The White Man's Burden:

Part A
The Journal, Detroit

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1. Who might the figures here represent?

2. Where are they heading?

3. Why might the artist have drawn a person being carried uphill?

4. In what ways do you think the artist is trying to describe the "White Man's Burden"?

 

Part B

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1. What are all the different images you see here? What do you think they represent?

2. What is this advertisement saying?

3. How might the words like "lightening" and "brightening" be used to convey more than one message? Where might the "dark corners" of the earth" be?

4. Who might be te target audience of this advertisement?

5. In what ways do you think the artist is trying to describe the "White Man's Burden"?

Part C
1. Taking both pictures into account, describe the "White Man's Burden."

2. In what other ways might we see the "White Man's Burden" expressed?