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How are the writers' views different in these excerpts?
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Read the excerpt from "An Image of Africa Racism in
Conrad's Heart of Darkness."
In my original conception of this essay I had thought
to conclude it nicely on an appropriately positive note
in which I would suggest from my privileged position in
African and Western cultures some advantages the
West might derive from Africa once it rid its mind of old
prejudices and began to look at Africa not through a
haze of distortions and cheap mystifications but quite
simply as a continent of people-not angels, but not
rudimentary souls either -just people, often highly
gifted people and often strikingly successful in their
enterprise with life and society
Read the excerpt from Heart of Darkness
And between whiles I had to look after the savage
who was fireman. He was an improved specimen, he
could fire up a vertical boiler. He was there below me.
O Conrad presents all Africans as mechanically
gifted, while Achebe does not.
Achebe presents Africans as prejudiced, while
Conrad presents them as unbiased,
O Conrad values those who excel, while Achebe
values only everyday people.
O Achebe understands Africans as complex people,
while Conrad presents them as caricatures
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Read the excerpt from "the role of social media in the arab uprisings" by heather brown, emily guskin, and amy mitchell. in july 2012 a report was published by the united states institute of peace. . . . the study suggests that the importance of social media was in communicating to the rest of the world what was happening on the ground during the uprisings. . data from the pew research center’s global attitudes project at least somewhat supports this conclusion with its findings that the majority of egyptians are not online. nearly two-thirds (65%) of the total population do not use the internet. when looking specifically at those with a college education, use of social media for obtaining political information is more prevalent than in other segments of the population. though most of the country is disconnected from the internet, 84% of those who are online say they visit social networking sites for news about egypt’s political situation. these findings point to social media’s important role in spreading information, but do not necessarily indicate that social media was a mobilizing force in the uprisings. how do the authors use statistics to support their claim? to include ideas about how social media can authoritarian regimes remain in power to emphasize that egyptians, even those who are highly educated, mistrust social media to illustrate that social media motivated average egyptians to take part in the uprisings to show that even though social media use was limited, it was often directly connected to politics