Water for Elephants The novel Water for Elephants is written by the best-selling author Sarah Gruen. The book was published on May 26‚ 2006‚ under Algonquin Books‚ in the United States of America. It has 335 pages‚ and is classified as historical romance and fiction. The book does include many historical events‚ such as the Great Depression‚ but the rest of the content is entirely fictional. The book is centered on Jacob Jankowski‚ who‚ after receiving the news of his parents’ death‚ jumps a
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Novel Study Annotated Bibliography Gruen‚ Sara. Water for Elephants. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: Chapel Hill‚ North Carolina‚ 2006. The story follows Jacob Jankowski who was an old man living in a nursing home‚ as he looks back about a time that defined his life. In the 1930’s‚ 23-year-old Jacob’s life changed drastically. One minute he was finishing his Veterinarian degree at Cornell and planning to follow his father in the family business. The next his parents passed away in a car
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Ayana Domingo ENG 112 Dr. Jen McDaneld October 28‚ 2014 The Girl and The Elephant Ernest Hemingway’s short story "Hills Like White Elephants" illustrates his expertise at combining dialogue‚ setting‚ and symbolism with conciseness. The intense plot portrays a point in a man (called the American) and a girl’s life where they are at crossroads with one another. They dispute and make much effort to converse and challenge their standpoints about whether or not they should keep their unborn child. The
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Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell Reflection by ______________ In Shooting an Elephant‚ George Orwell describes how when he was younger he worked as a police officer in lower Burma in a place called Moulmein. At this time Burma is controlled by the declining British Empire. He writes about how he was hated by the Burmese people and that whenever they could they would trip him or says insult behind his back. At some point during his stay there an elephant got loose from its chains and was
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Violent shootings are becoming more and more popular in the United States. Last year there were 58‚543 shooting incidents. There were 1‚956 incidents where it was a self-defense case. There were also 2‚552 home invasion cases and 2‚201 of the shooting incidents were unintentional‚ which does make a whole lot of sense to me because I don’t know how you accidentally shoot somebody. However‚ 384 of these shooting incidents were classified as mass shooting incidents. That means there was a mass
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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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In officer involved shootings‚ I found a lot that confused me. In the paragraphs Sighted versus Unsighted Shooting‚ Shots Fired & Hit Probability‚ and Night Sights‚ is what I’m planning on writing about. In my opinion this does not make any sense‚ either you do something or you don’t. And it seems that the police officers need more training. Firstly‚ in sighted verses unsighted shooting‚ “Good sight alignment is fundamental to the target shooting‚ yet 70% of the cases reviewed indicated that no
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Shooting Dogs Reflection The first Character that I will be discussing is Joe‚ who throughout the movie was “living out” the philosophies of Immanuel Kant. In one scene of the movie Joe demonstrates the Categorical Imperative. He acted as he would want others to act if they were in his situation. In this scene many people came to Joe asking for something to build a fire‚ in order for them to eat. Joe had‚ then went up to the room he was staying in‚ grabbed the bed frame‚ dresser
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stigmatization. Moreover‚ he defined several groups that can be affected by the process of stigmatization. One of the groups included people with various deformities and anomalies that were often called abominations of the body. The play “The Elephant Man” by Bernard Pomerance is a bright example of the impact of the society on the personality. We see the main character Joseph Merrick who suffers a lot from the harsh attitude of the society. The main reason of such attitude was his ugly appearance
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Required Question for all Students I chose the book Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. I chose this book because I had watched the movie a long time ago and everyone says the book is always better than the movie. I knew I was going to like it because I love animals and I have always wanted to be a veterinarian just like Jacob in this book. I thought it was very inspiring how even after Jacob learns that his parents have been killed in the car crash and their home has been mortgaged to pay for his
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