How to Write a Descriptive Essay About a Place

This story begins with the narrator describing the town of Dunwich for many pages talking about how old it is and how it was home to many strange things. It then flashes back to a child being born by the name of Wilbur who was the son of the Whatelys. These people were known to be born of inbreeding which may have been the cause of the son maturing way quicker than any other normal child. By the age of 1 he was able to speak perfectly and a few years later could walk and run perfectly. At 7 this…

until I went to Cesar Chaves Elementary School. I saw first hand how evident these ideas of “playing school” and holding students back from expressing their cultural identity. This belittles the student in the classroom, telling them that their culture is not as important as “white culture” creating a bigger divide between students and the administration team of schools. To help bridge that gap, students should have a safe place to practice their first learned language in some way in the…

of Fredrick Douglass, Fredrick Douglass gives his personal perspective on how it is to be a slave in America. Douglass is very descriptive in his narrative, he names plenty of owners, places, and names of people who he once associated with on plantations. Narrative of Life of Fredrick Douglass, is a very significant novel in American history, we can learn slave’s personal experience with slavery, and the novel also shows how slavery was constructed during…

Throughout my many years of schooling so far, writing has always been something that I have had a little trouble with. For this reason, being in this honors writing class my first semester of college made me a little nervous. Once I began the class and started on the first paper, I started to gain some confidence that I would do fine. Even though there were challenges in each paper I wrote, I also feel I made improvements through each paper. The first paper assigned was a narrative; it had to…

this being, “The artist has now laid his colors, sprayed them with dew. The Eleocharis sod, greener than ever is now spangled with blue mimulus, pink dragon-head, and the milk-white blooms of Sagittaria (52).” This is just a small taste of the descriptive poetic style Leopold uses. Through this, a reader can feel absorbed in the beauty of nature that is surrounding the writer while he describes the…

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…

It was helpful to observe the entire third-grade literacy block in order to understand how the pacing and flow of the instruction works rather than simply reading about it in a text book. My initial impression was that the pacing was rapid enough to ensure each component of the lesson moves along smoothly, which assisted with classroom management as there was no moment when the students could waste time. Consequently, my visit to the classroom (from 10:30am to 12:25pm) felt like no time at all.…

I enjoyed Poe’s descriptive vocabulary, his first person point of view, and his gothic stories. Ray Bradbury was another author that my class studied this semester. I enjoyed his many metaphors and his abstract descriptions in his story “Fahrenheit 451”, but I found the book hard to read due to the flow his writing had. Writing, like art, comes in many different fashions. Poe, a short story writer with a gothic style, and Bradbury, a highly descriptive science fiction author, write about very…

from his speech that day. The election of the 45th president of the United States has been a controversial roller coaster. While describing his goals for the next four years as president, Trump seems to adopt a hopeful tone and uses much vivid and descriptive diction and syntax to rhetorically impact his inaugural address. President Trump uses what many of supporters could say was a hopeful tone. If one were a president, hope is something…

autobiographical essay, I wrote about my passion for running and how cross country fed this frenzy. Watermelon is one of the biggest fruits, but it has some of the tiniest seeds inside. My love for running is like the vast size of a watermelon—it was the big idea of the essay. All of the experiences I use in my essay are like the tiny seeds—they are the small details that make up the big idea. I can easily find comparisons between my descriptive paper and a pineapple. The outside of a…