seen as shocking to the United States in the 19th century‚ such as the practice of animism‚ was seen as proof that it was the duty of the United States to impose culture and civilization upon the kingdom of Hawaii. In the case of the Philippines‚ Rudyard Kipling’s famous poem‚ The White Man’s Burden‚ was written specifically to urge the United States to take up this ostensible ‘burden’ of empire in the Philippine islands‚ where the native Filipino people were seen as backwards and in need of uplifting
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(physical ability‚ mental ability‚ etc.) and translate the 312 sentences into Ukrainian. 1. Anyone can be a fisherman in May. (Hemingway) 2. Can you draw 3. I could wash the floors. (Dreiser) 4. Suleman-ibn-Daoud could hardly speak for laughing. (Kipling) 5. You have done everytning you could for me. (Hemingway) 6. ... but I cant make head and tail of it. (Maugham) 7. She couldnt bear the sight of him. (Christie) 8. I was able to do the commissioner a favour once‚ and he sends me a Christmas card
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The novel Cry the Beloved Country is a prophecy for the future of South Africa. It alludes to and sometimes even blatantly states the conditions necessary for the end of apartheid and the beginning of peace. South Africa in the 1940’s was in trouble. Kumalo‚ a priest‚ was able to see through the prejudices of the world and assess the situation. When inconvenient to involve Kumalo in the investigation‚ the depth of South Africa’s disparity was illustrated directly through the stories of horrifying
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British writer whose witty‚ mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirized Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde‚ Lewis Carroll‚ and Kipling‚ he himself influenced A. A. Milne‚ Noël Coward‚ and P. G. Wodehouse. Beside his short stories (which were first published in newspapers‚ as was customary at the time‚ and then collected into several volumes)‚ he wrote a full-length play‚ The Watched
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Even liberals like Dickens and Doyle myopic on Asia‚ Kipling….genuine liberals like Shaw and Wells‚ it is their like who played a role in the peaceful transfer of power. The far more informal and even handed Indian traders‚ in Gujarat and South Africa‚ but always marginalized‚ growth of Indian industry and
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I will start my article with a quotation from a renowned French literary man and philosopher Voltaire which goes as follows: “L’univers m’embarasse et je ne peux songer - Que cette horloge existe et qu’il n’ait pas d’horloger ” (http://www.dico-citations.com/l-univers-m-embarrasse-et-je-ne-puis-songer-que-cette-horloge-existe-et-n-ait-pas-d-horloger-voltaire-fran-ois-marie-arouet-dit/ Accessed 14thAugust 2017).In front of the perfection of the universe‚ traditional Africans feel the same uneasiness
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INTRODUCTION The history of the West and their interactions with those in Africa especially‚ are fraught with paternalism and the trend is continuing today. American journalists in particular‚ only cover the negatives of Africa while ignoring the countries’ political and economic success stories. This narrative only continues the narratives of Africa’s helplessness. By downplaying African countries abilities to plan and follow through with efforts to develop and improve themselves‚ it harms not only
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industrialization and the nation-state organization; the explanations that Europeans made to themselves were that they were superior to non-European peoples. Moreover‚ there were a number of racist ideas widely believed by Europeans. Namely‚ one variation was Rudyard Kipling’s idea of the White Man’s Burden. The white man had the burden and responsibility of bringing the blessings of their superior civilization to the savages of the non-European world. Likewise‚ European civilization experienced a period of unprecedented
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Europe I. General Info A. Facts 1. birthplace of western civilization 2. influential on world development a. history - exploration b. philosophy - religion [ religious backgrounds in US & Latin America come from Rome ] c. ideology - gov [ democracy comes from Ancient Greece ] 3. continent - subregions a. Eastern (Central) b. Western B. Geography 1. major cities~refer to map 2. 2nd smallest Australia‚ 2.9) -4 sq. miles 3. population of 700 million +‚ density 65 ppl/sq
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SHORT STORY AND ITS ELEMENTS A short story is a kind of prose fiction which has grown up besides the novel and which has its own important and recognised place in literature. It may be defined as a prose narrative‚ “requiring from half an hour to one hour for its perusal.” In other words‚ brevity is the key-note of a short story. It is a story which it is physically possible to read at one sitting. But its must not be supposed that the short story is a novel on a reduced scale. It has a definite
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