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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Targeted Shootings Conflict spiked between India and Pakistan out of the 1947 Partition of British India‚ this impacted the change of political borders and ended 300 years of colonial rule. This resulted in millions of Hindus fleeing from Pakistan to India‚ and millions of Muslims fleeing from India to Pakistan. More recently‚ there have been allegations of up to 20 murders by assassination‚ according to intelligence officials. Targeted killings against Hindus on Pakistan soil‚ specifically in Balochistan
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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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The story that my evaluation will be based on is Shooting an Elephant written in 1936. The author George Orwell was born in 1903 in India to a British officer raised in England. He attended Eton College‚ which introduced him to England’s middle and upper classes. He was denied a scholarship‚ which led him to become a police officer for the Indian Imperial in 1922. He served in Burma until resigning in 1927 due to the lack of respect for the justice of British Imperialism in Burma and India. He was
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Tony Earley states “a good story is about the thing‚ and the other thing. The second thing looks like the first thing‚ but it’s something else”. Earley’s idea can apply to Orwell’s essay “Shooting an Elephant”. In this scenario‚ the two “things” are imperialism and the elephant. Orwell clearly and precisely proves Earley’s theory (per say) in his essay. The title lets the reader know that there is an elephant involved. When the essay is first read‚ the title does not fit in with what it’s referring
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would experience if a school shooting were to take place at your school. According to EverytownResearch.org there have been 196 school shootings in America since 2013. Last year there were 45 school shootings. The main reasons why our teachers need to be allowed to carry a firearm is for safety during emergencies‚ it’s cheaper than hiring a security guard‚ and school shootings can happen anywhere at anytime. What if you were a teacher and an armed intruder came into your school? How would you protect
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incident‚ I felt really bad for all those innocent children and teachers. Since Newtown is pretty close to Shelton‚ everyone was scared and talking about it. A lot of people stopped feeling safe after this. Our school reacted to this incident by locking all of the entrances to the school. I was very confused on why that man would do such a thing and I couldn’t stop thinking about it because it was all over the news. It’s a scary thing to think that something like this could happen so close to where
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Female School Shooter: Laurie Dann In the wake of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown‚ there has been one shooting which many have forgotten: the one reported case where a female was the offender in a school shooting. It has been reported that sixty percent of the shootings which have happened over the last three decades happened in small towns‚ and the perpetrator is almost always a young male (Calhoun). Laurie Dann is the exception to the rule. Born Laurie Wasserman
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Chelsie Banegas Broad Topic: Education Narrowed Down Topic: Virtual School Specific Purpose Statement: To persuade the audience that virtual schooling has many benefits towards students who are willing to participate in such tumultuous experience. Central Idea: VIrtual schooling is much different to that of the normal setting and because virtual schooling upholds many benefits‚ it has on the students learning capabilities‚ the fluidness of the program‚ and the simple accessibility of these virtual
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