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    Elephant‚ George Orwell is narrating about his feeling and pressure shooting an elephant. A little about the writer‚ Orwell‚ is a British police officer who was born in India. He was hated by large numbers of people in Moulmein‚ in Lower Burma as the British had colonized Burma. One day he was notified that there was an elephant roaming around the street. The elephant was however not wild but everyone were frightened since it was enormous and disrupting. It made people even more detest when they misunderstood

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    I am a migrant from Myanmar and I resettled to the United States in 2014 because of political reason in my country. Before I came to the U.S‚ I faced immense difficulties in Malaysia was a country where I took refuge. After two years of living in Malaysia‚ I had a chance to resettle in America. I have been in the U.S for about two years now and I find it difficult in managing all by myself. There are a lot of challenges placed in front of me‚ but I am trying to overcome all the obstacles with perseverance

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    that he detests working for the government in Burma. Everyone in Burma hated him‚ and what he did as his career. He states that after he was hated‚ he hated imperialism before. “For at that time I had already made up my mind that imperialism was an evil thing and the sooner I chucked up and got out of it the better” (851). He did not like his job due to working under imperialism.               Being a sub-divisional police officer‚ he needs to keep Burma safe from all violence and danger. After describing

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    Annotated Bibliography Orwell‚ George. "The Spike." Fifty Essays by George Orwell. Project Gutenberg of Australia‚ Aug. 2003. Web. The Spike was about George Orwell’s life while living in London. At this time Orwell was living in London in spikes‚ which are shelters. Times were hard‚ Orwell had no money‚ and he lived in a variety of shelters. You could only stay at spikes one night at a time. If you went to two or more spikes in London‚ more than once in a single month there was a possibility of

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    Sharply‚ 1994‚ Tourism‚ Tourist & Society; The Socio Cultural Impact of Tourism‚ p.189 Info Birmanie‚ March 2011‚ Report on Tourism in Burma‚ Available at [ www.info-birmanie.org] Richard Sharpley‚(1994)‚ Tourism and Society‚ The Socio-cultural Impacts of Tourism‚ ELM Publication‚ Kings Ripton J.Bray‚(2002)‚ Corporate Environmental Strategy‚ Volume(9)‚ No(2)‚ Burma ; The Dilemmas of Commercial and Humanitarian Engagement [Online] Joan.C.Herderson ‚ (2010) the Politics of Tourism in Myanmar‚ Routledge

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    Thailand is a country located at the center of the Indochina in Southeast Asia. Thailand enjoy a tropical wet and dry or savannah climate. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos‚ to the east by Laos and Cambodia‚ to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia‚ and to the west by the Andaman Sea and the southern extremity of Burma. Thailand is 513‚000 km2 large with around 64 million people. The capital and largest city is Bangkok‚ which is Thailand’s political‚ commercial‚ industrial and cultural

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    Orwell worked as a British imperial policeman in Burma for five years but he finally returned to England again because he recognized the injustices of the British imperial rule in Burma and could not suffer the guilt of oppressing the Burmese anymore. Later‚ Orwell spent the next twenty years as a writer; the essay “Shooting an Elephant‚” set in the Burma of the 1920s and written in 1936‚ is one of his most famous works. In the early twentieth century‚ Burma was still a colony of Britain but anti-imperialism

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    Shooting an Elephant is a self-identity essay written by George Orwell recounting his time as an Imperial guard in Burma. He describes the ways that he was treated and how he was hated and seen as a symbol of the oppressive Imperials that he worked for. Orwell discussed how he had grown disenfranchised with imperialism and decided that it “was an evil thing and the sooner I chucked up my job and got out the better.” Orwell described his job in terms where he was on the front line‚ and wrong side

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    George Orwell writes Shooting an Elephant with his experiences in Burma; so story is in Burma‚ Myanmar. Both Orwell uses his own experiences in past and he lives in the significant era of British in history‚ we see high rise at historical background in the story. Orwell prefers to indirect way to express his emotions using symbols. One of the main symbols is an elephant. The elephant symbolizes British Empire. The reason that Orwell chooses the elephant‚ the empire is powerful like an elephant. When

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    Burma was a relatively happy country for most of the nineteenth century. The Burmese fought the British Empire for years to maintain their independence but the superpower didn’t care that their future subjects desired to be free‚ and finally conquered them in the late 1800’s. England redrew the borders of Burma and made it part of India‚ even though Burma was a totally separate country with its own cultural and political identity

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