2. OUTLINE BRIEF INTRO TO RUDYARD KIPLING WHAT IS IMPERIALISM? “GUNGA DIN” “IF” “THE WHITE MAN’S BURDEN” “THE GODS OF THE COPYBOOK HEADINGS” CLOSING
3. JOSEPH RUDYARD KIPLING 30 DECEMBER 1865 – 18 JANUARY 1936 ENGLISH POET, SHORT STORY TELLER, NOVELIST BEST KNOWN FOR “THE JUNGLE BOOK” 1907 NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE WROTE MANY POEMS AND TALES OF BRITISH SOLDIERS IN INDIA
4. WHAT IS IMPERIALISM? THE CREATION AND/OR MAINTENANCE OF AN UNEQUAL ECONOMIC, CULTURAL, AND TERRITORIAL RELATIONSHIPS, USUALLY BETWEEN STATES AND OFTEN IN THE FORM OF AN EMPIRE, BASED ON DOMINATION AND SUBORDINATION.
5. “GUNGA DIN” TALE OF A BHISTI, NATIVE WATER-BEARER BRITISH SOLDIERS RELIED ON GUNGA DIN FOR MORE THAN JUST WATER GUNGA DIN TENDED TO THE SICK AND WOUNDED GUNGA DIN WAS ON OR NEAR THE FRONT LINES DURING COMBAT GUNGA DIN ULTIMATELY GAVE HIS LIFE WHILE BRINGING WATER TO A WOUNDED BRIT
6. IF A SERIES OF PARABLES USED TO DESCRIBE BECOMING A MAN RUNS IN LINE WITH THE YOUNG SOLDIER BECOMING A LEADER IN BATTLE BRINGS KIPLING’S OWN LIFE LESSONS TO LIGHT
7. THE WHITE MAN’S BURDEN A CHARACTERIZATION FOR IMPERIALISM THAT JUSTIFIED THE POLICY AS A NOBLE ENTERPRISE TELLS A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW OF THE SOLDIER ON THE FRONT LINES ALLUDES TO THE COSTS OF BUILDING AN EMPIRE: LIVES, SOCIETAL, SLAVERY, BONDAGE MAN’S BURDEN OF WAR FOR PEACE
8. THE GOD’S OF THE COPYBOOK HEADINGS TELLS OF THE RISE AND FALL OF ALL EMPIRES MAN BECOMES COMPLACENT IN HIS DESIRES OF DOMINANCE – ULTIMATE DOWNFALL HUMAN NATURE WILL EMERGE IN ALL SOCIETIES THROUGH SELF INDULGENCE “ALL MEN ARE PAID FOR EXISTING AND NO MAN MUST PAY FOR HIS SINS”
9. CLOSING KIPLING SAW THE WORLD THROUGH MANY SETS OF EYES AND WAS ABLE TO WRITE FROM ALL POINTS OF VIEW. MANY OF HIS WRITINGS ARE STILL VALID TODAY, TEACHING LESSONS ON THE HISTORY OF MAN AND THAT IT WILL IN FACT REPEAT ITSELF.
