How to Write a Descriptive Essay About a Place

Chopin's "The Story of an Hour," there is a series of events that happen within an hour that ultimately leads to the death of a woman named Mrs. Mallard. From the title of the story, I thought what any other person would think, a series of events take place that happens within an hour. The story starts with Mrs. Mallard getting news that her husband has just been in a train crash. He has passed away. She is very sad, so she goes to her room to cry. While Mrs. Mallard is in her room, her…

Reader’ describes a little orphan girl, Anne, who was living at an asylum, another word for orphanage. She is trying to get adopted, but the couple who asked for an adoption wanted a boy, not a girl. In this extract Lucy Maud Montgomery describes how Anne is treated like a thing not a person, but then as the segment progresses, she is treated better. Anne is the perfect example of an outsider who has been marginalised, and she is desperately wanting to be part of the couples’ family.…

Equiano’s autobiography The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is written with a simple descriptive tone that translates his experiences without over saturating them with emotion. An example of this is when he speaks of the appalling conditions on his voyage through the Middle Passage, he describes the ships hold with “The closeness of the place and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself…

but definitely not painting. However, if you start to think about these two works of art you can find many similarities. Painting and writing, even though they are portrayed in different ways, have many connections through how they allow the individual to express themselves and how they affect their audience. Both painting and writing allow the artist or writer to express their individuality. In painting they express themselves through their artwork. Whether it is on a huge canvas or…

alongside them while also fostering motivation by providing constructive criticism. Assessment capable learners are ones who are metacognitive – actively planning, monitoring and evaluating their thinking. They are students who know relative strategies and how to apply them to succeed at a specific task. They are self regulating, self monitoring, evaluative of their work and are able to think critically and make adjustments to improve. In order for a teacher to assist in minimizing a bridge of…

to utilize with all participants (Litchman, 2013). Even though the participants know the purpose of the interview, I will begin the interview by providing information about (a) why conducting the study, (b) what I will do with the information, (c) how long the interview will take. Then, I will start interview with the general personal questions in order to develop a rapport with participant. The open ended interview questions are composed under four…

Ray Bradbury’s story, “All Summer in a Day,” takes place on the planet Venus, where it rains heavily all the time. The protagonist, Margot, recently arrived to Venus from Earth. Margot remembers what all the other children living on Venus can’t, the sun. Because Margot is the only one who remembers the light and joy the sun brings, the children grow jealous of her. One lesson that this story suggests is that if you get caught up in your own jealousy, you can end up hurting others. In the…

Witnessing people eat other people may be vulgar and actually may have been horrifying at the time but one author suggests that there was some hyperbole to exaggerate just how much cannibalism was seen. Michael J. Schreffler, author of “Vespucci Rediscovers America: The Pictorial Rhetoric of Cannibalism in Early Modern Culture” refers to European texts when he says, “although the practice of cannibalism was always suspected…

Through the Salinas Riverbank, Steinbeck questions the viability of George and Lennie’s dream and shows how the Salinas Riverbank is free from loneliness in three key moments. The first key moment occurs when the Salinas Riverbank is first introduced. In this moment, Steinbeck uses symbolism in the name of the setting to show how the Salinas Riverbank is free from loneliness. Steinbeck writes, “A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and…

“Describe a place or environment where you are perfectly content. What do you do or experience there, and why is it meaningful to you?” (Common Application) The essay prompt for Towson asked me to describe what a YouTube video about me would be. I knew I could easily write about when in the future I become a nurse practitioner, the story of how I fell in love with nursing. As soon as I looked at these prompts, my heart sped up, both times. I knew immediately what I would specifically write…