Connections between Conflict Minerals and HoD, etc. by Grant Edwards https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf Hum V - F Block en-us 2017-04-25 14:40:48 UTC 2017-04-29 14:25:14 UTC hello@padlet.com Who are the major players in gold mining? https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/168362333 Why hasn't gold come along as fast as the 3Ts? Who is stopping them? ]]> 2017-04-26 13:29:41 UTC https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/168362333 How are conflict minerals causing Neocolonialism? How is this similar for Kurtz hunting for ivory? https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/168362850 2017-04-26 13:31:10 UTC https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/168362850 Congo is cursed by history https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/168362892 Dan Snow, a writer for BBC, says that The Democratic Republic of Congo is potentially one of the richest countries on earth, but colonialism, slavery and corruption have turned it into one of the poorest.]]> 2017-04-26 13:31:18 UTC https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/168362892 https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/168363273 2017-04-26 13:32:21 UTC https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/168363273 How have conflict minerals divided the country? https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/168363601 In HoD, we see Kurtz, a European, exploiting the land. This gives the Congolese people a chance to revolt as a nation against a common enemy. However, now some of the war lords are Congolese, so how does the country overcome this? 

]]> 2017-04-26 13:33:08 UTC https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/168363601 In The Heart of Darkness: https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/168364537 There is a similar element of human greed...the white men wanted natural resources, like ivory, for themselves
  • “I couldn’t help asking him once what he meant by coming there [to Africa] at all. ‘To make money of course. What do you think?’” (20)
In Africa, these armed men are exercising power over innocent Africans for the purpose of exploiting their own land and making a profit

]]> 2017-04-26 13:35:16 UTC https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/168364537 Colonialism https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/168365086
  • One of the leading causes of European colonialism in the Congo was a desire for natural resources to support the growing, industrialized economy

]]> 2017-04-26 13:36:39 UTC https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/168365086 Mao https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/168365656 He was a dictator- gave himself luxury while others suffered
  • This relates to the element of human greed: “He had come to value the trappings of power, whether it was swims in the private pool built for him in Zhongnanhai residence compound, the privilege of summoning his staff to meetings at any time of day or night…” (War and Revolution 566)
Similarly, armed men control the Congo's conflict minerals and make hundreds of millions of dollars each year while those living in towns are forced to work for little to no pay

]]> 2017-04-26 13:38:04 UTC https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/168365656 God of Small Things https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/168366833 There is mention of the "Heart of Darkness" in GOST (pg. 112). How could this mention be representative of the bigger picture of neocolonialism?

]]> 2017-04-26 13:41:05 UTC https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/168366833 How are the motivating factors the same? Different? https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/168367339 Greed is the underlying reason behind all of the corruption and shady mines, but how did the transfer of outside influence to internal conflict change the consequences for Congo?]]> 2017-04-26 13:42:33 UTC https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/168367339 Dark Heart https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/168367507 "...small dark rocks called columbite and tantalite but better known as coltan, the material the dark heart of this mountain is made of." ]]> 2017-04-26 13:42:57 UTC https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/168367507 Greed john_parker1 https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/168368201 In HoD, greed leads men to due things that wouldn't be accepted in Europe, the same goes for many in the Congo in search for conflict minerals.]]> 2017-04-26 13:44:55 UTC https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/168368201 Connection between VICE and HoD john_parker1 https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/169012719 Just like Marlow and Kurtz, after only a week in the Congo the VICE interviewer claimed to be "used to" the madness occurring in the Congo.]]> 2017-04-29 14:13:36 UTC https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/169012719 The VICE interviewer called the moment he saw the Congolese prisoners in the Mai Mai camp a "heart of darkness" moment https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/169012805 2017-04-29 14:15:41 UTC https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/169012805 Craziness/absurdity of the Congo becoming normal https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/169012847 Reporter mentioned that the brutality/actions in the Congo very soon became normal. This directly relates to the Heart of Darkness and Marlow's growing indifference towards conflict within the colonized community]]> 2017-04-29 14:16:24 UTC https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/169012847 Vice HoD https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/169012860 How is what they are seeing in Congo similar to what Kurtz saw? Is the UN doing something similar with their "help" (according to the Mai Mai). or is that just their perspective?]]> 2017-04-29 14:16:38 UTC https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/169012860 Current Colonialism https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/169012899 Interesting how it was claimed that the DRC is still being colonized, but by small African countries like Rwanda.

]]> 2017-04-29 14:17:23 UTC https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/169012899 Question: https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/169012995 What can the US government do to improve the situation in the Congo, and is there a valid incentive for the US to do so.

]]> 2017-04-29 14:19:20 UTC https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/169012995 Question https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/169013080 Why do the FDLR members remain in Congo instead of returning to Rwanda?]]> 2017-04-29 14:20:51 UTC https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/169013080 https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/169013257 2017-04-29 14:25:14 UTC https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCf/wish/169013257