The excerpt is from an african american poem called “the black man’s burden.”pile on the black man’s burden.'tis nearest at your door; why heed long bleeding cuba, or dark hawaii’s shore? hail ye your fearless armies, which menace feeble folks who fight with clubs and arrows and broke your rifle’s smoke. –h. t. johnson, the black man’s burden, 1899 what point of view does the poem’s author express? cuba and hawaii could benefit most from imperialism. imperialist armies are easily repelled by native armies. imperialism is more about bullying than heroism. african americans were wrong to fight imperialism.

The point of view expressed by the author is C. Imperialism is more about bullying than heroism.

Explanation:

This poem by Reverend H.T. Johnson was a response to Rudyard Kipling's "The White Man's Burden: The United States and the Philippine Islands" in which he advocated for the colonization of these Islands. Several poems, like this by H.T. Johnson and even a "Black Man's Burden Association" were created in response to show the mistreatment of Brown people in the Philippines as an extension of the mistreatment of Black people in America and in other colonies demonstrating that imperialism is about bullying and the subjugation of native people.

social contract theory basically says that all individuals are born equal, and provided a god given right to consent to be governed. american government is based of this

thomas hobbes and john locke said that we are selfish, individualistic, and constantly at war with each other, therefore we need to be controlled. 

government is defined as the legitimate use of force to control human behavior within territorial boundaries, here comes in hobbes and locke.

hobbes takes the part about controlling human behavior. while locke takes the part of legitimate use of force, since force is not legitimate unless there is consent of the people. 

there are basically 3 goals of the government: 1) maintain order by protecting life and property. 2) providing public goods, those which are typically not provided by the public sector, such as roads and education. 3) promote equality be it political, opportunist or outcome equality. 

because its important to learn about other countries and how high tech they are compared to us. also its good to learn about other cultures and how ours differs and in common also we need to learn about companies that we still buy since they ship it here.