{"id":836,"date":"2017-06-19T15:01:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T15:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/ushistory2os2xmaster\/?post_type=chapter&p=836"},"modified":"2017-06-19T15:01:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T15:01:59","slug":"assignment-white-mans-burden","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-fmcc-ushistory2os2xmaster\/chapter\/assignment-white-mans-burden\/","title":{"raw":"Assignment: White Man's Burden","rendered":"Assignment: White Man’s Burden"},"content":{"raw":"

After the United States acquired the Philippines in the wake of the Spanish-American War, the famous British poet Rudyard Kipling (the same man\u00a0who wrote the Jungle Book<\/em>), wrote The White Man's Burden<\/i> to the American people. After reading The White Man's Burden<\/i> <\/a>write a paragraph or two that answers the following:\n<\/p>

  1. What exactly is the burden?<\/li>\n\t
  2. Why is it a burden (why does Kipling call it a burden instead of \u201cduty,\u201d \u201cprivilege,\u201d or \u201cright\u201d)?<\/li>\n\t
  3. What is the tone of the poem? Is it cheerful (\"Hey America, welcome to the club, now let\u2019s go exploit some non-whites!\")? Is it a somber warning (\"America, do you have any idea what you\u2019ve just got yourself into\")? Is it disappointment (\"Oh, great, another country trying to copy Britain and get in on the empire game\")? Or is it something else?<\/li>\n\t
  4. Who seems to suffer more, the empire or the colony?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nRemember to use specific passages and quotes from the poem in support of your answers.\u00a0 It\u2019s a short poem so be thorough in your reading, thinking, and writing.","rendered":"

    After the United States acquired the Philippines in the wake of the Spanish-American War, the famous British poet Rudyard Kipling (the same man\u00a0who wrote the Jungle Book<\/em>), wrote The White Man’s Burden<\/i> to the American people. After reading The White Man’s Burden<\/i> <\/a>write a paragraph or two that answers the following:\n<\/p>\n

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    1. What exactly is the burden?<\/li>\n
    2. Why is it a burden (why does Kipling call it a burden instead of \u201cduty,\u201d \u201cprivilege,\u201d or \u201cright\u201d)?<\/li>\n
    3. What is the tone of the poem? Is it cheerful (“Hey America, welcome to the club, now let\u2019s go exploit some non-whites!”)? Is it a somber warning (“America, do you have any idea what you\u2019ve just got yourself into”)? Is it disappointment (“Oh, great, another country trying to copy Britain and get in on the empire game”)? Or is it something else?<\/li>\n
    4. Who seems to suffer more, the empire or the colony?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Remember to use specific passages and quotes from the poem in support of your answers.\u00a0 It\u2019s a short poem so be thorough in your reading, thinking, and writing.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

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