Irvine Shooting An Asian man was found dead in his Irvine residence late last night‚ while his wife was arrested due to suspicion‚ according to the Irvine Police Department. Around 11:30 last night‚ the police received a call from Sandra Kim‚ the victim’s wife stating that she had found her husband dead on the kitchen floor. Paramedics along with the Irvine police arrived at the home on the 600th block of Birch Street in Irvine. Police confirmed that a man with multiple gun shot wounds
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Lower Burma‚ also known as Myanmar‚ was a country in Asia‚ that at the moment was being taken over by the mean‚ powerful‚ cruel‚ British Empire. George Orwell‚ the writer of Shooting and Elephant‚ was a “sub-divisional police officer of the town”(1). Being an authority of the town‚ Moulmein‚ ment “[he] was an obvious target” (1). The narrator was often jeered at‚ due to the fact he was a European. He often faced many difficult tasks that he was obligated to perform‚ despite his beliefs. He was “hated
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DISCUSS ORWELL’S USE OF PERSUASIVE TOOLS SUCH AS‚ SYMBOLISM‚ METAPHORS AND IRONY IN THIS ESSAY AND EXPLAIN HOW HE USES EACH OF THESE TO CONVEY HIS ARGUMENT OR MESSAGE In the extract‚ "Shooting An Elephant" Orwell conveys his message through the use of various persuasive tools. He wants the reader to identify when somebody assumes power. This technique is used to show that the powerful are also a captive to the will of people they control. Everyone involved in the situation becomes affected. In
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Mark Morrison Page 1 Professor Bautista English 110 October 8‚ 2012 “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell In his essay “Shooting an Elephant‚” George Orwell recounts a time in his life when as a British police officer in India‚ he was faced with the moral dilemma of having to shoot an elephant in order to save his pride. In the beginning of the essay‚ Orwell describes it as a time of tension and hostility. For example‚ if a European woman was seen walking alone in a bazaar she
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“Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell is an essay surrounding the difficulties of doing what you are supposed to do versus what others want you to do. For Orwell the problem boiled down to whether he should leave an elephant ‚that went on a rampage but was now calm‚ alone or to shoot it because that was what the locals wanted him to do. Orwell didn’t feel like it was necessary to do it but the pressure from the mob made it seem like the only choice he had. So he chose the words of others over
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In officer involved shootings‚ I found a lot that confused me. In the paragraphs Sighted versus Unsighted Shooting‚ Shots Fired & Hit Probability‚ and Night Sights‚ is what I’m planning on writing about. In my opinion this does not make any sense‚ either you do something or you don’t. And it seems that the police officers need more training. Firstly‚ in sighted verses unsighted shooting‚ “Good sight alignment is fundamental to the target shooting‚ yet 70% of the cases reviewed indicated that no
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Violent shootings are becoming more and more popular in the United States. Last year there were 58‚543 shooting incidents. There were 1‚956 incidents where it was a self-defense case. There were also 2‚552 home invasion cases and 2‚201 of the shooting incidents were unintentional‚ which does make a whole lot of sense to me because I don’t know how you accidentally shoot somebody. However‚ 384 of these shooting incidents were classified as mass shooting incidents. That means there was a mass
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the minimum wage is reduced back to $6.55 because it will decrease the unemployment rate‚ increase GDP‚ and help youth and unskilled workers in the job industry. The Great Depression was a devastating time for the United States with
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Shooting Dogs Reflection The first Character that I will be discussing is Joe‚ who throughout the movie was “living out” the philosophies of Immanuel Kant. In one scene of the movie Joe demonstrates the Categorical Imperative. He acted as he would want others to act if they were in his situation. In this scene many people came to Joe asking for something to build a fire‚ in order for them to eat. Joe had‚ then went up to the room he was staying in‚ grabbed the bed frame‚ dresser
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The story that my evaluation will be based on is Shooting an Elephant written in 1936. The author George Orwell was born in 1903 in India to a British officer raised in England. He attended Eton College‚ which introduced him to England’s middle and upper classes. He was denied a scholarship‚ which led him to become a police officer for the Indian Imperial in 1922. He served in Burma until resigning in 1927 due to the lack of respect for the justice of British Imperialism in Burma and India. He was
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