Expansionism and Imperialism Essay

Gorge, Orwell writes about an elephant in his essay “Shooting an Elephant” where the main craters is a police man for the British emperor in one of the eastern countries. This police man has an internal power struggle with his duty and internal feelings of what he knows as right. In this country he imply about how the people there are cage and are oppressed by the British Emperor he is also concern with his duty and how the people view him. Even though the policeman is authority figure he takes…

As one can imagine he was put in a difficult position, with a rifle on one hand and a anticipating crowd on the other he knew what had to be done. Orwell thought deeply before shooting but killed the elephant for selfish reasoning. He shows how imperialism took the best out him. Although he had the title of power amongst the people, it was the people’s power that influenced him in shooting the elephant. He didn’t want to appear as a coward and hoped that by killing he would no longer receive the…

Imperialism is the economic, and military influence into foreign territories to expand and protect American trade. The United States was trying to create an empire by emerging an imperialistic power in Cuba and the Philippines. The United States, actions was inspired by affairs of unselfish concerns and was justified as extreme devotion to a belief and supported by racist ideals. There’s more of an importance force behind nationalism and commercialism but humanitarianism and racism have an equal…

With the declared independence from British imperialism beginning in 1775 and becoming official in 1776 with the Declaration of Independence, a lot more changed than just the type of government present within the former colonies. The very ideas that sparked revolution were enough to set in motion many changes to contemporary society, politics, and even economics. The idea of resisting the imperial power that so much of the population of the colonies had become complacent in being submissive to…

“Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.” -Ralph Bunche This quotation could be applied to the Congo and Tanzania after independence; and specifically to Patrice Lumumba and Julius Nyerere, who both had noble ideals and goals and stood up for them. Despite their intentions; it did not work exactly as they wanted, and the Congo was used as a pawn in the Cold War while African Socialism in Tanzania deteriorated. When the Congo gained independence in 1960, the MNC…

Colonization of Africa DBQ Essay Nicknamed the “Scramble for Africa”, the colonization of Africa by European Imperialists sparks a wave of controversy in world history. The social and economic effects taking place during this time period were viewed by the Africans, Europeans, and Indifferent people. Together, these 3 different groups gave their point of view and opinion about the situation going on. Africans witnessed many incidents while living in their homeland. One of the most obvious was…

resources and in search of new markets. European Imperialism in India and Africa was sparked by the desire for profit. Europe’s interest in Africa, though, was specific to acquiring natural resources to fuel their factories and industries, whilst their interest in India was specific to creating a potential market. Advanced weaponry had evoked emotion upon Indians and Africans, allowing for imperialism to progress. The British East India Company made imperialism in India possible by gaining the…

Imperialism is the extension of a nation's power over another land in search of obtaining another nation's raw materials and other pressure substances, this event occurred between the years of 1800´s to the early 1900´s. Europe was a country that took imperialism seriously. One of the main reasons why Europe began to expand into countries including Southeast Asia and India due to a great economic motive and for prestige. The European believed that if a country did not have colonies than the…

Carl Bridge and Kent Fedorowich attempt to provoke thinking and encourage further research into the acquisition and control of white dominions in their article, ‘Mapping the British World’. They seek to define the term the ‘British World’ and what it meant to be ‘British’, whilst also undermining the stereotypical view of the British Empire as being largely London-Centric. Ultimately they argue that a ‘fresh look’ at British ‘diaspora’ is required and that it was this, aided by globalisation,…

The articulations of custom, tradition and culture have been posited against discourses of rights in terms of British Colonial rule in India. These distinctions emerged alongside the British ‘civilizing mission’ in which the question of rights came to the forefront of the discourse and were matched with the invention of culture. Edmond Burke’s analysis of rights in the context of the French revolution reveals that natural rights are inherited and passed down from generation to generation, as…