Describe a Place Essay

Beauty over Pain: Getting Rid of Animal Testing “The question is not, can they reason, nor, can they talk. But, can they suffer?” -Jeremy Bentham. By a show of hands, how many of you would cause your pet intentional pain? Would you prod them, lock them up, or inject them with possibly toxic products? That is what most reactions would be. Well, it turns out you may be using one or more animal tested products a day without knowing. Today’s society will do just about anything to get rid of basic…

Bond Standard: (1.RL.3) Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details. Objective: Students will be able to describe characters of the story, identify the place, and major events happening. As a Formative assessment, I will stop from reading the book, and I will check for understanding of the expectations, and familiarize with the questions focusing on key details, forming Oral Questioning: What does describe mean? What words do you use to describe? I will make a…

the poem it seems as if the author describes the lake in the quarry to be quiet and lifeless yet inviting. Then suddenly the author introduces the woman with metaphors to water like creatures. This makes the reader keep guessing what the author is talking about, but after they realise that the woman is being described like an animal, because she’s eager to dive into the water. This leads to one of the themes of life and a new adventure. As the author describes the woman's descent into the water…

symbolism to express the characters as well as give the readers a better idea of the setting. Symbolism can be used for various topics in this book. Steinbeck also uses symbolism to describe the time period this novel takes place. This gives more depth to the characters and events taking place in the novel. This book takes place during the great depression therefore a lot of the symbolism being used refers to topics such as the importance of the farm, racism, and the way women were treated.…

One place in the book where Katniss showed herself as a hero was when she volunteered for her sister Primrose at the reaping. This is something very important she did because otherwise her little sister would have suffered and had to play in the games. Another…

Joan Didion describes the importance of water in a very different and unique way. Just by reading the title “Holy Water” the reader might believe that the essay is about religion since holy water is water blessed by religious figures. But Joan´s fascination is in reality with how the water system works, since she works and uses her knowledge in the water system in California to describe how the water is delivered and how important it is. She describes how water travels from place to place and…

In the beginning of this novel, The Street, Ann Petry, describes herself as Lutie Johnson also a major character in the book living in New York with racism as well as sexism being all around her. The main theme of the beginning of the novel describes what was going on during the Harlem Renaissance during the late 1940s and how Petry lives her black urban life in Harlem. Lutie describes the wind doing “everything it could to discourage the people walking along the street” (Petry 2). She says this…

Julian Ralph, a man who visits Chicago during 1892 describes these new skyscrapers that appear as being “artistically designed” as well as “[hiding] their size in well-balanced proportions” despite being very tall for their time. Here Julian describes Chicago’s architecture as being intricate which contrasts to Harriet Martineau’s description of Chicago as being bare and raw, where as a result of these…

ability to place themselves in the context of the story in certain places in Canada, even though some of their readers have never been to Canada before. In Anne of Green Gables, there are many beautiful evocative descriptions of nature throughout the book, which gives the reader the ability to place themselves on Prince Edward Island standing right beside Anne as she progresses through this journey of her life. In Island, there is an art to his storytelling by the way he describes the places in…

believed in an Underworld as a place where the souls of the dead live. Book six of the Aeneid and book eleven of The Odyssey are two stories that describe the underworld as where all the dead, live. Virgil’s description of the Underworld in Aeneid is a very elaborated setting where there are many different levels an individual can encounter depending on his or her sins in life. While, in book eleven of the Odyssey, Homer’s Greek description of the underworld is a place where every soul faces…