Analysis Of Elephants

Shooting an Elephant, by George Orwell, is a short story about British colonialism in South Asia, during the 1900s. Orwell was inspired to write this story from his own experiences as part of the Indian Imperial Police for the British Empire (Eilers). Most readers often forget that law enforcers do not follow orders blindly and that they do contemplate the orders that are given to them. Orwell’s accounts gives readers a unique perspective of the dichotomy of living as an enforcer for the oppressive British rule, alongside the oppressed, but tantalizing Burmese. This short story is not only about an elephant being shot, but also about shifts in power and the importance of nationalism in colonial

When elephants are babies, they are small and easy to restrain. So, trainers will tie them to a post or tree, and at first, they will struggle, some fight against their restraints for days—yearning for freedom—until, gradually, the elephants give up and become complacent. Full grown elephants weigh tons and could easily break away from most constraints, but, despite their massive stature, trained elephants do not fight their trainers or yank against chains, because they have learned that attempts at escape are futile and they are powerless. Physical freedom is well within their grasp, but mental freedom is not; a Thousand Splendid Suns, the Catcher in the Rye, and Song Yet Sung all demonstrate the common theme that

If you compare these two articles they both share some similar important information. Such as in one story there is one man talking about how he loves lions. And how they are his

Elephants are largely affected by what they see and conceive, which makes Maggie Nelson’s image flow a theory to

Imagine that three people are all touching a part of an elephant. The first is touching the elephant's leg and says that the elephant is like the truck of a tree. The second is touching the elephant's trunk and disagrees with the first, saying that the elephant is like a large snake. The third person is touching the elephant’s side and says that the elephant is like a great wall.

As a biology major I didn’t find this article too difficult to read. For these types of studies that have been performed multiple time requires a person to do enough research on the topic to understand why the study was done and the goal of the study. This study was done to see can other high functional species, in this case elephants, show empathy for other creatures besides themselves. Which relates to my thesis of trying to understand what compels us to make the choices we make.

In the video Elephants show cooperation, the article Elephants can lend a helping trunk, and the passage Elephants know when they need a helping trunk in a cooperative task, The authors demonstrate the intelligence of elephants. They conduct an experiment which shows how elephants work together to achieve a goal. All three sources illustrate the cognitive ability of these sagacious creatures. All of these sources were similar and they all had a great exclamation on the test for the

The main topic of both the reading and the lecture is about elephant behaviors. The reading proposes three beliefs about elephants' behaviors; the lecture, however, finds these assumptions questionable, citing three reasons to repudiates what is mentioned in the passage.

In summary, there are many differences found in the pieces that revolve the same idea that elephants can be smarter than they appear. These differences can be found in the way the author presents the information, and in the author's tone. Some of the articles are more serious and fact based, while others are somewhat biased and more opinionated. To conclude, the articles are similar in the sense that they are talking about the tests the elephants took, but the differences are what give different points of view of the information and better understanding of what is going on.

Experiences may not be a determinant for the reactions of the elephants but visual characteristics play a big role. In the area of the experiment, traditionally dressed Maasai usually wear red while members of other groups often wear a range of colors. The researchers wanted to determine whether elephants can use the cloth color as a cue for classification when scent is not present. The researchers found that the elephants reacted significantly more aggressive when shown the red garment compared to the white, unworn garments. Visual cues associated with Maasai caused the elephants to react aggressively.

This time, the translucent buckets had 2 small holes on their lids and then were placed inside of larger metal baskets. Then there was a smaller orange bucket placed inside of the translucent bucket that contained the reward, which this time instead of just sunflower seeds, it was sunflower seeds mixed with pineapple. During the test experiment the bucket was baited with the lid secured so the elephant was only allowed an “investigation phase,” then the lids were opened and the elephants were allowed to choose called the “choice phase.” This went on for four sets of 10 experiments. The control was basically identical to the experimental test other than instead of two holes in the lids, there were none. The lids were just removed after the first

Guess what can weigh about 3 cars and can be 13 feet tall? The African elephant. The height and size difference is not the only way you can tell the African and Asian elephants apart, another way is by the ear shape. They are shaped like the land of Africa. The African elephant is also the largest mammal to live on land.

“Shooting an Elephant” is based upon George Orwell experience with the Indian Imperial Police. As a British officer, the narrator was “all for the Burmese and all against their oppressors, the British. This confines a universal experience of going against one’s own humanity at the cost of a part of that humanity. Throughout the story, the narrator feels that imperialism is evil, because he feels that imperialism restricts the freedom of the natives reducing them to inferior status in their own soil. Although he was against killing an elephant, he processed on doing it. What the author was conveying to the audience is that we have decisions in life that will impact us for life. We need to take into consideration of the choices before we chose

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Before 1988 , scientist, who thoroughly studied elephants, not realize that elephants could remarkably hear two octaves below humans. Humans hear in a range of ten octaves . there are machines, which uniquely reproduce infrasound, for humans to hear. Distinct behavior suggests that elephants can’t hear what humans can. Elephants have sudden,silent synchronized activities. Rumblings, which are sounds elephants use to commute with each other, are infrasound. Since Elephants are matriarch herds, the females have the strongest calls. These unique calls can be heard 5 kilo away and mating calls can last 30 minutes. Communicates through rumblings will gather herd family, keep track of each other, meet at water holes, call for help and can be