Shooting Kabul By: N.H. Senzai Guilt is not only a negative feeling but it can also be positive when the guilt helps develop a positive action. In the story Shooting Kabul by N.H. Senzai‚ the main character‚ Fadi‚ feels great guilt for leaving his sister Miriam behind in Afghanistan. The guilt motivates him to search for his sister and makes him more independent. This guilt that Fadi has for losing his sister makes him feel that it is his responsibility to find her. Fadi tries desperately
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The Columbine High School Shooting allowed for advanced security among schools all over the United States. As claimed by a 2007 report from the National Center for Education Statistics and the Bureau of Justice Statistics‚ “there have been about half as many deaths per year since Columbine as in the seven school years before the tragedy…school homicides dropped from 33 in the 1998-1999 school year to 13 in the 1999-2000 year” (CITE). We have improved security and stricter rules to blame for this
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Lennie I choose Lennie because I thought that he was one of the more interesting and exhilarating characters in Of Mice and Men. For one of the pictures in my collage I have a picture of Lennie which he was described as "...A huge man‚ shapeless of face with large pale eyes‚ with wide sloping shoulders...". Also in the book when him and George where walking they described Lennie as "...walked heavily‚ dragging his feet a little‚ the way a bear drags his paws...". When Lennie and George were
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Before shooting the elephant‚ Orwell meditates on some kind of cost benefit analysis and weighting the pros and cons each solution to his dilemma. According to Aronson’s research in The Social animal‚ any individual is subject to tend to conform regardless of their will because of external pressure. Thus‚ we can tend to comply under any type of pressure such as the pressure that comes from a univocal crowd. A group in total conformity has an authority that our mind would often refuse to contest.
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My First Time Shooting It’s Christmas 2014‚ my Dad and I went to go shooting with my Cousins‚ my Uncle‚ and my Grandpa. He brought his AR (Assault Rifle)‚ .45‚ .09‚ and his AS 12 gauge (Assault Shotgun). I brought my BB gun too. The boys shot off a couple of rounds with the .45‚ the .09‚ and the AR. Grandpa taught me how to shoot a BB gun first. Then my Dad let me shoot the .09. The .09 goes like this BAM…… BAM…….. BAM it is semi automatic‚ that means it is not rapid fire. I was pretty good with
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Candy‚ specifically sugar candy‚ is a confection made from a concentrated solution of sugar in water‚ to which flavorings and colorants are added. Candies come in numerous colors and varieties and have a long history in popular culture. The Middle English word candy began to be used in the late 13th century‚ coming into English from the Old French çucre candi‚ derived in turn from Persian Qand and Qandi‚ "cane sugar"‚ probably derived from Sanskrit word khanda "piece "‚ perhaps from Dravidian
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The non-literary text I have chosen is George Orwell’s autobiographical essay‚ ’Shooting an Elephant’‚ published in 1936 by the literary magazine ‘New Writing’ and broadcast by the BBC Home Service on 12 October 1948‚ in which his subjective‚ first-person narrative tells a story through its prose with a very strong political purpose. Orwell is called upon to shoot a hostile elephant whilst working as a police officer in Burma. Orwell demonstrates social pressure through the hierarchical structure
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The main idea of the story “Shooting an Elephant" by Orwell is the effect of the oppressor is not only on the oppressed‚ but himself. There are several evidences found in the text to support the main idea. First‚ the author mentioned about the treatment of a European woman gets when she went to bazaars alone. This explained the freedom of security had been taken away. Since European had colonized Burma at that time‚ there was growing hatred toward European. Freedom to act also been seize when the
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George Orwell is well known‚ even though he died in 1950. He was British and an ex-cop. George Orwell is a very prominent author. He is known for a few of his books‚ written for a variety of purposes. However‚ this specific essay‚ “Shooting an Elephant”‚ is written to inform of us. He phrases this essay more as a narrative‚ which makes it not rhetorically effective. George Orwell uses great imagery and his syntax makes it simple for even high schoolers to read through his works. Orwell sent this
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Candy‚ specifically sugar candy‚ is a confection made from a concentrated solution of sugar in water‚ to which flavorings and colorants are added. Candies come in numerous colors and varieties and have a long history in popular culture. The Middle English word candy began to be used in the late 13th century‚ coming into English from the Old French çucre candi‚ derived in turn from Persian Qand (=قند) and Qandi (=قندی)‚ "cane sugar"‚ probably derived from Sanskrit word khanda (खण्ड) "piece (of
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