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    Analytical Exposition – Research Report 1. Introduction Volleyball is a common sport and is played throughout schools in Australia; at a professional level‚ the athletes of volleyball have to perform a strict training résumé. To maintain their level of fitness an athlete must train specific components of fitness indiviualised for the athlete. The purpose of the essay is to analyse a training program set for a volleyball player and see if it fits requirements for the athlete. It will discuss

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    Heart of Darkness- Indexing Page Summary Notes 1-4 The narrative starts with the Narrator describing the scene from the deck of a ship named Nellie as it rests at anchor at the mouth of the River Thames‚ near London. There are five men on board the ship—the Director of Companies‚ the Lawyer‚ the Accountant‚ the Narrator‚ and Marlow‚ bound by the “bond of the sea”‚ old friends from their seafaring days—settle down to await the changing of the tide. They stare down the mouth of the

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    with double bars‚ like small animal cages”. We have a clear description of the jail‚ and how unpleasant it would be living there. Once Orwell states “There were the condemned men‚ due to be hanged within the next week or two”. The jail has a very eerie feeling‚ knowing that all the people inside were set to die. When describing one of the men and their adventure to death‚ Orwell never states what the prisoner had done wrong. He is described as “a puny wisp of a man”. The man is “chained”‚ “handcuffed”

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    The Transformation of Marlow - Conrad’s Explication of Europe’s Colonial Practice in Africa In “Heart of Darkness” Conrad introduces his protagonist Marlow‚ his journey through the African Congo and the “enlightenment” of his soul. With the skilled use of symbols and Marlow’s experience he depicts the European colonialism in Africa‚ practice Conrad witnessed himself. Through Marlow’s observations he

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    The Real Heart Of Darkness Heart of Darkness is not only the title of Joseph Conrad’s novella‚ it is also a main theme. This is portrayed through different images of darkness‚ black and evil throughout his story. The setting is often used with images of darkness; even as Marlow tells his tale‚ it is night. This ‘darkness’ is inside many concepts of the novella such as Africa‚ women‚ black people‚ maps‚ the ivory trade corporation and Kurtz. Through these images on his journey‚ Marlow has a realization

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    Asian Journal of Multi di mensional Research Vol.1 Issue 5‚ October 2012‚ ISSN 2278-4853 HEART OF DARKNESS: JOSEPH CONRAD’S ANTI-IMPERIALISTIC PERSPECTIVE THROUGH RACISM‚ PESSIMISM AND IMPRESSIONISM LAKMINIRADEESHANIKABASNAYAKE* *Lecturer in English‚ Department of English Language Teaching‚ Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka‚ Belihuloya‚ Sri Lanka. ABSTRACT Imperialism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is one of the chief focal aspects of critical controversy and debate in the fields of literary theory

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    MORALITY: IS CONSENT ENOUGH? 201 IGOR PRIMORATZ SEXUAL MORALITY: IS CONSENT ENOUGH? ABSTRACT. The liberal view that valid consent is sufficient for a sex act to be morally legitimate is challenged by three major philosophies of sex: the Catholic view of sex as ordained for procreation and properly confined to marriage‚ the romantic view of sex as bound up with love‚ and the radical feminist analysis of sex in our society as part and parcel of the domination of women by men. I take a critical look

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    blindness to a dark continent Joseph Conrad’s s novel “Heart of Darkness” portrays an image of Africa that is dark and inhuman. Not only does he describe the actual‚ physical continent of Africa as “so hopeless and so dark‚ so impenetrable to human thought‚ so pitiless to human weakness”‚ (Conrad 2180) as though the continent could neither breed nor support any true human life. Conrad lived through a time when European colonies were scattered all over the world. This phenomenon and the doctrine of

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    Kristijan Lovrić S. Runtić‚ doc. dr. sc. Survey of English Literature II May 15‚ 2012 The Darkness of Kurtz’s Heart The main theme of the novel Heart of Darkness is the darkness of the human nature and its destructive influence on human beings. This research paper aims to analyze the character and personal downfall of Kurtz and use him as an example for the darkness of the human nature. It will show how easily a man can experience bad fate; Kurtz was an ambitious man full of hope who came to

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    In the book Heart of Darkness there are several aspects to imperialism. As Marlow travels from the Outer Station to the Central Station and finally up the river to the Inner Station‚ he encounters scenes of torture‚ cruelty‚ and near-slavery. At the very least‚ the incidental scenery of the book offers a harsh picture of colonial enterprise. The impetus behind Marlow’s adventures‚ too‚ has to do with the hypocrisy inherent in the rhetoric used to justify imperialism. The men who work for the Company

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