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.

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Is flowers an adverb

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No flowers is a noun

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Read the excerpt from Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson.

zysi [14]

Based on the excerpt from Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson that states that hundreds of thousands of nonviolent offenders have been forced to spend decades in prison, the sentence that best states the main idea in this excerpt is A. Life sentences should not be given to nonviolent offenders.

This refers to the term that is used to describe and define the central message that an author wants to convey in his text or speech to a group of persons and this is also known as a theme.

Hence, it can be seen that the given text by Bryan Stevenson talks about changes in legislation that results in harsher sentences for nonviolent offenders or offenses that can be considered "light" and thus, the main idea of the text is that life sentences should not be given to nonviolent offenders which are found in option A.