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    There are a various ways to consider the meaning of the title (Heart of Darkness) on its own or as it relates to the story. The title implies that Africa is the Heart of Darkness, where white people (Marlow and Kurtz) go there to save Africans. Black natives are depicted living in darkness, needing to be brought into the light of civilization and white people seemingly have this enlightening knowledge. In the time of colonialism, Africa was frequently referred to as the "Dark Continent.” The…

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    Portrayal of “Civilization” in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. To be civilized, according to the dictionary is to be, “educated in the usages of organized society”, but in Heart of Darkness Conrad compares an image of Africa with the view of Europeans in order to establish their superiority as a “civilized” nation. Conrad’s way of representing Africa and portraying natives as niggers and common savages shows how indigenous Africans are considered “uncivilized” through the use of harsh words…

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    In Joseph Conrad’s novella “Heart of Darkness”, the author has different tones in each book, but throughout all of the books Conrad has a judgemental tone. Conrad is honest about the atrocities that occur in the Congo but depicts them as wrong. The novella as a whole has a serious tone, because Conrad is serious about the events he’s writing about. Conrad’s judgemental tone is shown when Marlow addresses the Eldorado Exploring Expedition he says, “To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land…

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    In Joseph Conrad’s novella, Heart of Darkness, there is a recurring doubt that surrounds the true grounds for which colonization stands. Is colonization inherently evil? Conrad presents various stances on the revealing nature of colonization through the antithesis of Europe and Africa. This distinct juxtaposition of the two civilizations is deliberate in its validation of the violation of Africa. As a result, it highlights the continent’s vulnerability and exercises its right to dominate whilst…

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    The novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad published in 1902 is regarded as the best writing in English and it about imperialism. It is about Marlow’s journey to find Kurt an ivory-trader in Africa and bring him back to civilization. He was traveling through the Congo River by steamboat. He got attacked by the Natives who were ordered by Kurt, Kurt was worshipped by the Natives because he has power and he was brilliant. Kurt was supposed to bring civilization in Africa but he eventually…

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    understand it. Shows how bad the Africans were treated, how the British came in took over life to control the Africans. I think Heart of Darkness is pro-imperialist and very racist, both Hochschild, author of King Leopold’s Ghost, and Achebe, author of an Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, support those opinions in one way or another. Imperialism, by…

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    Human Gait Recognition

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    in areas as office, airport, mega mall and other restricted places. The motion vision can be used for surveillance, access control, detection and other monitoring purposes. The most important advantage is that person walking image can be captured from long distance and the image is then processed with low resolutions. Here focus on two different techniques Principle Component Analysis (PCA) only and PCA with radon transform (RT) on machine vision for gait recognition purposes. In gait…

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    radiation. PIR detects presence of intruder and it generate pulse which is read by MCU. So, embedded surveillance system determine the results obtain from sensor and then it decide whether to start web camera to capture image [4]. when presence of intruder get detected ,sensor wake up MCU which is in sleeping state to start power supply to indoor sensor and signal transmission to GPIO system. Here we design an embedded based home surveillance system using infrared motion detector and RISC based…

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    Radiology in dentistry has come a long way since C. Edmund Kells exposed the first dental radiograph in the United States to a living person. Radiographic images help health care professionals in dentistry diagnose and evaluate problems below the gum line, in the jaw and between and inside of your teeth. Science and technology are continually advancing and new technologies are being studied and introduced frequently. Digital imaging is one of these advances and offers a reliable and versatile…

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    using computer systems to log and store the patients data. These are some steps that are taken: 1. The sensors will read the vital signs (e.g. like pulse rate, heart rate, temperature etc.) 2. The data from the sensors are converted from analogue into digital using ADC (analogue digital converter) 3. The data is then stored in the computer’s memory 4. Computers then compare the data from the sensors with values stored in its memory ( the doctor will input the data ) 5. The results are produced…

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