What do you expect? Before reading the essay‚ at the first sight of browsing through the title ”Shooting an elephant‚” it stroke me as an issue discussing the protection of extinct animals and what came to my mind is the impression of how human beings ravage the habitat of animals. With the story moving ahead‚ I assumed that the narrator would not yield to the external pressure he had been given. Nevertheless‚ it turned out that he eventually shot the elephant in a brutal and cruel way. What happens
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Hayden ENG 4U – U5A1A1 April 21‚ 2015 ISP Journal Nineteen Minutes By: Jodi Picoult Nineteen Minutes‚ tells the story of the residents of Sterling‚ New Hampshire and how their lives were shattered in one nineteen minute long act of violence‚ a school shooting. Nineteen minutes represents a theme presented in the whole novel because at any time‚ at any ordinary minute‚ your world can be transformed. It takes a matter of minutes to change ordinary moments in our lives into ones that are permanently life-changing
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that are killed because of gun crimes each year. In Germany that number is 381‚ while in Australia it’s 65. We’re given this information in the documentary‚ Bowling for Columbine (2002) that was written and directed by Michael Moore. The documentary discusses gun crime in America with the main focus on what happened in Columbine when two boys named Eric Harris and Dylan Kiebold brought guns to school and killed 12 students and one teacher. A lot of people think that these two boys did this because
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Question 1: After strongly reviewing this situation over and over again‚ I have realized how difficult and important this decision really is to our company. I believe my co-workers Sally Thompson and Joe Bradley have done an exceptional job so far‚ and have definitely pointed our marketing department in the right direction. After our company implemented Sally’s proposal‚ our market share increased three points‚ which she definitely deserves credit for. However‚ her proposal has led to some
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One April morning‚ Martha House‚ president of Trap-Ease‚ entered her office in Moncton‚ New Brunswick. She paused for a moment to contemplate the Ralph Waldo Emerson quotation that she had framed and hung near her desk: “If a man [can] make a better mousetrap than his neighbor … the world will make a beaten path to his door.” Perhaps‚ she mused‚ Emerson knew something that she didn’t. She had the better mousetrap—Trap-Ease—but the world didn’t seem all that excited about it. Martha had just
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they didn’t expect anything so tragic to happen in their town. Brad had left for work and the kids went of to school‚ mom was at work when suddenly she got a call from a friend and she had asked if she heard anything about what was happening at Columbine High School. She had no recollection of what was going on so she called her husband who was at home because he went home sick. He had heard some loud noises but never really thought anything about it being the neighborhood they live in. He looked
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Shooting of Malala Yousafzai On October 9th 2012‚ during a regular Monday morning‚ 14-year-old student and children’s activist Malala Yousafzai was severely wounded when an un-identified man ordered students to point out Malala and when they did‚ the man open fired on her causing bullets to penetrate her skull and neck. The attempted assassination‚ which was later identified to be the work of Taliban members‚ has sparked an outrage inside Pakistan and around the world. Malala being recently and
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had an impact on the change. There are large commercialist pressures for documentary to become more entertaining and engaging to capture a wider cinema going audience. Documentary has become increasingly popular. Documentaries such as Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore have been given numerous awards and were widely popular at the box office. The Grey Gardens is a 1975 documentary by Albert and David Maysles. The film depicts the lives of a socialite mother and daughter living in a decrepit
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documentary ( Voiceover‚ Archival footage‚ “real footage”‚ Interviews with ‘Experts’‚ use of text‚ Sound [music used‚ background noises]‚ set-ups‚ visual coding) The documantry being analised‚ what it’s about and the director (Bowling for columbine‚ Reasoning behind the columbine massacre and other gun related violence in the United States‚ Directed and narrated by Michael Moore. • Audience and purpose 6 characteristics Age (18-30) Gender (Male and Female) Race (Caucasian) Socio economic Background (Middle
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Resulting with 12 dead and 20 injured‚ April 20th‚ 1999‚ ultimately became the day of the worst high school shooting in U.S. history at Columbine High School‚ prompting a national debate on gun control and school safety. According to the article Columbine High School Shootings “In the aftermath of the shootings‚ many schools across America enacted “zero tolerance” rules regarding disruptive behavior and threats of violence from students (History.com).” In addition‚ there have been many more strategies
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