Description of a Place Essay

The Underworld is a place where the Greeks believed most souls of the dead live. The Odyssey and “Enkidu 's Dream” are two stories that describe how the underworld would be like when one encounters it. The Odyssey describes the underworld as a place filled with unhappiness and misery and that punishment will be served in the underworld to the sinners in life. While, “Enkidu 's Dream” describes the underworld as a very dark, unpleasant and scary place to be in, where no one looks forward to pass…

Monroe’s lifeless body an unflattering, somewhat casual description. Olds description was unembellished, describing Monroe’s “cold body” as “heavy as an iron” with open eyes and an open mouth and the shape of her breasts “flattened by gravity”. After all these ideas people had about Monroe Olds shows at the end of the day she was simply just another woman that passed away, and to remove those expectations and fantasies after Olds’ description was traumatizing to the EMTs. Which is another level…

dishes then go on to desserts with beverages being last. Other menus will go from breakfast to lunch to dinner. Traditionally the items are placed in each section the least expensive to the most expensive. However, that may not be the most ideal way to place things on a menu. It has been proven that placing items the restaurant wants to sell first will sell more of those items. Maybe they have a specialty no one else has been able to make in a similar fashion and it appears on the menu at the…

of the Trembling Earth”, yet it's not just what the description makes it out to be. Passage one may hint at that, but in passage two the magnificent in the description switches to hellish by the style in which the author writes. Although the passages are largely about the same thing passage one intends to draw visitors towards the swamp, while passage two warns against travel to the “hellish zoo”. Passage one starts with a simplistic description of the Okefenokee Swamp, if not careful the…

Lopez’s essay was the one that stood out the most to me. The description in this essay is quite poetic and appropriate, “They slammed glistening flukes on the beach, jarring the muscles of human thighs like Jello at a distance of a hundred yards (69)” and “sunlight sparkles in rivulets running off folds in its corrugated back (69).” Every description seems to add to the sad and beautiful nature of the whale’s presence and their ultimate death. I thought the author did a great job telling the…

own course description of what needs to be taken at which level in order to provide their students with the proper material they need for their major. Creating a required curriculum that is interesting to students can be quite an arduous task. Curriculum descriptions attempt to appeal to students by making their general education requirements…

Starkfield; where “the vitality of the climate and the deadness of the community” perfectly affects a place where nature is the ruling factor (Wharton 7). Edith Wharton 's Ethan Frome depicts a town that is heavily affected by nature and through her rich language, Wharton creates a world that is abundant with imagery, but lacking in the development of characters. It 's people are a product of their environment and thus cannot escape it 's role in their lives. Thus nature in the novel is…

them. Mecca brings a whole new world to Malcolm along with a brand new perception for life. Malcolm X uses many descriptive techniques to put the reader in his shoes as well as in his mind as he found his sense of place in these two cities. Malcolm comes to Harlem young and with no real place or role in the world. He soon finds his outlet by joining with other local hoodrats, committing crime and using drugs. At this point in his life he is very fond of the city fitting…

The word “refuge” in Passage One refers to a place that is very safe in its nature, and it allowed for the reader to recreate an image of the swamp that is harmonious and filled with different plants and animals. The description of Passage One seemed to avoid words that provided a negative connotation towards the swamp, and this was able to create the harmonious image of the swamp that…

Author’s Craft Essay - Fever 1793 Priyanka Balla In the historical fiction novel, Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson, the book takes place in Philadelphia during the Yellow Fever outbreak. The book is centered around Mattie, who is a 14-year-old girl who lives with her grandfather and her mother. When the Fever hits the city Mattie and her grandfather flee the city along the way, taking care of each other until he dies, Mattie then starts living with her restaurant cook and taking care of the…