The White Man's Burden

However, Mattingly’s only point of reference for this claim is Kipling’s infamous “Take up The White Man’s Burden”, a poem which is irrelevant to Roman aspirations, and does nothing to support his interpretation of Roman imperialism. Its purpose within the journal is to present the Roman Empire as an empire which did not need to colonise, nor to subjugate…

At first glance, European imperialism and thus colonialism seems ridden with atrocity and demise for those upon whom it is imposed while serving the pride and prejudice of those who have imposed it. The question that this paper seeks to answer, however, is one that is layered and cannot be superficially analyzed based on popular views and discourse. For the findings of this paper to prove academically valuable and sound, one must aim to consider with as little (if any at all) bias as possible.…

Hills like White Elephants” was first published in 1927. It was written by Ernest Hemingway an American writer and journalist. Hemmingway uses symbols found in dialogue and setting to demonstrate the importance of communication in decision making for a couple. The station where the drama unfolds is “between two lines of rails in the sun” at a train station surrounded by hills, fields and trees in a valley in Spain. The story involves two main characters, the male protagonist who is referred to…

especially since the jurors were all white which was one simplistic sign of discrimination. When there are no other race jurors except caucasians, it becomes a quick sign of discrimination because it shows no diversity in the one place where everyone should be treated equally. That right there was not the only part of this court case where discrimination occurred. Myers went ahead during Bennett’s conviction and referred to Bennet as “King Kong” and a beast of burden, and also pointed a…

The first article looked at was “The School Days of an Indian Girl”. This other, Houghton, would most likely support post 1960’s interpretation of The Battle of Little Big Horn. The author depicts non-white races, Native Americans in particular, as capable human beings. Since the story is about a Native American girl and what she has to endure, it could be concluded that the author thought the Native Americans were treated unfairly. In one sentence Houghton…

as an unsatisfactory contention and also a myth. The Igbos were not respectable savages, and in spite of the fact that the Igbo world was in the long run crushed, the indigenous society was never an unspoiled shelter, even before the entry of the white colonialists. In Things Fall Apart, Achebe describes the contrary and, also, constructive components of Igbo society, and he is some of the time as incredulous of his kin as he is of the…

Rudyard Kipling’s The White Man’s Burden describes how Europeans believed that humanizing and taming a society was only possible through the preaching of Christianity. As Great Britain began to colonize India, they sent in missionary officers in order to convert as many people as possible…

In post 9/11 America, the topic of a Muslim woman’s status in regards to Islam and their choice of dress has received much attention in politics and Western media. Beginning with Samuel Huntington’s controversial thesis on civilization clash, Huntington suggested that there were distinct cultural differences between the core values of the West and those of Islam. “Individually almost none of these factors was unique to the West. The combination of them was, however, and this is what gave the…

America. This book is split up into three different sections: 1. Starting Out from the Meany Papers An introduction 2. Chief Joseph of the Nez Peres A chronology 3. White Witnesses to Chief Joseph’s End A Narrative This book discusses the last few years of Chief Joseph’s life, the white people who he knew at that time, and a generalized look into the history of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perces people from 1750 to 1905. It was very interesting how Gidley organized…

1) “Orthoeros, A Biblically Based Sexual Ethic” by Miguel A. De La Torre To De La Torre “ Orthoeros” is a view of sexual physical contact where the sexual act is completely equal in nature. He related it to Adam and Eve in Holy Scripture where they stood in front of each other with complete openness with out any shame. Orthoeros is more than a sexual act, it is a mutual sharing that enters the rhelm of each person giving priority to the other’s needs and wishes. If we experience this level of…