1 Abbe Sieyes was born in 1748. He was a clergyman and a political writer who wrote a very clear message to educate citizens about their rights. He divided his work into three main questions. In his opinion, a nation is “A body of associates living under a common law and represented by the same legislature.” I agree with his definition because he supports the farmhands of the land in France. The third estate citizens who worked really hard to make everything from the other two estates available. They make the highest percentage of France's population (98%) even though they have no right to vote or power in the general estate. He also talked about “What has it been until now in the political order? Nothing." Lastly, “What does it want? Something." …show more content…
It means giving up the comfort. White men have to tolerate and not to show pride. "Open speech and simple" using simple words and explain patiently to gain profit. He also explained how they have to feed people, to get rid of sickness or diseases. They are there to fight to bring peace. He also wrote that this will not be easy and coming back might not be a thought. Kipling also mentioned that people will not like the white men for what they are doing and they will judge you. The reason of this poem is to point out Americans and help to share their way of how can the white men built Europe Empire in East …show more content…
He wrote an essay called Discourse on Colonialism. France started to struggle with Algeria since they do not have force anymore. This essay was kind of like a war against colonialism. At this time, everything is being rebuilt and so many countries are been decolonized. He argued that colonists were entirely self-centered and that they are more interested in themselves than in improving people's life. Cesaire argued that the colonization has created two problems: the proletariat and the colonial problem. He also mentioned how capitalism turned into
Sieyes also identifies the reality that if as a society if we were to remove the nobility that The Third Estate could in fact run on its own, if not “something less but something more”. In fact, society as a whole might actually go better without the two others but would cease to exists without The Third Estate. Sieyes actually goes as far to say that the nobility are a “burden for the nation and it cannot be a part of it.” Sieyes speaks to not only the social inequality between the classes but the lack of political representation of more than what is ninety percent of the population. Then nobility itself possess their own representation that was not appointed by the majority, who does not owe any powers to the people due to divinity, and finally it is foreign for the fact that it’s interests lie with private concern rather than public. In chapter two of What is the Third Estate Sieyes proclaims that up until now The Third Estate has been nothing and reform is coming. He says “Freedom does not derive from
Laurence Hill’s novel, The Book of Negroes, uses first-person narrator to depict the whole life ofAminata Diallo, beginning with Bayo, a small village in West Africa, abducting from her family at eleven years old. She witnessed the death of her parents with her own eyes when she was stolen. She was then sent to America and began her slave life. She went through a lot: she lost her children and was informed that her husband was dead. At last she gained freedom again and became an abolitionist against the slave trade. This book uses slave narrative as its genre to present a powerful woman’s life.She was a slave, yes, but she was also an abolitionist. She always held hope in the heart, she resist her dehumanization.
Both France and Haiti had so many similarities between their revolutions. Both France and Haiti had an oppression for both social and political systems, because they wanted equality among people. “ The injustices of the social system in Saint Dominique stood in stark contrast to the ideals of the French Republic espoused in France during the French revolution, when on August 26,1789, the Claritin of the rights of man was adopted”. (Stock). This quote means that the french republic wanted good in their social system but they got the opposite.“Among the whites, political upheaval had started in the french colonies which had started in 1789 and ended in 1799, which came into conflict, which also divided the French at home” (stock). So basically
However, French lost its territory to the Spanish and the British, but most of France’s colonial wealth were extracted from their colonies in Africa, especially from its vast wealth of gold and diamond. “Like the Spanish the French preferred to rule their colonies under a direct rule, which urge more metropole culture spread upon colonized land. While Spanish colonial cities have plazas, the French colonial cities have Paris grid town planning and architecture that often remind one of France. They also introduced education system using French language, to help further brainwash and spread their own value” (Quora). “The French also wanted to spread their “French value” to its subject as part of their “civilizing” mission, to bless the barbaric of indigenous Africans and Asians with enlightenment (admittedly they were less successful than Americans, but did manage to spread the French language all over Africa)” (Quora). While Africa became more “France”, this failed in Indochina because the locals find French difficult to learn. The Africa colonization was pure and simple, to benefit the metropole at most while limiting the development of industry as to make Africa reliant on European
Similarly, Kipling approaches the concept of life in a prudent manner and forms a series of advice to the reader in the didactic poem “If.” The poet informs the reader on how to balance their life and become a trustworthy leader in society. The main themes presented in “If,” are leadership and maturity. The poem is considered to be a “memorable evocation of Victorian stoicism and the "stiff upper lip" that popular culture has made into a traditional British virtue.” “The stiff upper lip,” is a phrase originated from Sparta in Ancient Greece and most commonly heard of as part of the idiom “keep a stiff upper lip,” which means to face misfortune bravely and to suppress any display of emotion. Kipling presents these two meanings skillfully in the poem. “If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you” or “If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,” are one of the many advises Kipling gives in the poem that all lead to one success; being “a Man.” Kipling has combined “Spartan toughness with Stoic detachment,” presenting not only the ideal of the “stiff upper lip” in the poem but the overall achievement of Manhood and leadership in life. “The stiff upper lip,” is a phrase that has become symbolic to the British and has particularly inspired the English public school system during the age of the British Empire where Kipling at that age had endured “harsh discipline,” at his school.
In “The Fire Next Time,” James Baldwin uses two essays not only to examine racism during a time when the civil rights movement was just emerging, but also to present readers with the consequences America’s intolerance of the black population. During Baldwin’s lifetime, racial injustices plagued America, and, for blacks, equality was merely an idea, not a reality. Despite the racism, Baldwin sees that America still has a chance to right its wrongs by learning to love and accept those of different races. If blacks and whites learn to accept each other, Baldwin believes that America will become stronger as a nation.
...rimitive culture that needed to be civilized, they were people with no education and inferior. Europeans thought of themselves as superior. On the other hand we have perception of Africans towards Europeans, African thought of them as superior “creatures” that came to take everything, probably sent by their gods as a punishment of their actions. Under Leopold’s barbarous rule, African’s were forced to work for him, to satisfy Leopold’s desires which turned into an imperialism. His desires were: political (his need of having more colonies to compete with other European nations), economic (exploitation of raw materials), religion (the need to spread Christianity to change their culture), technology (slaves to work on industrial revolution). His desires turn Africa into a land of human rights abuse which in turn turned into an alteration of perception towards Africans.
The official policy of French imperialism was to assimilate the people that were conquered, but this was not actually fulfilled in practice. Only the wealthier native people could afford to school their children in French culture and achieve assimilation. The average population were exploited for cheap labor. The natives did not have political rights. The French government was a democracy only in France; the French colonies were ruled as an autocratic state. This oppression would lead to revolutions in the future.
The Souls of Black Folks by W.E.B DuBois addresses two concepts that illustrate the experience of African Americans including the concept of the Veil and the phenomenon of double-consciousness. Although the author uses these two concepts differently, their usage and meanings are related. These concepts provided a name to African American’s grievances that were felt then that could not be expressed because there were no word that could precisely describe their grievances. The implication was that the grievances experienced for being an African American could be described then, and also be described in present America. DuBois starts by describing the concept of the veil as mainly referring to three meanings. First, the veil looks at the physical differences of Blacks’ darker skin to white skin. Second, the veil looks at the inability of white people to recognize Blacks as Americans. Finally, the veil looks at Blacks’ inability to view themselves outside white American views.
This particular poem is relatively short, only fourteen lines; however, Gwendolyn says a lot in this piece. It starts out saying that the narrator would like to find some peace in the household. Searching, searching, not able to find relief from the human voices that follow them around. The narrator doesn't want to deal with the griefs and the choices especially. This can be related the the African American struggle of the time because not a hundred years earlier, slavery was a common practice. Slaves would do whatever the white man said. Never having been given any choice in the matter making them afraid to finally do so for themselves. “He feared most of all the choices, that cried to be taken,” (pg.1064, line 12). It can also be related to everyone else in that now that change of the treatment of African Americans was coming about, they demanded to be heard. Perhaps the average white man was seeking relief from the voices he heard and the decisions he was faced with everyday due to
Being a man is not as effortless as fitting the stereotypes that society associates a true man with. Such stereotypes are being dominant, controlling, and valorous. Throughout the poem, Kipling makes it a focal point that a man does not dwell, boast, nor sulk. Kipling shatters this modern stereotype of men and re-illustrates what a real man is in his poem. For instance, Kipling states, “if you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you” (Kipling 1-2). Kipling claims that a true man will not lose his composure no matter the situation even if all around him begin to point their fingers, a real man will maintain his righteous identity despite others trying to tarnish it. Furthermore, Kipling illustrates that a man does not dwell on his failures. For example, Kipling claims that men will “lose, and start again at your beginnings / And never breathe a word about your loss” (Kipling 19-20). Kipling believes that a man will not allow a loss to interfere with the future and will tread on without sulking. In other words, a man will maintain his face and obligations no matter what’s lost. Lastly, Kipling heavily implies that a true man does not boast of his success, by way of example, Kipling states that men “don't look too good, nor talk too wise” (Kipling 8). In modern society a vast majority of men if not all men love to boast of their wealth, intelligence,
She is commenting on how Native Americans lived before they were moved. They had a good life, as she writes, will a great sense of community, friendship and prosperity. No one in the tribe was left behind, no matter if they were not good hunters or gatherers. As long as you had a tribe to look after you, you will be alright. However, each stanza this pleasantness is interrupted by the white man. Even though what the Native Americans stand for is beautiful, they are removed and they are only allotted what the imperialists will give them. Here is a stanza to understand these concepts, “To each head of household—so long as you remember your tribal words for/ village you will recollect that the grasses still grow and the rivers still flow. So/ long as you teach your children these words they will remember as well. This /we cannot allow. One hundred and sixty acres allotted” (Da’). As we see with this quote, Da’ is pointing out how the new Americans exiled the Native people not only from their land, but their righteous ways of living, and the precious land that allowed them to be
Prince Leopold demonstrates that a large motive was to help out the other nations more so to provide them with steam and electricity. They also wanted to help out Africa, as maybe Africa could do them good as well. In facts, new technologies such as the telegraph, trains, and new medications were, instituted into Africa. This allowed Africa to progress in terms of social conditions. Louis Bernard a french colonial official demonstrates how the humility was lost in the other side of France as they were cruel to colonies, however as an officer he fails to acknowledge that only the actual citizens of the colonies can justify if the help was good in terms of new cultural
...ti was in prior to the French Revolution were prime for an revolt to take place. Having an unclear and defined political authority, the White colonists were unable to contain sufficiently the rebellion that they had coerced themselves for years. Their shameful behavior toward the Blacks and Mulattoes in Haiti expedited the progression of the reason of the abolition of slavery in Haiti. The surplus of that disgraceful treatment is the very reason why the Haitian Revolution was so successful. “The treatment of slaves and Mulattoes in Haiti was so bad that it forced the most violent and ultimately, the most successful slave insurrection in history.” (Rand,1) The French Revolution provided the necessary spark for the revolution in Haiti to occur. The Haitian Revolution was the inspiration the cause of the abolitionists of slavery in Haiti needed to actualize its goals.
Kipling is very racist in this short story. Kipling makes it very clear that the white man “culture” is better and superior while compared to any other culture, specifically Indian culture.