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Mark Twain's //The War Prayer//

In this document, Mark Twain try's to show the consequences of Imperialism that people do not see. The two sides of this document are for war and against war. People against war were ostracized and lunatics in peoples eyes. Mark twain is saying that we shouldn't wish harm on others. His view on imperialism is that he doesn't like it. Imperialism is forcing your society and government on others. He didn't like it because he considered that we should harm others to force society on them. This relates to imperialism because the people that are for war are forcing their view on the people against war.

Mark Twains side is more justified. Even though the whole country is for war, his side is more justified because he has a better argument and a better moral to his argument. He says that war harms people that they are against. He says the people who are for war are wishing and praying for bloodshed and grief on the opposing side.

How does the cartoon relate to the readings? The cartoon relates to the readings because it shows this proud man on a large coin then a group of dead men being lifted up on a smaller coin by the coin that the man is on. The coin that the men is on also says imperialism this showing how while imperialism was trying to be this great thing it dragged along all these bad things with it. The size of the coins and the fires that is behind the coin for imperialism also shows the amount of support relating to the beginning of the Mark Twain reading, but the dead bodies on the ground and being dragged on the other coin show the end of the reading (against imperialism) where it shows how there was no way to accomplish it without killing other

The second Document Discusses the evolution of racial superiority, and how it originally started out as people noticing that all of the slaves weren't white and how the Europeans were successful. People jumped to conclusions thinking that if you were white then you were automatically superior to everyone else. This document has one side and that is white superiority. For example, the Spain made laws against racially mixed marriage because they did not want to mix with "impure blood". This relates to imperialism because imperialism is forcing your government and society onto others, the white people were forcing their rule and society onto the slaves and "inferior races" this is imperialism.