Choose one of the topics listed below. Your answer should include citations to at least three of the references:
œFerry on French Colonialism (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1884ferry.asp); œKipling, ˜The White Man’s Burden’ (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/Kipling.asp); œAustro-Hungarian Ultimatum to Serbia, July 1914³ (http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_Austro-Hungarian_Ultimatum_to_Serbia_%28English_translation%29); œLost Poets of WWI (http://www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/); œWilson, ˜The Fourteen Points’ (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1918wilson.asp); and œThe Versailles Treaty (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1919versailles.asp).
In your essay, please indicate which question you are addressing.
1) Discuss three of the following documents: Internet documents œFerry on French Colonialism (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1884ferry.asp) and œKipling, ˜The White Man’s Burden’ (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/Kipling.asp), along with œMacauley’s Minute on Indian Education (Chambers, 736), œThe Earl of Cromer: Why Britain Acquired Egypt (Chambers, 751), œKarl Pearson on National Life from the Standpoint of Science (Chambers, 763), and œHobson’s Interpretation of Imperialism (Chambers, 769). What do you learn from these documents about nineteenth century European colonial empires, about the colonists’ attitude toward colonized societies, and about the ways in which colonizers justified their actions? What do you see as the impact of colonialism upon colonizer and colonized?
2) Discuss the Internet document œAustro-Hungarian Ultimatum to Serbia, July 1914³ (http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_Austro-Hungarian_Ultimatum_to_Serbia_%28English_translation%29) and œThe Terms of the Triple Alliance (Chambers, 780). What do you learn from these documents about the reasons for the outbreak of World War I? Was there any way, in 1914, that the war could have been avoided? Why or why not?
3) Analyze any three poems from the site œLost Poets of WWI (http://www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/). What can you learn about the war from these poems? What impact did the war have upon those who went through it?
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