Example of Descriptive Essay About a Place

adopted, but the couple who asked for an adoption wanted a boy, not a girl. In this extract Lucy Maud Montgomery describes how Anne is treated like a thing not a person, but then as the segment progresses, she is treated better. Anne is the perfect example of an outsider who has been marginalised, and she is desperately wanting to be part of the couples’ family. Throughout the extract, Marilla refers to Anne as an object, rather than a girl. Marilla, the potential adoptive mother, asks “Can…

Scientific American on July 30th, 2007 describes how young adults become school shooters. Robertz explains the process of how over a long time adolescents start being more descriptive of the killings and staging how they will do it. That they even reach out for help multiple times before becoming a killer. He also gives examples of other school shootings that happened during 2007. The purpose of Robertz article is to help the public…

on what is emphasized as well. Generally the longer the sentence, the greater the chance to bury a detail that you do not wish to highlight. Word Choice ties in great with Sentence Structure. Where you place your word choice will emphasize or minimize what you want the reader to see. One such example from my positive paragraph is “Young scholars situated in front of advanced computational…

Critique Form 1 Alphabet, Concept, Number Books title: Blue Hat, Green Hat author: Sandra Boynton publisher: Little Simon earliest date of publication: 1984 type: Concept difficulty level: Preschool, Kindergarten awards: Summary of Content ‘Blue Hat, Green Hat’ is a book to teach children the concept of colors and how to wear clothes. It starts off with an elephant wearing a blue hat, a moose wearing a green hat, a bear wearing a red hat and then it says “oops” because the next animal is a…

reader into their own world. Dystopian futures are futures where people are being oppressed and face horrid living conditions in society. An example of a dystopian genre novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley where technology and methods adopted from Henry Ford’s teachings has brought up a society where the lives of people are controlled. While a film example of a dystopian future is the first Hunger Games movie, The Hunger Games directed by Gary Ross, where people were divided up into districts…

Charles Dickens is known for his famous stories that he had written throughout his life. Charles Dickens family life history will often lead readers to connect that his stories reflect on his personal life. Charles Dickens wrote many Christmas themed short stories and one in specific was A Christmas Carol. In A Christmas Carol Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserable, stingy old man especially around the holidays, he owns a business and has a clerk named Bob Cratchit who during the winters spends his…

was very influential on my perception of Dorothea Lange. Of course, I had seen many of her photographs, but seeing them through her eyes was an interesting experience for me. I found certain photographs informative of the times. Others, I found descriptive of something larger. Some were even beautiful. It felt to me that many of her photographs were taken for a specific purpose. Seeing her focus her camera on specific things, in specific ways, for a specific shot was eye opening to…

In this paper I will discuss and go into great depth on Sarah Kane’s Blasted and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins An Octoroon and the postdramatic theatre elements that are represented in both of them. Muller’s statement in Steegmans, After Postdramatic Theatre refers to a crisis of drama, which consists of the apparent inability to convey the complexity of the modern world. It’s that the problems of the present exceeds the representational capacity of the situational dramatic art. When we look at…

befitting the topic. Las Vegas is a garish, over-the-top kind of place, and the description in this piece was larger than life, and excessive all around. For example, “Oleander bushes…they once offed a few boy scouts…who roasted a lethal meal (with their branches)” (795). The death of a few…

Lord of the Flies by William Golding takes place on a deserted island during a fictional war with young boys aged from six to twelve. The boys devise their own form of government and try their best to survive with each other. I think this story takes place during the mid-1900s since none of the boys mentioned anything more technologically advanced than televisions and radios. This book is told in third-person omniscient point of view, I can tell because the perspective bounces around to see what…