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    Elephant Inspiration is the most important factor when you write. You have to have the motivation to write and tell a story. You can get writer’s blockage when you write and become in desperate need of an interesting subject to get the work done. In the short story “Elephant” by Polly Clark we hear about William who is a writer. He writes short biographies of pop stars‚ that you can buy for only £1.99. William is not interested in pop stars‚ and really wants to write biographies of male film stars

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    Cruelty To Circus Elephants Cruelty to elephants as well as other circus animals has been a global issue for over a hundred years‚ and we are just now recognizing the severity of it all. Millions of charges have been pressed against different circuses in the United States for the abuse and death of the circus elephants. With the rise in charges and complaints of animal cruelty‚ eyebrows have begun to rise and activists have taken notice and taken a stand. Circus elephants have been said to

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    Elephants Attention Getter: What’s big‚ grey and stands in the rain but doesn’t get wet? Elephants!! Background info: It is estimated that there were once more than 350 species of elephants in the world. Today we only have two of them left (well tree) the Asian‚ the Africa and the mix of them. Both of them are at risk of extinction. Between illegal hunting of them for ivory as well as the destruction of their natural habitat things are simply closing in on them at an alarming rate. Specific Purpose

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    The elephant Make a point-form list of the people‚ actions‚ or events that are “absurd”. 4- zoo director: is not possible to do a rubber elephant and nobody knows that is fake The worker- According the book the workers were old people‚ so is absurd that they tried to inflate the elephant with his their mouth. The children- in the story said‚ after saw the elephant was fake the children never believe in elephants and they turned into hooligans‚ this part is of course absurd‚ how the children turned

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    Essay - “Elephant” When most students go to school they feel motivated by the thought of learning new things and to be able to hang out with their friends in the breaks. A student may also be aware that all the tasks and assignments at the end will come to their own benefit. If the final exams turn out well the examination certificate will be worth showing future employees. But sometimes the motivation that drives people disappears and leaves them with an empty feeling of being stuck in some way

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    This theme is thoroughly examined in both Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns and Sarah Gruen’s Water for Elephants. Despite their subtle differences in writing style‚ both novels have protagonists who undergo similar experiences and have similar settings. The authors of both novels succeed in telling a moving story through their different writing styles. The writing in Water for Elephants is replete with colloquial language. The workers at the circus use broken English and common slang. Camel

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    Elephant by Dolly Clark -An analysis and interpretation The main character of the short story‚ “Elephant” by Dolly Clark‚ is called William. William is an author just like his namesake William Shakespeare. But only the name and their profession bind these two persons together. Because although William is an author he is not quite as magnificent an author as the famous Shakespeare was it. In fact he is just a biographer who is “writing £1.99 stories for the record shops”. William does not seem

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    ELEPHANT FACTS

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    THE ELEPHANTS There are two types of elephant‚ the Asian elephant and the African elephant. Elephants are the largest land-living mammal in the world. It can weigh up to 6.000 kilograms and measure up to 3.3 meters at the shoulder. Elephants can live to be over 70 years old. Elephants are herbivores and can spend up to 16 hours a day collecting leaves‚ twigs‚ bamboo and roots. An elephant’s skin is 2‚ 54 centimetres thick. Elephants have poor eyesight but an amazing sense of smell. Both female

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    Faithful Elephants In Faithful Elephants: A True Story of Animals‚ People‚ and War by Yukio Tsuchiya‚ Japan was at war and the military ordered that the zoo keepers at the Ueno zoo kill all animals. This had an emotional toll on the zoo keepers and trainers. The zoo keepers loved all of the animals dearly‚ especially the three elephants‚ Tonky‚ Wanly‚ and John. The war affected everyone at the zoo in different ways. Throughout the story‚ many characters had conflicts but the central conflict

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    Habitat for Elephants After observing the giraffe exhibit‚ my partner Nan Chen and I decided to make our way to observe the Janice Suber McNair Asian Elephant Habitat which was built in 2008; an exhibit‚ home to seven different elephants‚ both young and old. The exhibit is home to adult bull Thai‚ adult cows Methai‚ Shanti‚ and Tess‚ juvenile bull Tucker (Tess’ son)‚ and calves Baylor (Shanti’s son) and Tupelo (Tess’ daughter). Janice Suber McNair Asian Elephant Habitat exhibit covers an enormous

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