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    Julien Combes Natasha Rebry Writing 009 20th November 2011 “Shooting an Elephant“: Orwell’s combat against imperialism “Shooting an Elephant” is an essay written by George Orwell‚ first published in the journal New Writing in 1936. In this essay‚ the author tells his own story about when he was working as a police officer for the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. His five years of experience in the Indian Imperial Police allowed him to have a good understanding of what exactly the “real

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    Shooting an Elephant In life‚ everyone has their own choices to make. Most of the time‚ the side that one has to choose is not what they want but what they need. Just one wrong decision can even cost a life. Hence many choices are immensely difficult. A significant one could be choosing to follow one own heart or to surrender under the pressure of the society they live in. This is the one that occur in Orwell situation. In his essay‚ Orwell writes about the one who has the responsibility of managing

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    Joe Portaro Scott Tenney Project 2b "Shooting an elephant" The main purpose of George Orwell’s story “shooting an elephant” is not to show how or explain how to actually kill an elephant; his work demonstrates how people will react to a imperialistic situation‚ will they follow the crowd or will they hold their own beliefs and not let others change them. In Orwell’s case he had no intention of killing the elephant but because the crowd behind him was one he wanted‚ instead of being made fun of

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    CSU Expo 25 February 2014 Student Dialogue: Shooting an Elephant In George Orwell ’s dialogue Shooting an Elephant‚ he accentuates the grave aversion that he has for being a police officer in Moulmein. The author uses many literary devices to depict his controversy with killing the elephant or not‚ such as foreshadowing‚ and speaking in first person‚ and appealing to pathos. The main element used in this dialogue is conflict‚ Orwell shows how he contemplates on whether to shoot the elephant

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    people he was tripped in soccer games and people made him the center of all the jokes. Orwell would do almost anything to make the Burmese like him‚ which puts him in a very difficult position. In “Shooting an Elephant” Orwell faces a life-changing event of choosing between a good reputation or shooting an innocent animal and going against his morals. Orwell has a hard time adjusting in Burma due to the fact that Imperialism is something the Burmese did not like. The Burmese taunted Orwell everyday

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    In the reading‚ Shooting an Elephant‚ George Orwell is narrating about his feeling and pressure shooting an elephant. A little about the writer‚ Orwell‚ is a British police officer who was born in India. He was hated by large numbers of people in Moulmein‚ in Lower Burma as the British had colonized Burma. One day he was notified that there was an elephant roaming around the street. The elephant was however not wild but everyone were frightened since it was enormous and disrupting. It made people

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    Shooting an Elephant” By: George Orwell In the essay “Shooting an Elephant” George Orwell argues that‚ “when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.” Free will is indestructible; an example of Orwell’s destruction of freedom but preservation of free will is given in his essay. Humans can always exercise their free will when making decisions. However‚ when their decisions come in conflict with the laws set by a higher power‚ they might face consequences based on how

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    reasons why some private schools experience enrollment growth and why others decline? If you were developing a theory of school growth‚ what would you propose as the most important factors that influence enrollment growth? Based on my experiences in working with private‚ Christian and independent schools throughout the country‚ I believe that there are multiple factors that contribute to enrollment growth and decline at a school. Let me highlight some of these factors for you: Leadership – The

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    In the story “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell‚ the main character had gone threw a big change throughout the story. The changes that he had encountered may have not been intentional‚ but peer pressure has its way of influencing people to do things they don’t want to do. In this story a tamed elephant turns for the worse and the main character is called into take care of the problem. The main character in this story starts off with a very different mindset then when he ends the story. At

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    Shooting an Elephant In the short story by George Orwell "Shooting an Elephant" the author unveiled to his audience the bureaucracy and his struggled with himself. As in so many other countries‚ bureaucracy and prejudice maybe found. However‚ in East Burma those days it was regiment. it appeared to be do as one says or pay the consequences of not doing the preferred choice. In this story‚ George Orwell‚ served in a top position in Britain as a police official. Throughout his years in his position

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