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guns are hunting and your basic competitive shooting sports that test your accuracy and speed. Many people would say that shooting a gun is not a sport but shooting a gun is just as hard as any other sport. Shooting a gun can take hand eye coordination, accuracy, and concentration. This type of sport can help children and even adults learn the correct way to shoot a firearm, the correct way to handle a firearm, and the correct place to keep a firearm. Shooting sports are a great way to get the…

after this speech you are not one of those people. So how bout we get to how guns can be used for entertainment. Guns have many uses of entertainment but when I think of it only a few pop into my mind. These are rifles shotguns and pistols. Rifle shooting…

George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” (Orwell, 2012), tells us a story about going against our inner beliefs due to peer pressure. Orwell goes after a wild elephant that is rampaging the town he polices. During the chase he finds a dead villager and decides to get his gun. Upon finding the elephant, who is calm at this point, he decides not to shoot it. However, the huge crowd of villagers are demanding he take action against the beast. Orwell finally decides he can’t go against what is…

undercurrent with him as he heard this very personal news about his ex-wife. Going back to school was the worst part, because I had just told everyone my mom was pregnant and many of those people would ask me how my mom was daily. Which made things even harder to be able to go to school. It was easy to tell people my mom was pregnant, but it was heartbreaking to tell people that she lost the baby. I didn’t go to school the day after we found out, but the second day I had to go back and was…

To begin my speech today, let’s me tell you a story: The story begin with a sparrow and an elephant are under attacked by a very aggressive snake, can you imagine what is their reaction in that situation? Which one will be the winner? Firstly, we take a look at the elephant. Elephant is a very giant animal and has a very thick skin which make the poisonous fangs of the snake become useless. So the attack of the snake doesn’t matter. In that situation, the elephant only need to pick up his feet…

Conflicted Tones in “Shooting an Elephant” In George Orwell’s essay, “Shooting an Elephant”, the narrator kills an elephant, despite his reluctance to do so. An escaped elephant runs through a village and he follows in an attempt to corral the beast. The narrator carries a gun with him as a safety precaution, but has no actual plans to kill the elephant. However, the Burmans surrounding him push him to kill. This causes him to feel a large amount of cognitive dissonance. Orwell conveys this…

George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” describes Orwell’s time spent in Lower Burma under the control of British Imperialism as a police officer. A rifle, shooting an elephant, and a mask are all symbols Orwell uses to represent how imperialism affects him as in officer of the Imperial Police. Orwell’s hunting rifle is used to represent the difference in power he had with and without the gun in his hands. Orwell never wanted to harm the elephant, his .44 Winchester rifle was only to be used as…

Also in Shooting an Elephant and in A Hanging, there is a death scene. The main character is the cause of the death, and kills them because it is their duty. Each time, leading up to the death scene, the character realises how innocent that the victim must be. This is exemplified with the elephant being unknowing and slowly dying and with the dog that is friendly to the prisoner. Now, in 1984 the novel ends with seeing the corruption, and no longer feeling the stress of the political powers.…

Burma’s Police officer George Orwell was hated by a lot of people in the town he was serving. As follows, everything he was doing was under the view of a big number of people. That is why shooting an elephant was a hard decision for him, but he was justified in doing that. By the following conditions, George Orwell was in the main role after the wild elephant, in that day. That horrible situation lied on his shoulders, and he should do something that can change a lot his relationship with…

Much as the Imperial officer falls into obedience to the authority of pressure, this relates the studies conducted by Stanley Milgram. Stanley Milgram was a psychologist studying people’s obedience and seeing how far someone would obey orders from a perceived authority figure. He had random test subjects believing they were administering voltage shocks to someone in another room when answering questions wrong; subjects, however, were unaware that the person they were shocking was a confederate…