The White Man's Burden

A country’s thirst for power, which is the ability to control people, has always been great. To achieve the goal of becoming the best and most powerful country there is. To be able to control people like puppets, and when the country becomes strong and powerful imperialism occurs. The stronger country takes advantage of the weaker country and dominates them either socially, economically, and politically, if not all. Other motives for imperialism have been that as the countries become more…

Similar to Ezra Pound, Rudyard Kipling had other adored works, but “The White Man’s Burden: The United States and the Philippine Islands” is seen as brutally bigoted.4.) You determine if the text is suitable for you to read. After knowing about the times the text was written, the audience it was written for, and the perspective of…

Rivalry for New Markets European economic and military power began shifting and America and Germany rival Britain. The Long Depression pushed Western powers to New Imperialism and lead them to seek out new sources for raw materials. Western powers sought investment opportunities in markets that offer cheap labor and a seemingly endless supply of goods. Strategic Issues The British government was being pressured to overpower their rivals by obtaining markets in East Asia and India. Britain hoped…

chemicals for “denegrification” so that they can save a black man from the curse of being black as the black skin is unclean. Fanon finds himself suffering from schizophrenia and many disorders as a result of the white man’s harsh treatment. When all he wanted was to be himself. To a white man from France, Fanon was a “Martinican, a native of “our” old colonies” (Fanon, 1986, p.113), which was a perception which deprived the black man of self-pride or confidence in himself. Figure 3 Protee…

British offer of protectorate status, by saying that the state of Ashanti must remain the same and remain friendly with all white men (Doc 2). Prempeh I does not necessarily like when her state is under control, but replies peacefully, as saying her state will continue to be an independent state with no other outside influences, but will continue to be friendly towards all white men. The purpose of this document was to portray how the Ashanti leader turned down an offer of protection peacefully,…

“Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway reveals the importance of decision-making. This drama exposes a significant decision about an abortion that a girl is having a difficult time to reaffirm during the 1920s. An American man and a girl named Jig wait in a railroad junction for the train that will take them to Madrid, where the abortion will be preformed. As they wait, the man tries to bolster Jig’s decision upon the abortion; however, she is reconsidering because…

Morel discussed how white people continue to mistreat black people but they have become used to it. “Pile on the Black Man’s burden, His back is broad though sore; What though the weight oppress him, He’s borne like that before (...)” (Morel 537). In this quote, Morel uses the black man's back as a metaphor for all the cruelty and stress pushed upon him and is figuratively resting on his back. Morel says…

Pride blinds a vast amount of our population, leading them to view the black and white of the world. Only picking out the uncircumcised facts they view from their impaired eyes. Innocent and naïve children’s judgment is convoluted. It passes on like a disease, from person to person, until it infects most and isolates few. Prejudice negatively impacts and isolates generations of humans by letting fear of wealth, male dominance, and race influence. Throughout the novel, Harper Lee demonstrates the…

having them get paid less then what a man makes is sexist. A woman should not be discriminated against in the workplace especially when it involves how much she is getting paid. Based off an article on Harvard Business Review, a study in 2013 showed white and Asian people make more than blacks and Hispanics, regardless of their gender. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Hispanic women make the least out of all gender and races while Asians had the highest…

Frederick Douglass 's “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”, he argues that white men celebrating liberty and freedom while owning slaves is ironic and demonstrates the hypocrisy of his audience and the general white population when they define freedom. He compares the nation’s forefathers hunger for freedom to that of the slaves using irony and diction. He draws attention to the disparity between what the white men inherited and what the black men inherited from the same fathers using…