Weekly Journal Entry #8
In a speech about French colonial expansion, Jules Ferry strongly encourages the French to colonize territories such as those in Africa in order to gain all their raw materials in order to help keep France as one of the world powers and not let it fall behind the other European countries and the U.S. One thing that I noticed while reading Ferry’s speech was how similar he sounded to one of our earlier readings in the semester by St. Francis Xavier when he claimed that “the superior races have a right because they have a duty. They have the duty to civilize the inferior races...” (Ferry, p.245). Ferry sounds a lot like Xavier here as he believed that since the Africans were inferior to them, they had the right to colonize …show more content…
One thing that I found interesting in her memoir is her retelling of a story of a dying female soldier in the battlefield. When the female soldier tells Botchkareva “Milaya, nitchevo!,” which translates “my dear it’s nothing,” she is basically saying that although she is hurt, it doesn’t matter to her (Botchkareva, p. 315). All she cared about was the success of Russia in the war and she wanted to do the best she can to make a difference in the battle, even if it meant sacrificing her own life in the process. She tells Botchkareva not to worry over her seemingly unavoidable death in order to convince her to continue fighting. Contrary
In a speech about French colonial expansion, Jules Ferry strongly encourages the French to colonize territories such as those in Africa in order to gain all their raw materials in order to help keep France as one of the world powers and not let it fall behind the other European countries and the U.S. One thing that I noticed while reading Ferry’s speech was how similar he sounded to one of our earlier readings in the semester by St. Francis Xavier when he claimed that “the superior races have a right because they have a duty. They have the duty to civilize the inferior races...” (Ferry, p.245). Ferry sounds a lot like Xavier here as he believed that since the Africans were inferior to them, they had the right to colonize …show more content…
One thing that I found interesting in her memoir is her retelling of a story of a dying female soldier in the battlefield. When the female soldier tells Botchkareva “Milaya, nitchevo!,” which translates “my dear it’s nothing,” she is basically saying that although she is hurt, it doesn’t matter to her (Botchkareva, p. 315). All she cared about was the success of Russia in the war and she wanted to do the best she can to make a difference in the battle, even if it meant sacrificing her own life in the process. She tells Botchkareva not to worry over her seemingly unavoidable death in order to convince her to continue fighting. Contrary