Example of Descriptive Essay About a Place

Revised Essay Matias Miranda 10/17/26 For many people, different environments make them feel certain ways. In the essay Once More to the Lake by E.B White the lake holds a special place in the narrator’s heart because he spent summers there with his father. Nostalgia arises as the narrator and his son perform the same tasks the narrator did with his father: fishing in the lake, seeing a dragonfly, and talking with waitresses. He notices that a lot of the area around this lake has changed…

Style is original and unique to every induvial on the planet but especially in the world of writing. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech and James Joyce’s “Hell” essay both are excellent examples of style. These two pieces of work are both marvelous in literary elements such as diction, figurative language, and sentence structure. The “I Have a Dream” speech and the “Hell” essay also have their differences and similarities in style. Both Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream”…

constantly fighting, whether it be with themselves or with others. Mythology was another important piece of everyday life. Naturally, literary works started to combine the fighting and mythology to create stories of heroes that everyone wants to be. An example of these works is Homer’s The Odyssey. The Odyssey is a story about a man named Odysseus overcoming the conflicts and struggles thrown at him by the gods to get home to his family. Odysseus is a normal man who faces off against gods, such…

Then, the reported form, which called incident report and was provided by the risk management department, had three parts. The first part was “circumstances”, a place, where the person who was first witness the drug error could freely document it. The second part was “underlying causes”, which would provide contributory factors associated with the drug error. The last part was “action to prevent recurrence”, which…

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…

Macbeth, has symbolic natural events that are closely related to the characters experiences. The intensity of the characters and direct correlation to nature events gives the play a level of depth. Shakespeare’s descriptive symbolic analogies are well connected to the events taking place. His thorough combination of nature’s depictions and character development are a vital layer of storytelling. It gives the audience a backdrop imagery which connects to the play. This layer is a vital key…

unfolded in the remote past. Therefore, Butterfield believes that historians should try to understand history simply by facts and not included their own preconceptions. To support his argument Butterfield uses two examples of how the Whig interpretation of history is biased. The first example is the modern view of Mary Tudor. The image conjured up when someone hears the name of Mary Tudor has prevailed as her being a monstrous tyrant.…

Hawthorne: Symbolism that relates to the theme in “Young Goodman Brown” In the story “Young Goodman Brown” the author, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses symbolism to give the story much more meaning. Through interpreting the underlying meaning of various examples of symbolism implemented by the author, the reader will be able to identify the theme and the story as a whole. Not only will the reader be able to identify and understand the theme, but they will also follow along with the story more closely…

The concept of Hell, to many world religions, refers to either an existential condition or a symbolic or literal place of damnation where the most evil and disgusting are eternally punished for their wrongdoings. Although the exact description of hell varies, the idea and concept of hell alone is known in many religions. Hell is mostly known and described as a disturbing fiery place filled with every fear imaginable, some say it’s located in the middle of earth and some believe it’s another…

distribution of power. The researcher talking to people from the village was by far the worst thing she could have done. In the village it seems that you would have needed to get permission to talk to other people from the other village, this is an example of a high power distance. The researcher coming from a low power distance she didn’t feel the need to get permission to talk to other people, she has little regards to what is happening in the village. If she used cognitive complexity which…