Shooting an Elephant for No Good Reason George Orwell spent some time as a police officer in Burma where he was actively hated. While doing this job he despised‚ he was put in a position where he felt it was necessary to shoot an elephant on the loose. George Orwell was not justified in shooting the elephant because the elephant was not charging at him‚ the animal was worth less dead than alive‚ and the people he was trying to impress had no love for him. When Orwell describes observing the elephant
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“forced” to kill an elephant when he worked as a European police officer in Moulmein. The local people always expressed strong anti-European feeling to Orwell so he was upset and frustrated. One day there was an elephant escaping from the chain. It made a mess and even killed one person. When Orwell found the elephant‚ it was eating in the paddy fields‚ no longer being harmful to human. However‚ since more than two thousand of people were watching Orwell‚ he decided to kill the elephant. Orwell said that
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SOAPStone Shooting An Elephant Speaker : George Orwell‚ known for his writing “Animal Farm”. He is also known journalist for his thoughts on politics. Occasion : Shooting of the elephant‚ Orwell was forced to shoot the animal because that was of him to do. Audience : Are the people who are fans of George Orwell’s work‚ But also people who stand up for animal rights because the story is about “Shooting An Elephant ’’. Purpose : The purpose of “Shooting An Elephant ’’ is Orwell didn’t
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Co-habituating and dominating. These two things seem at odds with each other. We have a strained‚ yet symbiotic relationship with these creatures. We need to nourish them‚ to nourish us. So what does that make these creatures? Commodities to be grown‚ traded and used or to be beloved companions? This dynamic makes telling what is right and wrong difficult. Since we are dealing with living creatures‚ do they have morals as we do? As the dominant species on earth‚ do we have an obligation to protect these animals
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Brief Study of George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant Based on physics science‚ everything which moves in this world definitely needs time to travel from one place to another. The time is affected by distance‚ the amount of space between two things‚ which will determine whether the travel from one place to another will take a long time or a short one. The connection between time and distance will create velocity‚ the speed which is generated by something when it is moving through a distance in
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Evils of Imperialism In life people are often faced with making difficult decisions that are influenced by other people’s opinions. In George Orwell’s essay “Shooting An Elephant”‚ he declares‚ “imperialism was an evil thing”(2). Imperialism forces people to go against their better judgment for the sake of being ridiculed. In Orwell’s thesis he states‚ “ I perceived in this moment that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys. He becomes a sort of hollow‚ posing dummy
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an empire or nation over foreign countries”. Many people can present varied arguments in order to claim that the Indian people were the only victims of the oppressive British-Imperialistic society; this is not the case. In the short story‚ “Shooting an Elephant”‚ George Orwell demonstrates that the imperialistic standard not only affects the oppressed‚ but the oppressor through the irony of the governing rules and those who are being governed. Throughout the text‚ Orwell presents the concept imperialism
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Critical Response Essay I class‚ we read a short story by George Orwell called Shooting an Elephant. It was a story about courage‚ judgment‚ and the pressure of peers. I personally did not like this story. I found it boring‚ pointless‚ and just another "hasn’t -this -happened -to -you" story about nothing. However‚ it was very well written‚ and if I had to critically respond to this story‚ I would praise the author on a number of things. The story opens by describing the relationship between
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information and the sentence will state what your paper is about specifically. I. SUBTOPIC # 1 A. Main Point # 1 1. Details to support it 2. Details to support B. Possibly another main point or a connection to the next sub topic II. SUBTOPIC # 2 A.. Main Point / Important Info B. Main Point / Important Info C. Possibly another main point or a connection to the next sub
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Two pieces of literature Shooting An Elephant by George Orwell and The Guest by Albert Camus both talks about how people’s values can come into conflict as they are stuck between the choices and how based on the choice that they make at that moment in life it will impact them for the the rest of their lives. There is times when we come across a situation which put us in a difficult position to choose what to do as we are stuck between two values to choose from. To understand better how people’s values
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