... . However, for Marlow as much as for Kurtz or for the Company, Africans in this book are mostly objects: Marlow refers to his helmsman as a piece of machinery, and Kurtz's African mistress is at best a piece of statuary. It can be argued that Heart of Darkness participates in an oppression of nonwhites that is much more sinister and much harder to remedy ... Africa for Europeans. It allows them access to the center of the continent without having to physically cross it; in other words, it allows the white man to remain always separate or outside. Africa is thus reduced to a series of two...

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... and assassinated in broad daylight while on a trip to Dallas, devastating the nation and shocking the world. His accused killer was caught but was killed soon after. At least four separate government investigations have come to conflicting conclusions about what happened. Speculation over "what really happened" in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963 is a national institution. Hundreds of books, films, television specials ... by acoustic scientists, thus disproving the acoustic evidence ( ). For those who believe a conspiracy was at work on the day JFK was shot -- Nov. 22, 1963 -- the tape is consid...

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