positive face to face contact with others to feel like they have a sense of purpose. A group you could say you fit in with. If it were not for my friends‚ my life would be dull and boring‚ even a little depressing. I would not have that sense of belonging or support outside of my family‚ and everyone needs time always from their families to let off steam. I have the greatest group of friends or I should say two really good girl friends. Over the years my circle has gotten smaller‚ but that’s ok.
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around them. Because differences in individuals is breeding ground for discrimination‚ which would easily make people to be isolated and bullied. Therefore‚ people would do anything to achieve the acceptances from the others not just for the sense of belonging but in order to protect themselves. Although we would sacrifice anything to achieve acceptance from others‚ we must be clear that change of appearance‚ languages or names does not mean being a fresh person. I have dyed my hair‚ but I’m still “me”
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shoot an elephant or not. From the very beginning the officer is saying that he is hated by a large number of people. He starts off as an honest man in my opinion. Will he continue being an honest man throughout the story? The officer was a subdivisional police officer of a town and the officer describes himself as an easy target. This officer even admits that he does not like his job. Like the officer‚ I too had a choice to make‚ whether to shoot an elephant or not. I shot the elephant just as the
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“A CRITICAL SOCIETY MAKES IT DIFFICULT FOR CHILDEREN AND TEENERGERS FROM MINORITY CULTURES AND GROUPS TO FIND A WAY TO BELONG” Good morning ladies and gentlemen Today I’d like to discuss and persuade you that a critical society makes it difficult for teenagers and children from minority cultures and groups to find a way to belong to a foreign country. I am discussing three characters( Simon tong‚ Hoa pham and Diana ngyuen) in Alice Pung’s text Growing up Asian in Australia and experience of my
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world of the novel contained smaller worlds‚ and inside those were yet smaller worlds. Together‚ these worlds made up a single universe‚ and the universe waited there to be discovered by the reader.” (Murakami‚ 2003‚ p100) One can perceive “The Elephant Vanishes” to be an allegory for the social situation in post-modern Japan during the 1980s. Loughman believes that Murakami’s Japanese society was “absorbing the form‚ but not the substance of another culture‚ his [Murakami’s] people have lost their
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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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One day there was a rampaging circus elephant going through the town‚ and Orwell went with his old .44 Winchester so he could go scare it away. During the elephants rampage throughout the town it destroyed a hut‚ killed a cow and raided some fruit stalls. Later on they realized the elephant trampled a man to death and that’s when Orwell went and got an elephant rifle from a friend because he thought it was needed at the moment. Orwell tracked down the elephant and the whole town followed because they
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feelings through a system of arbitrary signals such as voice sounds‚ gestures and written symbols. Following with its definition shows that it can be the significant feature for every individuals as human beings to determine identity and sense of belonging. So from using the ability of language to communicate with others is one of the elements which allows us the develop our own unique sense of self. We learn about ourself as we interact with others. As we share our experiences and listen to the others’
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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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condemns it and thinks of it as only a façade of power. In ”Shooting an Elephant”‚ he conveys the ironic‚ powerless and evil nature of Imperialism through the experience of himself as a young British officer shooting the elephant against his own will in order to maintain the image of the imperial power in Burma. This is shown specifically through the relationship between the British and Burmese‚ the portrayal of the elephant as well as development of the inner conflicts of the protagonist. The major
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