Joseph Story

Heart of Darkness is a story about a captain’s journey through the jungles of Congo. Joseph Conrad based this subtly introspective tale on his own travels as a steamboat captain in the same locations in Africa. The physical danger and fear he experienced traveling through the Congo can be felt throughout the story and is represented by literal and metaphorical references to darkness. A concurrent theme of the story is the darkness of life and death, which is demonstrated through the narrator’s…

“There are Two Sides to Every Story” Some authors use re-storying as a technique to offer a balanced perspective of a certain event or time period. Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” provides an alternative narrative for post-colonialism in opposition to Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness.” Conrad’s book is primarily characterized by bold racist analogies and by explicating the evils of Africa. By writing “Things Fall Apart” through a different perspective, Achebe gives an opposite bias and…

Two Horrific Events Based on Lies The Salem Witch Trials ended with about 200 people being accused of “witchcraft”, and during the Red Scare, over a thousand people were accused of being part of the communist party. The Red Scare and the Salem Witch Trials may have happened centuries apart, but were very similar in many different ways. The McCarthy hearings and The Salem Witch Trials were two very horrific occurrences in America 's’ history that were based on lies and a complete lack of facts…

black shadows of disease and starvation, lying confusedly in the greenish gloom... and slowly the eyelids rose and the sunken eyes looked up at me, enormous and vacant, a kind of blind, white flicker in the depths of the orbs, which died out slowly." (Joseph Conrad, 25) This quotation represents that the individuals have been diseases…

darkness to tell his personal story about the journey he took through the Congo. This quote has both a literal and figurative meaning, where the reader must go beyond the text to truly comprehend the message of the author, Joseph Conrad. When reading this passage, it may appear that as Marlow and his crew go deeper into the Congo, the men become savage-like due to all the darkness, or evil, they are surrounded by. Joseph Conrad’s novella, Heart of Darkness, is a story about two men’s realization…

Conrad loved literature, a spark he perhaps inherited from his father, Apollo Korzeniowski, a Polish aristocratic literary critic and poet. As a small boy, Conrad's father taught him to read French and Polish translations of English literature. However, Conrad’s childhood turned tumultuous after both of his parents died from Tuberculosis, and following their death Conrad was sent to live in Switzerland with his mother’s brother, Tadeusz Bobrowski. In his early years, Conrad bounced between…

Hello and welcome to Columbia University’s’ Pulitzer Prize Awards Night. Every year we gather here to acknowledge and celebrate America’s excellence in Journalism and Arts. The Pulitzer Prize has been around since 1917 and was founded by Joseph Pulitzer, a newspaper publisher with a keen eye for politics and journalism. Through his legacy and grant to Columbia University, Pulitzer was able to start up this internationally admired honour given annually to the best of the best. With twenty-one…

names like Hercules, Perseus, and Theseus. In this paper I will address the religious practices associated with heroes, the origins of the term, examine what makes a hero, analyze the heroic content of the stories of the three heroes previously named, and look at information and ideas from Joseph Campbell’s excerpt on the ‘Monomyth.’ Evidence suggests that there were cults of people who worshipped certain individuals deemed worth of ‘Hero’ status. These heroes had sacrifices done in their names…

2005 and directed by George Clooney, portrays the difficult decisions of the news and media outlets during the early 1950's Red Scare. An event that was brought on by Senator Joseph McCarthy who terrified individuals both communist and not communist affiliated. Edward R. Murrow wanted to expose the unjust actions of Senator Joseph McCarthy, and once he did, he received the backlash for speaking out against a senator. Good Night, and Good Luck tells the hardships and difficult decisions made by…

the Soviet Union If one wishes to peer into the atrocious effects of an oppressive regime they need look no further than the gulags. The gulags were forced-labor camps that existed within the Soviet Union during the reign of the oppressive dictator Joseph Stalin. The book One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn describes the single day of an average prisoner in the camp named Ivan Denisovich. In order to understand the society and conditions within the gulag one must…