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A View From The Bridge And The Miss Dennis School Of Writing
ENG 110-215C
02/10/2014
WRITING ASSIGNMENT 1

In my first writing assignment I’m going to discuss and compare two essays. The two essays are “A View from The Bridge”, and “The Miss Dennis School of Writing”. Both author’s Miller and Steinbach used the descriptive technique. They try to point many interesting parts and qualities so they can capture the reader’s attention. A good way to captures the reader’s attention is that these essays topics relay a complete experience.
The authors describe things that we can make a mental image of them. When describe them use general association that we can actually imaging things as if we have them in front. They also add more personal and specific descriptions of things. For me as a reader capture a lot my attention when referring to general things that I can associated with the topic. Associations like the way how the author’s expressed clearly and well-explained
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He has a lovely young niece, Catherine, and a wife Beatrice, a splendid housewife with a heart of gold. Catherine has just been offered a job as a stenographer at a plumbing company. Eddie, overprotective father figures, is hesitant to let her take it, even though it won't interfere with her school. Eventually he agrees and gives the OK. We also learn that Beatrice has a couple of cousins who will soon arrive from Sicily, Italy. They're being getting into the country illegally. They plan to live with the Carbones while working on the

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