evidences found in the text to support the main idea. First‚ the author mentioned about the treatment of a European woman gets when she went to bazaars alone. This explained the freedom of security had been taken away. Since European had colonized Burma at that time‚ there was growing hatred toward European. Freedom to act also been seize when the narrator was expected to shoot an elephant even it’s not in his wiliness. In the story‚ Orwell had an inner struggle whether to kill the elephant or not
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diversity. It is an ideology in which social reality‚ conceived in terms of nationhood‚ is endowed with the reality of natural things”. (Richard Handler) Before I make further explanation about Mandalay‚ I would like to describe briefly about Myanmar/Burma. The country was colonized by the
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colonizers were the Spanish‚ the French‚ and the British. These three countries were driven by three very basic motives: a desire for material gain‚ a desire to spread religion‚ and a desire to expand territory. Britain conquered Burma over a period of 62 years (1824-1886). Burma wasn’t administered as a province of India until 1937‚ when it became a separate‚ self-governing colony. This is the arrangement of details surrounding George Orwell’s story of "Shooting An Elephant". The reader finds oneself
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Shooting an Elephant for No Good Reason George Orwell spent some time as a police officer in Burma where he was actively hated. While doing this job he despised‚ he was put in a position where he felt it was necessary to shoot an elephant on the loose. George Orwell was not justified in shooting the elephant because the elephant was not charging at him‚ the animal was worth less dead than alive‚ and the people he was trying to impress had no love for him. When Orwell describes observing the elephant
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Two pieces of literature Shooting An Elephant by George Orwell and The Guest by Albert Camus both talks about how people’s values can come into conflict as they are stuck between the choices and how based on the choice that they make at that moment in life it will impact them for the the rest of their lives. There is times when we come across a situation which put us in a difficult position to choose what to do as we are stuck between two values to choose from. To understand better how people’s values
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“A majority of the youths working at our bar are from Burma‚ between the ages of 18 and 25‚” said an employee at one of the city’s best known gay bars‚ speaking on condition of anonymity. He said that despite assumptions in the community that male sex workers are gay‚ some of the migrants were straight but had sex with men to support their families. A large proportion of sex workers in Chiang Mai are from ethnic minority areas in Burma‚ including Shan‚ Kayah and Karen states. Ethnic minority
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Aung San Suu Kyi’s Speech One of my favourite dicta is that people should not be categorized as good or evil‚ wise or stupid. It would be much more sensible to divide them simply into learners and non-learners. In between the two extremes would be a broad spectrum graded on the degree to which individuals are capable of correct assessment and understanding of the learning material at their disposal. Here of course I’m giving a very broad definition to learning. It would involve much more than what
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imperialism in Burma‚ currently known as Myanmar. Burma is a country located in Southeast Asia‚ bordering Indi‚ Bangladesh‚ China Laos‚ and Thailand. Between the years of 1824 and 1948‚ Burma‚ and its native people‚ the Burmese‚ was under the control of the British. Great Britain had seized many other countries before Burma‚ yet they wanted to increase their power and expand their nation. For more specific reasons‚ the British wanted control over Burma to protect European possessions in India. Burma was also
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I am a migrant from Myanmar and I resettled to the United States in 2014 because of political reason in my country. Before I came to the U.S‚ I faced immense difficulties in Malaysia was a country where I took refuge. After two years of living in Malaysia‚ I had a chance to resettle in America. I have been in the U.S for about two years now and I find it difficult in managing all by myself. There are a lot of challenges placed in front of me‚ but I am trying to overcome all the obstacles with perseverance
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that he detests working for the government in Burma. Everyone in Burma hated him‚ and what he did as his career. He states that after he was hated‚ he hated imperialism before. “For at that time I had already made up my mind that imperialism was an evil thing and the sooner I chucked up and got out of it the better” (851). He did not like his job due to working under imperialism. Being a sub-divisional police officer‚ he needs to keep Burma safe from all violence and danger. After describing
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