My Dad is someone who I would say has had the most ups and downs in his life. He has always made in important to try and be the best person he possibly can. However‚ human nature only allows you to be ‘so good’ and he does‚ like anybody else would‚ have some traits that one would say are less than positive. Despite my dad being a good and bad person with both positive and negative traits‚ if I had to pick someone that I admired most‚ I would pick my dad. My dad has always tried his best at trying
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The desire for power can lead to the person’s physical death‚ as shown in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and it can also lead to the death of metaphorical aspects of the person‚ such as their humanity which is revealed in “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell. In “Shooting an Elephant” the greed of the empire leads to its own downfall as well as to the loss of its humanity. The loss of the British Empire’s humanity is shown in the use of words that have animal imagery or connotations in connection
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This story requires a little back story‚ it was the spring of 2001. My dad at the time was 69‚ he had had quadruple bypass surgery three years earlier. I had four children a 17 year old step daughter‚ nine year old daughter‚ six year old son and a three year old daughter. My husband was out of town with his father attending his niece’s blessing. (it is the equivalent of a catholic christening.) His mom had decided to not go since she was there when my niece was born for two weeks and felt she
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My Thoughts and View on the Colorado Theater Shooting The Colorado Theater shooting was a very tragic event. There were about fifty-eight people wounded and twelve people killed. The victims that were killed range in age from six years old to fifty-one years old. None of the victims or their families could have ever imagined that going to see this movie in Colorado would change their life forever. Natural News the gunman was identified as 24 year old James Holmes‚ a former neuroscience student
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My dads injury At 13 years old you don’t really think about losing a parent or death‚ but one sunny day i did. The moment i picked up my phone and hearing my dad could die at any moment because he broke his neck. I was devastated at 13 years old. As my body was breaking down knowing my dad could die‚ nothing felt the same. My mom drove me to the accident in Lynn‚ MA to my Aunt’s house. I saw my dad laying there next to a Pine tree. The look in his eyes looked devastated they were watery and
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out kill will find a way around these restrictions. Daniels then proceeds to argue that a limit on obtaining guns is a violation to the second amendment (Daniels). The argument that Daniels argues which is that gun control will not abolish mass shootings is accurate to an extend. As Daniels argues individuals who want are set out to kill others will proceed to do so.
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reading Good Dads - Bad Dads. Two Faces of Fatherhood. Furstenberg Jr. focuses on the two different types of fathers that can appear in a child’s life. The first type of father he focuses is on is the modern father/good dad. The modern father attains nurturing‚ emotionally attuned and caring qualities. The author made a point that the modern father was recently discovered‚ and that fathers haven’t been that involved in their child’s lives until the early 21st century. Before the modern dad arose‚ a father
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Adam Smack 7/26/15 ENG 101 Response Analysis The reading‚ "Shooting an Elephant" takes place in Moulmein. He starts of the story in spectacle as to why the locals have so much hatred toward the Europeans when in all reality his main goal was only to help and protect the townspeople from any hurt‚ harm or danger that may come their way. In this story‚ the police officer’s duty was to respond to a report of the death of a man who was killed by a stray elephant. Upon approaching the dead man‚ he finds
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In the story “Shooting and Elephant” by George Orwell‚ the essay is based on the authors experience with the Indian Imperial Police. The narrator had begun to question the presence of the British who were located in the Far East. Orwell was for the Burmese and against their oppressors the British. He described himself as being a “young ill-educated‚” who bitterly hated his job. I think that the narrator was writing this story to inform about how the natives hated the British as any country would
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SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT (JOURNAL) This story begins in Moulmain‚ in lower Burma. The author speaks about his experiences while he was working as a police officer. In this time‚ Orwell was a young inexperienced soldier. He was in that place to protect the Queen’s interests. He had to do unethical things that made conflicts himself. When he mentions that he killed an elephant I feel his pangs of conscience. The elephant destroyed a village before it died. The villagers were furious about all the mess
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