...King Leopold II. Leopold wanted to make Belgium bigger than it was, and decided that gaining territory in Africa would be the way to do it. “...At this moment, we can imagine him as the political equivalent of an ambitious theatrical producer...He has a script: the dream of a colony that has been running through his head since he was a teenager. But he has no stage, no cast” (Hochschild 46). I chose this quote because I like the way that the author compared Leopold to a producer and makes it easier to understand....
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...At the peak of European imperialism into Africa the Belgian king, King Leopold II ran his own personal empire that was vast and cruel. Although Leopold was the first king to make a bold imperial movement into new territory of Africa, it was because he pressured the senate constantly about building an empire overseas, just like all the other countries. He became obsessed with the thought that a nation’s greatness was based on how much money and riches they had. With the goal to make Belgium a greater and stronger country, King Leopold jumped on a chance to profit off the resources of Congo. Leopold II formed the International African Society to organize and finance exploration of the continent. Upon his arrival to the continent, with explorer...
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...In 1874, King leopold 2 Began developing a colony for him to directly control. The colony was within the Congo region. The king sent henry Morton Stanley a journalist to explore congo to make treaties with the native peoples. The treaties allowed Leopold to take position as the colony’s leader. Which also increased his power in the land. This movement for leopold coming to power was largely significant because it showed his greed and his soon inhuman treatment to the congolese people do to the fact that he made indigenous peoples sign away their land without knowing the consequences. In 1884 the berlin conference took place to organize the “scramble for Africa” and then later grant Leopold 2 ro rule the congo. Which meant boundaries were imposed throughout Africa, dividing into Europe’s colonial domains thus eliminating any governing people in congo. The Berlin conference encouraged Leopold to begin his reign over congo because he had permission and help from all of Europe. It also allowed Europeans to lay claims over african land and destroy indigenous people power. This lead to mistreatment and abuse to congolese people. Leopold exploited the congo natural rubber which becoming valuable commodity. He sent his armies to steal congolese women and held them hostage until their husbands brought their quota of rubber. People were either whipped of killed...
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...Evaluation Essay of Aldo Leopold’s “A Sand County Almanac” By: Lashonda Smith English 111 In reading Aldo Leopold’s, A Sand County Almanac; my thoughts and views regarding Aldo Leopold are clear. His appeal to nature and his background as a wildlife ecologist, conservationist, environmental philosopher, and educator, lead him to be the person he was prior to his death. My question is what made him who he was as a writer. Leopold speaks of him and his families experiences on this sand farm located on the Wisconsin River, the farm that he speaks of he chose to call the shack, which had been previously abandoned by its owners whom had snubbed it as meaningless as they moved on to a bigger and better society. In getting to know of Aldo Leopold the man you must first know where he began prior to the shack. He had achieved many accomplishments that of a forester, wildlife ecologist, environmental philosopher, and educator. Even with all his experience, there is little known about him as a writer until his death in 1948 and the release of his book in 1949. Initially at first glance I had little to no interest in this book; I now see the true gift behind Leopold’s writing. He begins speaking of the thaw and how the animals are slowly starting to come out of their sleepy state and once again move about the land. He gives descriptions of how one must be able to survive off the land, and what you have to do so that you’re able to survive. He describes and details that you must...
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...he seems to focus on is coyotes and humans coexist. He goes on to explain that coyotes do not mean intentional harm, because they are just doing what they need to do to survive. Another environmentalist, Aldo Leopold wrote an essay called “Land Ethic.” Leopold goes on to express his ideals of how mistreated the environment really is. Like Delaney, he expresses how humans and the environment coexist; however, unlike Delaney, Leopold refers to plants and animals. He tries to prove the point that humans do not have respect for the natural world. While both essays’ focus on the subject of the environment there is a compare and contrast of similarities, differences, and tones. In both essays’ Leopold and Delaney discuss how easily humans take over land that belonged to animals long before we took over the land. Delaney talks about how the coyotes invade the yards in his neighborhood; however, there are people that leave food out for the coyotes, but call in complaints when the coyotes attack their yards, pets, or children. About 100 coyotes per year are trapped and euthanizes by Animal Control Department (212 Boyle). These animals are killed or tortured for doing what they need to do to survive, while being encouraged to come back to what is considered human territory. Leopold displays a similar situation in his essay where humans show kindness and encourage mammals or different types of plants into their environment only to kill...
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...Rhetorical Strategies: How They Enhance the Essay Today, rhetorical strategies are ubiquitous. They can be discovered in the latest top box office cinematic movie, the beloved binge-watched television show on Netflix, the aggravating commercials we are forced to sit through, the latest best-selling book, etc. Applying rhetorical strategies helps the writer communicate with ease and fluidity. Rhetoric additionally helps the reader or viewer gain interest while making it pleasurable. All in all, rhetorical strategies are simply ways of effectively and adequately presenting material. In the essays of discussion the effectiveness of how imagery, emotional appeal and tone build the writers credibility and enhance the essay will be discovered. For example, Virginia Woolf uses rhetorical strategies in “The Death of The Moth”. Woolf begins by using imagery effectively throughout her essay by strategically incorporating descriptive details. Woolf encountered this moth in the day time, so she begins her essay by stating, “moths that fly by day are not properly to be called moths . . .” (para. 1). This statement spikes wonder; what does that mean? She explains that moths in the day “ . . . do not excite that pleasant sense of dark autumn nights and ivy-blossom which the commonest yellow-underwing asleep in the shadow of the curtain never fails to rouse in us” (Woolf para. 1). Her sense of imagery is full of color and expression which helps her credibility in her writing. It truly makes...
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...While analysis Leopold and Thoreau are that they both have the same conservation the environment. They come from different area and different job, but the both are nature lover. They to leaves the wealthiest toward sufficiency. For Leopold, he has being fulfill to love the environment or the nature from his family. He have been played with the nature since young age to fulfill as part of his life. Thoreau runs a way to fine the true meaning of life. Lucky, he successful with this wish and get more toward the meaning of the nature. The similarity of the Leopold and Thoreau is they are nature lover. They are protect environment as long as it can take for the new generation to use. Leopold wants people "human being" to respect this land and behaves...
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...They both Jump started the rise in population. The agricultural revolution happened first about 10,000 years ago. People began to grow crops, raise domestic animals, and live sedentary lifestyles. People began to live longer and produce more children. During the mid-1700s, the industrial revolution greatly increased population. It was a shift from an agricultural society to an urban society powered by fossil fuels. What is "the tragedy o the commons"? Explain how the concept might apply to an unregulated industry that is a source of water pollution? The tragedy of the commons was written by Garret Hardin. Hardin argued that unregulated exploitation would cause environmental depletion. What is environmental science? Name several disciplines involved in environmental science. Environmental Science is the study of how the natural world works and how humans and the environment interact. Environmental Science in an interdisciplinary field which requires expertise from ecology, earth science, chemistry, biology, economics, political science, demography, ethics, and others. Contrast the two meanings of science. Now name three applications of science. One description of science is a systematic process for learning about the world and testing our understanding of it. The term science is also commonly used to refer to the accumulated body of knowledge that arises from this dynamic process of observation, testing, and discovery. Developing Technology, to inform policy for management decisions...
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...Sustainability Review Test 1 1) Kenneth E. Boulding—“Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth” * English (1910-1993), Professor at U. of Michigan, U of Colorado * Economist, educator, peace advocate, Quaker, systems scientists, interdisciplinary philosopher * We are approaching a closed system and how it is going to be tough for us * Neither receivers inputs nor outputs * i.e. self-contained * Today we are in an open mind approaching a closed one * Morals are keeping us in the open for now * Econospherethe total worth of everything we have * Fossil fuel is buried sunshine * Shift from Cowboy Economy—people believe that there are unlimited shits, i.e. like the wild west to Spaceship Economy * Spaceship Economywe have only brought enough food/resources for the people we are carrying and must make it last for as long as we can * Stresses resource management * Doesn’t really consider environmental impact as much as more about conservation * Focuses more on population vs. environmental impact * Entropy (?) * Spaceman Economy living within our means, don’t worship production vs. costs… more conservation concerned * Fracking is a good example of us still in a cowboy mode although we are shifting toward Spaceman * Reference to Ethics—ethics, it is us, it is a plural term… we have an ethical obligation to think of future generations * Solutions at the end...
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...Sustainability Review Test 1 1) Kenneth E. Boulding—“Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth” * English (1910-1993), Professor at U. of Michigan, U of Colorado * Economist, educator, peace advocate, Quaker, systems scientists, interdisciplinary philosopher * We are approaching a closed system and how it is going to be tough for us * Neither receivers inputs nor outputs * i.e. self-contained * Today we are in an open mind approaching a closed one * Morals are keeping us in the open for now * Econospherethe total worth of everything we have * Fossil fuel is buried sunshine * Shift from Cowboy Economy—people believe that there are unlimited shits, i.e. like the wild west to Spaceship Economy * Spaceship Economywe have only brought enough food/resources for the people we are carrying and must make it last for as long as we can * Stresses resource management * Doesn’t really consider environmental impact as much as more about conservation * Focuses more on population vs. environmental impact * Entropy (?) * Spaceman Economy living within our means, don’t worship production vs. costs… more conservation concerned * Fracking is a good example of us still in a cowboy mode although we are shifting toward Spaceman * Reference to Ethics—ethics, it is us, it is a plural term… we have an ethical obligation to think of future generations * Solutions at the end...
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...Hades The sixth episode of James Joyce’s Ulysses is based around Leopold Bloom’s thoughts and actions throughout the time before, during, and shortly after the funeral of Paddy Dignam. In R.M Adams’ essay, “Hades: Bloom Alone”, he discusses a “great hollow resonance” (96) that is present when reading this episode and Adams claims “that is the real development of this chapter, the sounding of that resonance, the deepening and darkening in Bloom’s mind of an immense emptiness.” (96,97) Throughout the episode, it is clear to see the isolation between Bloom and the rest of the characters presented. On the carriage ride to the funeral, Joyce makes it clear that the thoughts of Cunningham, Power, and Simon Dedalus are completely different from the thoughts of Bloom. Adams writes that Bloom’s “matter-of-factness often serves to set him apart from his companions.” (98) This is clear when Bloom speaks out that he would rather prefer a quick death than a slow death. Bloom, being Jewish, does not seem to take into account that Catholics fear a quick death as it does not offer a chance to repent. This conversation leads into Mr. Power, unaware of the suicide of Bloom’s father, speaking about the disgrace of having a suicide in the family. It is obvious to see that Bloom is not close to these people and that they have no intentions of being so. However, Adams writes that “Deeper than any of these on-the-whole trivial misadventures, there is the gloomy emptiness of Bloom’s encounter...
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...Mrinalini mahidhar Phil 1102 sec 01 Chapter 8 8.1 Eco centric ethics was systematically presented first by Aldo Leopold in his collection of essays a sand county almanac in his essay titled the land of ethics. The author says that this chapter of the book by Aldo focuses on land ethics as the best example of eco centric ethics Leopold was the one who changed the thinking about the predators in his early research he was In agreement about the Pinchot idea that all natural resources are commodities and this is one of the reasons why he wrote a book called game management which had the ways of increasing our harvest by natural resources. According to him the biggest threat to higher productivity was predators and they needed to be controlled and his view all the hunter gamers and conservationist should come together and try to stop this. After years of experience Leopold understood that the conservationist approach had problems and he jotted it down to two main concerns, first it doesn’t understand the interconnectedness of nature we cannot manipulate one part of nature and the expect the other to be same. Secondly it sees earth as dead whereas ecology views everything on this earth as living. He talks about how Leopold recognized that we need to look at a broader perspective and think like a mountain so that nature can be saved. 8.2 According to Leopold’s land ethics all land should be treated ethically we as humans have some obligation to it and should be viewed as a...
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...“The Land Ethic” Reflection Paper Part I. A summary of The Land Ethic In a persuasive essay, Aldo Leopold tries to explain how we are ethically and morally obligated to take care of our resources. In his paper, “The Land Ethic” Leopold explains how we have viewed the land as, “strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations”. This is the main statement in his essay, and throughout the writing he elaborates on this statement. He says we have not given the land (the soils, waters, plants, and animals) the respect it deserves. He talks about our National Anthem and how we sing of “our love for and obligation to the land of the free and the home of the brave” and then he questions our uses of our ‘resources’ and in an almost disgusted way, says if you say you’re going to ‘take care of it and love it’, than follow through. He discusses how land ownership has played a big part of how we now use the land in different communities and poses the question of many researchers; What if the outcome of settling the states, and planting the fields if “the plant succession… had given us some worthless grasses, shrubs, and weeds to a condition of unstable equilibrium”. Where would we be today? He talks about resource conservation as an ethic and the land which contains the most diversity such as marshes, bogs, dunes and deserts may be privately owned. But if the owner was ‘ecologically minded’ he would, “be proud to be the custodian of a reasonable proportion of such...
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...Laura Flatt December 18, 2014 Mrs. Urowitz Jewish History Major Assignment Leopold Zunz Contribution to Judaism Judaism is the way it is today because of Leopold Zunz. Leopold was born in Detmold, Germany in 1794. Throughout his life, Zunz critically investigated Judaism. Through his interesting and intriguing points of views, he influenced the modern days of Judaism. Leopold Zunz is shown as a contributing figure to the evolution of Jewish culture in the 19th Century, as seen through his writings that stressed the importance of reform in Jewish customs, the modernization of Jewish texts and his involvement in the study of the Science of Judaism (Wissenschaft des Judentums) movement. Leopold Zunz produced many pieces of writings throughout...
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...[Stephen’s mother] grazing eyes, staring out of death, to shake and bend my soul. […] Her eyes on me to strike me down. Liliata rutilantium te confessorum turma circumdet : iubilantium te virginum chorus excipiat.[3] Ghoul! Chewer of corpses! No, mother. Let me be and let me live.[4] Stephen is obsessed with the image of his mother and he feels as if the ghost of her is gazing at him. He is thinking seriously about whether he should have chosen his agnosticism or his affection for his mother. In this scene, Joyce suggested the matter of a connection of son and mother and agnosticism, derived from his experiences. Stream of consciousness writing is exerted luxuriantly and humorously in the novel and in the episode 4, Calypso,[5] Leopold Bloom who is one of the protagonists talks with his wife, Molly in their house and he is considering about her and her manner, which is written by stream of consciousness...
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