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	Shooting An Elephant by
		It was not, of course, a wild elephant, but a tame one which had gone "must." It had been chained up, as tame elephants always are when their attack of "must" is due, but on the previous night it had broken its chain and escaped.
		They had not shown much interest in the elephant when he was merely ravaging their homes, but it was different now that he was going to be shot.
		I ought, therefore, as the elephant was sideways on, to have aimed straight at his ear-hole, actually I aimed several inches in front of this, thinking the brain would be further forward.
	www.online-literature.com /orwell/887 (3225 words)

	Shooting an Elephant - Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays - George Orwell, Book, etext
		I took my rifle, an old.44 Winchester and much too small to kill an elephant, but I thought the noise might be useful in terrorem.
		I had no intention of shooting the elephant—I had merely sent for the rifle to defend myself if necessary—and it is always unnerving to have a crowd following you.
		It is a serious matter to shoot a working elephant—it is comparable to destroying a huge and costly piece of machinery—and obviously one ought not to do it if it can possibly be avoided.
	whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au /words/authors/O/OrwellGeorge/essay/shootingelephant.html (3183 words)

	EDSITEment - Lesson Plan
		Among his most powerful essays is the 1931 autobiographical essay "Shooting an Elephant," which Orwell based on his experience as a police officer in colonial Burma.
		The essay "Shooting an Elephant" is set in a town in southern Burma during the colonial period.
		While he does not use the inclusive "we" in "Shooting an Elephant," Orwell's use of the first person perspective is a rhetorical strategy.
	edsitement.neh.gov /view_lesson_plan.asp?id=606 (4221 words)

	Nathaniel Hawthorne: "Shooting An Elephant" - Pressure of the Masses
		The essay "Shooting An Elephant" begins with the author, George Orwell, a British Police officer in Burma, describing his experiences with the local Burmese people who hate the British and find various ways by which to put the English fraternity to shame and ridicule.
		He did not wait to see the elephant die, but was later informed about the gory details of the elephants death and of the people who stripped the elephant to the bones.
		The elephant has got over his "must", and is now peacefully pulling stalks from the field and putting them in his mouth with his trunk.
	www.e-scoala.ro /referate/engleza_orwell_shooting.html (823 words)

	Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell
		It had been chained up, as tame elephants always are when their attack of "must" is due, but on the previous night it had broken its chain and escaped.
		I had no intention of shooting the elephant-I had merely sent for the rifle to defend myself if necessary-and it is always unnerving to have a crowd following you.
		It is a serious matter to shoot a working elephant-it is comparable to destroying a huge and costly piece of machinery-and obviously one ought not to do it if it can possibly be avoided.
	www.physics.ohio-state.edu /~wilkins/writing/Resources/essays/elephant.html (3093 words)

	Shooting.SportXy.com: shooting
		Shooting is both an individual and a team sport and is one in which people of...
		Victim's parents OK deal for son's friends As the mother of the victim sobbed in court Monday, a friend of her son admitted his role in the accidental shooting death of the 17-year-old Joliet teen.
		The only adult to survive the shooting rampage in Delavan on Saturday night that left six dead can be heard on a 911 call telling police that he saw his wife and others being shot.
	shooting.sportxy.com /content/shooting.html (697 words)

	byGosh.com - Shooting an Elephant
		I took my rifle, an old.44 Winchester and much too small to kill an elephant, but I thought the noise might be useful in terrorem.
		I had no intention of shooting the elephant--I had merely sent for the rifle to defend myself if necessary--and it is always unnerving to have a crowd following you.
		It is a serious matter to shoot a working elephant--it is comparable to destroying a huge and costly piece of machinery--and obviously one ought not to do it if it can possibly be avoided.
	www.bygosh.com /Features/072002/shootingelephant.htm (3168 words)

	Shooting an Elephant - Essay by George Orwell - Charles' George Orwell Links
		It was not, of course, a wild elephant, but a tame one which had gone must.”; It had been chained up, as tame elephants always are when their attack of must”; is due, but on the previous night it had broken its chain and escaped.
		I had no intention of shooting the elephant—I had merely sent for the rifle to defend myself if necessary—and it is always unnerving to have a crowd following you.
		It is a serious matter to shoot a working elephant—it is comparable to destroying a huge and costly piece of machinery—and obviously one ought not to do it if it can possibly be avoided.
	www.netcharles.com /orwell/essays/shootelephant.htm (3190 words)

	Comp 1101 -- Journal 2 -- Shooting an elephant
		When he first came upon the elephant, he describes the calm nature of it eating, and he believes that he will not have to shoot it.
		Also, he describes the crowd as being like vultures, waiting for him to kill the elephant so they could swoop down and take it's meat, suggesting that they wouldn't be willing to kill the elephant themselves, but would gladly let the man they had abused take the shot.
		Once he does finally shoot, he depicts the long death very grotesquely, and can't stand to watch it, for he didn't want to kill the animal in the first place.
	www.travelin-tigers.com /zhs/compj02.htm (594 words)

	English 103: George Orwell "Shooting an Elephant"
		I had no intention of shooting the elephant - I had merely sent for the rifle to defend myself if necessary - and it is always unnerving to have a crowd following you.
		It is a serious matter to shoot a working elephant - it is comparable to destroying a huge and costly piece of machinery - and obviously one ought not to do it if it can possibly be avoided.
		And suddenly I realized that I should have to shoot the elephant after all: The people expected it of me and I had got to do it; I would feel their two thousand wills pressing me forward, irresistibly.
	www.courses.vcu.edu /ENG200-dwc/orwell.htm (3180 words)

	George Orwell: Shooting an Elephant
		As I started forward practically the whole population of the quarter flocked out of their houses and followed me. They had seen the rifle and were all shouting excitedly that I was going to shoot the elephant.
		Alive, the elephant was worth at least a hundred pounds; dead, he would only be worth the value of his tusks--five pounds, possibly.
		I did not then know that in shooting an elephant one should shoot to cut an imaginary bar running from ear-hole to ear-hole.
	raysweb.net /poems/articles/orwell.html (3127 words)

	Interactive Literature Selections Shooting an Elephant
		“Shooting an Elephant” is an essay in which Orwell recalls an incident that took place in Burma during his years as a police officer of the Imperial British government.
		An elephant has run mad and trampled a man to death.
		Orwell is called upon to respond and finds himself having to choose between doing what he feels is right, and doing what he believes the natives expect of him as a representative of the power of the British crown.
	www.emcp.com /product_catalog/school/litLink/Grade12/U11-03shootingelephant (179 words)

	The Hindu : Shooting an elephant
		He had another motive to make the trip — an ancestor had been stationed in the area and had fought in the battle of Kohima during the World War II.
		The hunter called upon by the government to dispatch the rogue, Dinesh Choudhury, tells the journalist that much as he would like to spare the elephant, the beast is much too dangerous (having killed over 30 people) to be spared.
		One of the ancillary reasons, Hall decided to visit Assam was because he wanted to see if he could find the fabled graveyard of elephants — the final resting place these behemoths head towards when they sense the end was near.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/mag/2001/12/02/stories/2001120200010300.htm (818 words)

	Shooting an Elephant Summary & Essays - George Orwell
		The narrator does not want to shoot the elephant, but feels compelled to by a crowd of indigenous residents, before whom he does not wish to appear indecisive or cowardly.
		‘‘Shooting an Elephant’’ is a central text in modern British literature and has generated perhaps more criticism than any other comparable short piece.
		Close-up of a scoline tranquilizer dart in an African elephant.
	www.enotes.com /shooting-elephant (355 words)

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		Desire to share an experience which one feels is valuable and ought not to be missed.
		His character was an extraordinarily mixed one, but there was almost nothing in it that you can put your finger on and call bad, and I believe that even Gandhi's worst enemies would admit that he was an interesting and unusual man who enriched the world simply by being alive.
		The autobiography leaves it uncertain whether Gandhi behaved in an inconsiderate way to his wife and children, but at any rate it makes clear that on three occasions he was willing to let his wife or a child die rather than administer the animal food prescribed by the doctor.
	sitemaker.umich.edu /mrmeteyer/files/modern_british_culture_readings.doc (15728 words)

	Shooting an Elephant Summary
		George Orwell is most widely known today as the novelist who wrote Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), but in the 1930s and 1940s readers of left-wing intellectual periodicals and weeklies knew him as a perceptive and rigorously honest es...
		"Shooting an Elephant" is an essay by George Orwell written during the autumn of 1936.
		A narrative, Orwell retells his account of shooting an elephant in British -controlled Burma as an Imperial Policeman in 1926.
	www.bookrags.com /Shooting_an_Elephant (341 words)

	Why Republicans are screwed. - By John Dickerson - Slate Magazine
		Bush's approval rating is at an all-time low, gas prices are near an all-time high, and Iraq continues to burn.
		John McCain is an appealing candidate and a perceived guaranteed winner of the 2008 Presidential election because of his reputation as a "straight shooter".
		An automatic deposit, if you will, into the account that holds all their political capital.
	www.slate.com /id/2140538 (2022 words)

	Essays.cc - Battle Of The Ants And Shooting An Elephant
		In “Shooting an Elephant” Orwell is taking part in imperialism by proving his power and dignity to the natives.
		In “Shooting an Elephant” the narrator feels forced by the natives to kill the elephant.
		The narrator speaks of how he is so against imperialism, but gives in to the natives by shooting the elephant to prove he is strong and to avoid humiliation.
	www.essays.cc /free_essays/c2/ezk204.shtml (901 words)

	Shooting an Elephant (The Nation, March 30, 1970)
		When the votes were counted in Atlanta's 1969 mayoralty election, Cook, who had been waiting in the wings for eight years for his big political chance, found that the had suffered a dreadful defeat.
		It was, in one sense, the very tail end of an era of hope for "modern Republicanism" in the Deep South's biggest city.
		H.L. Mencken, "An Eminent American," July 11, 1923.
	www.thenation.com /archive/detail/13272759 (212 words)

	MySpace Arcade - Flash games and site codes - Shooting Games
		In this game you are battling a friend shooting bullets and such...
		In this game you go around shooting the other team trying to win...
		Infiltrate the office, shoot the enemies with your AK-47 or blow...
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	Elephant Shooting (Harpers.org) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Presently emerging into an open glade, I came full in sight of the mighty game: it was a truly glorious sight; there were nine or ten of them, which were, with one exception, fullgrown, first-rate bulls, and all of them carried very long, heavy, and perfect tusks.
		There is a peculiar art in driving an elephant in the particular course which you may fancy, and, simple as it may seem, it nevertheless requires the hunter to have a tolerable idea of what he is about.
		At such a moment it is extremely dangerous to approach an elephant on foot, for I have remarked that, although nearly dead, he can muster strength to make a charge with great impetuosity.
	harpers.org /ElephantShooting.html (1162 words)

	Free Essays - Shooting An Elephant
		He was “willed” to move forward and shoot the elephant.
		As this was more for the shock value for me I think that the story was intended for people of all opinions this is why he mentions all the different ways it could be looked upon.
		He talks about the owner of the elephant being upset but because he was only a native his complaints wouldn’t have made a difference.
	www.freeessays.tv /b963.htm (366 words)

	Shooting - Arcade Rush
		Draw your pistol revolver magnum and shoot down the cowboys in t...
		This town is blah shoot the turkeys but avoid shooting the babie...
		Throw shurikens at oncoming ninjas shoot them down before they s...
	www.arcaderush.com /category/Shooting/1.html (383 words)

	Free Essays - An Analysis Of Orwells Shooting An Elephant
		In “Shooting an Elephant,” George Orwell finds himself in a difficult situation
		The fate of the elephant lies in his hands.
		elephant: “Here I was the white man with his gun, standing in front of the
	www.freeessays.tv /a8047.htm (345 words)

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		On any sunny Sunday while many CSD 8 kids are shooting hoops in the projects many others are dribbling a soccer ball in the park and shouting Gooooooal.
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	PSE: Precision Shooting Equipment
		Only 16 people will be able to shoot next year at the Olympic Trials in San Diego.
		Bringing his total to an incredible 59 world record animals, Archie harvested a world record Mountain Nyala, a Northern Grants Gazelle and a Guenter Dik-Dik in Africa with his new PSE X-Force.
		Teressa goes bowhunting for the first time and harvests an African elephant with her new PSE X-Force, the most powerful hunting bow ever produced!
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	Amazon.com: Shooting an Elephant (Penguin Modern Classics): Books: George Orwell (Site not responding. Last check: )
		If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can make it available as an eBook on Amazon.com.
		What is most striking about this book is again the clean, crisp, easy to read, but by no means in any way "dumbed down" prose.
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	www.amazon.com /Shooting-Elephant-Penguin-Modern-Classics/dp/0141187395 (1406 words)

	Analysis of Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell - Associated Content
		Orwell had to kill an elephant that had run rampant in lust throughout a village.
		In it’s wake it destroyed a truck, a hut, and a villager.
		What is to be seen is how he was justified in shooting the elephant, regardless of what ethical or moral agonies he had suffered.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/31397/analysis_of_shooting_an_elephant_by.html (439 words)

	Elephant Games. World is playing. We are making.
		Elephant Games is pleased to announce that it became an authorized Nintendo DS developer and is unveiling the development of its first project for this console - Way In Dusk.
		The game combines dynamic shooting and adventure in 3D.
		Karma Team in cooperation with Elephant Games announces the release of version 1.0 of Bloom, a puzzle where you need to construct a water pipe leading to flowers to make them blossom.
	www.elephant-games.com (235 words)

	Shooting an Elephant Summary
		‘‘Shooting an Elephant’’ begins with a meditative prelude to the action in which the narrator, who may be presumed to be Orwell, comments on being a colonial policeman in British Burma in the middle of the twentieth century.
		‘‘I was hated by large numbers of people,’’he says, and ‘‘anti-European feeling was very bitter.’’ A European woman crossing the market would likely be spat upon and a subdivisional police officer made an even more inviting target.
		Once, at a soccer match, a Burmese player deliberately fouled the narrator while the Burmese umpire conveniently...
	www.enotes.com /shooting-elephant/16204 (174 words)

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