The White Man's Burden

August Wilson’s “Fences” depicts black man’s, Troy’s, struggle in the white man’s world. The color of the body was a determining factor if a person’s position and role in a society. Though, an outstanding baseball player in prison, Troy’s professional career was disappointing because of the color barrier in Baseball League. Being abandoned by his mother, being raised by an abusive father and being African American in a racist culture, life becomes a real struggle for him. Troy thinks that the…

Harriet Martineau was a political reformer from Great Britain who was thirty-two years old when she started a tour of United States. Harriet Martineau states, “The pride and delight of Americans is in their quality of land.” (73 Martineau). This means everything starts with the land you own and the more fertile it is the more valuable it is going to be. The acquiring of this land was a heavy force in manifest destiny because it expanded the territory of the United States. Harriet Martineau was…

European imperialism primarily targeted the continent of Africa, but also extended to other areas such as India and the Middle East. Imperial conquest was justified by the notion of the “civilizing mission,” or as Rudyard Kipling phrased it, “white man’s burden,” by which European powers felt an obligation to civilize archaic nations through means of imperialism. This ideology assumed the underdeveloped country was absent…

Author use pathos, logos, characterization, and personal experiences to advance the shape their points of view on African colonialism. In the speech “Effects of Colonialism on Africa’s Past and Present”, Dr.Motsoko Pheko believes that the colonization of Africa destroyed the continent. He harshly accuses the European colonist of the damage they have caused. Pheko uses Pathos to advance this view.For example, Pheko states “There was no Africa left for Africans except Ethopia, encircled by paupers…

patriarchal society or the status quo upon which their dominance relied upon. No longer could men seek a sense of security and comfort as the breadwinner of the family, as women became accepted into what were considered male jobs and shared the financial burden of the family. During this time, several male rights campaigns were instigated, claiming men’s subjugation was overlooked in favour of female…

symbolizing the fierce quality of this Nkisi). White buttons and porcelain and glass beads are sewn on the charm for a glittering effect. The bottom part and the top part of the figure are tied by a braided raffia string, which suggests the arrest of spirit. This is similar to the effect or the symbolization of the gold chain of sequins on the Bosou Paket mentioned above. Around the top, there is a necklace of five strands of green, blue, and white glass beads at the part, which resembles a neck…

“Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it” a quote by Rabindranath Tagore, summarizes the themes implemented in “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway, and “What we Talk About When we Talk About Love” by Raymond Carver. These two stories, contain a husband and wife who attempt to decipher the meaning of love. Hemingway’s characters do this subliminally, whereas Carver’s character’s discuss the meaning in a much broader fashion. Both authors have similar writing…

world visit the wall. For a portion of visitors, it is simply a memorial and for others, it is a haunting reminder of the past. Yusef Komunyakaa’s poem “Facing It” is a reflection of the psychological impact of the memorial, which illustrates one man’s visit to the wall. “Facing It” not only exposes Komunyakaa’s emotional conflict as he connects with the memorial and its history, but the poem…

colonists began to settle in America and then spread out further west they clashed, many times violently, with the Native Americans already there. A lot of Native Americans were killed, forced off their land, and treated like savages or lesser than the “white man”. One of the most famous incidents of Native Americans being forced of their lands was the Trail of Tears. Crawford (2004) states that: In the early 1830s President Andrew Jackson initiated a policy of forcible Indian removal from…

little beast [the Burmese] who tried to make my job impossible?. Though Orwell?s handling of his subject is detailed, in the end, he subtly condemns imperialism. Orwell finds himself in a moral predicament no different than the ones placed on the white men in the East. Orwell justifies his actions, ?solely to avoid looking a fool,? driven by the instigation of the Burmese (165). Orwell himself, against his will, has oppressed many Burmese. In Orwell?s case, the coolie killed by the elephant…