Congo

The New York Times Op-doc, “Gorillas in the Crossfire”, produced on 7 November 2014 by Orlando von Einsiedel show the story of Andre Bauma, a man who takes care of mountain gorillas of Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, intentions for Mountain Gorillas freedom. The Op-Doc shows how war has been rising for 2 decades and hundreds of soldiers have been killed or harmed trying to protect their park. The park has been raided by armed rebels and these soldiers jeopardize their…

The White Man’s Burden was a poem that showed the United States’ shift from being an isolated country to an imperialist country where they started to expand their influence and reign throughout other countries. The white men, who symbolized the US, believed it was a burden upon themselves to civilize the uncivilized countries. They thought as themselves as some higher power that did everything right, therefore they needed to spread their culture everywhere else. Authors often give one of the…

in Heart of Darkness In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Marlow tells early on that he hates, detests, “and can’t bear a lie..”(85). Through the novel, the character of Marlow expresses how he is morally different to those he meets through the Congo. He witnesses men reaching into the primeval part of their brains. A place where power is absolute, and all is done for personal gain. He witnesses men lying to each other, and even to themselves, and condemns this as a foul act of character. But…

than 6 million Africans, it becomes worrisome.Greg Campbell’s book set in Sierra Leone is an in-depth study of the history of diamond mining and the part it plays in fueling civil wars in Africa, especially in Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo and in particular the one that was affected the most Sierra Leone for over a…

would be the Dodd-Frank Act. When the Dodd-Frank Act was signed, it included a provision that public corporations must be able to prove their sourced minerals are not coming from places that are financing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country, but further review of this policy has shown it to have negative impact for our economy and smaller businesses. The provision included the following minerals: tantalum, tin, gold and tungsten. After further review of this…

Two new fossil representatives of plant bugs of the family Miridae that belong to the subfamily Psallopinae: Psallops eocenicus sP. nov. and Psallops bitterfeldi sP. nov. from Baltic amber (Upper Eocene) are described as new specimens. These representatives of Psallopinae are one of the oldest fossil bugs of the recent genus Psallops to be known to date. Keywords Heteroptera, Miridae, Psallopoinae, Psallops, new species, Eocene Baltic amber. Introduction The extinct Psallopinae are important for…

A Story Turning to Reality I had a wonderful time growing up as a child. My father was a farmer, who normally leaved the house in the morning and returned home later in the day from the farm. He spent a lot of time in the farm during the farming season (raining season) while my mother stayed home to take care of the kids. On his free days or in the evening; my father, in many occasions used to give us (his children) a lot of narratives about life in the country before we were born. In many…

bodacious in Marlow when he says "...after making a frightful gash; my shoes were full; a pool of blood lay very still, gleaming dark-red under the wheel; his eyes shone with an amazing luster"(Conrad, 1990, p. 75). Marlow's staggering journey through the Congo has desensitized him in such a way that, when his helmsman is impaled by a spear and killed, he…

“This is what I most admire about Father: no matter how bad things might get, he eventually will find the grace to compose himself. Some people find him overly stern and frightening, but that is only because he was gifted with such keen judgment and purity of heart. He has been singled out for a life of trail, as Jesus was. Being always the first to spot flaws and transgressions, it falls upon Father to deliver penance. Yet he is always ready to acknowledge the potential salvation that resides…

Colonialism and war are two different ideologies and purposes, but many times they have walked on the same path. Conquering and colonizing another land has been around since the beginning of time, the Roman Empire, the British Empire and many more. It was not a good thing but it happened. The British Empire is most notorious colonization must be the colonization of America, which found the country we have now. As glory as we can say about the Revolutionary War and the Independence of our…