The White Man's Burden

The white man's burden is a load or a responsibility that the white people have to do or accomplish. It's the job of the white man to accomplish conquering and ruling other countries or lands. Europeans felt obligated to take over another country and adapt to westeren ways to better themselves such as the Philipinnes. U.S. brought U.S troops such as the best sons just to go to Philipinnes .

" Take up the White Man's burden--
Send forth the best ye breed--
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild--
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.

Take up the White Man's burden--
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain
To seek another's profit,
And work another's gain.

Take up the White Man's burden--
The savage wars of peace--
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.

Take up the White Man's burden--
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper--
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go mark them with your living,
And mark them with your dead.

Take up the White Man's burden--
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard--
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:--
"Why brought he us from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?"

Take up the White Man's burden--
Ye dare not stoop to less--
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloke your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples
Shall weigh your gods and you.

Take up the White Man's burden--
Have done with childish days--
The lightly proferred laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years
Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers! "

The Scramble for Africa

I think that the term " Scramble for Ameria" is basically talking about how the end of the 18th century colonialism seemed to have a thing of the past. Britain had lost its Thirteen Colonies in America, Spain and Portugal that lost most of South America and Holland had a hard time holding onto the East Indies. Afica seen the most dramatic colonisation, it was divided up as if it been a cake split between greedy Euopean leaders. The main Europeans that were involved in the scramble of Africa was France, Great Britain, Germany, Spain, Italy, and Portugal. All these nations were looking for the rich natural resource and land. Since Europeans believed they were the best race in the world they believed that they could take over any country they wanted to. They would use these natural resources to make new manufacture goods for the people of Europe and also to sell to the people of Africa. They would also send these new resources back to Europe to become goods for the people. Theses nations would also take control of the areas because the more land they controlled the more power they had. This Scramble affect the African people in the way that they were slaves. They were treated badly and were used as a trade known as slave trade.

Film Lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

In the film " Mountain of the Moon", were some hardships that Europeans faced as they explored Africa. It was hard for the Europeans to explore because the Africans thought they were their enemies but they were helping them. These Europeans had to learn how to live just like the Africans so it was hard for them. So during the movie, a group of Africans and two mens were exploring there way to survive n find a lake. While they was traveling, they found the Nile River. Exploring the Nile River was very hard for them, they had to face alot of stuff. People didnt have enough energy and there were disease, they couldnt drink some water in some lakes because its been poisoned.