O’Donnell lay on the Andora’s engine room floor, his head stuck under one of its many wall consoles, his legs crossed and outstretched. It was a location O’Donnell held with trepidation after someone, in the past, pressed the wrong button on the bridge, giving him a shock that would have raised every trunk in a herd of wild Elephants. This time, he held it with outright fear. Screwdriver, who stayed on the bridge to operate the controls, had the articulate propensity of one of those wild Elephants trying to ballet dance through a field of fragile standing Snowdrops. “Now, Screwdriver,” he called into his hand communicator. Two green lights lit up to the right of the connection he was working with. “No! No!” O’Donnell said, with irritation. …show more content…
Forbes turned to him, his eyes as inquisitive. “At the most, one week from now. The Proctor’s fleet is close to finished and we’ve got to get everything ready for a full-scale attack while we’ve still got surprise on our side.” “I see,” Screwdriver replied, as if in deep thought. “So you will attack in one week?” “Earlier, if we can build enough ships,” Forbes replied. He turned to Woods. “Contact O'Donnell, I want to know how far he's got with the device.” Woods activated the communicator. As she did, a loud scream emanated from its speaker. They went quiet as their ears concentrated on the agonising sound of acute pain and the torrent of profound expletives following afterwards. “Ah,” Screwdriver said. “So, that’s where I put it.” O’Donnell was not a happy man when Forbes and Barnes ran into the engine room. He stood seething in the middle of the floor. The whites of his eyes, due to the different shades of amber covering his hands and face, dominating his facial expression. In all, he looked like a ripe tomato after spending three days under a sun bed. “Is that O’Donnell?” Forbes asked Barnes, as they stopped and
People’s perceptions of themselves and how they think others perceive them influence their actions. This theme is evident in The Death of Benny Paret, Shooting an Elephant, and On Dumpster Diving, but in different ways in each piece. Once people know who they are and are comfortable with themselves, they have reached self-actualization.
George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” is a short story that not only shows cultural divides and how they affect our actions, but also how that cultural prejudice may also affect other parties, even if, in this story, that other party may only be an elephant. Orwell shows the play for power between the Burmese and the narrator, a white British police-officer. It shows the severe prejudice between the British who had claimed Burma, and the Burmese who held a deep resentment of the British occupation. Three messages, or three themes, from Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” are prejudice, cultural divide, and power.
There are some wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than wounds that bleed. Just as all humans, elephants similarly feel emotions whether it is joy or sorrow. In his article “An Elephant Crack Up?” the author, Charles Siebert focuses on the recent strange and bellicose behaviors of elephants and clears up the causes of the behaviors with plenty of informative observations. In “Immune to Reality,” Daniel Gilbert theorizes that the psychological immune system is triggered by large-scale negative events. We also see these negative effects in the passage, “The Mega-Marketing of Depression in Japan,” while Ethan Watters exposes the attempts of Glaxo Smith Kline to convince the Japanese doctors that the Japanese people
A police officer in the British Raj, the supposedly 'unbreakable'; ruling force, was afraid. With his gun aimed at a elephant's head, he was faced with the decision to pull the trigger. That officer was George Orwell, and he writes about his experience in his short story, 'Shooting an Elephant';. To save face, he shrugged it off as his desire to 'avoid looking the fool'; (George Orwell, 283). In truth, the atmosphere of fear and pressure overwhelmed him. His inner struggle over the guilt of being involved in the subjugation of a people added to this strain, and he made a decision he would later regret enough to write this story.
In “Shooting an Elephant,” the main character, a “foreigner” in another country, who is hated by the native people. When put on the spot, when everyone was interested in him for once. He caves and does what everyone expects of him. I believe everyone, at one time or another has felt this way. I felt this way in middle school. The shortest, shyest, and slowest person in the grade, me. I don’t think my peers hated me, but I wasn’t the most popular person of whom everyone knew. I constantly felt pressured by my parents to get the perfect grades. I caved into the pressure and worked harder to get the good grades they wanted. Even though I had good enough grades to pass and feel good about, mainly high “B’s,” a couple “C’s,” and one “A.” Even though
“I can’t believe I am doing this.” I say, more to myself, than Zander. “I’ll meet you there at say, 7:00 o’clock?”
“Ya know your the only one here with a weapon right? Or well, at least one that won’t make a crater in the ship.”
The common name is the African Elephant, the scientific name is Loxodonta Africana, the phylum is Vertebrata, the class is Mammalia, the order is Proboscidea, and the family is Elephantidae. The Closest Relatives to the African Elephant are: the Asian Elephant, mammoths, primitive proboscidean (mastodons), sea cows, and hyraxes. Scientists believe that the African Elephant evolved from one of its closest relatives, the Sea Cow. The geographical location and range of the African elephant covers all of central and southern Africa. In Ethiopia there are isolated populations that exist around Lake Chad in Mali and Mauritania. Also in Kenya, Rhodesia, Tanzania, Zambia, Uganda, Zaire, and in National parks located in South Africa, as well as several other countries. African Elephants, originally, were found in all of the Sub-Saharan African habitats except desert steppes. Elephants still occupy diverse habitats such as: temperate grassland, tropical savanna and grass lands, temperate forest and rainforest, tropical rainforest, tropical scrub forest, and tropical deciduous forest despite their drastic decline in numbers. However, their migratory patterns and habitat use have changed, due to the fact that they are restricted to protected areas. The elephant can exist in many types of environments but it prefers places that have many trees and bushes, which the elephant needs both for food and shade. They also like warm areas that have plenty of rainfall.
“Well he’s a most wanted criminal, he says he’s got some information on some foreign attack” he explained.
as soon as possible . . . there's more trouble over at Gibbons. Meet me there.”
What is really important to you; that keeps you safe, that protects you? What if that was taken away from you forever? If we as humans, for example, didn’t have our teeth and were to try to live without them in the wilderness, we would likely not survive. This is what happens to animals in our world when their tools for survival are taken from them by poachers.
Elephants are admired across the world, but nowhere else in the world are they more revered and integrated into the culture than in India (Gröning, Saller, 122). We have chosen elephant depictions in various art mediums for our exhibit because they grants us insight into tradition and deity-like reverence of the animal in India culture. In our exhibit visitors will be guided through artistic examples of elephants in the ancient world, Buddhist stupas, Hindu temples, and of the Hindu god Ganesh. Elephants have been depicted in many aspects of Indian life from farm animals to animals of war. For the purpose of this paper we will focus on the prominence of elephants in ancient India, Buddhism, and in Hinduism.
walked into the room, his body language from his head hanging down, so immediately finding a
African elephants are the largest land animals in the world. They are slightly bigger than their cousin the Asian elephant. Elephants are known for a lot of things. There are only 2 out of the 600 species of elephants left. They do some of the most interesting things. In this essay, I’m going to inform you about different things about elephants; how they live, how they do things and where they are most commonly found. Elephants overpower most other animals because of their size. These are some of the most important facts to know about elephants.
“Don't worry, sir,” I said. “We’ll have this thing wrapped up tight in no time.”