After that it flipped over a garbage truck, it being a third world country it was not the cleanest place already. The last and worst is that the elephant killed someone and children witnessed it. It caused even tension since " It had been chained up, as tame elephants always are when their attack of “must” is due, but on the previous night it had broken its chain and escaped. Its mahout, the only person who could manage it when it was in that state, had set out in pursuit, but had taken the wrong direction and was now twelve hours' journey away, and in the morning the elephant had suddenly reappeared in the town.” (Orwell
Orwell feels like an outcast rebel, he wants the Burmese to stand up against the British Empire. Young Orwell sets the tone of how he is torn between doing his job and doing what was morally and ethically right. (shooting the elephant or letting it live) 3. Some analogies that Orwell uses are: the elephant looked no more dangerous than a cow, grandmotherly. They watched me like a conjurer about to perform a trick.
Why don’t you come and be saved? Oh, Lamb of God! Why don’t you come? (180).” In “Shooting an Elephant” Orwell illustrates the peer-pressure put on him by explaining the number of people following him. He first starts by saying: “As I started forward practically the whole population of the quarter flocked out of the houses and followed me (287).” The crowd misunderstood him when he was holding the gun.
INTRODUCTON -Attention Getter: Have you ever wondered what the punishment would be for an animal if it killed a human being? Should it be given a death penalty like human murderers in fear that it would kill again? Should it be deemed a simple accident? People living in Kingsport, Tennessee had to make this decision in 1916 when a 5 ton elephant killed her trainer. -Statement of Purpose: In this speech I am going to tell you the story of Murderous Mary and the day the hung the elephant.
George was a British sub-divisional police officer in the town of Lower Burma, Moulmein. George was against imperialism; he believed it was an evil thing and the sooner he got rid of his job the better. One day he was asked by the sub-inspector to take care of a crazed elephant at the other end of town. It’s unfortunate that when he got there he decided, by pressure of a group, to shoot the elephant instead of letting it live. I have been in situations such as this and, over time, I have taught myself how to not give into the complications of life.
IX. The House of Death Floats By (pg 47) Young birds “flying a yard or two at a time and lighting” is a sign of rain later on, according to Jim’s conversation with Huck (45). The three or four foot deep flood sends houses afloat so Huck and Jim dig through them for supplies and one night, they found a dead man in the house and takes everything worthy from the house, paying no attention to the corpse. X. What Comes of Handling Snake-skin (pg 52) Jim told Huck that touching snake skin causes bad luck and Huck decides to trick Jim with a dead rattlesnake but ends up causing Jim a snake bite that takes “four days and nights” to heal.
They are shocked when it turns out to be most closely related to Ebola Zaire which is bad news because they are 15 miles from Washington D.C. After many more monkeys die and the virus seems to be traveling through the air Dan Dalgard hands over the entire facility to the Army. The army team led by Gene, Nancy, and Jerry close down the building and fit the monkey rooms with level 4 bio containment precautions. They decide that as far as they know no one has been infected yet and sense they don’t want anyone to become infected they “Nuke” the building. “Nuking” the building means they kill all the monkeys leaving not even the healthy looking ones behind. Many obstacles get in their way while doing this
All of a sudden а scout came running with a report of one hundred-thousand-strong enemy troops heading for the town. Actually the situation was hopeless and Zhuge’s soldiers panicked. They had no time and nowhere to run. Without wasting any time Zhuge Liang then ordered his men to take down their flags, open wide the city gates, and hide themselves in the town.He himself put on a Taoist monk robe, went up the city’s wall, sat and started playing a lute. Now the enemy forces approached but Sima Yi, the enemy general, hesitated.
The Roles of Social Pressure Individuals in today's culture will face social pressures daily as it has become almost inevitable to avoid. George Orwell’s story "Shooting an Elephant" is based on an British Policeman in occupied Burma that is forced to do a job that the individual dislikes and while doing so he is faced with social pressure by the natives to shoot the elephant on the rampage. John Updike’s story "A & P" is based on three inappropriately dressed young girls entering an A & P supermarket and a young man named Sammy. Facing social pressure the character stands up for the girls as they are verbally harassed by the manager, walks off the well needed job to prove a point. These stories are reflections of the roles social pressure plays in today's culture.
Religion In her book, The Harmless People, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas states, “The Bushmen as well as the gods ignore the suffering of animals” (Thomas 52). The Bushmen’s god, Pishiboro, is a hunter, and thus unconcerned with the welfare of the animals he hunts. As a result, the Bushmen “regard animals with great detachment” (67). In one of the legends about the god Pishiboro, he was married to an elephant. His brother craftily killed her one day in Pishiboro’s absence, afterwards pointing out to Pishiboro that she was an animal, and he had been “married to meat”; at this realization, Pishiboro gladly helps his brother skin the elephant, cuts off a piece of her meat