Transcript POV statement practice

POV Statement Practice
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Document 3 from 2012 DBQ on Cricket
Source: Cecil Headlam, English cricketer and historian, Ten
Thousand Miles through India and Burma: An Account of the Oxford
University Cricket Tour, 1903.
First the hunter, the missionary, and the merchant, next the
soldier and the politician, and then the cricketer – that is the
history of British colonization. And of these civilizing influences,
the last may, perhaps, be said to do least harm. Cricket unites the
rulers and the ruled. It also provides a moral training, an
education in pluck, and nerve, and self-restraint, far more valuable
to the character of the ordinary native than the mere learning by
heart of a play by Shakespeare.
Document 8 from 2011 DBQ on Green Revolution
Source: Dr. Vandana Shiva, Indian agriculturalist, from her article in
the Ecologist, an environmental affairs magazine, 1991.
The Green Revolution has been a failure. It has led to reduced
genetic diversity, increased vulnerability to pests, soil erosion,
water shortages, reduced soil fertility, micronutrient deficiencies,
soil contamination, rural impoverishment, and increased tensions
and conflicts. The beneficiaries have been the agrochemical
industry, large petrochemical companies, manufacturers of
agricultural machinery, and large landowners.
Document 4 from 2010 DBQ on Japanese/Indian cotton factories
Source: Buddhist priest from a rural area of Japan from which
many farm girls were sent to work in the mills, 1900.
The money that a factory girl earned was often more than a
farmer’s income for the entire year. For these rural families, the
girls were an invaluable source of income. The poor peasants
during this period had to turn over 60 percent of their crops to the
landlord. Thus the poor peasants had only bits of rice mixed with
weeds for food. The peasants’ only salvation was the girls who
went to work in the factories.
Document 4 from 2009 DBQ on the Scramble for Africa
Source: Ndansi Kumalo, African veteran of the Ndebele Rebellion
against British advances in southern Africa, 1896.
So we surrendered to the White people and were told to go back
to our homes and live our usual lives and attend to our crops. We
were treated like slaves. They came and were overbearing. We
were ordered to carry their clothes and bundles. They harmed
our wives and daughters. How the rebellion started I do not
know; there was no organization, it was like a fire that suddenly
flames up. I had an old gun. They – the White men – fought us
with big guns, machine guns, and rifles. Many of our people were
killed in this fight: I saw four of my cousins shot. We made many
charges but each time we were defeated.
Document 3 from 2008 DBQ on the Modern Olympics
Source: Arnold Lunn, British Olympic team official at the 1936
games held in Germany, autobiography, 1956.
The young Nazis were encouraged to believe that a ski race was a
competition in which Germans sought to prove not that they were
better skiers than other people but more importantly, that Nazism
was better than democracy. The only thing that mattered to them
was victory, and all means to this end were justified. The downhill
course was closed to all competitors the day before the race, but
the Nazis, we soon learned, had practiced the course at dawn.
They also turned the technique of making protests into a fine art.
Any decision that could be challenged was challenged in order to
provide themselves with some advantage.
Document 8 from 2007 DBQ on Han/Roman attitudes towards
technology
Source: Frontinus, Roman general, governor of Britain, and water
commissioner for the city of Rome, first century CE.
All the aqueducts reach the city at different elevations. Six of
these streams flow into covered containers, where they lose their
sediment. Their volume is measured by means of calibrated
scales. The abundance of water is sufficient not only for public
and private uses and applications but truly even for pleasure. The
water is distributed to various regions inside and outside the city,
to basins, fountains and public buildings, and to multiple public
uses. Compare such numerous and indispensable structures
carrying so much water with the idle pyramids, or the useless but
famous works of the Greeks.
Document 6 from 2006 DBQ on global flow of silver
Source: Antonio Vázquez de Espinosa, a Spanish priest,
Compendium and Description of the West Indies, 1620’s.
The ore at Potosí silver mine is very rich black flint, and the
excavation so extensive that more than 3,000 Indians worked
away hard with picks and hammers, breaking up that flint ore; and
when they have filled their little sacks, the poor fellows, loaded
down with ore, climb up those ladders or rigging . . . which are so
trying and distressing that even an empty-handed man can hardly
get up them.
Document 2 from 2005 DBQ on 20th Muslim nationalism
Source: Ahmad Lutfi as-Sayyid, founder of the Egyptian People’s
Party in 1907, Memoirs, Egypt 1965.
Today the [traditional Islamic] formula has no reason to exist. We
must replace this formula with the only doctrine that is in accord
with every Eastern nation that possesses a clearly defined sense of
fatherland. That doctrine is nationalism. Our love of Egypt must
be free from all conflicting associations. We must suppress our
propensity for anything other than Egypt because patriotism,
which is love of fatherland, does not permit such ties. Our
Egyptian-ness demands that our fatherland be our qibla* and that
we not turn our face to any other.
*Marks the direction of Mecca, to which a Muslim turns in prayer.
Document 4 from 2004 DBQ on Buddhism in China
Source: Han Yu, leading Confucian scholar and official at the Tang
court, “Memorial on Buddhism,” 819 CE.
Buddhism is no more than a cult of the barbarian peoples spread
to China. It did not exist here in ancient times. The Buddha was a
man of the barbarians who did not speak Chinese and who wore
clothes of a different fashion. The Buddha’s sayings contain
nothing about our ancient kings and the Buddha’s manner of
dress did not conform to our laws .