Ivory

In his piece, seen in Figure 1, Hercules and Omphale, sculpted in ivory in 1690, Permoser illustrates torment through the form of penance. According to myth, Hercules accidently caused the death of his friend Iphasis, ridding him with guilt. As punishment for his deeds, Zeus sentenced him to serve as Omphale’s servant for three years. Omphale was the Lydian queen, or queen of the barbarians, making her a suitable master for Hercules to perform his penance. He greatly yearned to be cleansed of…

further investigating “The Congo Free State”. Due to the lack of investigation, King Leopold was able to continue to prosper off rubber and ivory through the lives of the innocent people of the Congo. Another reason as to why I believe King Leopold was able to hide the horrific events that occurred in the Congo during the time period was due to the value of ivory and rubber. I believe…

hole in a saguaro cactus to form a nest. After it pecks the hole, it will wait months for the pulp of the cactus to dry before occupying the cactus. The Gila woodpecker feeds off insects, fruit, seeds and the occasional lizard. The Ivory-billed Woodpecker Is the ivory-billed woodpecker extinct? That's a question naturalists have been trying to answer for the last decade. This woodpecker, which is the third largest in the world, resided in the old-growth forests of the American Southeast and…

is calling the city completely hypocritical. The ivory throughout the novel serves as Kurtz’s God, because all the truly cares about is getting more ivory. 1 Corinthians 15:33 says, “…bad company corrupt good character”. Conrad demonstrates and implies that the Congo pushes the Europeans to their extremes, causing them to commit evil actions. Kurtz's love for ivory made him eventually morph into murder. 1 John 2:16 reflects that the need for ivory is ultimately the obsession for wealth. Every…

Kurtz and Colonization Heart of Darkness follows Marlow, a seaman, who embarks on a journey to the ‘heart of darkness’ to find Kurtz, a station commander. Along with a crew of cannibals and a few other white men, they travel along the Congo river to Kurtz’s station. When Marlow arrives he finds shocking sites such as the heads of rebels on pikes around Kurtz’s home. These events and other moments show that Kurtz is the embodiment of the ugly side of English colonization and for this reason he…

The article reports that kids as young as nine years old are forced into the possession of the Ivory Coast business and imprisoned in child slave labor. (Zetterstrom, paragraph 4) It’s difficult for me to comprehend that such young children are involuntarily taken into the Ivory Coast business to serve as slaves. People must have no moral values in order to participate in acts such as smuggling and enslaving youthful boys and girls into…

The report showed that he wanted to show them how to live with one another. However, at some point on his journey to the inner station, Kurtz changed his mind. He drew a marvelous portrait that symbolized going into the Congo and taking the savages ivory. He also wrote at the end of his report, “Exterminate all the brutes.” It was almost as though something in him snapped, and he no longer want to be the “good guy” everyone thought he…

diptych, carve in the early sixth century from Byzantine period. This very precious right leaf of diptych depicted Saint Michael the Archangel has been considered to be one of the most greatest surviving Byzantine ivory panel. And Hagia Sophia is the patron of this very exceptional beautiful ivory panel. The purpose of this beautiful vory panel is made for commemorating the meeting in Constantinople to restore the power of Roman empire, and make the western and eastern to be unified. During…

Kurtz is an obvious example of the corruption brought on by the ivory trade, but Marlow too, is corrupted and shown to be changed by the environment in which he was placed. At the beginning, Marlow seems almost innocent and unprepared for the journey ahead, and at the end he lies to a woman who loved Kurtz. Would he…

‘Leopold II of Belgium’. The second king, Leopold II set an eye on Congo and colonized Africa. He brings out the sufferance of the people of Congo under the rule of Leopold II. People were enslaved, exploited, abused and their natural resources like Ivory were exploited. Where by the poem, The White Man’s Burden by Rudyard Kipling is also based on the European attitudes towards imperialism in pessimistic. They considered the work…