Anita Hill‚ a lawyer who worked for now Judge Clarence Thomas‚ US Supreme Court Judge‚ then just a nominee. Anita Hill came forward with allegations that Thomas had sexually harassed her while they worked together at the Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She is accusing him of harassing her not physically but through comments. According to the article‚ it appears that Anita Hill is possibly making up lies about her being sexually harassed. Anita Hill could
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To The Hills of Kodaikanal By Pranav R Kalathungal Last March‚ I‚ along with my whole family went for a trip to Kodaikanal. Though we travelled in a comfortable airbus‚ the journey felt very boring. After two hours‚ we started playing some games and suddenly things started to get interesting. The games
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more than the subject of the story… [and] is also different from the plot. …Theme comes last in a discussion of the elements of fiction because it is the consequence of all the other elements in a story. The structure and theme of a story are fused like the body and soul of a reader…. Though the summary of a writer’s theme is no substitute for the story in its entirety‚ your attempt to state it can help you to understand the story better” Compare and contrast two of the four short stories
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covers legs‚ stomachs‚ and backs. That is what elephants experience almost daily in circuses and zoos. In the wild‚ elephants can walk up to thirty miles a day. In circuses‚ elephants spend almost twenty-three hours every day chained up. Many elephants experience great hardships. One cannot imagine being taken away from their mother at a tender‚ young age. However‚ almost all infantile elephants are torn away from their mother around eight months old. Elephants have been a primary target for abuse‚ but
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The white rhinoceros and the Asian elephant possess many similar characteristics‚ including the way they look‚ yet also possess many differences such as the two continents they live on. There are five living species of rhino (black‚ white‚ Indian‚ Javan and Sumatran) and only two of the elephant (African and the Asian). All are in jeopardy of extinction with their slow rate of breeding‚ poaching and in the rhinoceroses‚ their territorial behavior. Both of these beasts belong to the same kingdom
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economically powerful nations interfering with the affairs of a weaker country. While many white men may often think of Imperialism as a form of civilizing the savages of a foreign land‚ George Orwell condemns it and thinks of it as only a façade of power. In ”Shooting an Elephant”‚ he conveys the ironic‚ powerless and evil nature of Imperialism through the experience of himself as a young British officer shooting the elephant against his own will in order to maintain the image of the imperial power in Burma
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Blueprint Of Life 1. Evidence of evolution suggests that the mechanisms of inheritance‚ accompanied by selection‚ allow change over many generations * Outline the impact on the evolution of plants and animals of: - Changes in physical conditions in the environment - Changes in chemical conditions in the environment - Competition for resources Physical Conditions | Chemical Conditions | Competition for resources | Change in physical conditions such as:- Temperature- Wind conditions-
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understanding of how a person from a different background see things. Unfortunately‚ in “Shooting an Elephant” the Burmese perspective was limited being that they were happy for an elephant to die for immediate satisfaction‚ ignoring that the Elephant is a symbolism for power and dignity within their culture “However‚ the white man and enforcer of imperialism was able to experience what it feels like to be oppressed. Orwell‚ being a man of privilege‚ aware of how “evil” imperialism is going against
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In the passage‚ Shooting an Elephant a hated police officer killed an elephant. Orwell was asked to come and do something about an elephant ravaging a bazaar. On his way‚ he ran into Various Burman’s that told him what the elephant was doing. He figured that is was not anything to serious‚ the elephant would eventually calm down. The elephant was heated. The night before it had broken out of its chain and escaped. The elephant’s mahout was the only one who can manage it but he was about twelve hours
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Reaction to shooting an elephant This time tables are turned for Orwell. In A hanging Orwell was the oppressor but in shooting an elephant I felt that Orwell was oppressed by the Burmese people as he mentions that "In Moulmein‚ in lower Burma‚ I was hated by large numbers of people" and he emphasizes on that fact by adding "As a police officer I was an obvious target and was baited whenever it seemed safe to do so" and was also oppressed by the empire as he was forced to do a job that he doesn’t
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