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+Holden Rohrer and Youssef Layous\\
+Jones\\
+AP Lang\\
+2 Dec 2019\\
+
{\bf Paraphrase}
I am a British police officer stationed in an Indian city, and therefore lack any respect from the locals---all of whom find me a ridiculous European, especially the Buddhists.
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{\bf Assertions}
-1. ``Theoretically, I was all for the Burmese and all against their oppressors, the British.'' ``As a police officer, I was an obvious target.'' The police officer's dilemma is clear because he can neither follow his own sense of propriety and appease the locals (because his job required cruelty), but also he cannot fully engage the British ruling because then he would become ultimately unfavored with the Burmese.
+1. ``Theoretically, I was all for the Burmese and all against their oppressors, the British.'
+``As a police officer, I was an obvious target.''
+The police officer's dilemma is clear because he can neither follow his own sense of propriety and appease the locals (because his job required cruelty), but also he cannot fully engage the British ruling because then he would become ultimately unfavored with the Burmese.
+
+2. ``[Shooting the elephant] was a tiny incident in itself, but it gave me a better glimpse than I had had before the real nature of imperialism---the real motives for which despotic governments act.''
+``Besides, legally I had done the right thing.'
+Imperialist ideas necessarily permit mismanagement because the government doesn't have a strong enough hold upon the local administration to maintain their own goals.
+But the colonizer has too strong of control that the natives lack autonomy.
+Instead of deliberate decisions made from on high or by the grassroots, rash and improper decisions take its place.
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{\bf Words}
+Saecula Saeculorum = ``for ever and ever; for eternity''
+
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{\bf Rhetorical Strategies}