Ivory

Africa. The Company, an ominously named Belgian ivory trading firm, inflicts a variety of racist cruelties upon native peoples in the area. The mistreatment and slavery are driven by prejudice and xenophobia but are carefully concealed under a guise of aid, with deceptive claims that their presence and practices are helping to civilize the savages. In truth they are the result of greed and a propensity towards racially-charged hostility. The ivory trader Kurtz participates in the same evils…

Felix Houphouet-Boigny was the leader of the Ivory Coast after they gained their independence. As the author describes him, he had been a loyal supporter of the French for many years, even having become a member of the French national assembly. However, he began to shift his alliance to the United States after the Ivory Coast gained independence. Muehlenbeck explains the growth of this relationship through the “courting” of Biogny by US President John F. Kennedy. Because US Secretary of State…

Cruelty in literary works always has a certain element that forms the work to turn into something much more complex than it seems. The novella, Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad, Marlow, who is at first an innocent traveller, learns the dark truth about the corruption in a man’s heart through his journey to the center of Africa, while watching the cruelty of Europeans towards the African natives. The theme of cruelty in the novella, Heart of Darkness, serves to demonstrate society’s greed for…

imperialism. In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Kurtz is a high ranking employee of the Company, an imperialist Dutch organization exploiting the Congo for ivory. After gaining his position, Kurtz rapidly becomes consumed by greed, establishes himself as a veritable god among men, and leads natives in raids against other villages to steal their ivory. Kurtz is overwhelmingly dominated by his id, and his downfall stems from the imbalance of his psyche; thus, as a symbol of imperialism, Kurtz…

The art pieces that have been discovered have been in the form of ritual vessels, seals, reliefs, ivories, and sculptures. Ritual vessels were in the form of drinking vessels that had realistic displays on them. Some of the realistic displays include animals such as a lion or antelope and humans. Seals are like a coin with a stamped display in them…

him the ability to be the best and most economically savvy in the ivory trade. As Marlow moves through the story he becomes aware that the darkness surrounding him is not caused be the native culture or the natives themselves. The darkness lies in the greed-filled heart of the white men that use the guise of a helping hand to capture the life and wealth of the undiscovered continent.…

Football Community To many, college is a time of developing into a new person and creating memories that are everlasting. For some students, particularly freshmen who are transforming from being the top dogs in high school to the freshies on a college campus, college is a place where creating cliques and identities are important. On the other hand, for some students like myself, forming an identity is easy. It has been said that students enjoy leaving home, meeting new people, and experiencing…

ever seen a dodo bird? Well if poaching continues the African elephant and African rhino’s may never be seen by our grandchildren. Elephants are continuing to be poached for their horns which are being sold for high prices to people looking to buy ivory. The black and white rhinos that inhabit Africa are already close to extinction with only a couple thousand of each left. If both of these animals end up being removed from their respective environments by poaching, then their environments will…

children are fooled into thinking that they will get paid, however they never do. Child labor and human trafficking is all over Africa, but mainly in places such as the Ivory Coast. There are many cocoa plantations in the Ivory Coast that are accused of human trafficking. Almost 1,000 people are currently working on cocoa on the Ivory Coast. The plantation…

was to improve the land, better social structure for the natives, and to obtain Ivory, but because of greed the Ivory became the main goal. As time goes by and the length of time spent in the Congo, Kurtz became evil, blind by power, lawless of the Congo, and greed for wealth. He is running wild and using force to conquer the land and obtained ivory for power and wealth (p. 28). His main focus is to gain many ivories as possible and will destroy anyone who comes in the way of it. His inhuman and…