Name _________________________________________________ Date ____________________________ DBQ 15: NEW IMPERIALISM: CAUSES Historical Context Between 1870 and 1920‚ the rate of European imperialism increased. This was due to economic‚ political‚ and social forces. The Industrial Revolution stirred the ambitions of European nations. The advances in technology allowed these nations to spread their control over the less-developed areas of the world. Historians have studied this empirebuilding
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English Literature Eng 102 Term Paper II Topic: Post-Colonial Indian English Drama India has the longest and the richest tradition in drama. During the age of the Vedic Aryans‚ drama was performed in a simple way. Different episodes from the Ramayana‚ the Mahabharata‚ and the Bhagavad-Gita were enacted out in front of people. When Britishers came in India‚ the
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Introduction: Bestseller versus classics has been a subject of controversy from the time immemorial. Many readers think of them being located poles apart. However‚ many think them to be complementary to each other. A classic‚ by nature‚ has to be a masterpiece‚ a gem written by the author in such a way that it is almost flawless‚ possess something that no other book has done. But unfortunately‚ by the very nature of the word ‘bestseller’‚ a piece of work has to pass through the rigours of trade‚
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Wildlife Conservation Efforts in India Introduction The Indian subcontinent boasts of serving as the natural habitat of a large and varied wildlife. The sub-continent with it’s varied geographical spread from the Himalayas in the north to the Cauvery basin in the south and the Kutch region in the west to the plains of Assam in East present a diverse range of environmental conditions for some of the most magnificent as well as the rarest wildlife species of the world in India to exist. The beauty
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prose or a novel. Such beautiful local color called "Wessex" (present-day Dorset) is painted by Thomas Hardy in his novels. If you read a wide range of his novels‚ the Wessex will emerge in front of your mind ’s eye - so beautiful‚ so vivid! Rudyard Kipling ’s India also shares the same local color. R. K. Narayan beautifully portrays the imaginary village of "Malgudi" - set somewhere in South India - in his novels. The representation of the local shade or color continues emerging in the writings
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Can We Live with a Nuclear Iran? | “Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions”- Rudyard Griffiths | Rosalie Abdo‚ #6719633‚ POL1102D-Politics and Globalization‚ Dr. D Pierre-Antoine | Iran‚ a relatively large third world regime bordering multiple Middle Eastern countries‚ has for many years been accused of secretly building nuclear weapons. This is a country with extreme radical ideologies that publicly condemns the west and sends weekly threats of annihilation to Israel. Countries around the world are slowly
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rituals‚ and controlled by Africans‚ he translated a body of commonly shared knowledge into a myth. Like Hobson‚ who claimed that Jingoism was a particular form of primitive passion‚ Conrad defined Belgian colonialism as a savage force. At a time when Kipling‚ in the short story ‘At the Tomb of his Ancestors’‚ for example‚ celebrated the white man as a god before native populations‚ and believed that tribal values were important for the modem empire‚ Conrad revealed the bankruptcy of these notions. It
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Conservative theory states that imperialism is necessary to maintain existing social order in more developed countries. In addition to secure trade markets‚ maintain employment and capital exports. Supporters of this theory are Disraeli‚ Rhodes and Kipling. Liberal theory states that imperialism is a policy choice and not an inevitable consequence of capitalism. Increase concentration of wealth in the affluent nations leads to under consumption for the majority of people. This can be solved by
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heroism‚ no matter what the color of one’s skin. Haggard came to respect native Africans through personal experience‚ but his high regard for them was seldom shared by his contemporaries‚ who tended to view colonial natives as scarcely human. Rudyard Kipling’s 1899 poem‚ the "White Man’s Burden" also contained a strong message about colonialism and race. The White Man’s Burden represented a very Eurocentric view of the world‚ and had been used to encourage powerful nations to adopt an imperial
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Supernatural Elements in English Literature: The Werewolves A werewolf‚ also known as a lycanthrope‚ is a mythological or folkloric human with the ability to transform into a wolf or an anthropomorphic wolf-like creature‚ either purposely or after being placed under a curse and/or lycanthropic affliction through a bite or scratch from a werewolf‚ or some other means. This transformation is often associated with the appearance of the full moon‚ as popularly noted by the medieval chronicler Gervase
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