<span>The Deepwater
Horizon oil spill affected an area of approximately 2,500 to 68,000
square miles, affecting the Gulf Coast of Mexico, especially the states
of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. In
2013, in the state of Louisiana, they managed to eliminate 4,900,000
pounds of oil from beaches, twice the amount of oil collected in 2012.
The economies of the Gulf Coast states were terribly affected, as the
spill affected the industries, of which, the inhabitants of the coast of the four affected states depended. <span>More than a third of US waters in the Gulf were closed to fishing, to avoid further pollution.</span></span>
Answer:
The correct answer is letter B.
Explanation:
The Spanish-American war ended in 1898 with the winning of the US army.
The winning made Spanish army give up some territories, such as Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico and Philippines. In that time the United States made the independence the state of Hawaii.
This made US establish a predominance in Caribbean region and following the strategic economic steps in Asia.
I think that the first one is correct.
Answer:
Kipling clearly liked the idea of enslaving the people of one Asian country on the other side of the world. The White Man's Burden was written with the sole intention of persuading Americans not to give freedom to the Philippines. On the other hand the political cartoon is obviously is showing that the white man is carrying all other races on his back, and that without him they wouldn't prosper.
Explanation:
This poem was once very popular. It was written in 1899, at a time when Filipinos were fighting for independence from the United States of America. Many readers today are probably not aware of the fact that the United States colonized the Philippines.
Poem is, by modern standards, extremely offensive. The author calls the population of another race "freshly caught, frowned upon people" who are "half devil and half children." He criticizes them for not accepting white people as "better than themselves" and those who "brought them to the light of day" by colonization.
"White man's burden" is a term synonymous with English imperialism and racism in the English-speaking world today.
Ended the brutal rule of Saddam
Saddam reign of terror was characterised by oppression,torture and massacre of the Iraq minority such as the Kurds.
