In ’’Shooting an Elephant‚’’ George Orwell demonstrates the vanity of imperialism and expresses its negative outcomes and how it can influence the country that is being run. By pointing out a minor conflict- shooting an elephant while serving as a police officer in Burma‚ Orwell uses his language to illustrate the downfalls of the imperialism and brings his audience into the immediacy of his world as colonial police officer. All through the story‚ Orwell indirectly expresses his political views
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Shooting an elephant Author: George Orwell BIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE ORWELL George Orwell ’s three major books of travel writing--Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)‚ The Road to Wigan Pier (1937)‚ and Homage to Catalonia (1938)--revived the tradition of excursionary literature as social and political analysis. "Into Unknown England" books were initiated by reform-minded Victorian and Edwardian authors. In his three travel books Orwell‚ who casts himself as a representative of English "lower-upper-middle-class"
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Vernon Hill‚ a poverty-stricken neighborhood in Worcester‚ MA‚ with its abandoned‚ worn-down tenements‚ boarded windows‚ and graphite signs initially intimidated me. I rode with ease in my parents’ Suburban to Worcester Academy‚ atop Vernon Hill‚ for lacrosse practices‚ but once I stepped off campus‚ I was nervous walking around and daunted by the decrepit surroundings. I had grown up in a bubble of privilege and was unfamiliar with the drastic inequities between my lacrosse team and the children
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Finance 301 September 15‚ 2011 CASE 1 ABINGTON-HILL TOYS‚ INC. INTRODUCTION In the case of Abington-Hill Toys‚ Inc.‚ Vernon Albright assumed the position of the president of the firm following the death of the Lewis Hill‚ the last of the original founders. During the last years of Mr. Hill’s control of the firm‚ the financial condition of the company had deteriorated. In order to investigate the financial condition of the firm‚ the new president hired a company comptroller who was experienced
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An Essay is Like a Journey Introduction Your introduction is like a signpost at the beginning of a trail. It tells readers where you are going to take them‚ and what they will see along the way. As you think about your introduction‚ ask yourself: * What is my main idea or thesis? * Who are my readers? What language will I need to use to suit them? * What are the main ideas I will talk about in each paragraph? Body The body of the essay moves the reader along toward the
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Mark Morrison Page 1 Professor Bautista English 110 October 8‚ 2012 “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell In his essay “Shooting an Elephant‚” George Orwell recounts a time in his life when as a British police officer in India‚ he was faced with the moral dilemma of having to shoot an elephant in order to save his pride. In the beginning of the essay‚ Orwell describes it as a time of tension and hostility. For example‚ if a European woman was seen walking alone in a bazaar she
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coming in and gaining power by taking over and this made Orwell’s job very hard to do. The Burmese did not like police officers and Orwell was often taunted and teased by the 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
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Reader’s Response: “Shooting an Elephant” George Orwell’s essay‚ “Shooting an Elephant” tells the story of a British policeman in British occupied India‚ who faces a situation where he must either follow his morals or pretend to be something else in order to please the public. Obviously living in Burma in the early nineteen hundreds‚ as an Englishman‚ was not easy. Furthermore‚ serving as a steward of the law in a place oppressed by the country you are from‚ certainly will make a job difficult
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the Chicago Conservatory of Music. Verdine White Earth Wind and Fire’s Facebook page announced the passing of their founder‚ on their Facebook page‚ Earth Wind and Fire. "My brother‚ hero and best friend Maurice White passed away peacefully last night in his
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Zhang Jinhua Yin Cong American Women’s Literature 2012-11-5 A Story of Resistance ---A Tentative Study of “A White Heron” In “A White Heron‚” an alternative to a civilized world dominated by men and based on their values and interests decided is provided. Jewett has weaved several irreconcilable conflicts between the masculine world represented by the unnamed hunter and the far away village‚ an artificial women Utopian world Sylvia is living in. Those conflicts between two competing sets of
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