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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for potential shooters to gain access to these lethal weapons. Holding firearm dealers accountable for their sales‚ creating a universal background check‚ and closing gun show and private sale loopholes will decrease gun violence and mass school shootings in the United
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wide-array of shooting sports‚ and hunting. Sane people should obviously the only people to carry firearms‚ which is something we can all agree to. Craig Whitney of The New York Times on July 24‚ 2012 wrote that‚ “...the only realistic way to control gun violence is not by keeping guns out of the hands of as many Americans as possible‚ but by keeping guns out of the hands of people we all agree should not have them.” You don’t really ever see sane people carrying out mass shootings. You also don’t
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Hayden ENG 4U – U5A1A1 April 21‚ 2015 ISP Journal Nineteen Minutes By: Jodi Picoult Nineteen Minutes‚ tells the story of the residents of Sterling‚ New Hampshire and how their lives were shattered in one nineteen minute long act of violence‚ a school shooting. Nineteen minutes represents a theme presented in the whole novel because at any time‚ at any ordinary minute‚ your world can be transformed. It takes a matter of minutes to change ordinary moments in our lives into ones that are permanently life-changing
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2017 Senator Kamala Harris 312 N. Spring St. Suite 1748 Los Angeles‚ CA 90012 United States House of Representatives Dear Senator Harris: I am writing to you in regards to the increasingly problematic issues surrounding gun control and active shooting in Southern California. As a college student at Cal State Fullerton University‚ there have been several controversial proposals about whether guns should be allowed in various college/high school campuses in California. These controversial proposals
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The U.S. school shootings The school shooting in Blacksburg‚ Virginia on the 16th of April 2007 was deadliest in American history. Twenty-three year old Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people before taking his own life. He carried a 9mm semiautomatic and a .22-caliber handgun‚ both with the serial numbers obliterated‚ federal law enforcement officials said. No matter what kind of perspective one uses there is not just one event that occurs before a person chooses to become a mass murderer and the motivation
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thoughts and actions. Wherever he goes my father leaves an indelible impression on all those he met. His warm and selfless nature will make any unknown person a friend and I learnt the lesson of accepting people without trying to change them. My Dad is an encyclopedia of facts and knowledge. He believes that reading is the only way to widen our knowledge and he made it a point to bring all sorts of books for me to read‚ whatever the price and I learnt the lesson that
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George Orwell is a famous writer who wrote the science fiction novel “1984” and the political satire “Animal Farm”. However‚ he also wrote short works such as “Shooting an elephant”. George Orwell was placed in a difficult situation on deciding whether to shoot the elephant in order to protect others. Regardless of which side he acted on‚ he would still have others wishing he would have acted the opposite way. I believe George Orwell was not justified in killing the elephant‚ because the elephant
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Forever In My Memories Dear Dad‚ August 9‚ 2009 marks the tragic night that you left my life. I had just gone to bed‚ after a wonderful day full of birthday wishes. The last time I saw you alive‚ you had a drunken smile on your face and a Heineken bottle in your left hand. Half an hour after I had fallen asleep‚ mom shouted and banged on my door‚ awakening me from my slumber. Assuming that she was acting bizarre‚ I thought nothing of it‚ as I attempted to fall back asleep. Before I knew it‚ she
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you not to‚ their telling you for a reason‚ maybe so that you won’t get hit by a car or get shot at in a drive by shooting. It’s important follow directions because if you don’t you’ll get in trouble. If you decide to cross the street after they told you not to‚ you’ll suffer the consequences. In this case the consequences is getting hit by a car our getting shot in a drive by shooting. If you don’t suffer the consequences that way you’ll suffer another way. Finally‚ it’s important to follow directions
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