DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EARLY AND ASSERTIVE NATIONALISTS a) The moderates had faith in gradual reforms whereas the nationalists believed that the swaraj is their birth right. b) The moderates believed in the theory of mendicancy but the extremists were against it. c) Moderates were against an all out struggle against the British but the nationalists wanted to mobilise the whole country against the British rule. d) The moderates believed that the British could be persuaded to see the justness of their
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contributed to the relationship between the forces of Nationalism and Sectionalism? During the course of American History‚ and especially after the War for Independence‚ Nationalism and Sectionalism contributed and interacted with each other to shape the development of the United States of America. These two ideologies are the inverse of one another. When sectionalism is strong‚ nationalism is weak. When Nationalism is strong‚ sectionalism is weak. While sectionalism and nationalism work off of each
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William Graham Sumner explained his view on social Darwinism through an excerpt that was displayed in a collection of essays in 1914. This accusatory text was written in the 1880s and was directed toward the poor people of America. However‚ he did not see them as less fortunate‚ which is often used synonymously with the word poor. To be unfortunate means to be unlucky; these poor citizens were put in this position by their own faults. According to Sumner‚ it was not a matter of luck‚ but a matter
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Both India and China were heavily affected by British imperialism. However‚ the British exerted their control differently in each country. While India was placed under direct British rule‚ with the Queen as its ruler‚ in China‚ the European nations controlled various regions through the concept of "spheres of influence‚" allowing exclusive trading privileges with countries such as Britain‚ France‚ Germany‚ Russia‚ and Japan. Unlike the rule in India‚ it did not involve direct British control. In
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for these freedoms. France’s colonial stubbornness refused to answer Minh’s wishes and as a result relations intensified to out of control and boiled over to say the least. After years of being put on the back burner by world powers who opposed colonialism‚ including the US‚ the Vietnamese nationalists fighting for self-determination turned towards revolution. The ignorance and underestimation shown towards the Vietnamese ultimately was the catalyst that spurred on the future wars against France and
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Darwinism was a concept created by Charles Darwin‚ who found how plant‚ animal‚ and human species developed. This concept then developed another idea‚ Social Darwinism‚ “The false application of Darwin’s theory of biological evolution to the political‚ social‚ and economic realms‚ often used to justify the superior dominant countries‚ groups‚ or races.” Herbert Spencer‚ an English
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themselves superior due to advanced technology and being easily able to subdue resistance with force. These actions were justified as the bringing of civilisation to primitive and undeveloped cultures. In more recent times‚ attitudes towards colonialism and colonisation have changed. Attitudes now include acceptance of difference in culture‚ racial equality‚ and sympathy towards lesser people. Ideas of exploitation‚ brutality and conquer have ceased. However‚ there are still some who consider different
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relied on trade/barter/the importance of Mecca in bringing people together and disseminating news -Nomadic culture -Slavery -Unbalanced distribution of wealth The Guided Caliphs -The early caliphs survive in Islamic history as guided advocating social justice‚ and treating everybody equally -Early expansion -This brought Arab Muslims in contact with different ethnic groups and peoples including the Berbers of North Africa -Islamic Spain/The Golden Age was a period of technology‚ and (as a result
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What relationship exists between Wilde’s ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ and Will Self’s recent adaptation‚ and to what extent is Self’s transformation of the original a response to the new social context within which he is writing? The introduction will outline how Wilde’s original version could be read as a story with a moral‚ drawing on the myth of Narcissus and Goethe’s Faust‚ and that on a basic level‚ Self’s text operates in the same way. Referencing Houston A. Baker Junior’s essay “A tragedy
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Post colonialism should be referred to as the legacies of colonialism and not the end of colonialism. British interests in Indian languages arose from the necessity to cultivate the medium of intercourse between the government and its subjects. Lord Macaulay minute on Education 1835 very clearly signifies his agenda that is the Dissemination of the English language and English culture. The Englishmen wanted a class of persons who can act as interpreters between them and their subjects. People
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