Essays on Elephant

Topsy the elephant was shocked at Luna Park Zoo on Coney Island in 1903. Caught on film by Thomas Edison, the occasion was one of a string of creature electric shocks Edison organized to dishonor another type of power: substituting flow. Thomas Edison arranges his…

Captive elephant management is a highly controversial issue, currently reaching a critical juncture in Europe and the U.S.A. Elephants are a notoriously difficult species to maintain in zoos, and this, coupled with several recent high profile cases in the U.K and abroad, have brought to…

The world that we all are living in has changed from the very beginning. From nothing evolved everything that we have right now. From the peaceful greens surrounding everything comes the contaminated grays embracing the skyscrapers we are seeing. The world has changed. The world…

Releasing the Elephant and the Donkey “However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of…

Andrew Lansley once said “Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses.” We often find ourselves caught in the midst of what we know is right and what others expect of us, which can sometimes lead us down…

The genus Amorphophallus paeoniifolius (Dennst.), Nicolson syn. A. campanulatus (Roxb.) BL. exDence commonly called elephant foot yam, is a tuberous perennial C3 herb belonging to the family Araceae (Ravi et al., 2011). It is a pale-tropical stem-tuber of Africa, Madagascar, India, continental South East Asia,…

Dubin, “When Elephants Fight: How Sensation Became Sensational” Thesis and Main Arguments Dubin examines the elements of Brooklyn museum confrontation where different groups have diverse opinions of the arts displayed in the museum. Dubin examines the facets without assigning blame to any group. Through the…

Hills Like White Elephants Evaluation Hills Like White Elephants is an expressive and symbolic short by Hemingway, which portrays a failing relationship, caused by a mysterious “operation”. The author illustrates the inevitability of the characters’ separation and the deterioration of their past romance through the…

The Social Similarities in George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” In George Orwell’s To Shoot an Elephant, the protagonist struggles with the decision of letting an elephant live or shooting and eventually killing it. Through the power of gossip, Orwell discovers that an elephant has clearly…