1. Why do you think this poem was highly criticized? Support your answer with evidence from the text.

2. What is your reaction to reading “The White Man’s Burden.” What is the legacy of this poem?

3. In the context of this poem, how does prejudice emerge? Use evidence from this text, your own experience, and other art or literature to answer this question.

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts

mapmaking. cartography had been an art form for many years, but it wasn’t until the renaissance when ptolemy’s ancient system of latitude and longitude was rediscovered that mapmakers were able to make surprisingly accurate and useful maps.