Example of Descriptive Essay About a Place

It’s quite logical: who would survive a biological terrorist attack? Those in places that are airtight, climate controlled, battery packed, and otherwise hermetically sealed centers. In Cory Doctorow’s When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth, Felix and his sysadmin coworkers do what they do best in a post-apocalyptic world after a bioweapon puts an end to their society. They are quarantined in their data center with dwindling supplies and the looming realization that everyone they know is dead. Doctorow…

Is the place you call home actually your ‘home’? In the story “Illinois” the author, Savannah Carpenter uses imagery, personification and point of view to develop and express the idea that at times, places, where you feel most accepted and belonged, may not be the place you call home. Carpenter sets the story in Illinois with the main character working as a bricklayer named Ken. Ken has been in the town his whole life and is accepted and loved by the town, even so, he always thought of the ocean…

forces of this earth, such as environmental and social conditions, shape people’s lives. One example of literature from this time period is Jack London’s “To Build a Fire”. In this short story, the setting, themes, and writing style all contribute to revealing how the natural forces of this world control a person’s life. First, the setting of literary pieces during the Naturalism movement generally took place in nature, which aided in showing how nature shapes people’s characters and destinies.…

slips of the tongue, puns and dreams, analogies, metaphors, anecdotes. Freud breaks down the unconscious into three types: the descriptive, the dynamic, and the systematic. Using Freud’s three types of the unconscious, the id, ego and superego, and the Oedipus Complex Walt Disney Pictures movie Tangled will be analyzed. The first type of the unconscious, the descriptive unconscious…

Furthermore he gives an abundance of examples throughout the letter about how colored men and woman were treated badly in different ways. He also uses strong language and complex diction to make the letter immensely better and more descriptive. Also in the letter, Martin Luther King Jr. writes about the struggle that people with colored skin had to go through. Moreover people with colored skin were limited to their freedom because they couldn’t go to places that were restricted to their race.…

The Chronicles of Narnia: The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe By: C.S Lewis “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” is a fantastic fantasy book about three children who go to a Professor’s house to get away from the air raids in London. As the children were playing hide and go seek, the youngest, Lucy, finds a wardrobe that leads to a magical world called Narnia. She then convinces her siblings that Narnia is real and not made up. There the children find friendly animals that can talk but…

subjected to, both authors compose playful and engaging stories. Moreover, both stories are examples of humor through autobiographical writing. They are stories written from personal experience and knowledge. “Big Boy” is a short story written by David Sedaris, an American humorist, comedian, and author, taken from his collection, Me Talk Pretty One Day. This essay is a great demonstration of Sedaris’ raw and descriptive humor. Sedaris…

For example, Wiesel explains that his fellow captives would, “walk in the middle of the roads, the vagabonds. They are on their way to the station, and they will never return. In sealed cars, without air or food, the travel towards another world. They guess where…

Loren Eisley’s “The Bird and the Machine” takes a deeper look at the gap between rapidly developing technology, and the subsequent place that it’s taking in the world, as compared to the natural order of things. He expresses his opinion passionately and portrays the urgency of what he is saying using several effective rhetorical strategies. Though this essay includes strong appeals to pathos and is based on an interesting juxtaposition, he has created an overall weak piece because of an…

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