Discussion Review

1. Is Leopold Gay?
2. I think that we worked well together. We argued valid points and used proper support. We could improve by using more open ended questions so that the discussion can continue.

King L's Ghost Blog 1

I cannot honestly say that I enjoy neither this reading nor this book. I find it difficult to read someone’s difficult past or the difficult past of my ancestors with very much enthusiasm.  I don’t like reading about it. It depresses me and never helps me plan the future. I was told that to understand the future we must study the past but I feel that this reading is doing nothing but making the present worse. Although some of the detail was fairly irrelevant to the point of the book as a whole the rest was detailed to the point where I’d rather skip to other parts of the book. I had a hard time pointing out exactly were this book was going and I was not sure if I really wanted to. The general aspect of this book pushed me away from it.

Two Discussion Questions:

If the communication issue between the Africans and the Portuguese was solved would the result be the same?

Why are Stanley’s issues just as important to study as the African issues? Or are they? 

Thoughts at the end of 9/2

Today I learned that every country in the world was a colonized country and that most colonizing countries derived from Europe. I also learned about The Berlin Conference.
The only questions I have are if there are countries that don't fit under any of the categories that we listed to day. Also how the the acronym S.P.I.C.E.R. got started.
I am curious to learn more about the Berlin Conference. ]
~Reybren