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    spent the next twenty years as a writer; the essay “Shooting an Elephant‚” set in the Burma of the 1920s and written in 1936‚ is one of his most famous works. In the early twentieth century‚ Burma was still a colony of Britain but anti-imperialism protests and social movements developed very fast‚ causing “great tension between Burmese‚ Indians and English‚ between civilians and police” (Meyers 56). Orwell’s essay “Shooting an Elephant” is based on this historical tension. In this essay‚ Orwell depicts

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    1-Describe Village Volvo’s service package: First of all we need to define what service package is. The service package is defined as a bundle of good and services with information that is provided in some environment. This bundle consist of five components describing services such as: • Supporting facility • Facilitating goods • Information • Explicate service • Implicit service Village Volvo represents an effort by two former authorized Volvo dealer

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    Imperialism in ‘Shooting an Elephant’ by George Orwell Shooting an elephant is a short story about the speaker’s experience in working as a colonial officer in Burma‚ a previous conquered province by Britain‚ and facing a pressure to shoot an innocent elephant to please a large Burmese crowd. Throughout the story Orwell makes clear to readers how Imperialism causes misery and pain. To a clear definition for Imperialism‚ I sum up the important points according to my understanding as

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    Circus Elephant Animal Abuse Problem The day had come when little Timmy would finally get to go to the circus. He was so eager that he was the first one out of bed that morning. Too excited to even function‚ Timmy ran to his parents’ room and jumped on this parents shouting for them to get up. His parents moved sluggishly to the bathroom and got ready to go to the circus as Timmy chattered on about what animals they were going to see that day. Timmy was mostly excited to see his favorite animal

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    The Village by the Sea by Anita Desai mirror its society’s values? What to include: Define the cultural values and ideas of this society. Theme as a cultural representation of values and ideas Characterisation – characters as a stereotype of values and ideas Hari‚ his father (role of fathers in society) Setting – city and village – as representation (symbols) of values and ideas Introduction: (Author and the title of the book must be included in the first sentence). The Village by the

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    Shooting an Elephant Summary: Set during the early 1900’s‚ the narrator recount his experiences as an English police officer stationed in Burma. He often describes that the British presence there were greatly despised and that he himself has been a target multiple times by the Burmese people. “As a police officer I was an obvious target and was baited whenever it seemed safe to do so.” (229) Being there to do the dirty work of the British empire‚ the narrator gets to see what imperialism really

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    The two stories "Araby" and "Hills like White Elephant" have many points in common as well as differences. These stories deal with the realization of growing up or realization of the truth in sub-genre Love story.James Joyce’s “ Araby “is a tale about the disappointment of first love‚ he shows the maturing of a young boy into a man. Ernest Hemingway tells about a girl realizing the facts about her surroundings and herself. Then the reality of the character situations leads them both toward the end

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    Leonard Morrow Christina Olson Writing Assignment 3 9 April 2013 Rhetorical Analysis: “Shooting an Elephant” In the essay entitled “Shooting an Elephant‚” George Orwell writes‚ “In Moulmein‚ in lower Burma‚ I was hated by large numbers of people – the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me” (Orwell‚ pg#). In this exert‚ not only does Orwell succeed in setting the mood and foreshadowing events to come‚ but he also introduces us to a protagonist

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    in Jackson‚ Tennessee is the Casey Jones Village. You’d never know it was there it sits behind a Taco Bell and is overpowered by a comfort inn and suites sign. Behind the franchises or is a travel back in time. If feels like a country western film. The Casey Jones Village is a small community of shops‚ museums and memorabilia dedicated Tennessee History. The main actor is Casey Jones obviously. Still there is something gloomy about Casey Jones Village. It could be the way Mr. Jones passed‚ it

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    In the passage‚ Shooting an Elephant a hated police officer killed an elephant. Orwell was asked to come and do something about an elephant ravaging a bazaar. On his way‚ he ran into Various Burman’s that told him what the elephant was doing. He figured that is was not anything to serious‚ the elephant would eventually calm down. The elephant was heated. The night before it had broken out of its chain and escaped. The elephant’s mahout was the only one who can manage it but he was about twelve hours

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