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    Population; A Human Source Or Burden Zawar Hussain The world population milestone that is sparking a global discussion on today’s most pressing environmental‚ health and justice issues‚ Pakistan’s population has continued to grow at break-neck speed. This has put immense pressure on the resources Pakistan has or can generate. Some would argue that every birth produces a consumer. Increasing population is actually a blessing in Islam‚ Christianity and Judaism. So in religious sense its good

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    « The White Man’s Burden » In "The White Man’s Burden" and in "The Recessional"‚ Kipling outlines his idealistic concept of empire which is based on service and sacrifice. England sends some of their best man to defend and help India. The white man has the mission to civilize the Indians. It is their responsibility to culture them‚ to put them on the right path. They are there to make India a better place to live and bring the population up to date on the style of living. This journey will

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    Rhetorical Analysis of "Ambush" In "The Things They Carried‚" Tim O’Brien discusses his observations as a young soldier during the war with different stories from the past that have become memories. He constantly reflects back on the choices he made and questions them by making the reader do the same. Some of the text’s language seems abstract because they are memories being re-told and not everything is going to said how it exactly happened. O’Brien writes this stories as a way to cope with his

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    became their motto. Defining the uncivilized people as “Half devil and half child” we are enlightened with the harsh reality that the White man’s burden was based upon euro centrism. They are clearly stating “because you don’t follow my religion‚ you are half devil”‚ “because you don’t have the same way of life‚ because you don’t comprehend the things we comprehend‚ your minds are immature‚ they are childish‚ you are an individual with a child’s brain trapped in an adult body.” Through economic exploitation

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    “The Illusion of Water Abundance‚” “The Burden of Thirst”‚ and “Unquenchable” give unique insight into the way different peoples view the source that gives humans life. This synthesis paper will focus on the ethics of water and will compare the way Americans view water to how people who live in Africa view water. Specifically‚ it will discuss the effort it takes to obtain water versus the way water is used and appreciated by two different peoples. “The Burden of Thirst” is an article in National Geographic

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    Kipling wrote the poem “The White Man’s Burden” to urge the U. S. to take up the “burden” of empire‚ or to take up the White Man’s burden‚ which is to send the best men abroad and your sons into exile to serve your captives. The poem is subtitled "The United States and the Philippine Islands". The poem is written in 1899 which is one year after the Spanish-American War. Kipling’s intended audience is the Americans. The poem is showing Americans the burdens of imperialism on the newly taken over Philippines

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    How does the selection by Edward Morel challenge or undermine Kipling’s beliefs? The dialogue “White Man’s Burden” is a condescending and patronizing text. The text was written in response to the winning of the Spanish-American war. In the first stanza‚ Kipling says we need to “take up” this burden. That what the white men have to do is so heavy and the responsibility of this burden is on their shoulders fully. This responsibility is that it was solely up to white people‚ the captors‚ to civilize

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    relation to other people; the extended self – the self in relation to its past actions; the private self – the emotions and thoughts that are only yours; and the conceptual self – the roles that we‚ as people‚ play in society to others. In The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is a story of Tim’s journey to self-knowledge. The story of one unified self would not for either Neisser or O’Brien. While reading‚ O’Brien tells stories about himself and the people close to him before‚ during‚ and after the

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    Robbie O’Brien Structural functionalism is the idea that everything that operates in a society has a certain function and role that it plays in order to make a large society work. I think that it can be broken down like a Car. a car has many parts‚ that all work together in order to make the car go‚ for example a car has the engine part‚ but a car won’t move without all the other parts that officially makes it a ‘car.’ Just like a society‚ if we were to just have the giant corporations‚ and the

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    interpretation of the poem is that Kipling presents that white people have an obligation to rule over people from other races or ethnicities. Also‚ it suggests that the “burden” of white people‚ is to help other countries to develop around the world. Finally‚ Kipling is suggesting that we need to “Take up the White Man’s Burden” meaning that we‚ the United States‚ must begin to colonize places around the world. I think that Kipling specifically wrote “Take up” as a message that the imperialistic

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