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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English 100‚ TR October 6‚ 2010 Essay 2 How to Shoot a Jump Shot Although some people are born naturally athletic‚ most people are taught the fundamentals of basketball at a young age and continue to practice these fundamentals as they get older. One of the basic assets to becoming a successful‚ well rounded basketball player is being able to shoot a jump shot. A jump shot is a shot in which a player jumps into the air and shoots the ball at the basket with one or both hands (Dictionary
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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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The elephant in the Art room The mother the other Addressing the elephant in the Art room Linda Nochlin posed the question in her 1971 article “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? Arguing it was necessary to question “the unstated domination of white male subjectivity” that shaped the art historical canon; the article explored the reasons for the severe asymmetry of female to male artists throughout the course of art history. When examining western art as viewed through the canon one must
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The Cowboy and His Elephant: The Story Of a Remarkable Friendship was written bye Malcolm MacPherson‚ and was published in 2001. The story begins by describing what a cull is and that the lone survivor of the cull is called "The Storyteller". The first chapter is not accurate as nothing is known of what happened to the elephant until the point of the cull. It simply describes basic behaviors of other elephants in the same region. Later in the first chapter the cull begins‚ which is the slaughter
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AP Language + Composition Eats‚ Shoots‚ and Leaves “I don’t know how bad things are in America‚ but in the UK I cannot emphasize it enough: standards of punctuation are abysmal” [xx of the Introduction] Truss’ whole purpose of her novel is to try and fix poor grammar and punctuation that many people now obtain. Many examples are given of poor punctuation in the UK that should be simple and taught at a very young age. I’m here to agree that many people in the United States also have horrid punctuation
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Literary Analysis of Hills like White Elephants Stacey Wall ENG 125: Introduction to Literature Instructor Emily Brandon April 28‚ 2014 Literary Analysis of Hills like White Elephants In this paper I will attempt to address the theme of the short story Hills like White Elephants‚ by Ernest Hemingway‚ as well as its use of symbolism and its point of view. Hemingway had an almost innate ability of bring his characters to life and using symbolism to convey the
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A N A LY S I S O F C O N T R A S T S I N O R W E L L ’ S “ S H O O T I N G A N ELEPHANT” “And my whole life‚ every white man’s life in the East‚ was one long struggle not to be laughed at.” At firs glance it may seem that this sentence is really not important in comparison with lots of others in the‚ in my opinion‚ insanely great and perfectly written short story‚ “Shooting an Elephant”. This sentence is later reinforced at the end‚ “I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had
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George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant”‚ Orwell is presented with a task that causes him a great deal of stress as he battles with his internal conflict throughout the story. Orwell has mixed feelings after he kills the elephant. He feels wrong for killing the elephant because he feels that there could have been a more peaceful solution and killing it will bring more harm than good. He also feels that he killed it just because of his own pride. Although killing the elephant may seem wrong to Orwell
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On Eating Elephants When I was younger‚ I compared my grandfather to that of an elephant‚ 13 feet tall‚ 15‚400 pounds‚ and a heart weighing up to 46 pounds. A big‚ broad‚ vulnerable creature‚ towering over the rest of the family. Ten months of hairy cell leukemia‚ a rare strand of the already rare strand of chronic lymphotic leukemia claiming his body made him so small‚ just skin and bones. My best friend sat 205 miles away over Skype and asked: “How do you get rid of an elephant in a room?” I imagined
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