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In King Leopold's Ghost ( 1998 ), Adam Hochschild argues that literary scholars have made too much of the psychological aspects of Heart of Darkness while scanting the horror of Conrad's accurate recounting of the methods and effects of colonialism.
* Hochschild, Adam: King Leopold ’ s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, Mariner Books, 1998.
* Hochschild, Adam.
* 1998: The river's history is discussed in the 1998 book King Leopold's Ghost ( by Adam Hochschild ).
According to Adam Hochschild, author of a book on the Congo rubber terror, Lumumba's body was disposed of in an unmarked grave by a CIA agent.
It can also be translated in far less flattering terms, and it was suggested by Adam Hochschild that while Stanley understood it as an heroic epithet, his Congolese companions understood it in a mocking and pejorative tone.
* Hochschild, Adam: King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa.
Adam Hochschild devotes a chapter of his book, King Leopold's Ghost, to the problem of estimating the death toll.
After the King transferred his private colony to Belgium, there was, as Adam Hochschild puts it in King Leopold's Ghost, a " Great Forgetting ".
* Hochschild, Adam: King Leopold ’ s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, Mariner Books, 1998.
* King Leopold's Ghost, popular history book by Adam Hochschild
Despite this, Forbath claimed the loss was at least 5 million ; Adam Hochschild, and Isidore Ndaywel è Nziem, 10 million ; the Encyclopædia Britannica and Fredric Wertham's 1966 book " A Sign For Cain: An Exploration of Human Violence " estimate that the population of the Congo dropped from 30 million to 8 and 8. 5 million, respectively, in that period.
* Hochschild, Adam, King Leopold's Ghost, Pan ( 1999 ).
In his history book King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild suggests that Leon Rom was one of the inspirations for the Mr. Kurtz character, citing references as the heads on the stakes outside of the station and other similarities between the two.
In the English-speaking world, his genre is sometimes characterised as " magic journalism " ( in counterpoint to magic realism ), a term coined for him by Adam Hochschild in 1994.
* Adam Hochschild, Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels ( Syracuse University Press, 1997 ), " World on a Hilltop ," pp. 123 – 139.
* Hochschild, Adam.
* Adam Hochschild, Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels ( Syracuse University Press, 1997 ), " Summer of Violence ," pp. 140 – 150.
Past lecturers include Howard Zinn, Winona LaDuke, Lani Guinier, Barbara Ehrenreich, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Cornel West, Christopher Hitchens, Adam Hochschild, Amy Goodman, Molly Ivins, Jeff Chang, Tom Hayden, Angela Davis, Seymour Hersh, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Naomi Klein, Elizabeth Warren, and Robert Reich.
* Hochschild, Adam.
* Hochschild, Adam, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire ’ s Slaves ( Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2006 ), 467 pp., paperback: ISBN 978-0-618-61907-8
* CoBelCo. org French language site on Belgian Congo made with the consultation of Adam Hochschild and Jules Marchal.
* Interview with Adam Hochschild on AlterNet about King Leopold's Ghost

Adam and does
Irenaeus does not regard Adam and Eve merely as private individuals, but as universal human beings, who were and are all of humanity.
He does not mean to say that Adam lost the similitude of God and his immortality through the fall ; ;
It becomes most evident in his description of Christ as the second Adam, who does indeed come to destroy sin, but whose work culminates in the achievement of immortality.
This matter has been the subject of a number of cases before the Supreme Court, most notably Kansas v. Hendricks and United States v. Comstock in regard to the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, which does not require a conviction on sex offences, but only that the person be in federal custody and be deemed a " sexually dangerous person ".
Eve and Adam transgress in the former, whereas Prometheus does so in the latter.
On screen he has been portrayed by Eduard Franz in the film Lady Godiva of Coventry ( 1955 ), George Howe in the BBC TV drama series Hereward the Wake ( 1965 ), Donald Eccles in the two-part BBC TV play Conquest ( 1966 ; part of the series Theatre 625 ), Brian Blessed in Macbeth ( 1997 ), based on the Shakespeare play ( although he does not appear in the play itself ), and Adam Woodroffe in an episode of the British TV series Historyonics entitled " 1066 " ( 2004 ).
However, Widukind does not even mention such an event in his contemporary Res gestae saxonicae sive annalium libri tres or " Deeds of the Saxons ", which, considering Widukind was at least partly writing to promote Otto I and his family, is damning to Adam of Bremen's claims.
Many Muslims did not treat Hindus as pagans or idol-worshippers, although Hinduism does not include Adam, Eve, nor the various prophets of Abrahamic religions.
Queen Jadis resembles the Biblical Satan, as Aslan describes her as the first evil brought into the Narnia and Jadis later tempts Digory to eat one of the forbidden apples in the garden, as does Satan, disguised as a serpent, tempt Adam and Eve into eating a forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden.
Amanda is horrified, and says to Adam " You've no right to do this, nobody does!
* Adam Nicolson, 5th Baron Carnock ( does not use the Barony either )
The " principal apartment ", or State bedroom suite, contains fine furniture and paintings as does the drawing room with its huge Venetian window ; the dining room, with its gigantic apse, has a ceiling that Adam based on the Palace of Augustus in the Farnese Gardens.
Pep Band Director Adam Lorentson said at the time that " cost is the key reason the University does not have a traditional marching band.
The doctrine does not appear in earlier apocalyptic, in which the angels have the task of watching over the bodies of the saints ( Life of Adam, 46-47 ); and in the New Testament, Jude 9, following the Assumption of Moses, and indeed is more reminiscent of the Hellenistic doctrine of the angel-escorts of the soul, though it does not in fact derive from it.
A notice of Richard de Bury by his contemporary Adam Murimuth ( Continuatio Chronicarum, Rolls series, 1889, p. 171 ) gives a less favourable account of him than does William de Chambre, asserting that he was only moderately learned, but desired to be regarded as a great scholar.
The word " rent " does not refer here to payment on a lease but stems instead from Adam Smith's division of incomes into profit, wage, and rent.
He does call himself, when speaking to his creator, Victor Frankenstein, the " Adam of your labours ".
Mary Shelley's original novel never ascribed an actual name to the monster ; although he does call himself, when speaking to his creator, Victor Frankenstein, the " Adam of your labours ".
He does so in a manner similar to the modern theory of evolution all the way up to the point several thousand years ago when Jesus placed Adam upon the Earth, which at the time contained man-like creatures who did not have free will, being simply the most clever of the animals.
* Institute of Dit-A form of Dance that Adam Malone does, called " the dit "
The penciling process that artist Adam Hughes employs for his cover work is the same he uses when doing sketches for fans at conventions, with the main difference being that he does cover work in his sketchbook, before transferring the drawing to virgin art board with a lightbox, whereas he does convention drawings on 11 x 14 Strathmore bristol, as he prefers penciling on the rougher, vellum surface rather than smooth paper, preferring smoother paper only for brush inking.
The British historian Adam Tooze has argued that Goerdeler was following his own agenda in seeking to moderate the regime's domestic policies in his memorandum, and that it is highly unlikely that outside powers would have required the concessions on anti-Semitic and other domestic policies that Goerdeler advocated as the price of Western economic support ( through Tooze does feel that Goerdeler was correct in arguing that the West would have made cutbacks in military spending a precondition of economic support ).

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