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region without binding international legislation on how the state is run. He argues the enterprise is so profitable for the elites in Belgium and any attempts at reform would be swiftly hampered without external pressure and binding agreements. Or as Daniels states, “the net result of this hearty accord between the business king and his business people is that Belgium, unforced, will not introduce reforms in the Congo”(p 11). Daniels’ solution to the inhumane activities being perpetrated was to…

The origins of the European colonization can be traced back to several various starting points. However, it was European nationalism and ideologies that would crave up the continent of Africa throughout the nineteenth century. Many African nations where seized, and controlled by the European powers. Additionally, the mission of many European countries such as Portugal, England, and France wanted to spread Christianity among the natives. Also, the European nations sought to take control of the…

The Cold war started out as a fight between the Soviet Union and the United States. After a while the fighting spread to Congo and other countries. Even before this great tension, there was other things that lead up to the cold war. This being that Belgium was controlling the Congo. Congo later gained independence and held their presidential election in 1960, and when they were released from belgian rule a civil war broke out. While the Congo was fighting in the civil war they were not quite…

The New Belgium Brewing Company has become one of the top 5 largest craft brewery in the United States, producing enormous amounts of barrels of bear per year with a distribution network that reaches more than 35 states (Rhodes, 2015). Based on research, New Belgium’s success has been driven by the alignment of its business model and operating model. Furthermore, the company’s model leverages high employee and community engagement to generate ground-breaking products that consumers take…

4. The Congolese Ivory Trade was the exploitation and abuses of the Congo region of Africa by King Leopold II of Belgium and the Belgian State during the late 1800s. King Leopold II, the monarch of Belgium at the time, is credited for modernizing the Belgium state, as well as for his atrocities and lies against the Congolese people. During the Berlin Conference, King Leopold convinced the U.S. as well as every major and important power in Europe to recognize the legitimacy of his claim to an…

Belgium, which is a well- known liberal country, is also well known throughout Europe for their controversy of physician assisted dying. Prior to 2002, Belgium had no legal guidelines in regards to euthanasia. In order to uncover how popular physician assisted dying is in Belgium in comparison to other European countries, a study conducted by Agnes van der Heide (2003), a professor in Decision making and care at the end of life, compared 20 480 deaths throughout six European countries. Of the…

King Leopold the Second of Belgium villain King Leopold || of Belgium had never been a very good man. Neither during or after his “reign” of the Congo, the reign that Belgium had to forcibly end after 23 years of empowerment. He was a tyrant who committed a mass genocide even larger than Adolf Hitler’s control of Germany in 1934,enslaving an entire country and hiding it by stating that the transactions he was making were “scientific”. He wanted to increase his personal wealth, and he’d do…

The Age of New Imperialism in Western Europe started in the late 1800s from economic, political, military, social, and religious motives, as well as from the theory of Social Darwinism. By 1870, it became necessary for European nations to expand their markets to sell products, collect raw materials, and invest in other areas. Larger European nations also believed that colonies were crucial to military power and nationalism. Missionaries started to believe in Imperialism after Rudyard Kipling…

Overall the legacy of colonization in Congo is pessimistic. If you don’t know much about the colonization of Congo, it is where Belgium claimed the land of the Congo Free State at the Berlin Conference and after they claimed it, they put the people of Congo into forced labor. It was negative, because their forests and farmlands were destroyed, which also demolished many of their resources and many of the Congolese people were killed by the missionaries. Colonialism in Congo was a major cause of…

century, the African continent was largely unchartered, and many wanted to claim a piece of the continent that had vast new economic resources. King Leopold II of Belgium created associations and financed a number of expeditions in Central Africa to explore this land and its resources. At the Berlin Conference of 1884, King Leopold II of Belgium was granted the coveted Congo River basin. This territory was called the Congo Free State while it was under the control of King Leopold from 1885…