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Karine Keuchkerian

Dr. Gizel Hindi

Introduction To Cultural Studies

12 May 2020

Colonialism

During the reign of Queen Victoria, Britain started its conquest to conquer
the world, during this era colonialism was the main event that changed the world of
economics, trade, business and industrialism. Although colonialism was good for
Britain and the British people, from the perspective of power and money gain ( the
rise of the middle class), but it was dreadful for countries like India that faces
many challenges, wars and poverty. Indians were and still are treated like slaves
although they are very smart when they get a chance of education. They were
deprived of freedom and prosperity. For my standpoint, I see colonialism as a way
to deprive a certain group of people of their own rights and money, and to trade
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folklore on others, And strip their own opinions and ideas. For example, in
Wordsworth’s power “ Three Years She Grew In Sun and Shower”, Lucy, the girl
is an unusual specific instance of nature’s beneficial influences thus, one can
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to a flower, apparently the girl was so appealing that a personified Nature then
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decided, in a sense, to adopt the girl as its own, just like how England adopted
India as her own.
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