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    Shooting an Elephant

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    Mark Morrison Page 1 Professor Bautista English 110 October 8‚ 2012 “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell In his essay “Shooting an Elephant‚” George Orwell recounts a time in his life when as a British police officer in India‚ he was faced with the moral dilemma of having to shoot an elephant in order to save his pride. In the beginning of the essay‚ Orwell describes it as a time of tension and hostility. For example‚ if a European woman was seen walking alone in a bazaar she

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    Hills Hoist (1945) Born in 1902 in Knoxville‚ Adelaide‚ Lance Hill was a motor mechanic‚ manufacturer and designer of the rotary clothesline‚ a popular household device of the 1950’s. Growing up in Adelaide‚ he was the second oldest child of Alfred William Hill and Lillian Ethal. As he grew up‚ he helped out with the family business of a bacon and meat canary‚ where he obtained thereafter‚ a steam engineer’s certificate‚ refrigeration and general engineering skills and later opened his own motor

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    Forest Hill Paper Company Thomas L. Albright University of Alabama Introduction Forest Hill Paper Company (FHPC) is a small‚ closely-held paperboard manufacturer that produces a broad line of paperboard in large reels‚ termed parent rolls. These parent rolls are sold to converters who further process them into containers used for a diverse line of consumer products‚ such as packaging for microwavable meals. The owners of FHPC have long pursued the strategy of producing a full range of products

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    Elephant the Movie

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    Gus Van Sant’s Elephant was at once critically praised and denounced by both film reviewers and filmgoers alike. The cinematography takes you on a waltz throughout a seemingly typical day at an unnamed high school‚ stopping through the journey to focus on the stereotypes of school. The jock‚ the quirky artist‚ the cliqued girls‚ the skateboarder‚ they are all represented and representative of his film. Van Sant created a film‚ seemingly without a staunch opinion on the horrors of the Columbine

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    Abstract Purpose: to analyze case study "Miscommunications with a Brazilian Auto Parts Manufacturer”" in chapter 4‚ pg. 140. This case study gives an example an American businessman flying out of the country to do business on foreign soil‚ also‚ it has several questions at the end of the case study: 1) What are three of the cultural “missteps” that Wally Astor and his father-in-law‚ Henry Williams‚ made in this scenario? Why do you think this happened? 2) If this was a native of Brazil and advising

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    Why did the whites not like colored people? when they havent done anything to them. Many whites did not like them due to them wanting to have a strong feeling of superiority. Also a feeling that they will change their traditions that they worked for a really time. It was really unfair how they treated them the whites treated them like dogs. Also they couldt even be in the same restaurant with them if theyre some kind of criminals. Many colored people tried everything that they could just to get

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    Elephant (2003)

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    students then committed suicide. It is the fourth deadliest school massacre in United States history. The phrase “elephant in the room” is used as a metaphor to describe an obvious truth that goes unaddressed‚ or simply ignored. Everyone knows it is there‚ but no one will say what needs to be said‚ or acknowledge the problem that is in front of them. Gus Van Sant’s‚ Elephant‚ is a cinematic response to the 1999 Columbine High School shootings. Van Sant’s open-ended treatment of the Columbine

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    Miscommunication and Misunderstanding An individual’s perception of a judgment of a situation is often the cause of violence be it in real life or fiction. Shakespeare’s play highlights how a simple lack of communication can have such monumental effects. The long loved story of two adolescents‚ destined to fall in love from opposing households‚ ultimately driving themselves to suicide due to their forbidden relationship. In the play‚ Romeo and Juliet misunderstanding and miscommunication resulted

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    Shooting An Elephant

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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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    The Elephant Vanishes

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    In "The Elephant Vanishes Stories" by Haruki Murakami‚ he uses a mixture of fantasy and reality to engage the reader into the main idea of object or people disappearing. Most of his stories may seen as if they came from life but he adds mystery to each one of them when something is missing or vanishes and the circumstances around it becomes unreal. In "The Wind-Up Bird and Tuesday’s Women" Murakami starts off by surrounding the plot around a man who quits his job for no apparent reason at all‚

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