Note on Project Elephant Project Elephant (PE) was launched by the Government of India in the year 1991-92 as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme with following objectives : • To protect elephants‚ their habitat & corridors • to address issues of man-animal conflict • welfare of domesticated elephants Financial and technical support are being provided to major elephant bearing States in the country. The Project is being mainly implemented in 13 States / UTs ‚ viz. Andhra pradesh ‚ Arunachal Pradesh
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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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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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Title: Asian Elephant-Elephas Maximus 2. Purpose: To learn how and why the Asian Elephant got on the endangered species list. Elephants are one of the largest land mammals in the world and they have been targets to man and other animals. 3. Background: My overall background the Asian Elephant is very limited. I know that they come from Asian and many were hunter for their tusks. You can find a few Asian Elephants at the local zoos and there is always controversy on elephants and the circus
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SCHOOL CARIBBEAN STUDIES. THE FREE VILLAGE MOVEMENT The term ’free village’ is used to describe the communities set up by freed men and women after emancipation. These communities were set up in different areas- on old abandoned estates‚ on unused crown lands‚ and in the mountainous interior in various territories. Islands with Free Villages included: Jamaica Trinidad British Guiana Factors which enabled these territories to establish free villages included: 1. Availability of land:
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Asian Elephants Asian Elephants are well built and very intelligent‚ strong headed animals. The Asian Elephant tusks are used to do very many well serving jobs‚ and have a humongous amount of responsibility for the Elephants. The Elephant trunk has about 6‚000 muscles; they are used to do all sort of chores for the Elephant just like the tusks. Asian Elephants are very intelligent‚ open minded and self-aware. Asian Elephants are well built and resemble to humans in ways we don’t think another
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George Orwell‚ “Shooting an Elephant”; Adam Hochschild‚ King Leopold’s Ghost (excerpt); Queen Liliuokalani‚ Hawaii’s Story (excerpt) A. “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell 1. How does Orwell express his disillusionment with imperialism in this essay? 2. What do you think he means by this sentence?: “One day something happened which in a roundabout way was enlightening. It was a tiny incident in itself‚ but it gave me a better glimpse than I had had before of the real nature of imperialism
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and nature of one’s identity is a theme of both A long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah and “ Stranger in the Village” by James Baldwin. Conflict can be external or internal creating depth in a character and making a very complex journey. Everyone has an identity made and changed by what they have been through and what they have experienced. Baldwin bravely talks about his journey in the small swiss village in a Europe as villagers are shocked to see him: a black man. They observe him like an animal‚ however
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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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NOTES ON SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT 1) colonialism in "Shooting an Elephant." * George Orwell wrote this essay when England ruled Burma as a colony---much like it had ruled America during the colonial period. Colonialism occurred when many European nations simply took over countries because they believed their culture was superior to the native culture. The ideas of social darwinism‚ or survival of the strongest nations and/or people‚ played a large role in the domination and subjection of countries
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