Descriptive Essay Example About a Place

Decent Essays
Improved Essays
Superior Essays
Great Essays
Brilliant Essays
    Page 37 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In the novel The Devil’s Highway, author Luis Alberto Urrea describes the seemingly impassable struggles immigrants must overcome when travelling from Mexico to the United States. The story follows the deadly journey of a group of undocumented male immigrants who in 2001 attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona through a desolate area known as the Devil’s Highway. Urrea provides the reader with not only a compelling story but also a complex historical compilation…

    • 1058 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Annotated Bibliography

    • 1041 Words
    • 5 Pages

    for elderly hospitalized patients: Perspectives of nurses and undergraduate nurses in hospitals and nursing homes. BMC Nursing, 15, 1-10 doi: http://dx.doi.org.db03.linccweb.org/10.1186/s12912-016-0193-z The research article is about “Documentation and Communication of nutritional care for the elderly hospitalized patients: perspectives of nurses and undergraduate nurses in hospitals and nursing homes.” This article is a qualitative research. According to Grove, Gray & Burns…

    • 1041 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    to them…”(Cliff 70). For Clare, Anne Frank’s diary gave her a more vivid and authentic depiction of the Holocaust, which is analogous to how Cliff’s flashback of the anonymous woman narrated in the present tense gave readers a more accurate and descriptive account of the past, as if looking through the omniscient narrator's lense. Unlike other characters in the novel who rely on information that they are told by others, especially people of the Tabernacle, Clare recognizes the distinction…

    • 1565 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    states that “[t]he restraints imposed on government to pry into the lives of the citizen go to the essence of a democratic state” (pg. 440). His interpretation of privacy and informational about a person can also be best viewed as obiter dicta. It is evident that Tessling’s rights were limited. The police had no warrant prior to using the thermal cameras on his property. Moreover, they used the evidence gathered from the imagery to obtain…

    • 1978 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Great Essays

    This particular paper created an opportunity for me to strengthen my creativity and descriptiveness. At first, I was a little hesitant about sharing my feelings on a sensitive topic, but after I put my fears behind me, the paper began to flow easily. My introduction paragraph captured the audience’s attention and contained a strong thesis sentence. The body paragraphs contained vivid details…

    • 1144 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    affecting many of those men, women, and loved ones today. Curt Bennett was an American flight pilot during the Vietnamese War. Curt Bennett explains, expresses, and tells his experience throughout this poem, Vietnamese Morning. I decided to write about this particular poem due to the fact that Bennett was in the Vietnamese War, saw this horrific event first hand, and understood this event from an eye witness perspective. In the poem, Vietnamese Morning, the tone of the poem starts of as clam…

    • 708 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    the age group of the people I choose. For example, I would choose anyone of any age to interpret their behavior. I would choose another popular coffee shop located in New York City that’s near a busy area like business offices. I would be more descriptive about the person I choose to analyze, I would mention how they look so my audience can have a better imagination of what to expect. They can visualize the person acting the way they act at the coffee shop. In addition, I might try combining…

    • 787 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Genesis B Annotation

    • 1870 Words
    • 8 Pages

    of literature, countless authors have attempted to capture and offer unique interpretations on the concept of Hell. Many texts differ in their imaginations of Hell, largely because there is no definitive explanation as to whether Hell is a physical place or a mental experience. One of the most fascinating descriptions of Hell, and one which offers a stimulating perspective on Satan, is the Old English poem Genesis B found within the Junius Manuscript. Genesis B follows Lucifer’s fall from Heaven…

    • 1870 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Words can only be descriptive to an extent, they are searched for to best define what is being put in place for a reader to use their imagination. Although through images every little detail that was stated can be left unsaid, providing the author a chance to have the reader think the way they want them too, imagination does not have to go far off into wondering what was taking place, connecting to the writer’s point of view. Within the book Persepolis, author Marjane Satrapi best describes her…

    • 832 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    French writes the story using different language techniques such as an obvious plot , figurative language, descriptive language and third person to tell the story and to get the reader to imagine what is going on. Martin has travelled to his grandfather Ted’s farm to walk the boundaries so he can inherit the farm. Martin’s trip around the boundaries does not go to plan and he learns some history about the farm’s background which changes his perspective of the farm. On the way around the…

    • 596 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Page 1 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 50