Example of a Descriptive Essay

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    whether or not numbers are being implemented during the process of recording data; qualitative researchers can use numbers to label and categorize objects. The conventional view is that the qualitative researcher finds their observations to be more descriptive and contextually dependent, while the quantitative researcher is allowed to make predictions and deductive inferences while assuming that their findings can be generalized. Determining whether a certain researchable topic is qualitative…

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    Zullo read, she stopped at certain points in the story where she had placed a sticky note with one or two words as a reminder to herself to ask the students a question. Examples of the teaching points for the students included, the author’s descriptive word choice. “Which words did she use that were descriptive?” The students responded with “crackerjack”, “slither” and “snarled”. She asked the students to recognize figurative language, which they did, noting, “perched like a bird of prey…

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    Washington Irvine is a very well-known descriptive author when it comes to short exaggerated tales. His stories appeal to a broad range of audience relying on the main common factors of bringing his stories in the tone of the past with a detailed form of intriguing excitement to keep the reader hooked all throughout the sequential event alignment set on his mythological tales. Characters are found to be exaggerated in terms of the mythology genre he is representing with interesting story lines…

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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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    enforces the law (Mansour 2010). According to that, law is playing a significant part in the society, and it has two roles: the facilitative role and the expressive role. The facilitative role is an essential role that shapes the social behavior. For example, people may change their economical behaviors and aim to be frugal if the state applied…

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    Irving never spoke about his religion to the public, but his writing style suggests that he was certainly not a Puritan. Puritans, for example, believe that everybody must aspire to be perfect, that the Devil, while real, is shunned, and have many stories consisting of a character finding his or her true pathway to God. In "The Devil and Tom Walker", these are not at all present. For one…

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    Equiano's purpose in writing this text was to convince the readers to become abolishionists or at least support them. He makes this clear as he consistently uses descriptive and emotional words to persuade the reader. One example of this in the text is where he is talking about the traders beating a slave who tried to jump overboard. He says, "... [They] flogged him unmercifully for this attempting to prefer death to slavery." He uses "unmercifully" to put a picture in the reader's head of how…

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    Allan Poe, imagery is used to describe the setting, the mood, and most importantly the “theme of revenge.” Poe uses imagery throughout the whole story to describe the setting. He describes the setting with very descriptive detail and it makes me feel like I’m there in the story. One great example is when he describes the wine vaults, “...stone walls were wet and cold...” and “...bottles which were lying on the…

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    The paper is straight forward and to the point. The facts are there with explanations as to how or why something happened either proceeding the statement or immediately after. For example, “Hitler was originally told to infiltrate the DAP to see what they were up to. Instead, while attending one of their meetings as a guest, got into an argument with another member and disproved him. This earned him respect from the leader, Drexel…

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    Overall, the study provides a foundation for further research into the effects of exposure to traumatic events on CSI while contributing to the limited literature on the topic. 2. Research Purpose The case study incorporated both a descriptive and…

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