After watching the Three Sovereigns for Sarah‚ there were many thoughts that went through my head. The main idea of the movie was the fact that there was something so called “witchcraft.” Many factors played into the accusing of people who were “witches‚” like‚ superstition‚ politics‚ gender‚ religion etc. As a basic summary of the movie‚ mostly there were some girls who thought they were possessed by witches. When some of the townsmen asked who possessed them‚ they stated some names‚ and just kept
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People all over the world have to make choices that can‚ and will‚ change certain areas of their lives. Some will be more important than others. They can be defining moments in many’s lives‚ as it was for the narrator of "Shooting an Elephant." He made a decision in the moment‚ one that can be difficult to analyze. One must take the ethics of the action into consideration‚ as well as his motivation and how the action affected him after. Just figuring out the details of his decision can show what
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similar catastrophe happened again. There are several ideas that can be treatments which included improve security in school‚ notice the violence on social media and set up proper gun policy. One of the most effective way to prevent school massive shooting is to improve the
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HIST 1301 April 13‚ 2013 Summary of Interview with Sarah Garner Mrs. Sarah was a slave in Westmoreland County‚ and conducted an interview with Archibald Hill. She describes that she did not have an overseer for her labor‚ in which he expected them to do good work. If they didn’t complete the work‚ he was at liberty to whip them. She also describes her first time getting whipped as very unpleasant when she didn’t know how to do the labor. Garner was born in Tennessee and her mother‚ Jula‚ was
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Later‚ Orwell spent the next twenty years as a writer; the essay “Shooting an Elephant‚” set in the Burma of the 1920s and written in 1936‚ is one of his most famous works. In the early twentieth century‚ Burma was still a colony of Britain but anti-imperialism protests and social movements developed very fast‚ causing “great tension between Burmese‚ Indians and English‚ between civilians and police” (Meyers 56). Orwell’s essay “Shooting an Elephant” is based on this historical tension. In this essay
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In today’s society‚ there has been an escalation of reports involving police officers using deadly force on unarmed suspects. Almost every day news channels are reporting on incidents that involve deadly police shootings. News reports have a major impact on how police officers are perceived by the public‚ leading police officers to be thought of as killers. According to the Washington Post‚ 793 people have been shot and killed by police. Some may question how accurate this number is‚ due to the
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Playwright The play Phaedra’s Love‚ by Sarah Kane‚ takes the classic Greek tragedy‚ Phaedra‚ and retells it in a modern-day setting. The play‚ which features incredibly violent and visceral scenes of sex‚ brutality‚ rape‚ and murder‚ is reflective of Sarah Kane’s writing style. Kane’s plays are known for being disturbingly violent and visual. As a playwright‚ Kane seeks to show rather than tell‚ taking inspiration from such playwrights as Edward Bond‚ Samuel Beckett‚ Howard Brenton‚ and
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many white men may often think of Imperialism as a form of civilizing the savages of a foreign land‚ George Orwell condemns it and thinks of it as only a façade of power. In ”Shooting an Elephant”‚ he conveys the ironic‚ powerless and evil nature of Imperialism through the experience of himself as a young British officer shooting the elephant against his own will in order to maintain the image of the imperial power in Burma. This is shown specifically through the relationship between the British and
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because he thought it was needed at the moment. Orwell tracked down the elephant and the whole town followed because they wanted to see the elephant get killed so they could then take its meat. Orwell had thought to himself “I had no intention of shooting the elephant-I had merely sent for the rifle to defend myself if necessary” (Orwell 724). But because all these people followed him when he finally found the elephant he had got ready to shoot it. The elephant was no longer going crazy and was calmly
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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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