Shoot

As everyone sees the rifle, they were excited that the narrator was going to shoot the elephant. Instead of bringing the gun to shoot the elephant, the narrator brought the gun to defend himself from the native Burman people. Orwell uses the conflict of the situation to show how everyone plays a role in this British imperial system. The situational irony…

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about it as when the event actually occurred. In the essay, an elephant is rampaging through a town in Lower Burma and accidentally tramples a man to death, as well as ruins many shops and houses. Orwell is faced with an impossible decision: shoot the elephant…

don’t understand that hunting for some people is a way of life. Hunters should be allowed to hunt how they want and not have to be ridiculed by those who oppose hunting. People who don’t hunt and, don’t like hunting are offended every time a hunter shoots an animal. But that person doesn’t understand why the hunter is out hunting. Honest hunters are doing it to keep the population down. Hunting helps with crop outputs, and farmers would like a smaller population of animal, particularly deer,…

and arrest the man or woman. If you were allowed to kill the poachers on site it would be better. It would be better to kill them on site because they are doing illegal stuff. Poachers have guns so they might shoot back if we were allowed to shoot at them. If we were allowed to shoot them on site there would be a lot less poachers because they would be too scared to come out. That means if they are…

that if a taser doesn’t work, there is no other clear alternative at that point. (Citation here.) According to a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, “Tasers are not for deadly force situations.” According to him, police should only shoot in life and death situations. He adds, “It’s not a tool for apprehension.” (In-text citation…

taunts, such as “fire,” thus it would provoke the soldiers to shoot them. Additionally, it means that the colonists want the soldiers to shoot them, probably to frame them and place the blame on them. In addition to their provoking taunts, they yelled “fire,” which made the soldiers confused on who was ordering them to fire. Overall, the colonists brought the Boston Massacre upon themselves by provoking and ordering the soldiers to shoot and kill…

second paragraph of the essay he states that he had no intention to shoot the elephant only to simply scare it away “I had no intention of shooting the elephant — I had merely sent for the rifle to defend myself if necessary”. The pressure from the crowd of “yellow” skinned people played a vital role in this by crowding behind him and waiting in excitement for the elephant to be shot. He wanted to fit in with the group and decided to shoot the elephant. He should have followed his will. One of…

The True Power of Imperialism George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” describes the experience of the English narrator, possibly Orwell himself, called upon to shoot an aggressive elephant while working as a police officer in Burma. Because the locals expect him to do the job, Orwell shoots the elephant against his better judgment due to the pressure to uphold the reputation of the British. “Shooting an Elephant” shows how imperialism can result in undesirable behavior and inflect harm on…

that is structured to be reactive and not reasoned, and it produces quick generalizations. These mental shortcuts are often necessary for us to react quickly without taking the time to think (Matysik 1). Which explains why police often mistakenly shoot unarmed black people during split second decisions, when feeling threatened police often rely on mental shortcuts and associations that could influence their decision to…