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    Shooting an Elephant for No Good Reason George Orwell spent some time as a police officer in Burma where he was actively hated. While doing this job he despised‚ he was put in a position where he felt it was necessary to shoot an elephant on the loose. George Orwell was not justified in shooting the elephant because the elephant was not charging at him‚ the animal was worth less dead than alive‚ and the people he was trying to impress had no love for him. When Orwell describes observing the elephant

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    SOAPStone Shooting An Elephant Speaker : George Orwell‚ known for his writing “Animal Farm”. He is also known journalist for his thoughts on politics. Occasion : Shooting of the elephant‚ Orwell was forced to shoot the animal because that was of him to do. Audience : Are the people who are fans of George Orwell’s work‚ But also people who stand up for animal rights because the story is about “Shooting An Elephant ’’. Purpose : The purpose of “Shooting An Elephant ’’ is Orwell didn’t

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    The main idea of the story “Shooting an Elephant" by Orwell is the effect of the oppressor is not only on the oppressed‚ but himself. There are several evidences found in the text to support the main idea. First‚ the author mentioned about the treatment of a European woman gets when she went to bazaars alone. This explained the freedom of security had been taken away. Since European had colonized Burma at that time‚ there was growing hatred toward European. Freedom to act also been seize when the

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    Evils of Imperialism In life people are often faced with making difficult decisions that are influenced by other people’s opinions. In George Orwell’s essay “Shooting An Elephant”‚ he declares‚ “imperialism was an evil thing”(2). Imperialism forces people to go against their better judgment for the sake of being ridiculed. In Orwell’s thesis he states‚ “ I perceived in this moment that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys. He becomes a sort of hollow‚ posing dummy

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    In the article ‘Shooting an Elephant’ by George Orwell‚ the word ‘hollowness’ is an abstract noun because it is intangible and encompasses human states of mind. In my opinion‚ the word ‘hollowness’ has two meanings. Firstly‚ it refers to absence of certain components of an object‚ making the object vacant or empty. Secondly‚ it can mean one’s emotion: the feeling one has after he or she worked vainly. The writer worked as a police officer under the British Empire in Burma‚ where he was hated by

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    The way “Shooting an Elephant” and “A Modest Proposal” starts is one of the differences these essays has. At first‚ we have “A Modest proposal”‚ it starts explaining how you may see when you enter to the country that he lives in the poor women who have many children and can’t feed them. Basically‚ he is showing us or telling us that there were a lot of poverty in those times. Is telling us that there were a lot of people without work and their work was pleading for money. Furthermore‚ it was a tough

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    Brief Study of George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant Based on physics science‚ everything which moves in this world definitely needs time to travel from one place to another. The time is affected by distance‚ the amount of space between two things‚ which will determine whether the travel from one place to another will take a long time or a short one. The connection between time and distance will create velocity‚ the speed which is generated by something when it is moving through a distance in

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    essay‚ ’Shooting an Elephant’‚ published in 1936 by the literary magazine ‘New Writing’ and broadcast by the BBC Home Service on 12 October 1948‚ in which his subjective‚ first-person narrative tells a story through its prose with a very strong political purpose. Orwell is called upon to shoot a hostile elephant whilst working as a police officer in Burma. Orwell demonstrates social pressure through the hierarchical structure of status‚ in this essentially extended metaphor whereby the elephant serves

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    an empire or nation over foreign countries”. Many people can present varied arguments in order to claim that the Indian people were the only victims of the oppressive British-Imperialistic society; this is not the case. In the short story‚ “Shooting an Elephant”‚ George Orwell demonstrates that the imperialistic standard not only affects the oppressed‚ but the oppressor through the irony of the governing rules and those who are being governed. Throughout the text‚ Orwell presents the concept imperialism

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    The similarity between both stories of Georges Orwell in shooting an elephant and Langston Hughes in the salvation showed that they both dealt with the issue of ‘’fitting in’’ in a very similar ways. Georges described to us the struggle that he faced when winning the mobs approval and respect when he shot down an innocent animal and sacrifices what he believed to be right while Hughes shows himself as a little boy at a church revival where he showed his owns behavioral tendencies toward obedience

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