An Adult Elephant Essay

Not surprisingly, elephants are known for being more emotional and empathetic animals than the rest. According the three articles, “Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk”, “Elephants Know When They Need a Helping Trunk in a Cooperative Task”, and “Elephants Console Each Other” elephants understand when they need each other’s assistance. All two authors describe the studies of elephant behavior differently, but with a similar purpose.

Description: August is Marlena’s husband and the head animal trainer. He is alternately charming and brutal, both to the humans and animals aboard the Benzini Brothers train. Later in the book, it is explained that he is a paranoid schizophrenic.

Human beings have full control over their identities after they have received knowledge and have become shaped from external stimuli. These stimuli include the teaching process of humans which comes through tradition, schooling, and the actions of other humans and the influence of the organisms around them. Andrew Solomon, through “Son,” was able to use his experience of growing up and labeling himself as a gay dyslexic to show how his environment and knowledge had shaped his identity and how it was viewed by others with different identities. In “An Elephant Crackup,” Charles Siebert was able to explain how the other organisms or humans are able to form new identities for elephants over time by shaping them a new environment and having the elephants process it. In “Mind’s Eye,” Oliver Sacks had different case studies of blindness from different people and was able to show how each one experienced their blindness help shape and express their individual identities. The stimuli that becomes processed by a person in the situations, accounts, and studies of these works assist in the role of explaining the formulation of an identity.

As society has progressed, the evolution of imperialism has come to a point where people see it has pure history. It has vanished from our daily lives as we have not recently witness a country trying to dominate another. In “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell, we are able to envision the lives of the Burmese as they were involuntarily controlled by the British. In the early 1900’s we are told a true story of Orwell himself where he was once established in Burma was apart of his military service. During his service, he describes his living situation by noting that the army as well as himself were not appreciated. He mentions, “As a police officer I was an obvious target and was baited whenever it seemed safe to do so.”(1) One day he

George Orwell, author of, "Shooting an Elephant" reveals his inner conflicts to the audience by offering in depth description, using intensity, and symbolism through the act of shooting the elephant. His narration helps him do so by giving descriptive scenarios in the story. Orwell's narration can also be used to examine the role of India and Great Britain at the story's time in history. The narration then allows Orwell to use symbolism in place of description. Orwell uses narration to help explain his inner conflicts and to what is happening in each setting of the story.

In every literature work, there are always those unexpected twists, ideas, and/or conflicts that allow the reader to acknowledge and view the masterpiece with more appreciation. This is shown in the novel, Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen. The story takes place in the chaotic great depression in the 1930s. In the novel, we can clearly observe the delightful story that Sara Gruen had produce. The progress on how she had arranged the storyline made it exceptionally better. Many different events had occurred that helped the readers be more engaged in reading the written work. The characters’ growths along with the plot development which is written in a third person perspective allows a deeper understanding for the readers to appreciate the novel even further.

The short story “Shooting an Elephant”, by George Orwell, can be seen as one broad metaphor for imperialism. In the story, Orwell is direct about discussing imperialism from the narrator's point of view. But, if the reader analyzes “Shooting an Elephant” through a historical critical lens then representation of imperialism can be seen in many other aspects of the story as well. Through this lens, we can not only see the effects of imperialism on the policeman and the people of the colonized nation, but we can see it reflected in the plot and what happens to the elephant and its true owner.

Throughout all cultures, there is one idea that remains consistently inconsistent; perception. Perception has to do with how something is viewed either from a physical or metaphorical aspect. Due to the vast size of the world’s population; there will always be a difference in ideas, no matter how “big” or “small.” “Elephant in the Village of the Blind” demonstrates how time, perception, and collaboration can be determining factors in how a situation is dealt with or viewed. This short story shows the ways that the exchange of different viewpoints affects one group’s relationship with others. It is important to know how these differences can change and their role in global affairs.

Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell and the Open Window by Hector Hugh Munroare are two very different stories, however i think they have a very profound underlying theme. That is the power of human companionship. In Shooting an Elephant the character, we will call him the European, experiences the power of peer pressure, that is to say the people following him and watching him wanted him to kill the elephant. they may have wanted him to kill it for different reasons, some of them wanted the food while others were seeking sport, while even others were looking for justice. In the Open Window Mr. Nuttel experiences a different kind of situation. He is presented with a story, that the reader later finds to be untrue, about a few men who Mr. Nuttel is told are dead. Later they come back scarring Mr. Nuttel off. these are both situations where the characters experience similar situations. In one the man in influenced by the crowd, in the other the man is influenced by the woman.

In life, you base a lot of your decisions on what others will think about you. Just like in the essay from George Orwell “Shooting an Elephant” he makes a decision off of what people will think about him. In the essay Orwell is faced with a decision, to kill an elephant after a rampage through his town, or to let him live. After being peer pressured by the Burman people Orwell shot and killed the elephant. Even though he really did not want too. I can think of three times peer pressure got the best of me, once when I got caught stealing at Walmart, another when I got suspended from middle school, and lastly when I lost my best friend. All of these events were from peer pressure, keep reading to see what happened.

Today, Grandma turns eighty four. My parents and I walk through her front door and instantly the familiar smell of orchids fills the air. Through the crowd of aunts, uncles, and cousins, I spot my Grandma, five feet tall and exceptionally well dressed. I walk over and give her a big hug and kiss. After a series of hellos and how are yous, we all make our way toward the big blue couch and plop ourselves down. We orient ourselves around her, like elephants gathering around the wise matriarch of the herd. We listen as she reads, In My Own Words- Helen’s Memoir, out loud. She scans the room and sees her six children and thirteen grandchildren gathered around her tiny living room. With a youthful voice that doesn’t match her eighty

In Andrew Murray’s With Christ in the School of Prayer, it is proposed from the words of John (1 John 2:12-14) that, “In the Christian life there are three great stages of experience: the first is that of the new-born child filled with the assurance and the joy of forgiveness, the second is that of transition, of struggle and growth in knowledge and strength, and is comparable to young men growing strong, and the final stage of maturity and ripeness is that of the Fathers, who have entered deeply into the knowledge and fellowship of the Eternal One.” These stages suggest progression and development over a period of time in the life of a Christian. To better understand the manner in which development occurs in the Christian life it is necessary to address the subject of progressive sanctification. I will expound upon this subject through an explanation of the meaning of progressive sanctification, how it is manifested in the local church, what the Bible says about moving from spiritual infancy to maturity, and the role of discipleship in the process.

Have you ever wondered how the elephants in the circus do amazing tricks for the audience’s amusement? The truth is that the elephants are trained and tortured for them to do stunts. They are taken from their families at a young age and get trained to be ready for the main show. The trainers used bull hooks to “train” the animals to do tricks on their head, legs, etc. This torture breaks the animal’s spirit and sometimes it kills the elephant. Have you ever wondered how animals in movies preform? The animals in movies are sometimes forced to do actions they don’t like to do. In “A Dog’s Purpose” a German Shepard was forced into turbulent water for a scene in the movie. The dog was terrified of going into the water and the person holding the

The end of the film is an extended balancing act between absolute forgetfulness and a drive for total recall. The typical ending marks a satisfying return to a much-desired state of stillness. Van Sant reworks the conventional endings to critique their claims on death. Toward the end of Elephant, the viewer is briefly given a redemptive death. The camera follows a boy named Benny who helps a girl named Acadia escape through a window, walks calmly through the hallways, and, finally, sneaks up on Eric, who is looming over the principal.

Richard Lair was born in Lompoc, California, Febuary 21, 1931. He was a husband, son, father of one, and brother of one. In 1980 he emigrated to Thailand, where he was first introduced to the Asian elephant. He passed away in September 1985. (Lair, Richard, and Richard Lair. ‘Richard Lair’. geni_family_tree. Np., 2015. Web. 20 Oct. 2015.)