Apocalypse Now as Adaptation: Conrad's Heart of Darkness
This essay examines the connection between Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now, and particularly the way the latter strips the former of its anti-imperialist argument. Apocalypse Now frames Vietnam as a personal trauma, and in doing so allows the American Empire to avoid criticism. Ultimately, one can view Apocalypse Now as a direct inversion of Heart of Darkness' argument, because the film serves to support imperialism while the book argues against it.
Sugar Value Chain More Labels Sugar: It
This model paper compliments a prior proposal following social, environmental and economic effects of sugar production "from farm to fork." The paper identifies externalities like public health costs, environmental mitigation, tax transfers to sugar producers and social cost like workplace injury and the like through a frame from political economy and interest/ institution analysis. The answer to the research question "why is such an unsustainable system allowed to continue" ends up "because one group has more power than all the rest."
Autobiography X Malcolm X\'s Autobiography Provides Poignant
Malcolm X's autobiography provides poignant insight into the life of the man, but also offers insight into the historical and cultural context in which he wrote. Malcolm X delves into issues of race, class, gender, and power in the book, showing how these issues are interrelated in his personal life as well as in American society. As such, Malcolm X is very much a quintessential American, whose identity is fractured due to pulls in various directions related to race, class, and identity.