How to Write a Descriptive Essay About a Place

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    Growing up writing was always an important aspect of my childhood. I began to write thoroughly during my first grade school year, and I believe that having a teacher for a mom helped instill those skills in me at a young age. My brother and I were encouraged to write about everything at home. I kept a journal which summarized every book that I read, and I had a travel journal for every trip that we went on as a family. My love of writing was captured in every school assignment that I…

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    The book, Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam, was written by John Louis. To first understand the book, the author behind it must be understood. He is an American professor of International Affairs and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He is also the director of the Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim–Christian Understanding at Georgetown. Esposito was born in Brooklyn, New York City in 19 May 1940. He was brought up as Roman Catholic in an Italian neighborhood, and…

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    Metrical Composition IV According to the great John Fowles, “We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in word.” The beast of what art is compelled of, and the individual presents of being able to express the feelings that you have towards something you are dealing with in life can be announced as poetry . The aesthetic rhythm presents the audience with a gulling fiction of love, nature, hate, and suspense. Time has developed where a spread of hip hop artists are…

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    is no chance of being let in for all eternity. As well as being a state of mind, it is also a physical reality. In this place, the senses are continually hounded with the most repulsive tastes, smells, and sounds imaginable; bitter tastes fill the mouth while rotting flesh pervades the air and cries of souls in agony pierce the ears. Arguably one of the most famous and descriptive depictions of Hell comes from John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Hell is described as a dungeon of utter darkness filled…

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    Carl Sandburg's Poetry

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    The world around us is always in constant change, and we have to adjust to those changes. One must be diverse and flexible in order to be able to survive in today’s world. David Maas writes about the use of this element in Sandburg’s poems, saying, “Sandburg, in many of his poems, illustrates the principle of constant change- that no one thing is the same at two different times- calling for the dating subscript extensional device.” Sandburg…

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    daffodils" by William Wordsworth describes how an experience of natural pretty and beautiful can enter happiness…

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    basically just write what came to mind and I meaninglessly put it down on paper. Functioning through and looking back at old pieces of writing I sense if I put my mind to it and not fool around my writing would definitely improve. I've ingenious my strengths and weaknesses this year and to examine all my work I have seen how much I have changed since the beginning. In the first place at the beginning of the year my teacher…

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    was kind and comforting to those who were unhappy. She never complained. She always had time to listen to other people 's complains.” The author could have easily combined these simple sentences into a longer, more complex one, but her decision to write this way, in combination with the lack of description, gave the story a choppier, more blunt, more emotionless tone that was appropriate for the setting and the…

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    integrity of the study protected, and how were any problems resolved? 5.Did the researchers obtain data from an existing database? If so, did the data obtained address the study problem and objectives, questions, or hypotheses? Were the reliability and validity of the database addressed in the research report? (Groves et al., 2015). Title of article study: “USING PEERWISE IN NURSING EDUCATION - A REPLICATED QUANTITATIVE DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH STUDY” (Rhodes, 2015).…

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    Kozol Discourse Analysis

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    ceiling leave exposed the structural brick… sheets of torn construction paper have been taped to windowpanes, but the glare is quite relentless” (Kozol 102). In describing the run down school with problems upon problems Kozol paints this destroyed place of refuge that has now become these students second prison apart from their home life. Students instead are imprisoned within the walls of their school that are “exposed from the structural brick” and has “holes in wall.” This broken school…

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