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    Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is one of the most known novels in English literature. The story begins when Marlow, who works for a Belgian company, went on a journey to the heart of Africa as a steamship captain. Through his journey, he heard the name of Kurtz for the first time. Then the name repeated many times which made Marlow, who is our narrator in addition to another unknown narrator, interested to know about Kurtz. Kurtz works for the company as an ivory trader in the Congo which was…

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    Research Question: How does the author of ‘’The Man in The High Castle’’ by Philip K. Dick explore the theme of racial prejudice and how people of different races perceive each other? Introduction: Literature is one way to emphasize or show some facts about the past and future. In ‘’the Man in the High Castle’’, Author, Philip K. Dick, examined a glimpse of a possible future in a very detailed way. The author was able to illustrate…

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    The novella Heart of Darkness written by Joseph Conrad in 1899, which is set in the Congo, Africa in 1890. It is based on the narrator Charles Marlow travels to the Congo, in the heart of Africa to relieve a brilliant ivory trader named Krutz, who is working for the Belgium Government. Rudyard Kipling described Imperialism as the “White man’s burden” as in his writings he shows that European countries were travelling to help stabilize and grow the economy in countries that needed it. However,…

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    Backlash In Huck Finn

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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was first published on December 10th, 1884. Witten by Mark Twain as a novel and known by others an American classic This book has dealt with a lot of backlash.In this essay I will address how two people could view this book differently all bacuse of the N-Word. Here is a little backstory of the book In this book, we have the main characters, Huckleberry Finn, Jim and Tom Sawyer. Tom is Huck’s best friend and fellow peer. Jim is Miss Watson’s slave. Huck’s…

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    How the theme Colonization is shown in the novel the “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad? The novel “Heart of Darkness” is a story about Africa mainly Congo which was colonized by European. The story is narrated by a man called Marlow who goes to Congo as a Stream boat caption. Here Conrad describes the Europeans secret evil of colonialism and their approach to exploit natives. Colonization can be seen through Marlow’s eyes the way European are treating the Natives and the treatment of natives…

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    She got lost in the river and didn’t find the clear channel leading to the rock art site which was shown on the ranger’s sketch map. However, she chose to continue and explore the river channel rather than going back to the right way. Moreover, the rain was pouring heavily and the wind was blowing severely, but she still continued her journey. Therefore…

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    Missouri River Case Study

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    Question 1 To explore the Missouri River and find a stream it as by its course and connection to the Pacific Ocean. This was very important, if we find a stream connecting the Pacific Ocean and the Missouri River we could trade often with the West. At the start of the Missouri River, I needed to take careful observations of the Longitude and Latitude at all remarkable points so they can be recognised in the future. To take journal entries doing your mission. This was important because…

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    It made the country bigger and stronger. America would not be the same today if we hadn't expanded westward. We would have less than half the land we have now if we hadn’t expanded past the Mississippi River. “This expansion, historians concluded, had led to a constant rebirth of civilization in the West.” A positive effect on the westward expansion is that America gained a great deal of land and became a more powerful nation. Westward expansion changed…

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    When Huck and Jim returns to the river, they experience a phenonmenom of true happiness: “So, in two seconds, away we went, a sliding down the river, and it did seem so good to be free again and all by ourselves on the big river and nobody to bother us” (Twain 215). Nature takes an unselfish stance and allows others to experience the true happiness, rather than blinds individuals…

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    In america each person generates around 4.3 pounds of garbage daily harming and threatening the world 's biodiversity. There are three types of biodiversity including biodiversity ecosystem, species biodiversity, and genetic biodiversity. All three are fairly self explanatory, ecosystem biodiversity is all the ecosystems within a region of Earth, species biodiversity is all the organisms within an ecosystem, and genetic biodiversity is the different subsets of an organism like a white bunny or a…

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