In “Shooting an Elephant‚” George Orwell presents a story in which he reluctantly kills an elephant. Orwell is a British police officer who is always teased by the Burmese‚ who see him as a representative of the British Empire but fail to realize that Orwell also opposes English occupation of Burma. One day‚ Orwell is called to investigate an accident in the marketplace involving a rampant elephant. Orwell borrows a rifle‚ which could bring down the elephant‚ from his friend. He hopes
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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 the name of GOD The topic is about disabled people‚ who are not able to see‚ hear or something like that. Most of people think that handicaps are different with us and they are not as healthy as we are or maybe they are unusual and useless. Sometimes we keep our difference from them or even trying to don’t see them. We think they are poor and disable and perhaps stupid just because of their features‚ but what is the truth ? Are they miserable and do they need our pity? Last week I saw a
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“TREE PLANTATON” – most commonly used word. These words don’t only mean arising love for nature suddenly only on 5th June (World Environment Day) just like every Indian experiences patriotism on 15th August or 26th January”. Sometimes while attending such “TREE PLANTATION” events we may feel like saving nature and plant many plants that fine day. But‚ what about those plants after the event gets over? We forget about those planted plants soon after the event is over. Weather those plants will
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J Agric Environ Ethics (2008) 21:579–596 DOI 10.1007/s10806-008-9110-0 Vegetarian Meat: Could Technology Save Animals and Satisfy Meat Eaters? Patrick D. Hopkins Æ Austin Dacey Accepted: 24 June 2008 / Published online: 11 July 2008 Ó Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008 Abstract Between people who unabashedly support eating meat and those who adopt moral vegetarianism‚ lie a number of people who are uncomfortably carnivorous and vaguely wish they could be vegetarians. Opposing animal suffering
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in North East India‚ the rainforest habitat of the lion-tailed macaque is diminishing faster than we expected‚ the great pied hornbill which shares its habitat with the lion tailed macaque can fly away forever‚ well protected habitat of the Indian Elephant could be less than two percent of our country’s land area. As natural history writer Tim Radford truly commented in his recent article in the Guardian about wildlife extinction “the first five great extinction of life in the history of the planet
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„Shooting an Elephant” “Shooting an Elephant” was written by George Orwell‚ and it describes an incident he experienced during the time he spent in a small town in India‚ as a police officer serving the British Empire. I found the writing interesting because of Orwell’s use of rhetorical strategies that slowly build up to the conclusion of the story‚ along with the peak of the action. The story ends in a detailed description of an anecdote Orwell thought of while shooting the elephant that was terrorizing
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preserve their image of authority before their subordinates‚ even if they object to these type of actions. This situation closely relates to George Orwell’s dilemma in “Shooting an Elephant.” Orwell‚ a British police in Burma‚ is assigned to shoot down an elephant that has gone rampant. However‚ he is ambivalent to kill the elephant because of the pressure put on by the huge crowd of Burmans. In his essay‚ Orwell is faced with an ethical dilemma between his humanistic conscience and the authoritarian conscience
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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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analysis of ”Shooting an Elephant”‚ by George Orwell. This non-fiction essay is a report of George himself shooting an elephant. He is a sub-divisional police officer of the town Moulmein in lower Burma. It is here he experiences a kill of an elephant. And it is not just a kill‚ he kills it with a rifle in front of about two thousands Indians. The elephant had gone savage and rampaged homes and killed men. Orwell reports an Indian man who was grounded into the mud by the elephant with his head sharply
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