Lucy Aldagamseh ENC1101 M/W 1:30 Descriptive essay Lucy Aldagamseh ENC1101 M/W 1:30 Descriptive essay It was about two years ago when I got to visit my favorite place on earth, or at least I thought it was. Around the house, it 's either as silent as mice or the halls are spread with laughter. It was around nightfall, when I heard loud talking on the phone. I trotted down a flight of seventeen steps and accompanied my younger sister, who was also curious, towards the high-sounding voices in the living room. My mother was on the telephone with her sister; whom she has not seen in almost thirteen years. This is because As I entered the room, she motioned me over to her and told me that I was invited to stay with her sister and her new husband in Manhattan, New York. At that moment, I felt joyous, gratified and just a bit contented. New York has always been a place of freedom and an escape for me. As the plane landed, I ascended from my velvety and cozy window seat and waited for someone to let me pass through. Departing the plane, I felt extremely delighted inside because I did not pay a dime out of my pocket for the adventure that I was about to embark on. As I walk past a large assembly of people who are in a hurry to get to their flight, I take a deep breath. There 's something about the atmosphere in New york that is different from the small town that I reside in back home in Florida. There was a scent of cold and nature. I grasped…
Austin Gonzalez Professor Heaton AUVO6 1301 27 September 2017 Peaceful Place The state of Florida is really one of those states that it's known for fun and for creating new experiences or memories that some states do not have. Although the travel to this exciting place seems long, depending on where the traveler is coming from. In the end, reaching Florida will be worth it. It is one of the peaceful places to be in, because of its amazing theme parks, beautiful beaches, and amazing…
A home is a haven from the rest of the world. It is where we go the most often to relax and recharge before we need to head out again to continue fighting our battles. It is the place where friends and family come to live and visit, where memories are made. The place itself represents a little piece of ourselves, how it is created reflects on who we are. There are three things that describe a place: the location, the design of the building, and the decor. The location is important because it…
4381 West Flamingo Road is home to Palms Place, an exclusive residence for those with a marked sense of style and a desire to stand out from the norm. Palms Place speaks to your quest for excellence and class, even if you are not vying for the high-rise’s prominent multimillion-dollar Maloof penthouse, dubbed a *mansion-in-a-high-rise*. The Palms Place 58-story hotel, condo and spa tower is on the west end of the famed Palms property. The residential high-rise opened on February 29, 2008, with a…
A place can be defined as a space that is given meaning by social activity and imagination. It can be a built or natural environment, that creates the settings for relationships. (T Cresswell, 2015) My place of significance is my home in Auckland. I chose to write about my home because I have spent most of life there and it is meaningful to me, I think my home is an important place that had a lot to do in establishing my belonging and identity. In this essay I will describe what my home is like,…
My personal place essay is about my yard, three hundred miles away back in Connecticut. The reasons that I chose, is because I have so many memories there. Even though I moved around the year 2006, I still have made many memories in my yard. Many people have yards, but mine is special to me because I, have made it my place, it’s the one place that I could always return to at any point in my life. I personally like to think of my yard as a safe space, where I can go to enjoy myself, be alone, or…
The descriptive style of writing used in Joy Horowitz’s Parkinson’s Alley helps connect the reader to the individuals, their struggles and the problem that is threatening livelihoods in Visalia, California. Without the description embedded in this article, it could be very easy for the readers to get lost or lose interest. A tie is created after you learn a thing or two about “A big, friendly bear of a man” (Horowitz) who has been ultimately screwed over by his government when they decide to do…
There are many types of essays that at some point almost everyone has written. Some of the essays include a narrative, a descriptive, a persuasive, and expository. “Those are the four major types of essays” (Time for Writing), and they are also the ones I will be talking about in this essay. There are more like a cause and effect, a comparison, or also a research essay. It is a good thing to know the differences between essays, so one doesn’t write a persuasive when told to write a…
Research was conducted by Sylwester and Purver (2015) on the psychological differences between individuals of different political affiliations based on twitter. Researchers wanted to avoid the use of questionnaires and surveys to avoid issues with the validity of the study. This lead researchers to take on a linguistic approach based on the tweets posted on Twitter. Throughout psychology there are two essential methods to conducting research . First, the experimental method, which involves…
revealing the macabre images of the defeat of humanity and the futility of war. The use of onomatopoeia sends a shocking feeling to the readers about the reality of war “sob and clubbing of the gunfire” are the sound of war, capturing aural devices in order to hear the soldiers fall, the machine gun make sounds liking “clubbing” a never ending fire and assist to generate images of violent death and suggest that life could end at any moment. The ‘sob’ expresses the deep grief of the brutality of…