He believes that when Europeans colonize other countries to exploit rather than to civilize, white men commit robbery and murder on "a great scale." ... He gets a great chance, he explains, when his aunt helps him secure a position working for a European-based ivory company as a steamboat captain. ... The native workers are horribly treated while the white characters suffer from disease, biting insects, and staggering heat. ... Once a great man, artist, poet, musician, writer, and orator, Kurtz has lost his humanity and now rules with cruelty and hate. ...

• Word Count: 4309
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

It is a testament to the greatness of Martin Luther King Jr. that nearly every major city in the U.S. has a street or school named after him. ... After his assassination in 1968, King became a symbol of protest in the struggle for racial justice. ... The Blacks walked cheerfully sometimes in the rain, and very often for great distances. ...

• Word Count: 3558
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School