Shooting an Elephant

this is shooting and I love it. Hitting a 150 yard target is like winning the lottery and it’s a great feeling. I would like to let people who have never fired a firearm to try it and it might change their opinion on weapons. Take target shooting as an example, I have hit the bullseye many times and it’s an adrenaline rush. Due to some bans, some fun parts of target shooting like explosive rounds with powerful explosives were banned a while ago. I like hunting and competition shooting because me…

invaluable in the rest of the voyage for his navigating skills for he’s the one who’s able to tell them where they are in the vast expanse of ocean. After being thoroughly soaked for days with little food and even less sleep the men eventually make it to Elephant Island. Blackboro, who was originally a stow away on the ship is the first to ever land on this island, he’s given the honor by Shackleton after he discovers that his foot is badly frostbitten and will most likely have to be removed.…

The question is, would you forgive? Imagine it’s your family member who didn’t come home from one day, you’re sitting there waiting for them to walk in that door whether it’s your mother, father, brother, or sister but they just never return. Imagine that it was your fault that they didn’t come home. If knowing it was my fault in a way, I would forgive. In the short story “The Seventh Man” by Haruki Murakami, there are two young boys who are best friends,inseparable, always together doing…

1. Despite having extreme physical deformities, John Merrick’s character is always portrayed in a positive way to a reader. John is also an intelligent person, when treves is learning about John after discovering him he not only finds that he can speak but also can read. John had read the Bible and memorized verses. John seems to even exceed the average human's ability to understand people even though multiple times he himself is viewed as an inhuman creature. “People seem to think that I do not…

in Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills like White Elephants” and Kate Chopin’s “Story of an Hour” (rpt. in Greg Johnson and Thomas R. Arp, Perrine’s Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, 12th ed. [Boston Wadsworth, 2015] 275 and 532) the women do…

The girl states that the hills “. . . look like white elephants,” two big unmovable objects. I believe said unmovable objects is the symbolism indicating that their relationship had reached a pinnacle or crossroad. The train station can be viewed as the point of determination or time for an ultimate final decision…

story are sitting at a restaurant waiting for their train, they begin to talk and the man brings up their past. She mentions how the hills look like white elephants which I found very ironic because the “white elephant” in the room is that they still have feelings for each other. “All right. I was trying. I said the mountains looked like white elephants. Wasn’t that bright?” They are trying to find a happy medium between the two of them because it is obvious the way they feel about each other.…

Interviewer: Then there is a second copy. This is for you and I don’t think they will ask for it, but just keep a copy just in case. I will put the points in, but in case they say, did you really go. So, you can have that as your evidence. I don’t know if you are left or right handed and what works best. Come the center and move the computer around. You can click anywhere on the system that is clickable, except those icons and the tabs. We are not going to change the tabs or these. S, you can…

A One-Way Ticket to Madrid in ‘Hills Like White Elephants.’ Only one option Hills like white elephants must be one of the most interesting stories to analyze as it has so many hidden meanings that only an attentive reader can understand. In his story named Hills Like White Elephants, Ernest Hemmingway writes about an American man and his girlfriend Jig who are waiting for a train to Madrid, and while they are waiting, the couple has a conversation. However, what seems to be a normal dialogue at…

Hills like White Elephants Men and women are built for each other, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have any difference. In fact men and women have a lot of differences in just how they communicate. In the short story “Hills like White Elephants” is a good source behind this topic. The difference in how men and women communicate deal with the; purpose of them communicating, the way they like to approach or be approached, and the way each gender listens while communicating. In the story of…