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    The story “Hills like White Elephants” is written by Ernest Hemingway. It’s about a couple‚ who had an intense conversation about abortion. The man began by trying to convince the girl‚ Jig‚ to have an abortion. However‚ she does want the child but is scared about the abortion and wants to please the man by doing what he wants. She worried whether her relationship will be back on track and this will solve their problem. Jig indecisively agreed to have the abortion just because she does not care

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    The story "Hills like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway is a fascinating story about one couple having faced with an unexpected pregnancy. The theme of the story is about the couple’s decision between life and death. The main character Jig and The American are in disagreements on weather to keep their baby‚ or have an abortion. The couple’s lack of communication creates the conflict in the story. For example‚ Jigs says‚ "We can have all this..." "And everyday we make it more impossible" While

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    “Hills like White Elephants” By Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway born in 1899‚ in Cicero‚ Illinois‚ served in World War 1‚ worked in journalism before publishing his story collection In Our Time. Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for writing four novels‚ The Sun Also Rises‚ A Farewell to Arms‚ For Whom the Bell Tolls‚ and The Old Man and the Sea‚ in 1954 he became a Nobel Prize winner. Hemingway was raised in the suburb of Chicago but he and his folks spent most of their time in Michigan. He

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    One day there was a rampaging circus elephant going through the town‚ and Orwell went with his old .44 Winchester so he could go scare it away. During the elephants rampage throughout the town it destroyed a hut‚ killed a cow and raided some fruit stalls. Later on they realized the elephant trampled a man to death and that’s when Orwell went and got an elephant rifle from a friend because he thought it was needed at the moment. Orwell tracked down the elephant and the whole town followed because they

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    Reaction to shooting an elephant This time tables are turned for Orwell. In A hanging Orwell was the oppressor but in shooting an elephant I felt that Orwell was oppressed by the Burmese people as he mentions that "In Moulmein‚ in lower Burma‚ I was hated by large numbers of people" and he emphasizes on that fact by adding "As a police officer I was an obvious target and was baited whenever it seemed safe to do so" and was also oppressed by the empire as he was forced to do a job that he doesn’t

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    teen brains. Teenagers‚ children and sometimes even adults go to simulated violence for an escape route‚ something to distract them from the problems they have going on at home‚ at work‚ or any other stress inducing areas. According to “High-Jinks: Shoot-Out”‚ written by Guy Martin in 2009‚ throughout the high school game‚ “Killer”‚ students develop a sense of survival and many important skills. Such as‚ one teammate had used a caller I.D. to contact the target’s landlines‚ “The call had been engineered

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    The Choice to Live Life the Way it Should Be | | | October 26‚ 2012 | 4th | How do you feel about Jacob’s decision at the end of the novel? Give reasons/support for your answer from the text. | Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen is about an old man recounting his experiences in the circus. As an old man‚ Jacob Jankowski makes a decision to leave his nursing home and join the circus that has come to his town. After Jacob’s parents’ death during Jacob’s college exams‚ Jacob decides to

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    My Interpretation of "Shooting An Elephant" By Christina Harry 06/19/2013 English Composition 111 "Shooting An Elephant" by George Orwell (1903-1950) is to me‚ a memoir of the time he spent in Moulmein‚ Burma‚ as a European sub-divisional police officer of the town. He was sent there to attempt control of the unruly Burmese people by the British Empire. Orwell was a white European and was hated by the people because

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    Essay #1 as i aimed down the sight and pulled the trigger;there was a feeling as if a rhino had hit my shoulder . I love hanging out with my uncle rob. He was the person who taught me how to shoot a gun. . my uncle Rob is my role model because took me out to ball games ‚ helped me with my homework‚ and taught me how to shoot a gun. My uncle taught me how to shoot a gun when i was eight years old. Me‚ my dad‚ and my uncle were out putting up stands during the season. As we were walking back to the

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    part of in the first place. The book ‚ When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe‚ follows innocent people through their horrific experiences that they had to go through during World War 2. The innocent characters have to live through anguish from being raped‚ having their children mistreated‚ and being dehumanized. Tess Uriza Holthe‚ in When The Elephants Dance‚ captures the dreadful reality that war harms the most innocent. When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe provides horrible stories

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