Grade 12: Unit 6, Whole-Class & Small-Group Learning

They should assimilate and be as respectable as they possibly could.

My parents believed that, with no real entitlement to anything, they must accept what this country was willing to give.

My family is fair-skinned. In Jamaica this had had a big effect on my parents' upbringing, because of the class system, inherited from British colonial times, people took the color of your skin very seriously.

In fact I came to see that every black person's life, no matter what it is, is part of the black experience. Because being black in a majority white country comes with a myriad of complications and contradictions.

In the 1500s it was the Spanish who first exploited those newly found islands, displacing the indigenous people.

In the Caribbean the legacy is, in one sense, everything. Not just the towns, the cities, and the landscape, but the very people themselves; their origins, their ethnic mix, their hybrid cultures, all result from what the British did on those islands before they finally left them.

For at that time I had already made up my mind that imperialism was an evil thing and the sooner I chucked up my job and got out of it the better.

I did not even know that the British Empire is dying, still less did I know that it is a great deal better than the younger empires that are going to supplant it.

It was a tiny incident in itself, but it gave me a better glimpse than I had had before of the real nature of imperialism—the real motives for which despotic governments act.

He becomes a sort of hollow, posing dummy, the conventionalized figure of a sahib.

A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.

And afterward I was very glad that the coolie had been killed; it put me legally in the right and it gave me a sufficient pretext for shooting the elephant.

It extends 800 miles northwards, and is 200 in breadth, except where a number of promontories stretch farther, the coastline round which extends to 3,675 miles.

There are many land and sea birds of various species, and it is well known for its plentiful springs and rivers abounding in fish.

In old times, the country had twenty-eight noble cities, and innumerable castles, all of which were guarded by walls, towers, and barred gates.

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Storms beat on the rocky cliffs and were echoed
By icy-feathered terns and the eagle's screams;
No kinsman could offer comfort there,
To a soul left drowning in desolation.

Thus the joys of God
Are fervent with life, where life itself
Fades quickly into the earth.

The world's honor ages and shrinks,
Bent like the men who mold it. Their faces
Blanch as time advances, their beards
Wither and they mourn the memory of friends.

There's 'er nick on the cavalry 'orses,
There's 'er mark on the medical
stores—An' 'er troops you'll find with a fair wind be'ind
That takes us to various wars.

There's 'er nick on the cavalry 'orses,
There's 'er mark on the medical
stores—An' 'er troops you'll find with a fair wind be'ind
That takes us to various wars.