Please answer these questions as fully and thoroughly as you can by drawing from the whole chapter.Warning. Anybody - even some monkeys! -- can copy straight from a book or (even worse) from the Internet. Make sure you take our readings and practice putting the ideas into your own words. This is an important skill to learn: How to take complicated ideas and present them clearly, accurately, and in
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Please answer these questions as fully and thoroughly as you can by drawing from the whole chapter.Warning. Anybody - even some monkeys! -- can copy straight from a book or (even worse) from the Internet. Make sure you take our readings and practice putting the ideas into your own words. This is an important skill to learn: How to take complicated ideas and present them clearly, accurately, and in your own writing voice. Let me be clear: It is crucial that you draw from the readings and try to answer the questions in your own words. Do not simply copy the writing from the reading. The reading is where you must get your answers. You may quote the parts of the readings that you think answer the questeion and then put it into your own words. That's fine! But I want you to "own" the thinking and writing that you post. Also, do not surf the internet for answers. This is the road to plagiarism. It will be obvious that you did. If you quote anything (use somebody else's words) make sure you put the quote in " " quotation marks. The readings have more than enough material to help you answer the questions fullyShorter Answers (20 pts each)1) Explain the various ways that so many (millions) in Africa and Asia were colonized by so few. How? What various explanations help make sense of it? Please, draw from the readings and put them in your own words.(20 pts -this is a broad question that can be answered from various parts of the chapter. Don't give too simple of an answer.)2) An important aspect of colonization was the shifting identities of people caught in it. In what specific ways did those humans who were colonized by Europe begin to think of themselves differently? Give specific examples, details. (20 pts -this is a broad question that can be answered from various parts of the chapter. Don't give too simple of an answer.)3) Millions of humans were killed because of colonization -- disease, famine, slavery (masked as employment), violence, etc. Countless others experienced painful dislocations. Many were mutilated in places like the Congo. But did colonization leave anything positive in its wake? Did anybody, besides Europeans, benefit in any way? [To be clear about history: this isn't a "zero-sum game" where if someone benefits from evil, that evil is somehow less bad. During WW1 millions died and this opened up jobs for all kinds of men and women who survived or who stayed home. That's a fact. It changed those people's lives. Columbus and others conquered the Americas with violence, intimidation, disease and rape. Yet you just bought a nice pair of shoes (made by strangers in Asia) at the mall in a place called "America." You and I benefit, every day, from the evils perpetuated in the past (as well as from heroic deeds and sacrifices from the past). But when particular results are considered good, that does not change the reality of the original pain or evil that occurred before. They co-exist. I am sorry, but they do. In fact, history is much more interesting when we see how "good" and "bad" or morality and evil interact in complicated ways. Fires in the forests often create rich ground for new growth and vigorous plant life. Women sometimes make real gains in equality when men go off and die in war. We MUST BE very careful not to say that the end justifies the means. We must not turn a blind eye to evil. Perhaps, if anything, appreciating these connections can tame our enthusiasm for "progress" by forcing us to remember how even seemingly good things that happen to humans often trace back to repulsive origins.] So, according to the readings, how did colonization lead to some benefits --or at the very least, important changes that a select few of Africa or India or Asia welcomed? Specifics, details, examples, in your own words! (20 pts -this is a broad question that can be answered from various parts of the chapter. Don't give too simple of an answer.) (20 pts)Longer Answers (20 pts each)In the second source (2), what does the author think about British ways? Wait, I thought he loves British ways, so why is he so upset with England? What has England done wrong? Could England argue that it has actually listened to the Indian people and given them what they wanted? Why do you think England established these kinds of schools? (30 pts)The final source (3), is amazing. How does Ghandi's thinking about the West and imperialism compare to the first two sources? For Ghandi, what is really wrong with western culture? What is wrong with Britain's so-called civilization? What, for Ghandi, does British culture lack, that India has? Do you think that Ghandi charts out a new course for India that could actually work? (30 pts)(Extra Credit) In source 4 (from Williams), what is similar between Williams' words and those of Roy (2). What do they share in their response to European colonization? Give various examples. (20 pts) (Extra Credit) In this poem about the wonders of Calcutta, what is it that converts the author (document 1) to accept western imperialism? What does he believe about "China" and the "Farang"? Does he believe they can coexist? Analyze what this short piece tells us about the process of colonization. (20 ots)
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