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humans centering zoos on proper exhibits on animal needs, they rather rely on human priority over nature. In Jeffery Cohn's, "Do Elephants Belong in Zoos?," he explains how zoos do not provide enough space for the largest walking mammals. Elephants need to walk up to fifty miles a day, or else they can get lethal foot infections. Cohn states, "The money zoos spend on elephants, they state, could be better used on conservation in the wild and on animals that zoos can house…

Derridean linguistic methods of deconstruction. Hills Like White Elephants consistently suggests the ideas of pregnancy and abortion. The title itself contains the word hills that could be in reference to a baby bump; furthermore, the world elephants contain nine letters that insinuate the idea of the nine months term that occurs during pregnancy. When viewing the text through the deconstructive theoretical lens, the words hills and elephants could have infinite significations and meanings…

story “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell, and the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by Eliot, the characters are given the opportunity to use their free will, but by the external factors…

Shooting an Elephant is a short story written by George Orwell in 1936. Around this time, ideas pertaining to imperialism were starting to spread throughout the world. Great advances in technology lead to the immense growth in industries which sparked new ideas of international affairs. The justifications for imperialism include the ideas of Social Darwinism, economics, geopolitics, technological advances, and nationalism. George Orwell contradicts the justifications for imperialism found in the…

My first impression upon reading The Tower of the Elephant by Robert E. Howard was that Conan is the classic example of a hero starting at the lowest of low, and then doing great things despite this low status. Conan began the story as nothing more than a drunken barbarian seeking to gain wealth when he gains word of a magical gem hidden away in the Tower of the Elephant. Once he reached the Elephant tower and encountered Yag-Kosha who explains that Yara is evil and must be defeated by Conan.…

they may have about our actions. This can prevent a person from complete what they want, just because others don’t feel the same. There is one story in particular that fits quite perfectly with this description. The story is named “Hills like White Elephants”, predominantly about the main character Jib, having to choose between what she wants and what her love wants for them. Was her initialed action swayed because another man did not feel the same? Jib was to change her main course of action…

Hills like white elephants is a story of a couple waiting at a train station in Spain. The couple is facing a big decision, to get an abortion or keep the child. As they talk, the conversation remains very vague and unreassuring. The couple never goes into detail of the abortion. Making the theme of this story: Clear communication is significant to make life decisions without a doubt. Hemingway expands on this theme by using symbolism, Point of view and setting in the story. The symbols clouds…

others believe it is a woman’s right to choose before the baby can survive outside the uterus. The social stigma placed on the women that consider abortion is immense, and it is extremely hard for these women to discuss it openly. Hills Like White Elephants follows an American and young woman that are traveling by train to have an abortion performed, during a rest stop they attempt to have a discussion about it, having difficulty finding the right words for each other. Ernest Hemingway finesses…

Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills like White Elephants” is considered minimalistic because of the little detail that is written, and this requires readers to infer the tone and theme of the story. David Foster Wallace’s “Good People” conveys specific details, and it is easier for the reader to understand the story. Although the authors’ writing styles differ, both of the narratives are centered around the issue of abortion. Sheri in “Good People” should have had the opportunity for this procedure since…

Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway is a short story about an American man and woman at a train station on their way to get an abortion, but both are involved in a conflict about getting an abortion. Hemingway uses the dialogue between the two characters to showcase their different and conflicting attitudes toward the situation they are facing, one of a nonchalant and rather calm attitude towards abortion while the woman has an unstable stance towards their plans of abortion…