The Glass Palace By Amitav Ghosh Analysis

The last use of imagery Orwell embeds in his essay when he says, “The evil-spirited little beasts who tried to make my job impossible.” This imagery is used to show the retaliation of the Burmese people to the British. The amount of hostility the Burmese has against not just the British soldiers but anyone associated with the

The Unredeemed Captive (1995), a non-fiction book by American author and historian John Putnam Demos, is the true story of a kidnapping that shocked colonial Massachusetts. In February 1704, during the French and Indian War, a Native war party descended on the village of Deerfield and abducted Puritan minister John Williams and his family. Although Williams was eventually released, his daughter shocked the colonials by choosing to stay with her captors, eventually marrying into the Mohawk tribe. Exploring themes of colonial politics, the complex relationship between colonists and the native population, and the religious dynamics of colonial America, The Unredeemed Captive was widely praised for its extensively researched narrative. It won the

Imperialism Position Paper In the mid-1800s the British extended their power by taking control over India, leaving a detrimental impact on their nation both socially and politically after ultimately exploiting their people, leaving them on the verge if not already lost to starvation, and consciously stripping many of them of their self-governance rights. The British throughout their rule mistreated the natives, and clearly disregarded their well being after allowing them to starve, and exhausting their workers for their own personal gain. The age of imperialism in India began in the mid-1700s as the British East India Company began to gain greater political influence and power. They were eventually able to monopolize the trading industry,

The excerpt begins by dehumanizing the English people and their leader by calling them vultures, barbarians, and wild beasts. The speaker goes on to call the English greedy and demons of the night. The speaker goes on to say that the English have “poisoned our people with opium” and that they “murder all of us that they can”. The speaker then calls them dogs, says that they can never be satisfied and that they (China) do not need to inquire peace. At the end of the excerpt the speaker says “let us rise, arm, unite and go against them.” The speaker’s POV is obviously extremely angry and most likely has seen some opium-related deaths, “poisoned our people with opium”.

Verdict of the Trial of Genghis Khan. After the trial had taken place, I decided that Genghis Khan and the Mongols were uncivilized. During the time of the trial I learned much more of the brutality that had taken place during his reign. The barbaric attitudes and actions of himself and his followers is what led to him being found guilty of being uncivilized. More specifically, my reason were as follows: their treatment of many people in the regions that they conquered, destruction of property, and caused much devastation across the lands.

She makes statements that the Indians are “merciless heaven”. Similarly Rowlandson whites that the Indians wish to “devour” the English. (Introduction). Indians are represented as “inhumane creatures” in the writing (The Second Reserve). Rowlandson writes of Indians celebrations of battle “By their noise and hooping they signified how many they had destroyed” (The Third Reserve) Their savageness is also shown through her writing of Indians expressions of triumph “over some Englishmen’s scalps that they had taken” (The Third Reserve).

Essay Question: Describe the significance of the Boston Massacre. 9/22/15 The Boston Massacre’s significance was at a very high ratio in American History when the colonies were still trying to gain their Independence from Great Britain. The turning point I have acknowledged, was that the British troops whom were guarding their Leader’s house, the colonists we’re causing the large conflict. Not the British Troops, They were doing as told but took action basing on their feelings. Rage, discrimination, and the fact that the Colonist male members were taunting them all by throwing snowballs and shouting not necessary statements.

On December 16th, 1773 sixty men dressed as Native Americans dumped an entire shipment on tea into the Boston Harbor in protest of the laws and taxes imposed on the colonies. As a result Parliament implicated the Intolerable Acts, which stripped Massachusetts of self-rule and legal independence (timeline). In 1774 colonials met in Philadelphia at the First Continental Congress in order to protest the intolerable Acts and petition for a friendly relationship to return between the colonies and Britain (sparknotes). Meanwhile the battles of Lexington and Concord were the first actions of war during the Revolution. The Minutemen battled the British army in response to Paul Revere’s warning one

The British first came to India not only because of the abundance of raw materials, but also the mass potential they seen. The British East India Company, took advantage of the collapsing Mughal Empire, and broke away from their control to flourished their company. In 1857 the Sepoy army rebelled and that caused the British to come in guns blazing and take over the country. The British rule demolished India through, taxation on anything made in India, and the exportation of raw materials, which caused a plentiful amount of famine,and throughout all of this, the British kept most on India uneducated, and those they did educate, most were forced to become interpreters for the benefits it would make in taking over India and keeping the British in control. Political Paragraph British imperialism had a negative effect on the politics of India because of the corrupt justice system, and the utter lack of respect that killed masses of innocent people.

A boy named Curzon who is slave fighting with the Patriots describes New York as, “A ball tossed between the Loyalist and Patriots. Right now the Patriots hold it” (40). The two groups of people at war have completely different viewpoints; the rebels fight for their freedom, but the British worship a king. Even though initially in the novel the Patriots control the city of New York, British forces fight back, “The British army paraded up Broadway the next day” (185). During this event, many of the rebel flee New York, and the British take complete authority of the city.