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    Old Man with Enormous Wings and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love have in common is ways that humans perceive what is happening around them. A theme for A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings is how human nature treats differences and those that are strange. A theme for What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is how everyone perceives and defines love differently. The authors of both stories use their tools to convey their themes. Gabriel García Márquez‚ the author of A Very Old Man with

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    Shooting An Elephant Greed

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    The desire for power can lead to the person’s physical death‚ as shown in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and it can also lead to the death of metaphorical aspects of the person‚ such as their humanity which is revealed in “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell. In “Shooting an Elephant” the greed of the empire leads to its own downfall as well as to the loss of its humanity. The loss of the British Empire’s humanity is shown in the use of words that have animal imagery or connotations in connection to the

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    Theme = Belonging and Alienation *** = Time shift Jim left the as it bellowed dust when it left taxi the gazed on the side of the dirt road and saw the farm where he grew up‚ it was old and bare‚ like an African village‚ the animals were thin from the drought. As Jim walked down to the gate‚ his childhood memories came flooding back and he hung his head in disbelief at the state of the farm. “Hey son! Come in.” Jim continued to the brick farmhouse‚ greeted by his father‚ 6ft with a beard of

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    The aim of my paper is to study divorce in Leila Abouzeid’s Year of the Elephant . I have chosen to discuss this topic because first I find it interesting and worth putting more efforts on so as to show its negative effects .Furthermore‚ I want to highlight how Muslims view it and most importantly how my countrymen see it‚ and how the writer puts it as a major issue in the novel. Divorce has always been a controversial issue among people from different religious and cultural backgrounds. It is defined

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    the essay “Shooting an Elephant”‚ it gives away many symbols and a very important life lesson. The essay has many symbols‚ but three stick out like a sore thumb. These include the gun‚ the Burmese people‚ and the elephant. A main symbol that is easily noticed is the gun he uses. A small powerful rifle against a huge elephant. Orwell even noted “an old .44 Winchester and much too small to kill an elephant” (324). The gun isn’t mad to kill a giant beast like this elephant. It was all he had for

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    African Elephant Trunk

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    Due to their large size and low predation‚ other than poachers‚ the African Elephants special senses are being studied further. These creatures have been discovered to use their trunks‚ ears and their feet for various functions. The elephant’s trunk is the leading organ for smelling. Their trunk works with the organ inside their mouths known as the vomeronasal organ also knows as the Jacobson’s organ (Hia‚ 2013). This organ contains sensory neurons that cause their sense of smell to be exceedingly

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    The concept of belonging is essential. To belong is to form a connection which will allow a sense of identity‚ without this we lose our humanity; however‚ conformity is in a sense a facade of belonging‚ as it restrains our freedom and forces us to only mimic. My studied texts show how society demands us to conform‚ yet conformity prevents a sense of true identity being ever created. This notion is elaborated in the novel‚ A Clockwork Orange. Alex is a criminal who doesn’t belong anywhere within

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    article‚ “Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk”‚ Morell gives a general overview of the whole experiment. She writes‚ “A team of scientists modified a classic experiment first administered to chimpanzees in the 1930s‚ which requires two animals to work together to earn a treat. If they don’t cooperate‚ neither gets the reward.” Next‚ the video “Elephants Show Cooperation” is quite different from the article when it comes to content. In the video‚ the host narrates as each clip of elephants during the

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    Haruki Murakami‚ a standout amongst the most widely praised and generally read writers in Japan today‚ is named by numerous as a postmodernist. His short story "The Elephant Vanishes" is a prime case of why this mark has been put on Murakami’s work. It incorporates various attributes that are absolutely postmodern and manages topics that appear to be drawn from the day and age of the craftsman. In particular‚ Murakami utilizes the essential standards of a postmodern work: fuse of advances and the

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    Water for Elephants Every book has the same basic hero archetype; a protagonist that faces a problem and rises up to save the day. My book was water for elephants and the protagonist was Jacob. He is the main character of the book. He is seen through two different perspectives. He is seen as the ninety something year old in a retirement home and as a 23 year old that makes a life changing decision. The journey starts when Jacob is days away from getting his degree in veterinary science from

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