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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…

The opening paragraphs of George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant establishes the author's attitude. He does this in a way by using rhetorical and stylistic devices to convey how he views himself as well as his position in Burma. During this time, Imperialism was a very real thing and had an effect on outsiders in Burma. Orwell’s attitude of worthlessness is seen throughout the first two paragraphs of the essay about himself, as well as the place he is in. In paragraph one, Orwell introduces…

For the literature essay, I’ve decided to do my work based on George Orwell’s “ Shooting An Elephant’, one of the stories we’ve read during this course’s second module. The story ‘Shooting An Elephant’ summarized is about a colonial policeman who overall hates his job and hates the people he is working for. One day an elephant rampages through a village and him being an officer with a rifle has to make the decision whether he will kill the animal who has caused so much damage or let it survive.…

The conflicts experienced by the young British law enforcer in George Orwell’s essay “Shooting an Elephant” was by the pre existing tension between the British Empire’s imperial rule over Burma, and the Burmese’s disrespectful actions towards his authority being enforced of the Empire. Orwell displays this conflict and tension as we see his use of symbolism and irony throughout the essay. As a matter of fact, Orwell’s symbolic use of the elephant shows both sides of the confliction between…

The Negative Impacts of Imperialism as shown in “Shooting an Elephant” “Shooting an Elephant” is a story written by George Orwell that takes place in Burma where the British government has sent military officers to the colonies it has there. The story is written through Orwell’s point of view as one of the officers who is strongly disliked by the Burmese that live in the colony. By writing about his experience as a military occupier in a British colony in Burma, Orwell tries to show that…

Headline: Trophy Hunter Trampled to Death by the Elephant He Was Trying to Hunt Introduction: Ian Gibson loved hunting. He had grown up hunting in the woods with his father, and there was nothing he liked more than packing up his gear for a new adventure. After some soul searching, Gibson finally had his chance to take his hunting game to the next level. Instead of scouring the backwoods for game, he was going to start big game hunting. To support his dream, Gibson developed his real estate…

Elephants are the largest land animals in the world that are strong and gentle. Thousands of years ago, large like animals called American mastodons and woolly mammoths roamed the Earth. These ancient relatives of the elephants are now extinct. Between 26 and 12 million years ago there were about 350 distinct species of elephants now only two species remain. Those two species are African (Loxodonta africana) and Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus). (Allen, W. R. Philosophical Transactions of the…

Fraternity and Audacity : It's rightly said 'Where there's will there's a Way' . 'Journey by Night' by Norah Burke is an illuminating tale of the triumph of human courage. The desire to succeed is echoed by the protagonist Sher Singh. The author also highlights the trials and tribulations faced by hill women. Sher Singh could see 'death in his brother Kunwar's eyes' who was suffering from an acute stomach ache. His mother was rather stoic therefore she neither weeped nor smiled as she'd lived…

year old. When the calves reach 2 or 3 years old the mother begins to wean them. Female elephants become sexually mature around 14 years. Male elephants are sexually mature when they are around 14 also. Males around the age of 20 first come into musth “an extreme state of arousal in which highly elevated testosterone levels causing aggressive behavior and an increase in sexual activity” (EDGE of Existence, n.d.). Furthermore, since the Asian elephant is on the endangered species list…