heavy Chinese casualties. This truly forgotten war has been thoroughly researched for the first time and recounted in lively style by Patrick Hase, an expert on the people and history of the New Territories. After brief discussion of British Imperialism in the 1890s and British military theory of that period on small wars, the heart of the book is a day-by-day account of the fighting and of the differences of opinion between the Governor of Hong Kong (Blake) and the Colonial Secretary (Lockhart)
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Evaluating a Historical Argument 1. The main purpose of this article is the debate over whether the United States should annex the Philippines to the US territories or not. 2. The key question that the author is addressing is: why did the US decide to establish an overseas empire? 3. The most important evidence in this article is: a) “The [decision] for annexing the Philippines empire provides a powerful case study—for some, a cautionary tale—regarding the unintended consequences of intervening
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Portland State University English 547: Arthurian Literature Tobias Wilms 913944913 Alfred Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King in the Discourse of Postcolonial Criticism Introduction: Ever since his name was first mentioned by the Welsh monk Nennius in the 9th century, writers modified and applied the great King Arthur's popular legend to convey their various political, religious and social beliefs. The Victorian author Alfred Lord Tennyson followed this tradition exemplarily and enwraped his
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Native American nations. People like O’Sullivan felt even larger expansions were inevitable. This phrase justified our divine right to expand westward and to exercise hegemony over our neighbors and ultimately is a defense of what we now call Imperialism. This was a complex set of ideas encompassing opinions of race, religion, culture, and economic necessity. Throughout the nation, settlers traveled in search of land to further expand their wealth and prominence. In Texas and Florida, they found
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cI~n1p~d down, in saecula saeculorum, upon the will of ptoit~~tepeoples; with another part I thought that the greatest joy in the world would be to drive a bayonet into a Buddhist priest's guts. Feelings like these are the normal by-products of imperialism; ask any Anglo-Indian official, lLI.r .... IN Moulmein, in Lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people - the only time in my life that I have een inlDortant LIJ'. rTAWP-lI1y\. enough for this to happen to ~e., I was sUb on!! police
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being the little man in the situation. The idea that the rest of the world needed saving by the British ideas probably made the idea that the Queen would ever kneel to an African chief laughable. The Queen would have been a familiar source of imperialism because she was the face that others saw to make the decisions. She was far and wide the ruler and the symbol of authority. Aside from the obvious title, the Queen was depicted
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The War Prayer Rhetorical Essay During the mid 1900's, Americans were knowledgeable in imperialism, or extending their impact to different nations utilizing military power. Twain's exposition, The War Prayer, was composed amid this time, however contended against the prevalent theory of imperialism. The point made by Mark Twain's "The War-Prayer" is straightforward, even simplistic, that the hidden desire of the yearning for triumph over the foe is the wish that some sort of loss happens to the
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'économie du Sénégal n'est pour le moins pas florissante. C'est un des quelques pays africains où pour le coup on ne peut pas accuser le colonisateur d'avoir pillé les richesses naturelles. Il n'y a rien que Dieu n'ait donné au pays à part le soleil et le poisson (et en tous cas rien qui n'ait été "pillé" pendant la période coloniale). Une bonne partie du pays ne tient que par les services (commerce, tourisme, banque, assurance) et le bâtiment, eux-mêmes totalement dépendants de l'argent venant
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Stephanie Ericsson analyzes various types of lying in “The Ways We Lie” and believes we would be less tolerant of these lies if we stop telling them ourselves. Ericsson includes several ways that we lie in our everyday lives such as Facades, Deflecting, Groupthink, Delusion, and many others. These forms of deception are found heavily scattered throughout pop culture, specifically literature. In the short essay “Shooting an Elephant,” George Orwell depicts a man burdened with the lies he gives because
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George Orwell Imperialism is the appellation for a policy, where a ruler in a country attempts to oppress another country. This is mainly the theme and point in the essay “Shooting an elephant” The story is written by the author George Orwell, and centers about this problem which was going on between the British and the Burmese. The essay is written as a metaphor describing the British imperialism, and gives the readers an insight in how George's opposition against the imperialism is expressed.
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