How to Write a Descriptive Essay About a Place

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    that addresses racism and how he feels about it. In the letter, Martin Luther KIng Jr. explains the difficult things about having colored skin in 1963 when he wrote the letter. 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…

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    murder of the Herbert Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas. Capote uses a lot of detail to help illustrate the insanity of the murderers and the effect the murder had on the small farming community. The suspense that is a result of minimal facts and descriptive settings was an elaborate stylistic technique that gave effective results throughout the book. Capote writing the story in more than one perspective allows Capote to not have a bias towards either side. In one section in particular, Capote…

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    “Review.” The task of this assignment was to write a 2 to 3-page review of any cultural event or venue from a Chicago neighborhood. Thus, I reviewed a restaurant and based on the task, I included a brief history of the restaurant, décor evaluation, Food/menu evaluation and a conclusion typical “the bottom line” style of the RedEye in my review. I was also required to write a cover letter to let my instructor know explaining why I chose the restaurant, and how I worked within the genre to bring…

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    visualized Holcomb, Kansas. Truman writes with a tricolon , “ Unnamed, unshaded, unpaved.” Holcomb is a town with not much of anything in it. Saying that the town’s so small and uneventful that not even the roads are named or paved. Holcomb is an empty and lonely town where nothing happens. It has run down houses and boarded up shops. To create more characteristics about Holcomb, Kansas Capote uses anaphora to show how empty and seemingly unimportant the town is. He writes, “ Like waters of the…

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    incarcerated son. In the poem the protagonist is a single black mother speaking of her son who’s gained the nickname scribe (the title of the poem) for his poems and love letters. “Scribe” writes for his inmates so they are able to send letters to their mothers and girlfriends. He uses his words to maintain important even in a place as bad as a prison. The protagonist is the mother of Scribe. She is the one sharing her emotions about her son and describing her pride for him and the reason behind…

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    assigned to write was an illustrated essay. I never heard of an illustrated essay before but 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…

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    through the symbols, imagery, and how the titles defy the readers expectations of the poem. Through the symbols in each poem, the struggles that African Americans had to go through in order to achieve success (while going through hardships of being African American in that time and having others say they could not achieve success) are conveyed. One example of this in "Sympathy" is when the author compares the "caged bird" (Dunbar l. 1) to the bigger picture of how African Americans feel in…

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    demonstrates how the poet uses the conventional poetic form of a free verse to treat the unusual subject of guidance to up and coming poets with sense of humor and wisdom. The poem is separated into 6 stanzas. The poem does not have a specific form, but the stanzas seem to increase in lines as the poem is read. As the poem The poem is constructed like a guideline which makes it seem that the guidance starts out simple and as more guidance is given, the guidance is more descriptive and leads on…

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    vocabulary and write more complex sentences that vary in length. Each project that I worked on helped me overcome obstacles that I previously struggled with. This English class has truly given me an chance to practice and improve my writing skills. The first project, "Writing Process with Metaphor," gave me an opportunity to think about my personal writing process as well as compare it with another process. In the first pre-writing exercise, I thought and wrote about the process I use to…

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    professed that hardship has the ability to provoke hidden skills that which other wise would have never shown themselves. This philosophy is especially true in comparison to the life of Elie Wiesel, a beautifully written Holocaust survivor. Wiesel writes to all who haven't lived through the horror that is known as the Holocaust, in efforts of “transmitting the history of the disappearance” of those who were brutally and unrightfully killed. With a tone of gloom and mourning, Wiesel argues that…

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