Pre-Reading White Man's Burden 1b. Why was White Man's Burden written?

1c. Why might the White Man's Burden be an important historical document? (How might this document help historians better understand this time period?)

1d. Based upon the title of the poem, what predictions can you make about the ideas that might be discussed in the excerpt you will read?

If you were doing a report on the savannah’s of africa, which of the following websites would be your best resource

What do we know about the mother in “two kinds”? select all that apply. she came from china. she had two daughters who died. her mother, father, and first husband are dead. she is part japanese.

London includes a quote about john thornton as he is observing hal attempt to motivate the exhausted dogs "it was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly". if the word "idle" is defined as "of no real worth, importance, or significance", what does this statement mean with regard to hal? who is the fool? what is hal's folly? why would john thornton think it of no real worth or useless to intervene?