Faithful Elephants In Faithful Elephants: A True Story of Animals‚ People‚ and War by Yukio Tsuchiya‚ Japan was at war and the military ordered that the zoo keepers at the Ueno zoo kill all animals. This had an emotional toll on the zoo keepers and trainers. The zoo keepers loved all of the animals dearly‚ especially the three elephants‚ Tonky‚ Wanly‚ and John. The war affected everyone at the zoo in different ways. Throughout the story‚ many characters had conflicts but the central conflict
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the population of rhinos and elephants? Ivory is a rather beautiful item seeing that it holds many qualities. Amongst those many qualities are its durability‚ its smoothness‚ and its value to the market. How would you feel to know that it is also the tusks and horns that you see on rhinos and elephants? Both elephants and rhinos are poached for their horns and tusks every day to the point of becoming an endangered species‚ like the black rhino and the Asian elephant. Many practices are done in order
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Why Kids Should Shoot Guns “When I shoot I think it’s so much more fun than playing with anything else that’s in my room.” Said 7 year old Vanessa Aguilar. People claim that kids shouldn’t shoot guns‚ and that learning young isn’t helping at all. But actually kids who learn younger are actually more responsible and respectful with and towards guns. I believe kids who learn younger actually keep their learnings with them‚ if I’m honest I probably shot my first gun when I was 5‚ I had my father
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John Buck English 100 Asian Elephant 13 March 2013 Asian Elephant Asian elephants live in South and South East Asia in rainforest and woodland areas and migrate to avoid the monsoon season. Asian elephants are herbivores and can consume 330 pounds of food per day and drink up to 30 gallons of water. Asian elephants are social creatures and are born into female herds where the eldest female also known as the matriarch is the leader. Female elephants in the herd share the responsibility
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prominent author. He is known for a few of his books‚ written for a variety of purposes. However‚ this specific essay‚ “Shooting an Elephant”‚ is written to inform of us. He phrases this essay more as a narrative‚ which makes it not rhetorically effective. George Orwell uses great imagery and his syntax makes it simple for even high schoolers to read through his works. Orwell sent this essay into New Writing which is highly anti-fascist and anti-imperialistic‚ which causes the readers to be against
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Habitat for Elephants After observing the giraffe exhibit‚ my partner Nan Chen and I decided to make our way to observe the Janice Suber McNair Asian Elephant Habitat which was built in 2008; an exhibit‚ home to seven different elephants‚ both young and old. The exhibit is home to adult bull Thai‚ adult cows Methai‚ Shanti‚ and Tess‚ juvenile bull Tucker (Tess’ son)‚ and calves Baylor (Shanti’s son) and Tupelo (Tess’ daughter). Janice Suber McNair Asian Elephant Habitat exhibit covers an enormous
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Note on Project Elephant Project Elephant (PE) was launched by the Government of India in the year 1991-92 as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme with following objectives : • To protect elephants‚ their habitat & corridors • to address issues of man-animal conflict • welfare of domesticated elephants Financial and technical support are being provided to major elephant bearing States in the country. The Project is being mainly implemented in 13 States / UTs ‚ viz. Andhra pradesh ‚ Arunachal Pradesh
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Asian Elephants Asian Elephants are well built and very intelligent‚ strong headed animals. The Asian Elephant tusks are used to do very many well serving jobs‚ and have a humongous amount of responsibility for the Elephants. The Elephant trunk has about 6‚000 muscles; they are used to do all sort of chores for the Elephant just like the tusks. Asian Elephants are very intelligent‚ open minded and self-aware. Asian Elephants are well built and resemble to humans in ways we don’t think another
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resignation from the police department‚ he changed his name to George Orwell. Orwell went on to write his essay ‘Shooting an Elephant’. His story is about when he was asked to handle a situation involving an elephant on a rampage. This was a tame elephant that destroyed part of the town and killed a man during the process. He struggled with his decision‚ but ultimately decided that killing the elephant was his only option or he would look like a fool. Like Orwell‚ I
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George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant George Orwell writes of his experience in British-ruled India in the early twentieth century as a sub-divisional police officer in the sovereign Southeast Asia state of Burma. His essay presents a powerful theme of inner conflict. Orwell’s strong inner conflict lies between what he believes as a human being and what he should do as an imperial police officer. Orwell immediately claims his perspective on British imperialism saying that it is evil and that he
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