Which detail from Heart of Darkness shows the ineffectiveness of the
colonizers?

The detail from Heart of Darkness shows the ineffectiveness of the colonizers is that a warship fires at the land, even though there is nothing there to shoot.

Explanation:

"Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad is a novel that tells events about the constant misused of resources from the colonizers at the moment of taking power over Africa, some of them were not really made to gain something from the land but to demonstrate the great power they have and how they could do whatever they pleased to.

A man gets killed during an argument over chickens.

Explanation:

A P E X

boccaccio employs the voice of his narrator dioneo to represent his ideas on the tension between masculinity and femininity.  while dioneo excites the members of the brigata and recognizes women for their unique skills and independent ideas, he concludes the decameron with a story reminiscent of the society from which these young aristocrats escaped, revealing misogynistic overtones.  dioneo boccaccio is able to explore the gender disparity which is inherent in 14th century florentine society.