book “Heart of darkness ” The book “Heart of darkness ” is written by Joseph Conrad, and the story is about a sailor who had a boat which used to transport ivories using a steamboat across Congo River. The author, in the year 1899, had the experience of being a merchant sailor across Congo, and he experienced horrors portrayed by Belgian rule, which was meant to exploit the Africans (Conrad, 130). According to Chinua Achebe, Conrad presented Africa as “the other world ’’ who were in the antithesis of Europeans together with Civilization. A place for man’s intelligence as well as refinement as lastly, criticized by triumphant bestiality. Conrad went through racism, and he has experienced criticism, he reports this simple since it’s a reasonable way for the whites to mistreat African, and this goes unrecognized. Many critics defended Conrad from the condemnations that Achebe had towards him. They continued to say that the book and writers were relevant depending on the time, and both of them should not be judged at any point following the morality of modern racialism.…

Declaration of Martial Law Introduction Implementation of martial law is evidenced when the administration of law is transitioned from civil government to military rule. Martial law is declared in the wake of a crisis as well as responding to an emergency. Enactment of martial law comes with suspension of civil liberties, including protection from unacceptable searches, freedom of movement, speech as well as habeas corpus. Military control of the United States government was lastly seen in 1941 after the Japanese invaded Pearl Harbor. It was after the declaration when the army governor ordered the suspension of labor contact, closure of schools, courts, froze salaries, imposed censorship of radio, private mail, and newspaper. Besides, a curfew was implemented, total blackout in addition to banning of alcohol selling. Some of the American citizens suggested that the implementation of martial law was nothing short of government dishonor of citizens’ rights. Differently, others saw it as a significant measure to enforce security. In light of the above, the paper will provide critical analysis of the rationale behind enacting martial law and its impacts on…

Political Events (movements) since 1949 Introduction A chronology of key events in the history of China was aimed at reviving revolutionary spirits, the emergence of massive social, economic, and political upheaval. China entered the stage of politics in 501 B.C and gained the Peoples Republic of China after a violent stage of civil war After fifty years of communism that marked the end of civil war, Mao Zedong, together with intellectuals, reformers, and liberal economic, social and political activists, proclaimed the People’s Republic of China. Thesis: The political events since and movements since 1949 shaped China’s political system, party-state relations, and the democratic space defining the current governance, social, and economic system. Point I: Korean War (1950-1953 It began in North Korea communist army and invaded South Korea Chinese attack on US/UN forces opened a new era for China forces The war had several political impacts such as broken families, governance instability and loss of many lives especially leaders Point II: Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution It was a socio-political movement that adversely changed China’s economy while millions of people were…

  Course Journal Name: __________ Course Journal Entry #1 [ ] Define SLR: ______________________ [ ] Define parallax: _____________________ [ ] Define image sensor: ____________________ [ ] Define image compression:__________________ [ ] Define JPEG:______________________ [ ] Define TIFF:______________________ [ ] Define RAW:_______________________ [ ] Class notes/Reading notes             SLR stands for single lens reflex, It refers to the way in which camera work. Other people refers SLR as DSLR with D being short for digital. Parallax is defined as a displacement or the difference within apparent position of an object which is viewed along the two points of the earth orbit and is measured using annual parallax .Image sensor refers to a sensor used for detecting as well as conveying information that is used in making of the image. Image compression refers to a process of converting image file to make sure that it does not consume more space that the original file. It’s a  type of compression method which is used for reducing the size of the image file without affecting the quality in a greater extent.JPEG is a…

Planning and decision making Consequences that arise due to poor planning Poor planning in project management is one of the reasons that translate to project failure (Virine and Trumper, 2019). The results of poor planning include; budgets not clearly set, poor time management, lack of clear project objectives, and dissatisfied customers. A product that failed in the market as a result of poor planning was the Nike fitness band called FuelBand. Despite Nike Company having acquired both MyFitnessPal and MapMyFitness companies, the company registered failure in the product launch (Witt, Kellogg, Snyder and Dunn, 2019). The primary reasons for the negligence attributed to a lack of research on consumer perception of wearable and functionalities it would perform upon introduction. Therefore, with no backup data collected on how best to introduce the wearable into the market, it was difficult for Nike Fitness to have an opportunity to make it in the market. Systematic planning for setting goals and making decisions When launching a product, a company is keen on the number of units of products or service subscriptions that needs to…

American women suffrage Association This artifact is about the national American women suffrage Association that was formed in1890. This association was a movement was an organization, which championed for women’s rights in America. The association was created after the American Women Suffrage Association merged with the National Woman Suffrage Association. The main purpose of this association was to champion the right of American women to vote in American political elections. This artifact relates to the cultural movement since it shows American women uniting to fight against the bias established by men that they could not vote. The artifact is eligible for inclusion and was included in the canon since it can be considered as the genesis of women empowerment in America, the right to vote gives American women the power to control every other aspect of their lives and the nation. Word count:137   Peters, Julie Stone, and Wolper, Andrea eds. Women’s rights, human rights: International feminist perspectives. Routledge, 2018. This article investigates the rights of women in contrast to human rights and offers perspectives on these, especially in the…

The Great Hack The Great Hack is a Netflix documentary that talks about Cambridge Analytical Scandal.Karim Amer and Noujaim, who are recognized as nominees of documentary Awards, produced and directed the film. The documentary entails one of the 2018 significant-tech controversies that reveals the firm, which is a political consulting collected Facebook data of 87 million users.  The Great Hack begins with a precise recap of the Cambridge Analytical scandal, where it facilitated with shimmering graphics, which represent the leaking of people’s data from their laptops and phones. The documentary shows the influence of data mining on society and politics.  If a person wants to see how data tracking, harvesting together with targeting information strands individuals generate to an extent the government and companies smothered the documentary is a film to watch.       The Great Hack utilizes scandal as a framework to describe the data mining algorithms and structures that are currently undermining people’s liberty and democratic community. As the scandal primer, which dominated headlines globally for a period of two years after PresidentDonald Trump, the documentary is…

The relationship between the Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States As much as the United States was allied with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in the conclusion of the Second World war, the friendship between the two countries cracked immediately after the war. The president of the United States at that time, Harry Truman, and the leader of the Soviet, Joseph Stalin, raised insecurity concerns that they got misunderstood by the citizens of each other’s country. It quickly flourished into a conviction and suspicion of each other’s nation planning to destroy the other. The enmity blossomed to a formation of anti-communist and anti-Soviet movements. A mediocre Wisconsin senator, Joseph McCarthy, formed a public platform based on the anti-communist tension in 1950, and it reigned till 1964. In this study, I intend to discuss the nature of McCarthy’s argument on the issue of the communist threat, the drastic change in the relationship of the Soviet Union and the United States of America, and the causes of the Red scare with relation to McCarthyism influence. The relationship between the…

Differences that exist between slaves and servants Indenture was a global phenomenon that began in the nineteenth century. The indentured system was initiated by the British in Mauritius, and it was considered as a kind of experiment. This great “experiment” (the indentured system) after the eradication of the slave trade was to prove to the whole world the advantages of free labor over the slave trade. Indenture system includes the mass relocation of laborers from China, India, South East Asia, and Africa to those colonies importing labor (Yun et al. 2001). And Mauritius become the first nation that had an alternative to indentured labor. After that, other countries like French, British as well as Dutch colonies adopted the system as seeing its success in Mauritius. An individual became an indentured servant through borrowing some cash and voluntarily agreeing to work as a way of paying their debts for a given agreed period. Therefore, this paper will discuss some of the differences that existed between the indentured servant and the slave trade and later discuss the challenges that come with the…

Paintings by Kollwitz The cycle of paintings by Kollwitz is a representation of the pain and suffering of women while executing their day-to-day responsibilities. The images are used to explain the dangers and horrors of war and dissuade people from participating in them. The woman with the dead child, for example, is a depiction of her going through the loss of her child during World War I. Her art also included ploughmen and woman, which I interpreted as the effect of war where women are going to take up roles that were predominantly for men. They will pick up these roles at a hefty cost for men who would die during the war. The image resonates well with Kollwitz’s locale. She was in Germany, which was an active player in World War I, and the men in their area were enlisted to fight. In her art, Kollwitz can be identified as an expressionist artist. Her art was filled with emotional etchings and not realism. This is even supported by the fact that during her pick as an artist, expressionism was…