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White Man’s Burden

  1. What images do you see in this advertisement?

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  1. What do you think these images represent?

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  1. According to this advertisement, what will Pears’ Soap help teach?

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  1. Where does it seem like this lesson will be taught? (Be prepared to defend your answer with evidence from the ad)

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  1. Based on this ad, who do you think the “cultured of all nations” are?

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  1. What do you think the advertisers are referring to when they say “the White Man’s Burden?”

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The White Man's BurdenBy: Rudyard Kipling

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 hope to nought….
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Take up the White Man’s burden-- Ye dare not stoop to less--
Nor call too loud on Freedom To cloak your weariness.
By all ye will or whisper, By all ye leave or do,
The silent sullen peoples Shall weigh your God and you….

1.In the first stanza, what do you think it means to “bind your sons to exile, to serve your captives need?” (Whose sons are going? Where? Who are the captives?)

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2.In the second stanza, why do you think one must speak openly and simply?

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3.In the third stanza, how do you think one will “fill full the mouth of Famine?”

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4.In the third stanza, how will you be repaid for your work and effort?

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5.In the fourth stanza, why do you think it means that the “silent, sullen peoples shall weigh your God and you?”

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6.In your own words, describe the White Man’s Burden.

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7.Do Americans today feel a kind of White Man’s Burden when we invade countries such as Afghanistan or Iraq? Explain your answer.

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