Example of Descriptive Essay About a Place

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    She provides a striking contrast from her beloved endearing hometown to the more discriminative unwelcoming new town. She further brings us into this new memory describing the actions of a general populous to her. She uses descriptive diction with phrases like “lowdown dirty deal,” “sharpening my oyster knife,” and “ brown specter.” She changes tones closing in on a memory in a Jazz club called “The New World Cabaret” where she relies heavily on imagery, “great blobs or purple…

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    expressed through characterisation, including impaired and easily manipulated characters, to create a chain of powerlessness. The importance of the dream was highlighted through repetition, a chorus throughout the novella, which was detailed, using descriptive writing and creating empathy and sympathy towards Lennie, not being able to control his actions as a cause of George’s…

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    Thus showing us how bemusing it is to make a judgment as to who could be a sexual offender. This crime took place in 2013, The source SFGate provides three pictures of the offender, a almost two paragraph summary of the crime that took place, and Henry Lee’s(author) contacting information and social medias This sets the tone for the display of the webpage, I believe this contacting information was added in order to provide…

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    My Writing Assignment

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    I kind of had an idea of what it was about. After reading the two reading examples that were provided in essay number one. I got an idea of what I’m supposed to do. I spent hours trying to come up with what should I write about? At first I considered writing about how traveling educated me. I couldn’t come up with good examples. I started brain storming until I came up with a couple more topics to write about. My examples were very deep that I forgot to give the reader transitions. I think I’ve…

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    Psychology Of Jealousy

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    researchers are trying elicit the emotion of jealousy. Several physical responses' of the subject that could be recorded are: the heart rate, the blood pressure, the amount of stress hormones, or the region of the brain that becomes active. These are also examples of physiological measures, measure that provide data on bodily responses. One could also define jealousy by the number of times the subject avoids or brings the matter that is supposed to be causing their jealousy. 2. Some independent…

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    another study was a prospective descriptive study “ a study design that begins with an examination of a presumed cause and then goes forward in time to observe presumed effects: also called a cohort design” (Polit, 2015, p. 389). Another one is observational longitudinal research “studies that do not involve an experimental intervention and longitudinal study designed to collect data at more than one point in time” (Polit, 2015, p. 384). Furthermore, in the descriptive cross-sectional study,…

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    objective smoothly. Although, they soon realize that the boy might be much more work than they had assumed. From then on, it seems like a better idea to get rid of the boy first instead of carrying on with their original plans. In my opinion the most descriptive moments was when some sort…

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    Women In Congress

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    women run their constituents do not vote for them, it is mainly due to the fact that there is a lack of women running for Congress (Pearson 2013, 62). This then, brings about the debate of whether or not women representation in congress should be descriptive or remain substantive (Swers 2001, 217). Furthermore, an increase in congresswomen could…

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    the book. Although some of the information I fairly interesting and there are moments in the text that are quite enjoyable to read I still find myself not being that engaged with the writing. I enjoyed the brief narratives that Goleman uses to give example of the information he writes. I enjoyed the section of “When Smart Is dumb” where Goleman breaks down the actual value of thing like SAT scores and how little they matter when it comes to someone’s success if they are not emotionally…

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    words, this real life example helps build ethos for Emerson’s argument as it shows this method was successfully implemented in a real life scenario and is more efficient compared to its counterpart. Emerson also uses analogies throughout the piece, “knows as much vice as the judge of a police court,” (page 193) which serves as memorable and impactful because the comparison between a place to learn (school) and a place where punishments are given (court) implies that these two places should not…

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