Henry Morton Stanley

emotional substitute was to be filled with the desire to be powerful and in control . As king Leopold manipulated situations with his” foxlike ways” he began to plot with Stanley where he needed to further explore in order to claim the lands of Africa. It is hard to understand how and why a person could constitute such a tragedy amongst millions of people. The following are three entities that are responsible for the misfortunes in this book. The entity’s include an individual entity, a group entity, and also a country entity. These perspectives…

is certainly an excellent question in the face of so much horror, but operating from this colonial template ignores perhaps a more fundamental and important question which will be explored later in this analysis. King Leopold II founded the colony known as the Congo Free State in 1885 as a personal profit-seeking enterprise through the extraction of minerals, ivory, and primarily rubber. He modeled his endeavor on the Dutch East India Company and only entered Africa after failing to establish a…

King Leopold’s conquest of Africa sprouted from one explorer: Sir Henry Morton Stanley. Stanley’s career as an explorer all started when he was a foreign correspondent for the New York Herald. The Herald’s publisher at the time, James Gordon Bennett, sponsored Stanley to search for the famous English explorer, David Livingstone, who went missing in Africa searching for the source of the Nile River. (page number) The immediate aim of Stanley’s mission to find Livingston was to draft intriguing…

Name ____________________________________________ Date ________ Period _____ Primary Documents: Imperialism Directions: Read the three documents related to imperialism and answer the questions on a separate sheet of paper. Stanley Searches for Livingstone in Africa – Henry M. Stanley (1871) 1. Traveling through Africa (often called “going on safari”) was often seen as a big adventure by Europeans. As Stanley’s journey was coming to an end and he marched toward the village in…

“The Treasure of Lemon Brown”by Walter Dean Myers,is a story about a homeless man named Lemon Brown who teaches a boy named Greg the real meaning of treasure.Greg learns that a treasure does not have to be something of monetary value.The value of something is highly personal and only its owner can ever appreciate its real worth and pass it on to others. Greg’s father has a few things that he values such as his son’s education and his postal service job. He really values his son’s education…

The Blackthorn Key by Kevin Sands is a historical fiction book filled with elixir, recipes, and things that go boom. Set in London, England in 1665, Christopher Rowe is an apothecary, or potion maker’s, apprentice. He learns how to make everything from a cure for asthma to a healing salve for burns from his wonderful master, Benedict Blackthorn, who picked him from the orphanage out of all of the other boys. Knowing Christopher and his many endeavors, he and his friend Tom, the baker’s son,…

A few years ago I have a difficult dialogue with one of my best friends. I met him through a social network on the Internet. At that time he was living in Reno Nevada and our conversations were always about his marriage problems. In April 2011, he got divorced and in July of the same year my youngest daughter and I had the opportunity to travel to Reno and met him. During my visit there, I also met his ex-wife and their children. At first she looked me as her rival or her enemy, but when we had…

Whether it’s a grandmother or teacher, politician or security, preacher or scientist; we all have the tendency to listen to those who have more power than us. Or at least think that we do. If a man in an officers uniform tells you to do something, you are more likely to act then if a man in tattered old robes and reeks of trash tells you to do the same task. You wouldn’t even think twice. Lauren Slater, in her book “Opening Skinner’s Box,” explains the experiment done by Stanley Milgram. He had…

Honor or Murder How far would someone would go to make another person happy? Even if it meant hurting them mentally and physically? Obeying authority can only go so far before it becomes a very unhealthy action.Sadly that is exactly what Lance Cpl. Dawson and Pfc. Downey do in the movie A Few Good Men. Also this idea is what Stanley Milgram concludes in his famous shock experiment. In these two pieces, the actions of obeying authority and taking an oath, result in “death”. Therefore, the…

The psychoanalytical lens is a way of understanding the human mind and the characters within a story. Many different theories have contributed to psychology, but “most psychological criticism of the last century lands at the doorstep of Sigmund Freud” (Gillespie 1). Freud was the father of a psychoanalysis, helped explain human behavior, and came up with a way to treat mental illnesses. Freud focused much of his ideas on psychic forces having an influence on human behavior (Gillespie 2). He had…