Burma Road

In the passage “End All Ivory Sales Worldwide”, James A. Baker III is persuading his readers that the illegal murdering of elephants for ivory needs to come to an end. He uses many different methods to try to persuade his audience to get involved with banning the trading of ivory. Baker gives evidence by giving facts along with examples to support his claims. He uses reasoning to develop ideas and to connect claims and evidence. He also uses stylistic or persuasive elements, such as word choice…

First, let's consider its purpose, this ad is trying to save the elephants, an endangered species threatened by poaching and by human encroachment on their environment. This ad uses pathos to play on its audiences emotions, convincing them to help save the elephants. The ad does this several ways. First, the background of the ad, a sunset, uses pathos to evoke emotion. The sunset works to create the image of a natural, beautiful environment. The sunset isn't man-made; it is a natural,…

Really is Like There are always people who do not follow the crowd and those who think outside the box. George Orwell, also known as Eric Blair, is an English novelist who enlists in the English police force in 1922. Orwell’s time as a policeman in Burma shows him the British empire in a different light. It is what prompted him to write the stories,” The Hanging” and “Shooting an Elephant”. In “The Hanging”, a tiny Indian man is being hung. The events leading up to his hanging shows the reader…

George Orwell, the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, was born in India in 1903 during the time when the country was under British colonial rule. He moved to England when he was very young, but being born in India during such a hard time for India caused him family many issues so he grew up with a less than satisfactory childhood. His place of birth might explain why he kept England as itself in 1984 when he gave all the other countries different names for the new dystopian world he created. He…

job and moved to the north of England for about two months to study the conditions. The horrible, dangerous, and unsanitary conditions he saw drove him further to socialism as the only hope of fixing those problems (Sheldon 193-240). He wrote the Road to Wigan Pier about his experiences there and was promoted by the “Left Book Club”, who were communists, even though it was against forms of communism.…

George Orwell’s way of writing politically “What I have most wanted to do throughout the past ten years is to make political writing into an art.” George Orwell presented this idea in his work “Why I Write”. This idea was used throughout Orwell’s life, as a reporter, writer, essayist, critic, he used his sharp insight and writing to view, and record this world that he lives in, and made many predictions about the world he lived in. Orwell is often referred as the wintry conscience of a…

In relation to the English cop in George Orwell’s writing, “Shooting An Elephant”, I've also experienced a great deal of pressure from my peers. Every time I make a presentation, I always feel like the people watching genuinely don't care about my opinions and actions. They sit there with their mouths drooling and their eyes everywhere, but on me. Needless to say, it gets my heart racing and my mind endlessly imagining the outcomes. I question myself with “Are they going to like it?” In general,…

“I’d rather die in Bangladesh than be forced to return to Myanmar,” says Aisha, 19. Aisha, a Rohingya woman, was raped by soldiers that were attacking her village in Myanmar. The Myanmar soldiers violently killed her son, as the family attempted to flee the violence in Myanmar. “They threw my son in the air and cut him with a machete. Then they threw petrol bombs and burned down our houses,” reported by UNICEF. This is only one story of a Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh. Aisha’s story is not an…

destructive elephant and explained about the conflicted period time of Orwell's life while he was a police officer in Burma. He explicitly defines himself as being a young police officer who despises the British imperial project in Burma, sides with the Burmese, and yet still feels that he must prove his authority to the Burmese. Orwell was a sub-divisional police officer in the Burma town, which belongs to the British empire. He hates a large number of people. As a police officer he sees the…

Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell is a tragic short essay about the Burman’s and the control that the British Empire brought upon them called imperialism. The Burmese reside in Southeast Asia which seems to be a world away from Europe, and the British Empire. But the thing about imperialism is that it is a power that is extended far beyond the country’s borders, the country’s power and influence can be enforced through diplomacy or military style. The Burman are unhappy, in fact, they are…