Lower Burma‚ also known as Myanmar‚ was a country in Asia‚ that at the moment was being taken over by the mean‚ powerful‚ cruel‚ British Empire. George Orwell‚ the writer of Shooting and Elephant‚ was a “sub-divisional police officer of the town”(1). Being an authority of the town‚ Moulmein‚ ment “[he] was an obvious target” (1). The narrator was often jeered at‚ due to the fact he was a European. He often faced many difficult tasks that he was obligated to perform‚ despite his beliefs. He was “hated
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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 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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according to Vladimir Lenin. George Orwell immediately begins the essay ’ ’Shooting an Elephant" by claiming his perspective on British Imperialism‚ and how this imperialism affected himself‚ his empire‚ and the Burma people. Though George Orwell is a British officer himself at the time in Burma ‚ he claims that he is fully against the oppressors ‚ who at the time are the British. His personal experience‚ that he writes about with the elephant is metaphorical to imperialism and how he views the social
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Race‚ and White Public Space.’ Firstly‚ I will present what I believe to be the articles main argument as well as linking it to the different pieces of evidence provided. I will then explain how these claims are interrelated into a larger argument structure. Throughout my paper‚ I will define the various terms provided to make her main argument clearer. In my understanding‚ there are two strong ethnographic facts with four supporting ethnographic facts and two weak ethnographic facts. Hill then goes
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Carla Anderson Hills was a lawyer as well as a public official serving in the international and domestic departments under the command of two United States Presidents. Hills attended college at two well-known schools. She worked very hard to obtain her role as a public official and a lawyer. Carla Hills was born on January 3‚ 1934‚ in Los Angeles‚ California (CA) to Carl and Edith Anderson. She was born into a very wealthy family‚ and grew up in Beverly Hills‚ CA where she attended private schools
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The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17th‚ 1775 in which the Americans and the British fought and many lives were lost. Troops were under command of American major general‚ Artemas Ward in which they started marching to their destination‚ Bunker Hill. All the troops had shovels‚ picks‚ and rifles so when they got to their destination they would be able to entrench themselves on the hill waiting for the British to come. From where they were‚ they could’ve bombarded the town and the British
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Anoop Mahal Dr. Gavin Paul English 1100‚ Section 15 29 June 2013 Critical Analysis #2 George Orwell’s essay‚ “Shooting an Elephant” details one of the most unforgettable moments in his life. He relives the period in his youth where he was stationed in Moulmein‚ Burma as a “sub-divisional police officer of the town” (472) Orwell explains how he was tasked with subduing a runaway elephant‚ which was rampaging through the town; Orwell ultimately found himself going against his will and having to
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Comparing the novel The Haunting of Hill House and the movie Poltergeist‚ there are many common factors they share. Both have a female character as a protagonist and a spirit as an antagonist. The two literatures‚ in print and film‚ also have the heart of the house revolving around a child’s setting. There are still more similarities between both the book and movie‚ as there are dissimilar. The Haunting of Hill House is taking place in a setting where all of the characters are adult‚ as supposed
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Elephant Cruelty Explored Through Circuses There is no creature among all the Beasts of the world which hath so great and ample demonstration of the power and wisedom of almighty God as the Elephant. ~Edward Topsell "The Historie of Foure-Footed Beastes" (1607) Elephants are currently suffering in two distinct ways. They are suffering as a species‚ and as individuals. The following essay will introduce elephants and their plight as a species‚ but will focus on the suffering of circus elephants
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