Example of Descriptive Essay

more opportunities to become responsible for their own learning. I would always make sure that the criteria was clearly communicated prior to an assignment. However I wanted to incorporate more strategies such as using visual anchor charts, showing examples of student work, and giving the students simple rubrics to evaluate themselves and giving them the opportunity to decide whether they reached their goal. Attending grade-level meetings also gave me an opportunity to discuss student progress,…

Narrative structure This book is a story about a family going on a bear hunt. Gamble and Yates (2013, p. 69) explain that narrative structure of a story contains two elements such as the story plot and how the story has been conveyed. The book started with a fiction theme of going on a journey of hunting a bear (where the events are plausible), as soon as they venture the bear, the story turns in to fantasy (Gamble & Yates, 2013, p. 80). By switching between the two genres, the author has…

Hawthorne develops his theme by using archaic language such as affliction, sorrowful,and dismal shade to convey his ideas. Edwards uses descriptive writing know as imagery to construct his theme of perishing sinners and God being their mediator. “The devil is waiting for them, Hell is gaping for them, the flames gather and flash about them, and swallow them up; fire pent up in their own hearts…

prescribes actions, it is distinct from psychological egoism (discussed in the previous selection by Joel Feinberg), which is a descriptive claim about the nature of people's motivations.Rachels provides several arguments both for and against ethical egoism. The first argument for ethical egoism is that we actually harm other people by looking out for their interests. For example, we may misinterpret their interests and bungle attempts at help, or we may…

recruiting? Why isn’t Google more concerned about attracting more senior and experienced personnel? Google may be able to justify spending so much money on recruitment and retention because the competition for talent is extremely competitive. For example, the law of diffusion of innovation dictates that 80% of a company’s profits are generated by products designed in the last four years (Indiana University, n.d.). There can be no long term financial stability within an organization unless it…

either slim or slender could be used when the speaker would like to utter some compliments and using thin if the speaker would like to be neutral (Edmonds and Hirst, 2002, p. 110). Furthermore, expressive variations also list emotive as one of the example. Edmonds and Hirst (2002) explains that emotive is an indirect expression by the speaker, such as from the figure above, between daddy and dad or father. The expression daddy implies a greater fondness rather than dad or father (p. 110). d.…

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…

more than others are simile, metaphor and imagery. These devices provide a thorough and very descriptive explanation to the poem. Simile is used in the…

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…

In my descriptive narrative, argumentative, and literary analysis essays there were numerous instances that the expository strategies were noticeable. The most common types of strategies discovered were development by example , development of division and classification and lastly casual analysis. In my descriptive narrative the most common expository strategy is development by example. In my descriptive narrative I was explaining a personal experience that initially led to a broad…