Readers Response to George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant The first time I found myself reading the short story “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell was during my senior year of high school. As an animal lover‚ the title was as intriguing as it was unappealing. Why would you want to shoot an elephant? That question is one that the character‚ the author himself‚ asks throughout the story as it’s told. It starts by introducing himself as a white sub-divisional police officer serving in Moulmein
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A Critical Book Review: Spartan Women by: Sarah B. Pomeroy It goes without saying that during the time of Ancient Greeks‚ the lives of human beings and the things considered important vary greatly compared to those living today. More heavily centered on male-dominance and government‚ the land of Sparta was very different from its surrounding Greek counterparts. It was known for not only its great warriors‚ but also for its unusual treatment of women. By unusual‚ I don’t mean treatment of inequality
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else is the greatest accomplishment.” In the essays “Salvation” and “Shooting an Elephant” authors Langston Hughes and George Orwell convey the similar message that anything of importance‚ can’t be forced on anyone‚ they rather have to find it for themselves. Orwell was about twenty years old when he went to the village of Burma to work as an officer for the British. The story focuses on a moment in his life involving shooting an elephant. Hughes on the other hand‚ was a young boy who was brought
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enforcement shooting. We will be looking at what goes through an officer’s mind before and after an officer involved shooting‚ the public’s opinion of the shooting‚ are they ethical and what happens during and after the investigation of the shooting. We will also look into have there been more police involved shootings in the past year or are we just more aware of the shootings due to the coverage of the shootings by the media.There have been a number of police officer involved shooting of suspects
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Professor Moore English 101 October‚ 2015 Mass Shootings According to WWW.NATIONOFCHANGE.ORG‚ a mass shooting is defined as an incident involving multiple victims of gun violence. In most mass shooting cases‚ the gunmen often have similar personality traits that go unnoticed before the actual incodent occurs. In other cases‚ these traits were detected by others but no
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hand in hand because of the efficient nature of technology. However‚ when analyzing technique‚ it can be determined that in the pursuit of rationalization and efficiency there are implications‚ or something must be sacrificed. In Amazon Unpacked‚ by Sarah O’Connor‚ O’Connor identifies several
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School shootings have been in an uproar in the past couple decades; and there have been times they have tried to slow the occurrences of them by. Stricter gun control‚upgraded security‚ and training teachers‚ and students in situations of shootings happening. The training could be beneficial and enhance their ability under stressful situations. The problem is that gun control is not the problem‚ and teachers having guns is controversial. But the more and more shootings that happen in schools
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day 2015‚ Valanesha Washington was sitting in her bedroom not knowing that will be the last place she be seen alive‚ was killed in a drive by shooting in her own home. She was taken to OU medical center where she later died she was only 19 years old. Two days’ later police got a tip on the shooting‚ 18-year-old Daryan Jones was responsible for the shooting that cause Valanesha’s death. Daryan Jones was charged with first degree murder and can serve up to 20 years to life in prison. In the past year
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And my hollow point bullets have the victims’ initials on them." He says that he bought the guy (legally) on 6/19/15 two days after the shooting. So‚ we are to believe that this man who was a "human powder keg for a while…just waiting to go BOOM!!!!”‚ who was so infuriated about the other racially charged hoax that he bought a gun and carved the initials of his victims in it in the hollow
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killed 20 children and six adults. We have had a rise in gun violence in the United States in the last ten years. In the last ten years we have had a mass theatre shooting‚ church shooting‚ and the Virginia Tech shooting are just a few of the mass shootings that took the United States by storm. The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting is considered a crisis and I will use the Life Cycle of a Crisis and Social Media and the Internet Effects of a Crisis to dissect this crisis in detail. The first
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