John Beames Civilian Memoirs

“I is for India, Our land in the East, Where everyone goes To shoot tigers and feast.” (Ames 278) John Beames’ “Civilian Memoirs” gives a slight reference of what Ames was trying to convey, being that he was in Indian during that time, and that piece was just about his day to day life, more so touching on why India was ‘the preferred place to live in’. The piece was more based on the work environment as to Beames and his comrade George Faulkner chose to move to India for the same reason, less government control in respect to the work environment. Beames stated on his account “…the great charm of the work of Civil officers in Indian is its variety. One has no fear of getting wearied by a monotonous routine,” and again in reference to Faulkner,
John Ruskin’s “Conclusion to Inaugural Lecture” was not only a daring, but very bold statement made by him because he was very toward with imperial expansion. Through this piece he it is as if he is declaring that his country do the same. The last paragraph, that began with “You think that an impossible ideal…” was where he was really challenging his audience, asking them basically why wouldn’t they want to stand up and try to make England becomes one of the greatest empires. (Ruskin 19) This was John Ruskin’s whole purpose of the conclusion of his lecture, and leads me to my letter selection from
It seems as if Ames if referencing how Great Britain has the power to overrule every country/nation, no matter their standing because they felt in a ways superior. Edward Wilmot Blyden addresses the Negro community in reference to this superiority in his piece from “The Aims and Methods of a Liberal Education for Africans”. In the last line he concludes very strongly in stating the overbearing rule of the European rule, comparing it too overdosing, “So we have reason to apprehend that in our political, educational, and social life, we are imbibing overdoses of morphine when we fancy we are only taking Dover’s powders.” (Blyden