In "Shooting an Elephant" the author asserts "I was only an absurd puppet pushed to and fro by the will of those yellow faces behind. ... The policeman doesn't really want to kill the elephant; however, thousands of native people want him to kill the elephant because they want revenge and compensation, and in the end the policeman is forced to kill the elephant. ... In order to do so, he has to persuade himself that it is right to kill the elephant, even though deep inside him, he knows that it is wrong. ...

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"Some of these impacts include; dressing modestly, and not being provocative, praying three times a day, learning blessings which they have to say when seeing lightning, smelling anything fragrant and shooting stars. ... Buddhist: Most Buddhist festivals are held in a monastery, which is usually decorated, Elephants are also a large part of many Buddhist festivals (they use elephants because they represent strength.) ...

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We beheld a colossal elephants head, armed with mighty tusks, its long trunk waving uncannily in the water, as though seeking something it had lost. ... (Chorlton 54) An elephant with a body covered with thick fur about thirteen feet in height and fifteen in length with tusks eight feet long that curved outward at the end. ... The rest of the year, they lived off the left over twigs, shoots and lichens hidden beneath the snow. ...

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It is also known as the big five, which refers to the top five most commonly hunted animals in the safari, which are lions, elephants, buffalo, rhinoceros, and leopards. ... Two days later Palmer and his guide found Cecil and proceeded to shoot, behead, and skin him. ...

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There were many animals in the zoo like: elephant, links, zebra, pig, horse, cheetahs and badgers. ... When the Berlin zookeeper Lutz Heck started shooting the animals he did not need for a New Year's "hunting celebration," Antonina saw how they were able to kill so many animals for sport and wrote in her diary that "how many humans will die like this in the coming months?...

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Laughing and Humor have been an integral part of man ever since our tree-climbing ancestors came down from the trees, stood upright, and slipped on a banana peel. In the cave of Lascaux Anthropologists discovered this joke "Why did the dinosaur cross the road?" Because the chicken wasn't invented ye...

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The huge elephant in the room is whether or not the death penalty or capital punishment should still be in practice. ... In 1995 Larry Griffin was executed by lethal injection for a drive by shooting he had no connection with. ...

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