Elephant Stomp Research Paper

Shooting an Elephant is a short story written by George Orwell that takes place in Burma. In this short story George Orwell writes about a life experience he had while he was a young police officer in Burma. Orwell did not enjoy his time in Burma because of the lack of connections he was able to make with people there. He did not agree with the way they ran things, didn't get along with the people, and had a great amount of hatred for his job. On top of Orwell disliking all of this, the people in Burma made it obvious to him that they did not appreciate him either. While Orwell was at a soccer game, he was purposely tripped and instead of anyone showing sympathy for him, everyone yelled out with laughter. Orwell was having a tough time adjusting and badly wanted to get out of Burma. However he was patiently waiting for a big moment he could take advantage of and get the people of Burma to gain a little respect for him. Then one day his opportunity came. The opportunity in front of him was as big as he could imagine.

In life some students does not know which college to choose. Some of their questions are, “Maybe I should choose this college because it is cheaper and closer to home” or “Maybe I should go to this college because it is great, expensive, and there’s a lot of fine people there. If it would me in this situation, I would chose the college that is cheaper and closer to home. This is the reason I chosed Ogeechee Tech over Southeastern Tech.

The African Bush elephants are found in eastern and southern Africa. Some of the areas with the highest densities of the Bush elephant is: Tanzania, South African, Kenya, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia. The African Bush elephant is terrestrial. The Bush elephant usually live in the grasslands, semi-deserts and the bush lands. They also clear out forest and turn them into more of grassland, by knocking down the trees. The climate that the Bush elephant normally lives in is dry and hot. Their thin hairs and ears help them stay cool. Another way that they stay cool is that their hides become more permeable in the heat. Scientists has performed research on 13 elephants (African and Asian), they measure the release of heat and moisture. What they have found was that their skin opens up at air temperatures as low at 10°C to 12°C, this is what allows them to perspire. Elephants are different than most mammals, that sweats through glands connected to pores, elephants only have pores between their toes. Elephants do not sweat (Phillips, 1992). By all of the skin being permeable they lose more

I am Taylor Goody, an eighteen year old, Caucasian female, and I was born in Fort Hood, Texas. Including me, there are four people in my family, my mom, dad, and brother, and we are a middle class family. My mom is an administrative assistant, and my dad is a paramedic. My high school experience was good and bad, but it shaped me into being the person I am today. I have gained many friendships and memories because of high school, and they all made me a better person. Georgia Southern University was one of my top choices for college. It is close to home, and I loved the atmosphere of the campus when I visited. I had friends who go here tell me how enjoyable their time spent here had been, and it influenced my decision greatly.

In the essay, Shooting an Elephant, George Orwell illustrates his experiences as a British police officer in Lower Burma, and reflects it to the nature of imperialism. Since “anti-European feeling was very bitter” due to the British Empire’s dictatorship in Burma, Orwell is being treated disrespectfully by the Burmese (12). This allows him to hate his job and the British Empire. However, the incident of shooting of an elephant gives him a “better glimpse … of the real nature of imperialism – the real motives for which despotic government act” (13). Through his life experiences as a British man, Orwell efficiently demonstrates the negative effects of imperialism on individuals and society.

In “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell, Orwell paints a picture of an event he faced in Burma. As an unexperienced British officer of the British Raj, he was ridiculed and disrespected by the community. Robert Carr says in “Concession & Repression: British Rule in India 1857-1919”, “The period 1857-1919 in the British Raj can be seen as one of concession and repression” (3). The essay displays more than just a simple storyline, it was life changing. Towards the end of the story Orwell ends up shooting the elephant.

If you’re not paying attention, the mind can be a tricky labyrinth. The less you know about it, the more inexplicable and frightening it becomes. For example, why do seemingly benign elephants wreak havoc upon villages? In “An Elephant Crackup,” Charles Siebert explores the aberrant nature of these elephants and correlates them to their traumatizing upbringing, deprived of community and kinship. The biochemistry of the human mind, analyzed in “Love2.0” by Barbara Frederickson, serves as a worthy addendum to Siebert’s conjecture. “Love2.0” explains that the brain, hormones, and nerves work in unison to build emotional fortitude, stimulate oneself, and express positivity resonance. Siebert’s ideas of elephant culture and trans-species psyche can put Frederickson’s theory of emotions into practice. The absence of certain hormones within elephants, provided their fragmented community, can explain their volatile outbreaks. Alternatively, the reinstitution of human parental roles into elephant culture can help reconstruct their broken emotional states of elephants and rebuild their resilience; this healing process can also extend to humans.

Characteristics? Life? “ When humans act with cruelty we characterize then as animals yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity” - Anthony Douglass Williams. My assignment was to choose an vertebrate animal to research the 7 characteristics of life on. I chose an African Elephant to do my assignment on today.

Elephants are one of the many elephants that migrate, my facts are based on the african elephant, but may have something in common with the asian elephant.

I liken it to a train wreck , horrible to see yet hard to look away.

African elephant also known as (savanna elephant) are the largest mammals on earth. They are slightly larger than their Asian cousins and can be identified by their very large ears. The male and female both have tusks that they use to dig for food. Female elephants (cows) live in family herds with their young ones, but adult males (bulls) tend to roam on their own. Also they usually are ten to fifth teen elephants in one group. The genus name if the African elephant is Elephantidae.

I am stuffed elephant and my name is Peanut, I have lived in a toy store my whole entire life.But I have never expected to be finally leaving and here’s how it happened.I would usually walk around in the toy store aisles after hour when nobody was here.I was known as the old elephant since I have been here for five years.When they would open the toy store every morning I would think that this was the day I would be taken home but no every day was the same some kids would play

My interest in the white rhino started about three years ago when I was doing a research paper about the African elephant. I came across the white rhino as I was searching for the fellow species that were being threatened by hunters in Africa. I never really paid much attention to large wild animals before because of the fact that they are large and I figured that they wouldn’t be threatened like most smaller animals. One threat this wild rhino is facing is habitat loss due to agriculture and settlements. Another threat is poachers who are interested in their horns to sell mainly across the East. Although these threats are putting white rhinos at risk, through the efforts of groups such as the Wild Foundation and World Wild Life, the prognosis for the continued survival of the white rhino is good.

The Seattle team received the ivory from Kilindi, and the sheer of amount of ivory means that it must have been distributed by organized crime networks. Because the ivory is professionally smuggled, there is no evidence to point to where the ivory comes from. Wasser knew that they needed to find out where this ivory was being poached, so he created contacts that would send him the dung of elephants. This gave them DNA of different elephant populations which they could compare to the ivory, and allowed him to discover the two places where they

“We are experiencing what is likely to be the greatest percentage loss of elephants in history,” said Richard G. Ruggiero, an official with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (Ney York Times; December 3, 2012). The poaching of elephants started in the late 1800’s and is still happening today. People are slaughtering these majestic animals for their ivory tusks. Ivory has been sold on the black market for millions of dollars. Before the start of ivory poaching there were millions of elephants in the world in both Africa and India, but today because of the hunting for ivory, there are barely any of these giants left in the wild. Throughout history Europeans have been moving in on central African states to make