Shooting an Elephant In life‚ everyone has their own choices to make. Most of the time‚ the side that one has to choose is not what they want but what they need. Just one wrong decision can even cost a life. Hence many choices are immensely difficult. A significant one could be choosing to follow one own heart or to surrender under the pressure of the society they live in. This is the one that occur in Orwell situation. In his essay‚ Orwell writes about the one who has the responsibility of managing
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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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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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ANALYSIS OF THE LITERARY ELEMENTSINTHE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA : THE MAGICIAN’S NEPHEWBY C.S. LEWIS | Date of Submission : | 6 September 2011 | Point of View In The Magician’s Nephew‚ Lewis writes in a third person omniscient perspective or third person limited omniscient. The narrator is not a part of the story‚ although he does address the reader at several points in the story. This narrator is privy to the thoughts and feelings of Digory and Polly‚ in particular. The reader is able to especially
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The Old House on the Hill Crimson rays of sunlight speckled through and glittered the autumn leaves‚ making their colorful silhouette seem to dance on the mountain horizon. These fluttering hills rise up from the back of a vast plateau like pasture as if they were titans‚ peacefully awaiting the turn from day to dusk. A calm breeze feathers the tall sun spotted grasses with an inconsistent motion making the ground appear alive. In the back corner of this field lies a large and seemingly mystifying
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THE HOUSE ON THE HILL The mystery of this house dated back to 1945 during the era of the World War 2. A businessman and his petite woman from France occupied this property. The husband was a tall‚ thin and dashing guy. The wife was slender‚ demure and beautiful. Her green eyes glowed in the sun. People say she looked as beautiful as Snow White. No one in all of London looked more beautiful. at the time they had no children so‚ they were quite lonely in the big house. The couple often threw parties
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Mahal Dr. Gavin Paul English 1100‚ Section 15 29 June 2013 Critical Analysis #2 George Orwell’s essay‚ “Shooting an Elephant” details one of the most unforgettable moments in his life. He relives the period in his youth where he was stationed in Moulmein‚ Burma as a “sub-divisional police officer of the town” (472) Orwell explains how he was tasked with subduing a runaway elephant‚ which was rampaging through the town; Orwell ultimately found himself going against his will and having to brutally
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coming in and gaining power by taking over and this made Orwell’s job very hard to do. The Burmese did not like police officers and Orwell was often taunted and teased by the people he was tripped in soccer games and people made him the center of all the jokes. Orwell would do almost anything to make the Burmese like him‚ which puts him in a very difficult position. In “Shooting an Elephant” Orwell faces a life-changing event of choosing between a good reputation or shooting an innocent animal and
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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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Throughout the beginning of Frederick Treves’s The Elephant Man‚ the character of John Merrick was simply a man that never got the chance to live a normal life. From the day he was born‚ his unfortunate physical deformities led him through a never ending cycle of ridicule‚ repudiation‚ and distress. This “monster” was considered to be a “burden that must be rid of” (185) for the greater portion of his being‚ compelling him to prefer a life of isolation rather than choosing to experience the everyday
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