"Shooting an Elephant" is an essay by British writer George Orwell, first published in the literary magazine New Writing in late 1936 and broadcast by...
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surrounding a school shooting, heavily inspired by the 1999 Columbine High School massacre. The film begins a short time before the shooting occurs, following...
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To Shoot an Elephant is a 2009 documentary film about the 2008-2009 Gaza War directed by Alberto Arce and Mohammad Rujailahk. Official website The complete...
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and Netflix series The Crown, Season 2, episode 5 and short movie Shooting an Elephant and Bollywood movie Gold. Her third nepali movie was Sano Mann alongside...
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Thomas Matthew Crooks (redirect from Trump shooter)
midterm elections). In 2022, Crooks wrote about George Orwell's essay "Shooting an Elephant", calling it "a powerful allegory warning against adopting imperialistic...
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Musth (category Elephants)
yet presented. Shooting an Elephant is an essay by George Orwell written in 1936, in which he describes how an elephant in Burma had an attack of musth...
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"Shooting an Elephant"; and in "Hills Like White Elephants", Ernest Hemingway used the allegorical white elephant, alluding to a pregnancy as an unwanted...
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The Sporting Spirit (redirect from War minus the shooting)
Sporting Spirit" is an essay by George Orwell published in the magazine Tribune on 14 December 1945, and later in Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays,...
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An elephant execution, sometimes called elephant lynching, is a pseudo-legal or performative public spectacle where a captive elephant is killed in order...
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Mahout (redirect from Elephant trainer)
Orwell's essay "Shooting an Elephant" discusses the relationship of an elephant to its mahout: "It was not, of course, a wild elephant, but a tame one...
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Elephant hunts help the locals". CBS News. Retrieved March 31, 2011. "African Elephant @ CITES". Walsh, Bryan. "GoDaddy CEO on Shooting an Elephant:...
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Ivory (redirect from Elephant and mammoth ivory)
ivory can be divided into: Shooting the elephant to take its tusks: this method is of concern here. Taking tusks from an elephant which has died of natural...
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Execution by elephant, or Gunga Rao, was a method of capital punishment in South and Southeast Asia, particularly in India, where Asian elephants were used...
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February 1946, and Secker and Warburg republished it after his death in Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays in 1952. Orwell identified several common features...
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The term is used in a similar manner in George Orwell's essay "Shooting an Elephant", which is used to accentuate his isolation in Colonial Burma (now...
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(Hal had to shoot the elephant, much to Roger's protest. Hal explained that they were in the jungle and no one could save the trunk. An elephant will die...
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Elephant hunting, which used to be an accepted activity in Kenya, was banned in 1973, as was the ivory trade. Kenya pioneered the destruction of ivory...
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Warburg in 1946. The latter press also published the collections Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays in 1950 (republished by Penguin in 2003) and England...
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The Indian elephant (Elephas maximus indicus) is one of three extant recognized subspecies of the Asian elephant, native to mainland Asia. The species...
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that I spent the best years of my life in the Burma police.", in "Shooting an Elephant" (1936), his character stated that "In Moulmein in Lower Burma, I...
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George Orwell (category British shooting survivors)
"Shooting an Elephant" (1936). In England, he settled back in the family home at Southwold, renewing acquaintance with local friends and attending an Old...
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Kennedy Clark and Patrick Schwarzenegger. Kuehn composed the music for Shooting An Elephant, a narrative short film featured in the 2016 Tribeca film festival...
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Sewanee Review, 49 (1941): 68–81. Orwell, George, "Nonsense Poetry" in Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays. London: Secker and Warburg, 1950. pp. 179–184 Osgood...
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Operation Dumbo Drop (category Films about elephants)
the trainer to tell the elephant to lie down, while then shooting the scene in slow motion. To ensure the health of the elephant, her food and water, including...
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An elephant joke is a joke cycle, almost always an absurd riddle or conundrum and often a sequence of such, that involves an elephant. Elephant jokes...
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is an essay by George Orwell first published in Tribune on 2 November 1945. After Orwell's death, the essay was republished in Shooting an Elephant and...
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colonial-era Burma, a topic Orwell also explored in his short story Shooting an Elephant. He is torn between his fascination with Burmese culture, which sees...
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documentary is about the bond that develops between a couple and an orphaned baby elephant, Raghu, who was entrusted to their care. The film is produced...
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Wigan Pier) "England Your England" "Shooting an Elephant" "Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool" "Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels"...
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{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) Orwell, George Shooting an Elephant Secker and Warburg 1950 p. 202 Wikimedia Commons has media related...
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