30/10/11 ‘Shooting an Elephant’ Rebecca Bonner 2. Choose an essay which puts across a strong personal belief in a clear and convincing manor. George Orwell’s ‘Shooting an Elephant‚’ is an essay which takes place in imperial Burma where he is a police officer working on behalf of the British Empire. He is resented by the people who pressures him into shooting an elephant‚ where he describes himself as being a meaningless puppet in front of the Burmese crowd. Throughout this essay he also
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In our society today‚ Australia’s wetlands provide a recreational sport for duck hunters that should remain prohibited. Despite the overpowering desire to ban duck shooting‚ the beneficial side must be known. Duck hunting has become a sport‚ tradition and a source of food for many Australians‚ just like fishing. Why is there such an urge to ban duck hunting when fishing is more common? Hunters are known to improve the habitat of many species and play an important role in the conservation of wetlands
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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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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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responsible for several school shootings‚
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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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381 is the number of Germans killed with a gun‚ which is the closest statistic country to the U.S. Why is there so much gun violence in the U.S? What is so different in the U.S. that gun crime is so prevalent? What can we do to change it? All questions Bowling for Columbine poses in the film documentary by Michael Moore. Like the documentary‚ there is not one simple answer and there are no easy solutions. Viewing this film for the first time‚ I learned how appalling gun violence is in the United
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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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