A way in which the indigenous people in colonies were subjugated was through land divination. Colonists, realising that the more land they controlled the higher the profits would be, increasingly sought ways to achieve this. Naturally, the European colonists of India and Africa were of a higher economic standing than their native counterparts, and used various methods to lay claim to large areas of land and the most fertile ground. Subsequently, it meant that any individual native enterprise was…

deforestation of Senegal. 24. What made Belgian colonialism so different than that of the rest of Europe? a. King Leopold wanted to open trade with Africa for cocoa to build a monopoly on chocolate, not industrial materials. b. King Leopold annexed the Congo as his personal colony, not for the Belgian state.* c. King Leopold was more interested in scientific exploration than in economic colonialism. d. King Leopold established a constitutional federation in the Congo River Valley. e. King…

economic advantages. By the end of the 19th century, many different countries laid claim to certain industries within China. Leopold II also contributed to the urged a group of his own Belgians to pursue the inlands of Africa because of the fertile valleys. That eventually led to treaties with local leaders in the Congo to open up their lands to commercial exploitation. This all happened during what is known as the “Scramble for Africa”, where many countries…