1、What Should We Do?Thinking After Reading A Hanging by George OwellThis essay can be roughly separated into three parts, the first part is from paragraph 1 to 5, talking about before the warders and the prisoner went to the gallows, then from 6th paragraph to 14th, coming the dog and it went through
2、the whole process of death penalty, the last is from paragraph 15 to the end, focus on the feelings and doings of those warders and onlookers. After reading this essay I think a lot about the current situations and the things we ought to do next.It is said by Confucius that we shouldnt impose on oth
3、ers what ourselves do not desire, but things were not always as our wishes. Dating from middle ages, Roman nobles killed slaves in the Colosseum; in 1920s,as the passage telling us, the US soldier mercilessly slaughter the local residents; in 1940s, Hitler massacred Jews; and today countless wars ar
4、e held to chase power and expend power. In ancient Rome, the nobles were willing to see the frights between slaves and beasts. Once seeing the blood, they would be excited, laugh and applaud for the fierce fright. According to the passage, those American soldiers laughed at people who died, saying t
5、hey are timid and terrified to pee. They drank not far from the dead, are not as kind as dogs. Those people are cruel and they only thought about themselves. In order to satisfy their own desire they even sacrifice other peoples lives. Facing all those appalling facts in history, we can no longer stand by and do nothing, and we cant let them happen again. Those countries that invade other country for profit should be punished, and those people want to chase power and start war should be condemned. What we bear in mind is that everyone is equal.20091151116 庄晓旭
