The main ideas shaping US imperialism were "Manifest destiny" and the "White man's burden". Manifest destiny refers to the 19th century belief that the United States were meant to expand across North America because of the particular excellence of its (white) people and (democratic) institutions. This lead to the Trail of Tears, among other atrocities. Once the US reached the Pacific Ocean, new lands came into view (Puerto Rico, the Phillipines). Manifest destiny became entwined with the idea that "civilized" nations had a moral obligation to colonize other peoples, which Rudyard Kipling summed up in his poem "White Man's Burden". The tensions in this "benevolent imperialism" were never fully resolved; the US invasion of Irak was launched under similar pretenses (the invasion was "for the good" of those invaded). The idea that other peoples have a right to self determination regardless of their level of development has not yet become accepted by the great powers, including the US.
The theme of The Count of Monte Cristo is revenge and forgiveness, power and powerlessness. When Dantes is given a life-prison sentence by his enemies, he spends every waking moment planning his revenge
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- A sound of thunder is used to represent the T-Rex steps and Travis’s gun. The two things that cause giant turns in the story.
- The butterfly Eckels kills is easy—the butterfly effect. Also, butterflies represent freedom, a freedom he killed when his actions changed the outcome of the election.
- The path they’re supposed to stay on is written destiny. It’s the path that needs to be taken in order to get back to their normal lives.
- The bullets represent the disturbance of the past, and future, all at once.
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