On Eating Elephants When I was younger‚ I compared my grandfather to that of an elephant‚ 13 feet tall‚ 15‚400 pounds‚ and a heart weighing up to 46 pounds. A big‚ broad‚ vulnerable creature‚ towering over the rest of the family. Ten months of hairy cell leukemia‚ a rare strand of the already rare strand of chronic lymphotic leukemia claiming his body made him so small‚ just skin and bones. My best friend sat 205 miles away over Skype and asked: “How do you get rid of an elephant in a room?” I imagined
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The Cowboy and His Elephant: The Story Of a Remarkable Friendship was written bye Malcolm MacPherson‚ and was published in 2001. The story begins by describing what a cull is and that the lone survivor of the cull is called "The Storyteller". The first chapter is not accurate as nothing is known of what happened to the elephant until the point of the cull. It simply describes basic behaviors of other elephants in the same region. Later in the first chapter the cull begins‚ which is the slaughter
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same. It stays the same until the teenager no longer gets the rush of energy from the game‚ but they want that feeling for real.That same teenager is bullied at school and one day‚ he has had enough. The teen takes a weapon to school and a school shooting occurs. Who is to blame? The parents did not know their child’s intentions‚ nor did they realize the changing behavior. They did not know he was being bullied because he was always so sheltered: playing his video games‚ listening to music‚ or watching
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symbolism. In “Hill Like White Elephants” Hemingway presents symbols like white elephants and a train station to carry theme. Through the objective third person point of view symbols are used to help the reader understand the intricacy of a young couple’s life changing choice. In stories that are told through the objective third person point of view‚ the characters are often viewed as blank canvases‚ waiting for the reader to define them. In “Hill Like White Elephants” Hemingway leaves it up to
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instinct is to scream for help and get on the ground‚ but why are scenes like this taking place in the learning place. The place where we are told we are the safest‚ maybe even safer than home. If school is so much safer than home then why are school shootings on the rise? "Most of us already know that too many of our movies‚ television shows‚ music songs‚ and video games are filled with trash: grisly murder scenes‚ dismemberment and disembowelment‚ nonstop profanity‚ rape and torture scenarios" (Bennett
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In Les Schobert’s article entitled "Let the Zoo’s Elephants Go" She discusses how national zoo is only embarrassing itself in the way that cares for its elephants. She covers how elephants are euthanized for foot problems that become debilitating. Which are caused from inadequate conditions in which they have been held. She informs us of the needs of elephants and how they may need to walk as much as 30 miles per day‚ in a landscape that covers as much as 1‚000 square miles‚ and how they are confined
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of these traits‚ and more‚ are present in the book ‘Faithful Elephants’‚ causing the lives of three innocent animals to be taken. The protagonists of the story – John‚ Tonky‚ and Wanly – are forced to endure such pain‚ paying for others sins. Despite this‚ they are still faithful and loyal to their once-loving masters‚ even though they have been betrayed over and over again by them. Spun from the hands of Yukio Tsuchia‚ Faithful Elephants begins with a startling bout of activity – it is staged during
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School Shootings such a big Tragedy in the United States Today.On December 14‚ 2012‚ A 20 year old Male Adam Peter Lanza fatally shot twenty children and six adult staff members in a mass murder at the Sandy Hook Elementary school in the village of Sandy Hook in Newton‚ Connecticut. On my quest to look up information on this perpetrator Adam Peter Lanza - (April 22‚ 1992- December 14‚2012) it is stated on wikipedia .com that Adam and his mother Nancy Lanza age 52‚ lived in sandy Hook‚ 5miles
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The United States has the highest rate of civilian gun ownership in the world. That also comes with having the most mass shootings even rivaling war-torn countries. In 2015 only there has been more than three hundred plus mass shootings. With more shootings happening a lot more frequently‚ it is apparent that not nearly enough background checks into gun owners are being run. Three-quarters of people either own two or more. But what should be done about those who are attempted buyers that are turned
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Shooting In “shootings”‚ Adam Gopnik speaks about a shooting that took place in Virginia Tech Engineering building‚ and how the parents of the victims were told that it was not the right moment to ask questions. Gopnik also gives his points of view on how the shooting could have been avoided. Gopnik suggests that the main reason why these types of incidents keep happening in the United States is because there is a lack of security and requirements on who should not be able to buy a gun. The government
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