Assignment task: In the paired readings from Andrew Carnegie and Albert Beveridge ("Distant Posessions" and "The March of the Flag") the two voices disagree over the question of whether or not the United States ought to have foreign colonies. Carnegie thinks it's a bad idea; Beveridge is a big fan. Be that as it may, both persons draw upon similar concerns when they reach their conclusions. In fact, Carnegie, in his discussion of the inadvisability of having "dependencies", and Beveridge, in his discussion of the "consent" of the Filipino peoples, both repeat and draw upon what we have learned about the boosters of American empire of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Discuss and explain how Carnegie and Beveridge, in these two excerpts and in their specific ideas about "dependencies" and "consent", have ideas similar to the boosters of American empire of the era.