Out of the billions of essays in the world‚ many have to do with current events or life lessons. After reading the essay “Shooting an Elephant”‚ it gives away many symbols and a very important life lesson. The essay has many symbols‚ but three stick out like a sore thumb. These include the gun‚ the Burmese people‚ and the elephant. A main symbol that is easily noticed is the gun he uses. A small powerful rifle against a huge elephant. Orwell even noted “an old .44 Winchester and much too small
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found inside of a fort. That fort serves as a top-secret hideout‚ a treehouse deep in the jungle or anything else that one child can imagine. Forts are where stories are told‚ dreams are made and the magic unfolds. To children‚ that magic unlocks journeys that carry them as far as their imagination will allow. A creative way to make a kid’s boat fort even better is adding magical fish to the ocean below. The creative process starts with a little help from Fort Magic’s Ship Fort Design kit that contains
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“Shooting an Elephant” is an essay written by George Orwell in 1936. “Shooting an Elephant” is written chronologically and is a 1st person narrative. The tone of the essay is discomforting. The story takes place in Burma in the 1920’s. It depicts a situation in which the main character‚ a young Englishman‚ who is serving as a police officer‚ encounters a ravaging elephant while he is on duty. The anonymous narrator is a questioning colonialist that throughout the story struggles with three
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Robin Hood case study 1. Robin Hood’s group has turn bad due to the rack of the recruitment method. They accepted most people that come to join their groups without having a good method of recruitment and as a result‚ they may get people that are not doing good. They may just want some food and a place to stay. 2. If I were Robin Hood‚ I would make a big recruitment among the men we already have again to see who should stay and who should not. Then I would tax them a little amount just
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On the 26 of February the shooting of Trayvon Martin in Sanford Florida is still a popular news case. Was it a hate crime‚ or just a total misunderstanding? February 26th‚ Trayvon Martin was shoot and killed by George Zimmerman. George Zimmerman the neighbourhood watchman‚ saw a suspicious African American man going around‚ whit his hoodie on and something in his hands. Zimmerman was holding a close lock at Trayvon. Trayvon starting running‚ and Zimmerman went anther him. We later know that
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School shootings don’t occur often‚ in fact‚ they are very rare‚ but when they do‚ it is a catastrophe. According to Macmillanddictionary.com‚ school shooting is a violent act in which someone‚ usually a student‚ uses a gun to kill or injure teachers‚ students‚ and staff. School shootings have started political debates over the act of gun violence and also gun control. According to Wikipedia.org‚ The United States is the highest number of school related shootings. From the year 2013 all the way to
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strategic problems does Robin Hood have? There are several strategic issues that Robin Hood needs to address very soon. In my opinion‚ the most pressing issue is that he has too many men and too few resources to sustain them. This has happened because their numbers have intimidated travelers so much that they have found alternate routes around the forest and at the same time their numbers have depleted the natural resources of the forest. At this point it is obvious that Robin Hood needs a new strategy since
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Peace not violence. Mass shootings are one of the many acts of violence in society. I would like to talk about one in particular‚ the mass shooting in Las Vegas‚ NV. The shooting took place on October 3‚ 2017. The shooting was one of the most violent shootings in American history. The shooting left 58 people dead‚ and 546 injured. The shooting occurred at a Country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip and directly across from Mandalay Bay‚ where the shooter was shooting from. It will always be one
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Most children are familiar with the story of Robin Hood‚ the oxymoron. Robin Hood was a noble thief who stole from the rich only to give to the poor. Hood battled injustice and oppression in the only way he knew how. He had a radical idea‚ acted on it‚ and was mostly praised as a hero. Discrimination is something that humans have been guilty of since the dawn of time. Whether it be for the color of skin or amount of wealth‚ discrimination tends to show in all levels of societies. But where there
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It would be great if everyone could have the capability to view things from the perspective of others‚ for a better understanding of how a person from a different background see things. Unfortunately‚ in “Shooting an Elephant” the Burmese perspective was limited being that they were happy for an elephant to die for immediate satisfaction‚ ignoring that the Elephant is a symbolism for power and dignity within their culture “However‚ the white man and enforcer of imperialism was able to experience
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