If your family was in a difficult situation, would you risk your life for them? Would you save them even if that meant putting your life in danger? Loving your family is important and being loyal to family can bring you closer to them. Love and loyalty can make you do crazy things for the people that you care about. Rikki-Tikki is a loyal and loving character in the story. For instance, Nag tries to kill Rikki-Tikki’s family and to save his family, Rikki-Tikki kills Nag. (par.58) This
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foreign aid as a contemporary form of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘White Man’s Burden” whose goal was to uplift those worse off than ourselves out of poverty. The White Man’s Burden by Rudyard Kipling “…Take up the White Man's burden-- The savage wars of peace-- Fill full the mouth of Famine, And bid the sickness cease; And when your goal is nearest (The end for others sought) Watch sloth and heathen folly Bring all your hope to naught.….” While Kipling may have been optimistic, reality shows
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the potential wealth it holds but also because the countries would see it that the Africans needed help. Turning the conquerors into saviors and that is always a good feeling when possibly it is not the case as the poem “White Man’s Burden,” by Rudyard Kipling would mention. “Take up the White Man’s burden, Send out the best ye breed…. To serve your captive’s need” (273 DBQ). Great Britain, Germany and Frace would soon find out that Africa not only big in land, but possibly even greater in resources
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Greed is a powerful thought that overcomes many people. Many people behave irrationally under its spell. For the Europeans, they decided to take over Africa. The Europeans had many motives for imperialism in Africa. Imperialism is the takeover of a country or territory by a stronger nation with intent on dominating the political, economic, and social life of the people of that nation. Europe’s main motives for African imperialism were Industrial Revolution resources, humanitarian morale, and economic
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hopes to include HH Munro, whose voluntary enlistment to serve the army in World War I led to many poignant prose-poetry extravaganzas in his body of fiction. Along with other unforgettable war writers like John Galsworthy, Willa Cather, and Rudyard Kipling, this anthology will strive to showcase a blend of writers and writing styles that bring out the hopelessness of manmade strife. Fiction Is Stranger: An Anthology of Mystery Stories Weird or logical, supernatural or thrilling, few things
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Short Story Friday Instead of Narrative Friday, we are going to participate in Short Story Friday for the next quarter (at least!). Everyone in the class will pick a short story that they want to read, research, then re-write. There can be no more than three people per story. These three people will then read the story, research it, and re-write the story in a different context. Finally, they will present the story to the class in their chosen format. Group Members: 1)Camron 2)Hunter 3)Nick
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Entering the dark and mysterious world that is adulthood can be scary and cumbersome without the proper guidance. Rudyard Kipling’s “If” is filled with life lessons for those going into the world of adulthood. Holden Caulfield does not seem to quite appreciate the advice and chooses to ignore it. Holden ignores the advice in “If” by lying, being conceited, and by not keeping his virtue as he talks. For instance, Holden displays his habit of lying constantly on a daily basis. Holden lies whether it
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imperialism. The advocates for imperialism in the late nineteenth century supported their beliefs in a variety of ways. Most notably, they backed up their views by stating it was their god given right to become a dominating world power. In 1899, Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem titled The White Man's Burden: The United States and the Philippine Islands. The poem was about how god gave white people the task of enlightening those of different culture. Senator Albert Beveridge referenced this idea when he stated
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Aubrie Harmon Amanda Crawford English 12B 2, February 2017 Shift in Imperialism From the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century the world was overrun by what is now known as Old Imperialism. European nations sought trade routes with the Far East, explored the New World, and established colonies in North and South America, as well as in Southeast Asia. Some nations even set up colonies on the coast of Africa and China, peacefully trading with the locals. The New Age of Imperialism , beginning
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Name __________________ APES Isle Royale Population Study Background: Isle Royale is a small island (45 miles long by 9 miles wide) located in Lake Superior. In roughly 1949, due to a thick ice pack on Lake Superior, timber wolves crossed the ice pack and began to live on Isle Royale. In 1958, one of the longest wolf/moose interaction studies began. Far more information can be found at: www.isleroyalewolf.org or www.wolf.org . Isle Royale is one of the locations for the W-SR Wilderness
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