The non-literary text I have chosen is George Orwell’s autobiographical essay‚ ’Shooting an Elephant’‚ published in 1936 by the literary magazine ‘New Writing’ and broadcast by the BBC Home Service on 12 October 1948‚ in which his subjective‚ first-person narrative tells a story through its prose with a very strong political purpose. Orwell is called upon to shoot a hostile elephant whilst working as a police officer in Burma. Orwell demonstrates social pressure through the hierarchical structure
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The Columbine High School Shooting allowed for advanced security among schools all over the United States. As claimed by a 2007 report from the National Center for Education Statistics and the Bureau of Justice Statistics‚ “there have been about half as many deaths per year since Columbine as in the seven school years before the tragedy…school homicides dropped from 33 in the 1998-1999 school year to 13 in the 1999-2000 year” (CITE). We have improved security and stricter rules to blame for this
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The main idea of the story “Shooting an Elephant" by Orwell is the effect of the oppressor is not only on the oppressed‚ but himself. There are several evidences found in the text to support the main idea. First‚ the author mentioned about the treatment of a European woman gets when she went to bazaars alone. This explained the freedom of security had been taken away. Since European had colonized Burma at that time‚ there was growing hatred toward European. Freedom to act also been seize when the
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George Orwell is well known‚ even though he died in 1950. He was British and an ex-cop. George Orwell is a very prominent author. He is known for a few of his books‚ written for a variety of purposes. However‚ this specific essay‚ “Shooting an Elephant”‚ is written to inform of us. He phrases this essay more as a narrative‚ which makes it not rhetorically effective. George Orwell uses great imagery and his syntax makes it simple for even high schoolers to read through his works. Orwell sent this
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On March 5‚ 1770‚ British soldiers were badgered to the point of outrage by a small group of boys (Wheeler and Becker‚ 75). The soldiers eventually retaliated at the group and the church bells started ringing alarming the town that a fire had broken out only leading the numbers in the crowd to increase (Wheeler and Becker‚ 75). Captain Thomas Preston and his sentry were called to the scene to assist. However‚ their attempts to redirect the crowd were unsuccessful. It is at this point that a
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Paper 3 Success can be defined in many different ways‚ but it can never have a definite meaning. Success has a diverse meaning to people‚ and it may apply to their lives in distinctive ways. Most people define success as having a fancy car‚ a job that pays well‚ a big family‚ an enormous house. In other words most would define wealth as the standard of being a successful person. Success can be all these things‚ but they could all be taken away from a person in a heartbeat. If success is defined as
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windows were bulletproof. When he asked that‚ all of the sudden the guards started to pat him down in search of a weapon. Once they were done with that the guards started to ask him questions like why did you ask that question? Were you planning on shooting at the White House? Well Ryan apparently answered one question wrong and so he got taken to jail. His eyes grew wide‚ his jaws dropped‚ and he had tears in his eyes. All for asking a question. Just one questions! While he was in jail some interesting
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Many people believe that police brutality in America is a problem. Others have a different thought on the matter. People believe that it is a problem because of what they see in the news and media. They only see one side of the story‚ not both sides. People only think that colored people get killed by police officers‚ but that’s not the case at all. People always bring race into the killings and say “The white officer shot the man because he was black”. They don’t look at both sides of the story
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Trouble shooting information systems at the Royal hotel ITC 6020 - Information Systems Design and Analysis Content Case Overview Discussion Question and Answers Conclusion Case Overview Blake had just finished his first year in the master degree’s program and attended an internship with a famous IT company. After the orientation‚ the company offered him the first account with the Royal Hotel which he can manager from the start to the end. He arrived at the hotel with a one-week assignment
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Joura 1 Simran Joura R. Barsy Introduction to Conflict Resolution Studies May 14‚ 2015 ! Lessons of the 1984 Anti-Sikh Massacres In the recent decades‚ the Northern Indian states of Kashmir and Punjab have been among the most conflictive regions of the world. On June 1st‚ 1984‚ Indian Prime Minister‚ Indira Gandhi‚ ordered the Indian military to storm the Darbar Sahib in Amritsar- The Golden Temple‚ a religious site‚ the holiest of holies to 25 million Sikhs all over the world and to others who
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