Louis Pinnock
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4 days ago · Advance of Kansas Volunteers at Caloocan. Motion pictures were still a novelty at the outbreak of the Philippine War, but film’s ability to generate patriotism and public interest in the war encouraged early filmmakers to produce a number of war films.
5 days ago · Rudyard Kipling's poem "The White Man's Burden," written in 1899, is often cited as a justification for imperialism. However, beneath its surface lies a deep-seated racism that dehumanizes and patronizes non-Western peoples.
5 days ago · In his 2006 book, The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good, NYU economist William Easterly argued that decades of international aid initiatives were far better at feeding bureaucracies than alleviating poverty.
3 days ago · Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like According to the poem, what is the "white man's burden"?, PART A: Which of the following best summarizes the language used to describe the people of the Philippines?, PART B: Which of the following quotes best supports the answer to Part A? and more.
7 hours ago · In that year I had had time to become aware of the meaning of all my father's bitter warnings, had discovered the secret of his proudly pursed lips and rigid carriage: I had discovered the weight of white people in the world.
4 days ago · Film. Bourdain appeared as himself in the 2015 film The Big Short, in which he used seafood stew as an analogy for a collateralized debt obligation. He also produced and starred in Wasted! The Story of Food Waste. Public persona Bourdain in 2007
3 days ago · Conrad's alienation from partisan politics went together with an abiding sense of the thinking man's burden imposed by his personality, as described in an 1894 letter by Conrad to a relative-by-marriage and fellow author, Marguerite Poradowska (née Gachet, and cousin of Vincent van Gogh's physician, Paul Gachet) of Brussels:
