Rhetorical Analysis of “Shooting an Elephant” Orwell succeeds greatly in telling one of his remarkable experiences in Burma. While working for the British Empire as a police officer in Burma‚ he comes across a elephant gone mad that in his judgment he shouldn’t shoot because the handler was on his way and there was no need to kill the expensive piece of property anymore. But in the end he felt that he needed to do a service for the mob of people that had congregated. Orwell wrote this essay
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The character that I identify with the most is Orwell in “Shooting an Elephant” because of his struggle to do what is morally right when society wants him to be or do something different. I think I sometimes struggle to do what is morally right when an entire world pushes me to conform. For example‚ what if I know a friend has cheated on a test but I cannot say anything to the teacher because after all he or she is my friend. Or‚ when a coworker gets reprimanded by our boss for something I did and
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It is a documentary film written‚ directed‚ narrated and produced by American filmmaker Michael Moore. The documentary seeks to primarily investigate what Moore argues what the reasons are in relation to the tragic Columbine High School massacre‚ which took place in 1999. The film also highlights facts and events from other incidents in relation to gun crime. The documentary put Moore in the international spotlight‚ as a rising filmmaker and winning numerous awards and
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"Bowling for Columbine" Why anyone would go into a school with tons of loaded guns and shot up their teachers and peers is almost beyond grasp. But it happened. In the film‚ Bowling for Columbine‚ director Michael Moore takes an in depth look at what could have possibly made these ’troubled-youth’ do such a thing. He looks are more than just the tragedy at Columbine High School‚ but also at the NRA’s effects on people‚ the 2nd amendment‚ more school shootings and the United States compared to other
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The Columbine Massacre‚ the most gruesome school shooting in U.S. history‚ plagued the town of Littleton‚ Colorado. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold‚ the shooters‚ have very diverse backgrounds. Eric was intelligent while being cool at the same time. He manages to get superior grades‚ while doing shameful things. However‚ “Dylan Klebold was a meek‚ self-conscious‚ and authentically shy. He could barely speak in front of a stranger‚ especially a girl” (Columbine 6). Judgment Day‚ the most tragic
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On the noon of April 20th‚ 1999 America’s deadliest school shooting had just ended with the suicide of its two gunmen. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold had just murdered twelve students‚ one teacher‚ and injured twenty-one since they began their shooting spree forty minutes earlier in the city of Littleton‚ Colorado. The media coverage of the Columbine High School massacre made this event have a tremendous impact on the people of the United States‚ inducing fear of all outcasts in schools‚ and creating
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Virginia Tech Shooting and Campus Security During the spring of 2007 on the Virginia Polytech Institute campus‚ a student named Seung-Hui Cho had shot 2 students in a resident hall before entering classrooms and shooting 32 other students and professors (Glum). This event had created a call for necessities in protecting not only the Virginia Tech school but all large campuses in America. Director of Virginia’s 32 National Campus Safety Initiative S. Daniel Carter stated‚ “That one incident sort
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Though cases like the Columbine High School in Littleton‚ Colorado in April 1999‚ where two teenage boys carried out shootings killing 12 students and one teacher as well as injuring 20 more students and ultimately leading up to the two boys own suicides and the end of the killing spree‚ was done at one location‚ the school. Even though there had been shootings at other schools prior to the Columbine shooting it was the
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The use of satire used by Michael Moore in his docudrama “Bowling for Columbine” helps the audience engage on the concept of tackling serious issues like the Columbine massacre and the influences to enlighten or mirror the feelings of how and what society has on the thoughts of a particular environment. Moore uses a variety of technique‚ ranging from exaggeration‚ irony‚ parody and juxtaposition to reveal various answers to questions raised by the society involving the use of guns and to represent
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Advanced English Telling The Truth Texts: The Justice Game (book) Bowling for Columbine (film) The Simpsons – Homer Badman (TV episode)?? Trials notes: • Further talk about Robertson’s civil rights agenda • Write in a way appropriate to text type – don’t rely on essay! If it’s a speech‚ address the audience often. General course notes: • All representations are tainted by perspective‚ bias‚ background‚ author’s intention‚ etc. • Truth cannot be represented with
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