A Passage to India "They didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices, no, not yet, and the sky said no, not there'- (Forster, 362). ... Forster's novel, A Passage to India, there is a clash between two cultures, England and India. ... It is impossible for the different cultures to understand how the other thinks because they are brought up with different beliefs. ... Aziz finds this question very offensive, but Adela has no idea she was wrong in asking; Adela just thought she was making good conversation. ... He explains his good nature and how Aziz would never...

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She would take this stance because of the beliefs she expresses in her passage relating to the oppressive nature of imposing the English language on Chicano's. ... This component of the requirement presents the need for students to learn to write essays in a formal method with evidence supporting arguments. ... Furthermore the statement goes on to express the requirement for students to question the "conditioned nature- of their own beliefs about the world. ... She would find the requirement to be both objectionable and oppressive, because of her negative mind-set about being forced in...

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Without question, one of the major driving forces behind the rapid expansion of the British Empire was colonization. ... Even though Columbus' control of territory in America had nothing to do with Britain, his methods and justifications for this colonization provided an insight about how the British Empire dealt with these same situations. ... The British believed that only with their help could savage societies eventually become civilized. ... The passage about making nests from brush tufts evokes monkey and ape behaviors (Fausto-Sterling, p. 36).... One quintessential example of this ...

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It is up to the reader to decide how each of these works are to be taken, and whether or not they will see the horror of it all. ... The second stanza of "The White Man's Burden" speaks of how patiently and selflessly the Europeans took up the "burden" of Africa, even in the face of unknown terror, "to seek another's profit and work another's gain." ... Heart of Darkness and "The White Man's Burden" both dealt with the same topic, but in different ways. ... The questions still remains as to whether the novel is racist, or simply presents a non-judgmental view of the treatme...

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