Example of Descriptive Essay

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    experiences when writing a narrative type story. The author may also write an informative type story that does not include themselves. A author may write a expository type story that doesn’t include them self, it is an explanatory style story. A descriptive style of story or essay writing is usually used in the news media(,) and the author never speaks of themselves in such style of stories. Persuasive style writing is used a lot of times in advertisement in which most cases the authors own…

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    moves such as symbolism. similes, and descriptive language, to show what the story is about. Liliana Heker uses authors craft to show many aspects of the story. She uses authors craft in many ways. Next a counter claim such as Liliana Heker only uses one craft move. More evidence is shown in paragraph four, of how Liliana Heker uses more than one craft move. In The Stolen Party Liliana Heker focused on multiple craft moves such as symbolism, similes, and descriptive language. There are many…

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    While reading London’s two stories he portrayed an exceedingly vivid writing style. A very well executed example of this would be how London constantly used long and descriptive sentences in his story letting his vivid writing style shine through. An example of this in his story “Love Of Life” would be, “Near the horizon the sun was smoldering dimly, almost obscured by formless mists and vapors, which gave an impression of mass and density without outline of tangibility” is right in the…

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    will also apply the ideas presented by Cialdini into a real life situation. In Cialdini’s piece, he uses two important real life examples of how public service announcements have proven either successful or proven to have conflicting messages that compete with one another, rendering the overall goal ineffective. As Cialdini writes, there are two types of norms: descriptive norms, which are social norms that are the most commonly acted on and injunctive norms, which are typically approved or…

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    1.Describe the characteristics of your specimens that could be use used for descriptive science or hypothesis testing. An ant has been examined under the microscope and it has been found that this type of ants has the main parts the head, thorax, and abdomen. All six legs is branches from the thorax part. Ants usually classified depending on the number of nodes, the part that connects the thorax to the abdomen, there is one-node ants and two-node ants. The body of the ant is mostly empty and (…

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    lead to the death of a soldier. However, it is how O'Brien expresses there consequences of love is what really pushes this narrative. As a result, Tim O’Brien uses colloquial speech, military acronyms and descriptive lists to convey a sympathetic time towards the soldiers featured in his…

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    Anaphora is a repetition of a word or phrase in the beginning of a sentence. They add emphasis and get straight to the point to show exactly what the author is talking about. The main examples of anaphoras in this article are two one sentence paragraphs; “And still they went in” and “And still they went up” (Burke). These anaphoras emphasize how the firemen and first responders still went into the tower and still went up despite the danger…

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    senator. The writer effectively uses her critical literacy skills to understand the audience’s need for informal or formal writing, and use descriptive language to fit the social codes required for each audience. In order to communicate effectively, the writer efficiently shifts social codes in order to interact in the best possible way to one’s audience. For example, when talking to a friend, the writer uses an overly dramatic word choice (MAJOR LIFE-THREATENING CRISIS!!!) for her subject…

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    for” representation, means a descriptive or symbolic representative that stands for someone or something. In descriptive representation there is the idea of representing a group of people and governing for them, two very different theories. Representing descriptively means to proportionally and characteristically represent the population they stand for, and to govern, means to make decisions and create legislature for the people they represent. In the U.S, descriptive representation is somewhat,…

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    The four types of quantitative research are: descriptive, correlational, quasi-experimental and experimental. The key to understanding each is the level or degree of control involved in the study and its component. Groves, Gray & Burns (2015) define control as the imposing of rules to decrease the possibility of error, increasing the probability a study’s findings, which reveal an accurate reflection of reality. Groves, Gray and Burns (2015) went on to discuss the rules known as design, to…

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