explain the most seemingly complicated and abstract concepts. In Shooting an Elephant‚ George Orwell argues two things. One of these things is small; the other is large. However‚ both are explained by one seemingly insignificant event. The small thing is shooting an elephant‚ and the large thing is how a person’s pride often forces them to give into the pressure from others. At the surface‚ “Shooting an Elephant” is about‚ well‚ shooting an elephant. Orwell narrates the whole
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2014 Statement on the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shootings Analysis President Obama’s comments are expected‚ necessary‚ and typical of a posttraumatic event happening somewhere in the United States. People of America need the reassurance that everything is going to be all right and we look to our president for that reassurance. Being a president‚ Obama has to deliver great speeches‚ and the Statement on the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shootings‚ being one of them. He uses copious rhetorical devices
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A growing concern of the violence outbreak in social media has been increasing over the years. Social media is one of the causes of physical abuse‚ sexual violence‚ recorded torture‚ and even shootings. Even though technology has increased the epidemic of violence‚ it is beneficial for law enforcement to develop facial recognition of gang members. Furthermore‚ because of the advancement of technology‚ we are able to use Facebook live and other recording devices. With this in mind‚ individuals may
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friends acted. “Sue says she wishes she had listened to him more carefully in the years preceding the shooting. She wonders what questions she could have asked that might have encouraged her son to open up about whatever he was feeling‚”(Strasser). People assumed causes for the disaster such as violent movies‚ violent games‚ bullying‚ and gangs. Since the Columbine disaster more and more school shootings have happened. “The hallways erupted in screaming‚ terror-stricken pandemonium as students realised
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M. Gogean What you give up to fit in? Many people sacrifice their beliefs and values to be accepted in society and to win the societies approval. George Orwell in “Shooting an elephant” and Langston Hughes in “Salvation” deal with the issue of “fitting in” in very different ways. George Orwell describes to us in “Shooting an elephant” the struggle that his character faces when to win the mobs approval and respect when he shoots down an innocent animal and sacrifices what he believes to be
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School Shooting Many things can cause school shootings‚ bullying is one major cause and one person bullying another can lead to a lot of people getting hurt. So however horrific‚ the actions of other schoolyard gunmen such as Kip Kinkel or Luke Woodham can be readily understood as stemming from individual pathologies and‚ hence‚ not particularly reflective of broader social issues. In contrast‚ the Columbine shootings can be seen as implicating not only the killers’ own sick‚ twisted minds‚ but
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Orwell Analysis Paper Prompt 3 “Read carefully paragrphs 11-13 of Orwells Shooting An Elephant. THen write a well-organized essay explaining how the author uses stylistic devices and rhetoical strategies to convey his attitude toward the shooting of the elephant. Elephants were once‚ and are currently‚ considered prized possessions in some parts of the world. The taming of these majestic creatures dates all the way back to BC and‚ since then‚ elephants have continued to hold high value
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1. Orwell shoots the elephant because the two thousand native people standing behind him expect him to. They want revenge for the man it killed‚ the meat the carcass will provide‚ and the entertainment of watching the shooting. “The people expected it of me and I had got to do it” he writes. There is a suggestion that if he decided not to shoot the elephant‚ both he and the empire would suffer a loss of prestige‚ but the main concern in Orwell’s mind is the “long struggle not to be laughed at”. He
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Mark Manson wrote an article‚ “How we all Miss the Point of School Shootings”‚ explaining that the shooter is to blame because of all there origination and devotion they put into their massacres. In “How we all Miss the Point of School shootings” the author states‚ “[School shooters] write down their plans and make a checklist so that others may follow in their footsteps”( Manson). This is a perfect example
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2011). More than 40 years ago‚ four students were killed by the Ohio National Guard on the campus of Kent State University during a protest against the Vietnam War. The shootings sent shockwaves across the U.S.‚ further polarizing a nation already divided over the conflict. The U.S. in Vietnam By the time of the Kent State shootings‚ the U.S. was deeply involved in the war in Vietnam. In 1954‚ Vietnam had split into two countries: North Vietnam and South Vietnam. North Vietnamese leaders wanted to
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