Should the United States Send Peacekeeping Troops to Darfur?

The situation in Darfur is horrible and tragic, but the U.S. should not deploy troops to Darfur. The United States is already involved in a war in Iraq. We didn't have a solid plan to help the Iraqis, and we don't have a good plan about what to do in Darfur. We should try to put economic and political pressure on Sudan to end the violence, but we can't just send our troops off to any place in the world that has a problem. The African Union or the UN needs to work this out. The United States needs to get out of Iraq before committing itself to another war.

Heart of Darkness- part II

1. Marlow learns that the manager and his uncle dislike and are jealous of Mr. Kurtz. They don't understand him, and they don't want him to become a manager and take power away from them.
2. The uncle is gesturing towards the wilderness, the "heart of darkness", and he thinks maybe it will kill Mr. Kurtz.
3. Marlow is amazed by the cannibal crew's restraint because they haven't eaten any of the white men on board the steamboat even though its been many months, and they outnumber the white men thirty to five.

Heart of Darkness- part one

1. The first of the narrators is a man on board the Nellie who tells us about Marlow, who is the other narrator. There are five people on the Nellie, the Director of Companies, an accountant, a lawyer, the narrator, and Marlow. They are on the Thames River, and as the sun sets, Marlow begins to tell them a story about when he was a steamboat operator on the Congo River.

2. Marlow emphasizes that England was conquered by the ancient Romans.

3. Marlow means that people conquer other people who are different from them and always come up with some reason or idea that justifies the violence or injustice to themselves or others. Marlow is not justifying imperialism or colonialism; he is pointing out that people have made up excuses to justify it.

4. When Marlow was a boy, there were many unknown blank spaces on the maps. He wanted to go to and explore these places someday, but by the time he was grown up, they had all been "discovered" and colonized.

The United Nations

I agree with congresswoman Andrea Seastrand and the arguments she makes as to why the United States should withdraw from the United Nations. Firstly, although the U.S. has around 300 million people and contributes a quarter of the UN budget, it has just one vote-- the same as countries such as Palau with fewer than 15,000 citizens. Another flaw in the UN is that it has not fulfilled its promises of peace and justice. The conflicts in Rwanda, Somalia, and Bosnia show how ineffective and even harmful the U.N. has been. The United States shouldn't allow the U.N. to tie its hands. Although the spirit of international communication and cooperation is a great thing to support, the U.N. has to many flaws to really do what it should. If the United States does withdraw, we could still support those U.N. in those missions that we agree with. The United States should withdraw so that we will be free to do what seems best, and we won't be wasting taxpayers' dollars on an organization that is getting nowhere.