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    DISCUSS ORWELL’S USE OF PERSUASIVE TOOLS SUCH AS‚ SYMBOLISM‚ METAPHORS AND IRONY IN THIS ESSAY AND EXPLAIN HOW HE USES EACH OF THESE TO CONVEY HIS ARGUMENT OR MESSAGE In the extract‚ "Shooting An Elephant" Orwell conveys his message through the use of various persuasive tools. He wants the reader to identify when somebody assumes power. This technique is used to show that the powerful are also a captive to the will of people they control. Everyone involved in the situation becomes affected. In

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    Noah Fairburn Class 7th 2/6/12 A White Heron Research Paper “A White Heron” is a very simple and easy story to comprehend at first. At second glance a whole new complicated meaning is given to the story that relates to many of the political and social confrontation in the time period in which the story was written. In “A White Heron” Sarah Orne Jewett expands on peculiar relationships‚ influence of nature‚ and romance to describe conflicts between flesh and spirit. Nine-year-old Sylvia has

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    The Bath and the elephant

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    Discuss ways in which two stories show characters trapped in a situation‚ without the possibility of escaping of it In both stories‚ ‘The Bath’ by Janet Frame and ‘Elephant’ by Raymond Craver the main characters are trapped because of their loneliness and helplessness. Both of them are imprisoned and cannot found the way to escape from their reality. They are trapped but because of different things and in different parts of their lives. In the case of “The Bath” she is trapped in her old age and

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    Mark Morrison Page 1 Professor Bautista English 110 October 8‚ 2012 “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell In his essay “Shooting an Elephant‚” George Orwell recounts a time in his life when as a British police officer in India‚ he was faced with the moral dilemma of having to shoot an elephant in order to save his pride. In the beginning of the essay‚ Orwell describes it as a time of tension and hostility. For example‚ if a European woman was seen walking alone in a bazaar she

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    Hills Hoist (1945) Born in 1902 in Knoxville‚ Adelaide‚ Lance Hill was a motor mechanic‚ manufacturer and designer of the rotary clothesline‚ a popular household device of the 1950’s. Growing up in Adelaide‚ he was the second oldest child of Alfred William Hill and Lillian Ethal. As he grew up‚ he helped out with the family business of a bacon and meat canary‚ where he obtained thereafter‚ a steam engineer’s certificate‚ refrigeration and general engineering skills and later opened his own motor

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    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 protests and social movements developed very fast‚ causing “great tension between Burmese‚ Indians and English‚ between civilians and police” (Meyers 56). Orwell’s essay “Shooting an Elephant” is based on this historical tension. In this essay‚ Orwell depicts

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    Forest Hill

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    Forest Hill Paper Company Thomas L. Albright University of Alabama Introduction Forest Hill Paper Company (FHPC) is a small‚ closely-held paperboard manufacturer that produces a broad line of paperboard in large reels‚ termed parent rolls. These parent rolls are sold to converters who further process them into containers used for a diverse line of consumer products‚ such as packaging for microwavable meals. The owners of FHPC have long pursued the strategy of producing a full range of products

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    Hill Stations

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    diseased developed by this industrial phenomenon. J. B.Shaw‚ a great thinker in U.K in his famous Essay "where the wealth accu- mulates and the men decay" rightly pointed out mecha- nism of human talent. Doctors in Europe advised people to visit at hill station for mental relaxation. It was the correct remedy to come out form boredom and mental tension. In this millennium age‚ tourism has become a prominent part of human life‚ which gives synergy and energy to keep pace with the present com- petitive

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    Elephant the Movie

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    Gus Van Sant’s Elephant was at once critically praised and denounced by both film reviewers and filmgoers alike. The cinematography takes you on a waltz throughout a seemingly typical day at an unnamed high school‚ stopping through the journey to focus on the stereotypes of school. The jock‚ the quirky artist‚ the cliqued girls‚ the skateboarder‚ they are all represented and representative of his film. Van Sant created a film‚ seemingly without a staunch opinion on the horrors of the Columbine

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    Why did the whites not like colored people? when they havent done anything to them. Many whites did not like them due to them wanting to have a strong feeling of superiority. Also a feeling that they will change their traditions that they worked for a really time. It was really unfair how they treated them the whites treated them like dogs. Also they couldt even be in the same restaurant with them if theyre some kind of criminals. Many colored people tried everything that they could just to get

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