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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Hands Up Don’t Shoot The Hands Up Don’t Shoot painting is a 48x48 inch piece of art located in the Portland Art Museum and was painted by Arvie Smith‚ recently in 2015. This abstract work is one of the many oil paintings by Smith that depicts his emotions of the way African Americans are treated in modern society. This vibrant piece is full of detail and many unified subjects that it’s difficult to learn its depth by just viewing it for a few seconds. While looking through the museum for the first
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Kara Schlesinger ENG124 January 28th‚ 2015 Paper #1: Popular and Scholarly Sources The name of the magazine in which the article‚ “Fighting for Elephants” is located is BBC Wildlife . The article was found in the January issue of this magazine. The article is a story about a woman who tries to save elephants in her every day life. An appropriate audience for this magazine would be matured adults who appreciate the science fiction aspect of today’s society‚ animal enthusiasts‚ animal activists
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SUMMERY: In Victorian London‚ Dr. Frederick Treves with the London Hospital comes across a circus sideshow attraction run by a man named Bytes called "The Elephant Man". In actuality‚ the creature on display is indeed a man‚ twenty-one year old John Merrick who has several physical deformities‚ including an oversized and disfigured skull‚ and oversized and disfigured right shoulder. Brutish Bytes‚ his "owner"‚ only wants whatever he can get economically by presenting Merrick as a freak. Treves manages
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Shooting an Elephant A price is payed to save oneself from humiliation‚ but‚ being pressured into doing something that one doesn’t want to do‚ makes people feel lost and pushed into a big problem. In the story "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell‚ he himself goes through a struggle in being the one to shoot an Elephant. In the beginning he knew what he had to avoid of being laughed at from the Burmese people that surrounded him‚ since he is an imperial policeman. Throughout the story‚ Orwell
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The novel‚ Elephant Run by Roland Smith is mainly about a boy named Nick Freestone. He can be best described as a brave person. There are several reasons why Nick exhibits this trait. First of all‚ Nick’s mother sends him to live in Burma with his father‚ to keep him in a safer place. “Nick held his breath. After a long pause she said‚ ‘I agree with him. I’m sending you to Burma’” (Smith 4). This shows that Nick is brave because‚ to some‚ leaving people in your family can sometimes be tense and scary
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In the story “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell‚ the main character had gone threw a big change throughout the story. The changes that he had encountered may have not been intentional‚ but peer pressure has its way of influencing people to do things they don’t want to do. In this story a tamed elephant turns for the worse and the main character is called into take care of the problem. The main character in this story starts off with a very different mindset then when he ends the story. At
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“Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell is an essay surrounding the difficulties of doing what you are supposed to do versus what others want you to do. For Orwell the problem boiled down to whether he should leave an elephant ‚that went on a rampage but was now calm‚ alone or to shoot it because that was what the locals wanted him to do. Orwell didn’t feel like it was necessary to do it but the pressure from the mob made it seem like the only choice he had. So he chose the words of others over
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George Orwell’s story‚ Shooting the Elephant‚ the narrator is faced with a strenuous decision that is against a somewhat formidable foe. The foe is not some lunatic of a man‚ but a raging elephant. The elephant has been causing amok in the town. The narrator‚ who is also a police officer‚ is called down to investigate the havoc that is being caused. Upon hearing about the troubles the elephant had caused the Burmese population and seeing for himself what the elephant has done‚ he is faced with a choice;
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similarities between humans and elephants‚ which is how human perception of elephants began to change. “And yet just as we now understand that elephants hurt like us‚ we’re learning that they can heal like us as well”(Siebert 361). Siebert’s word choice of “learning‚” in this case translates directly into‚ “changing our perception to see that…”. After people began to realize that elephant psychology is similar to human psychology‚ people began to treat the outlashing elephants with therapy‚ similar to how
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