Were Asian countries doomed to be colonized? One undeniable characteristic of colonialism in Asia between the 1800s and mid-1900s was the immense control it had over the economies and politics in Asia. Trade and production were tailored to serve colonial needs‚ and opposition to colonial rule was suppressed easily. In this context‚ claiming that colonialism was inevitable seems valid as Asian countries could neither resist colonial expansion‚ nor throw off the colonial yoke. However‚ when one
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Do you know who Kipling is? He’s also a famous British writer. Kipling was born in India in 1865. Kipling wrote a lot of books that took place in India. He went to America and liked it and we are going to talk about why. He spent his early childhood in Bombay. His British parents sent him to boarding school in England when he became older. After that‚ Kipling and his bride visited Vermont. This is because his bride was in New York‚ but he didn’t like city life. When he moved to Vermont‚ he liked
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question: Do genetically similar people behave the same way? That is‚ can nature alone determine how one behaves? This seems quite impossible. Take another fictitious‚ but thought-provoking‚ example in Mowgli‚ from "The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling. He is genetically similar to all human beings and much less so to wolves‚ bears and panthers‚ but he behave more like the wild animals. In this case‚ it is certainly clear that nature alone cannot determine human nature. The environment makes
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Mortimer Chambers et al define imperialism as a European state ’s intervention in and continuing domination over a non-European territory. During the ’Scramble for Africa ’ in the late nineteenth century‚ the most powerful European nations desired to conquer‚ dominate and exploit African colonies with the hope of building an empire. According to Derrick Murphy‚ in 1875 only ten percent of Africa was occupied by European states. Twenty years later only ten percent remained unoccupied. There were
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The Elephant’s Child (an adaptation) by Rudyard Kipling Parts: (9) Narrator 1 Narrator 2 Elephant Child Kolokolo Bird Crocodile Brother 1 Brother 2 Ostrich Giraffe Narrator 1: In the high and far-off times‚ the elephant‚ O Best Beloved‚ had no trunk. He had only a blackish‚ bulgy nose‚ as big as a boot‚ that he could wriggle about from side to side--but he couldn’t pick up things with it. Narrator 2: But there was one elephant‚ a new elephant--an elephant child--who was full of ’satiable curiosity
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getting one of his poems published in a local newspaper. In 1911 he went to St. Cyprian’s‚ on a partial scholarship‚ in the coastal town of Eastbourne‚ where he got his first taste of England’s class system. There he began to read the works of Rudyard Kipling and H. G. Wells. He was exceptionally intelligent that he received a scholarship to study at Eton college. After graduating‚ Orwell joined the India Imperial Police Force in 1922. After five years‚ he resigned his post and returned to England
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Literature During the Victorian Age of Great Britain Victorian literature is the literature produced during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901 - the Victorian era‚ her reign‚ the longest in English history). It forms a link and transition between the writers of the romantic period and the very different literature of the 20th century. The 19th century saw the novel become the leading form of literature in English. The works by pre-Victorian writers such as Jane Austen and Walter Scott had
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The Industrial Revolution‚ alongside a burning sense of nationalism‚ shaped European society in the nineteenth century. However‚ imperialism—the domination by one country or people over another group of people—dramatically changed the world during the latter half of that century a considerably higher amount; though the two former prospects did add to imperialism’s reach and influence. Imperialism did not begin in the nineteenth century; in fact‚ it began in the sixteenth century‚ moving along
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superior Europeans. “As Europeans took over foreign lands‚ they viewed the culture of the native population to be inferior to their own. This concept became know as “The White Man’s Burden” after a popular poem by the same name was published by Rudyard Kipling in 1899.” (Caswell) This led to many of Europe’s countries colonizing countries to increase their own power and threaten its rivals. Britain had the most success‚ gaining territory in every continent‚ including Antarctica‚ including the impressive
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