How to Write a Descriptive Essay

determine where they end up in life. Walter Dean Myers writes about a 16-year old boy named Steve Harmon who is on trial for murder. Throughout the story, the reader pieces together evidence that clearly points to Steve’s innocence while the jury thinks him guilty based on his race. In Walter Dean Myers’ “Monster”, the author reveals that racism takes away a person’s power and humanity as shown through vivid illustrations…

remember the feelings and frustrations that went along with these memories. While most of my school teachers were supportive of my learning, there were a few teachers that made me feel minuscule in my learning process. My father taught me how to read and write cursive when I was six years old. He taught me to read from my children’s Bible. Looking back on it now most I what I thought I was reading from the Bible were my weekly memory verses of which I thought I was reading. None the less my…

has used many detailed pictures to help explain the life of a Viking. Under the pictures, readers can find small descriptive paragraphs about the picture and how Viking live with those pictures. Some of the topic discussed in the book include: how Vikings lived, their religion, the boats they make, their diet, things they made, what they wear, why the conquer, how they conquer, how they handle the laws, and what they do with the body following death. Iowa Core Standard: Examine Factors that…

her inexhaustible capacity for renewed hope, determination, and love” ("Angelou, Maya." Current Biography (Bio Ref Bank) (1994) allow Angelou to leave the legacy of emotion in her wake. Similar to many authors, Maya Angelou used her life story to write poetry that remains powerful to this…

In the poem, Out of the Sea, Early by May Swenson, the subject is the love of nature. The speaker tells a story about how beautiful the sun rise is by comparing it to things that have never been imagined before. The speaker however, is a more complex character with different outlooks on the ocean. The way the speaker delivers his tone is through a calm voice, representing the ocean that he or she is conversing about. Based upon the word choice, we can infer that the speaker is a sailor that…

development actors and their relations with each other. By being a part of this team that frequently works with NGOs, I was exposed to how the two different institutions communicate and work together. I witnessed the process of NGOs applying for funding and how the funding is accepted and distributed. Similarly, the consultation process was a good way for me to see how the government seeks the opinions (appraisals or criticisms) of other institutions. This is all helpful for me to know as I…

working as a compliance officer in the finance industry. Every document I wrote was under review. I had to use concise language to correspond with clients, legal departments and financial administrators. This hindered my ability to make my writing descriptive. The next ten years were spent working in the digital media industry for a pregnancy and parenting website. Here I was tasked with weaving pages upon pages of member content into content that was yet again clear and concise. It had to be…

From the start of the semester with this class until now, I have improved exponentially. At the beginning of the semester, I took an English pre-grammar test, and the purpose of that exercise was to gauge how much, and what knowledge I had. Over all from the exam I performed horribly. Even before Comp 1 in college I was terrible with anything grammar related. I know grammar is a broad spectrum, but I really had to improve on everything. I had to focus on subject verb agreement, commas, and…

Joe Simpson is a biography thriller, about climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates climbing experience in the Andes mountains. This book was published in 1988 and was Simpson’s first attempt at writing. After the success of his first book he went onto write multiple other books such as: This Game of Ghosts, Storms of Silence, and Dark Shadows of Falling. Despite the tragic events explained in Touching the Void, Simpson…

to solve a murder case that occurred in his neighborhood. Greyson wrote his new book with exceptional excellence. Respectively, Greyson’s book thrills, captivates, and stirs emotions with its well-written plot and characters. Also, He uses very descriptive images that makes it seem as if readers actually witnessed the events first hand, easy to follow plot, never-ending action, emotional scenes, and endearing characters. And Then She Was Gone has multiple examples and circumstances that make it…