Darfur

I understand why we can't leave Iraq at the moment because of the chaos that would ensue, but we've been there for years, people are dying on a daily basis in Darfur. This is one of those things they will make a movie about in 50 years and the US will be an enemy. Maybe we specifically can't help, but can't we get other countries to help out this nation. A genocide is going on and we're doing nothing. If it can't be us, we should support other countries who will go help. This is mainly a moral issue as i see it, how can we sit aside while so many people die? Its not even a secret anymore, Darfur is a problem, and i believe we need to do something about it.

Heart of Darkness 2

1. The blacks are portrayded as savages. They are animals, they have no idea what to do with their lives and where they are going. They are "simple beings". Marlow is in a way racist because he does treat blacks as inferior, but I think he shows more respect for them than anyone else does in the book thus far. I think what scared him about them is their lust for life and freedom, which is something he will never have. He grew up urbanized, but he feels a slight pull towards this primative way of life. When he sees such chaos he doesn't want to see that these people are humans too.

2. I think he believes in exploration and spreading out to make a home but his idea is not to have men just take over and completely destroy a culture and another person's way of life, which is what the English seem to want to do.

3. Becasue he was made to be refined and above everyone. All the people respect and work for him. He tried so hard to be everything that everyone wanted, i think he went through a real break down when put in a situation he got too tired to handle.

Heart of Darkness

1. He talks about his industry of the shipping. He discusses how there were ilks in the countries and that it was not well organized.

2. I think he means that when people are different from ourselves, we are allowed to control them, and we justify it by saying that they are different than us. It's like he's trying to justify it but he really doesn't believe in it himself.

3. He wanted to be the first to explore these places. They are where he wanted to go and what he wanted to see. When other people now live there it shows that the world expands and these places that were once big black spots are now being explored and modernized.

Should the US Withdraw From the UN

I don't think we should just leave. The US has been a leader for years and years, if we leave now, reform might never take place. By leaving the UN we are subject to the crueltys that its constitution protects us from. I think we need to help fix the UN, by leaving we are just goin to leave a bad taste in everyone's mouths. I think the UN is a great thing, it has the potential to do so much. If we could take advantage of that power, I think everything could be fixed.