The Four Feathers Movienight

“God has endowed the British race with a worldwide empire that
they may execute His sovereign purpose in the world. The victories you will have over the heathens are the victories of the nobler soul in man.”
1. Basically, the priest/general is explaining what Kipling means in his poem "White Man's Burden". The British believe that it is what god wants them to do and that is why they shall execute what he is asking for. Otherwise, what they are doing would be against god's will. I think this quote was valid at that time, because all of these world powers were very religious and I think that everything they did was justified by their vision of god.

“I sometimes wonder what a godforsaken desert in the middle of nowhere
has to do with Her Majesty the queen.”
2. Harry is questioning the idea of colonization because first, he doesn't want to get sent off to war, but also because he believes that the army could do better somewhere else. Harry is looking at this different because he has just gotten engaged to Kate Hudson, and really doesn't want to fight. This causes him to quit the Miitary.

"Avoid drinking local water and spirits "avoid local barrooms and
brothels and, above all, remember, you're a Christian soldier."
3. This handout the soldier is reading makes Africa seem like a place where they poisoned your water, and nobody was to be trusted. In actuality, Harry made friends with Abu, and he did not poison his water. Once again, this quote attempts to explain how the soldiers are soldiers of Christ rather than the queen.

“They're like children. They have no concept of gratitude or loyalty.
That's something you British don't understand. You come here, trying to civilize them with your Christian values.”
4. This quote makes the Africans seem very primitive and stupid, however as seen later in the movie, they are very smart and formulate strategic plans. It also tells Harry that these people do not want to change their religion, and their god doesn't force them to do anything.

“You English walk too proudly on the earth.”
5. Abu means that all Englishmen walk as if they were Christ themselves, and does not believe that these men can get away with murder. I think that this statement is stereotypical, and all Africans looked at all English this way. I don't think Abu agrees with the British, nor does he agree with the Radical Africans either.

Critical Thinking
Well, one reason the boy didn't drop his gun was because he couldn't speak English!!!!!!!! Wow what an idiot, however I would have shot the kid too if he was reloading his gun right in front of me. I believe that Jack should have felt remorse for killing the boy, but he did the right thing for his own self preservation. I think the people threw rocks at Jack because to them it seemed like Jack was the bad guy, while through the British lens, the sniper kid was the bad guy. I think this language barrier was very important in the Scramble for Africa.

Motives for British Imperialism

1. Slavery was in decline because it was a goal of foreign policy because slavery was not economically sound. Many people believed in philanthropy to help new people since slavery had been abolished.
2. Halstead disregards ideology and also in the introduction paragraph he rules out national security as well. This is because national security was not high up in the foreign policy. And ideology was removed to simplify imperialism.
3. Halstead believed that imperialism was a method of foreign policy, while others believed it had to do with money, trade, national security, monarchy, and religion.
4. Halstead finalizes that he believes that imperialism was something that had to be done under new foreign policies, and had to do with nothing else.

White Man's Burden

1. Kipling means that it is the Europeans job to take care of these different primitive peoples and it is what god would want them to do.
2. Kipling justifies imperialism by stating that it is needed to spread freedom and it is the word of god.
3. Many people were into this idea because they were "helping out" these primitive people who couldn't fend for themselves.
4. Religion was used over justification for money and all that stuff because it was something that everybody at the time believed in and it detoured the people away from the money.

Unit 2 Short Answer Questions

1. The enclosure movement gave a population rise to cities because all of these farmers that had been shorted out of their land needed a permanent job. At the time, the factory industries were beginning to boom, so these farmers took up jobs working in the factories. This caused many people to be living in unsanitary conditions, and some people became very sick from it. People were so desperate for money, the children would work in small mines in order to keep their family off of the streets. The harsh conditions of these working places, caused many labor unions to be created, to protect these new workers.

2. When many of the lower/middle class families moved to the cities, it caused an increase in poor sanitary conditions. Many of the aristocrats decided to leave the cities so they would not get sick or have to mingle with these lower classes. Anyhow, the location reversals of these classes, caused more of the lower class to be in the cities. Politicians who wanted to be voted into office now had to appeal more to the lower classes rather than to the aristocrats.

3. The decline of slave trading and an increase in immigration caused the creation of many Labor Unions. Now that there were no slaves, the business owners could not find any cheap labor. The American working conditions made immigrants want to join a union because it would pretty much give them a job to work and support their family, but also serve to make sure that these "uneducated factory workers" were not getting ripped off.

Obama Cabinet Elects

Chief of Staff
Well, due to the fact there are only two candidates, I would rather have Rahm Emmanuel as Chief of Staff, because he has experience at the White House and on Capitol Hill. He already has an offensive approach to leading that would somewhat balance out all the defensive points.
Secretary of Defense
I personally believe this should be Colin Powell. He has experience with wars, and would give Obama a republican on his cabinet which would make most of the republicans happy, especially in this position.
Secretary of Education
I think Joel Klein has the most experience out of all the other candidates. He runs the NYC School System which is the biggest School System in the US.
Secretary of Energy
I think Dan Reicher should fill this position because he will use his business savvy to sell our green energy to the world and help our economy. Also, he filled the Assistant Secretary of Energy before.
Head of EPA
I think Robert Sussman is the most qualified out of all candidates because he was Deputy Administrator of EPA in Clinton's First term, so he has experience. Also, he is highly regarded on the aspects of energy.

Population and Wealth of Nations

NOTES on POPULATION
Population growth
-Philosophers
-Intelligence portrays happier society
-crazy people have no grip on reality
-food is needed for humans to exist
-passion between the sexes is undeniable
-human population increases in a geometrical ratio
-Mankind will keep doubling
-plants and animal are impelled by instinct, humans think
-rich people raise wage for lower class, but take away all money for themselves
-war will stop population growth
-more marriages, population increases
-increase purchases
-poor man can't go up in social standings without raising the burden on that class
-even though there is tyranny, people will have sex
-poor population could buy land, so population doubled
-population has no limit

5 MAIN POINTS on WON
-People act in their own interest
-A Free Market will benefit society as a whole
-Outside forces can reduce work force and slow down production
-When you have the will to better yourself, you will advance (Meritocracy)
-Meritocracy leads to better flow in the economy

Simon Bolivar

1."No matter what citizen occupies this office, he will be aided by the
Constitution, and therein being authorized to do good, he can do no harm, because his ministers
will cooperate with him only insofar as he abides by the law. If he attempts to infringe upon the
law, his own ministers will desert him, thereby isolating him from the Republic, and they will
even bring charges against him in the Senate"
-The citizens cannot do anything wrong because they are abiding by the law by putting who they think is responsible into office, so they deserve the freedom to do this.
2. "This weakness can only be corrected by a strongly
rooted force. It should be strongly proportioned to meet the resistance which the executive must
expect from the legislature, from the judiciary, and from the people of a republic. Unless the
executive has easy access to all the administrative resources, fixed by a just distribution of
powers, he inevitably becomes a nonentity or abuses his authority."
-The weaknesses that the people and the government have can be fixed with a democracy, while a radical monarch would ruin things.
3. "Therefore, let the entire system of government be strengthened, and let the balance of power be
drawn up in such a manner that it will be permanent and incapable of decay because of its own
tenuity."
-The entire system of government, not only monarchy but democracy too, must be re structured so that it works. Until then, the Latin peoples must be free in order to prevent an even worse decay.
4. "Precisely because no form of government is so weak as the democratic, its framework
must be firmer, and its institutions must be studied to determine their degree of stability...unless
this is done, we will have to reckon with an ungovernable, tumultuous, and anarchic society, not
with a social order where happiness, peace, and justice prevail."
-The government must work for the people in order for both the economy and everything else to work properly.