TYPES OF PARAGRAPHS Sample Descriptive Paragraph—Nonfiction “Let’s walk‚” she says serenely‚ slipping her arm in mine and heading into Central Park. As she strolls along‚ folks check her out and occasionally point. She is tall‚ strong‚ and straight-backed‚ glowing with vegan health and moving confidently through the crowds in her all-black ensemble. In videos and photos‚ she looks like she has a prominent jaw‚ but in person it is much softer‚ as are her other features (Windex-blue eyes‚ glossy
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especially in Nebraska where it is predominantly white‚ many colleagues in the class have never heard of the concept of bilingualism until we viewed a documentary called Speaking in Tongues by California Visions. The film featured four students‚ Durrell‚ Kelly‚ Jason‚ and Julian from four different public schools in San Francisco area. Durell is an African-American second-grader who learns Mandarin. Kelly is a Chinese-American who learns Cantonese‚ the language of her parents’. Jason learns both
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Mots justes from Durrell‚ as always. That’s what it’s all about. Even if he offers‚ as criticized‚ splinters of the landscape‚ Edward Lear didn’t. Corfu was to provide him with the nearest he got to a definition of paradise‚ to which he responded with his whole being‚ giving
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have lived‚ though‚ and possessed honor‚ the question should be presented: If you lost one of these two good things‚ which loss would affect you more? Most would answer that losing their honor would be worse than losing their life. General Bentley Durrell‚ in Pat Conroy’s The Lords of Discipline‚ said‚ “If I was stripped of my honor‚ I would choose death as certainly and unemotionally as I clean my shoes in the morning.” For him‚ losing his life would be nothing compared to being stripped of honor
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expressed in the Gerald and Audi’s story by narrating their meeting by chance‚ then talking each other‚ knowing each other and falling in love with each other. Adams’s short novel represents these themes through th额使e use of figures detailed descriptions. It begins by showing people that they are falling in genuine love and then telling readers how audacious they are to love. In the novel Audacious‚ from the beginning of the novel‚ it shows that Gerald genuinely loves Audi. Because Gerald knows her
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Part 1 Gerald Croft is a young business man. He has a good steady job‚ a fiancée‚ a promising future and is financially stable. In ’An Inspector Calls’ Gerald is described as "an attractive chap‚ about thirty". His father owns a company called ’Crofts Limited’ who are friendly rivals of the Arthur Birling’s business ’Birling and Company’‚ although the Croft’s business is both older and bigger than the Birling’s. Arthur is very pleased about his daughter Sheila’s engagement to Gerald‚ because
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13/02/15 “How does priestly present Sheila and Gerald in the play? Use brief quotations to support your ideas.” Throughout the play‚ Priestley compares and contrasts the characters of Sheila and Gerald. In this essay I will be discussing how Priestley Sheila develops during the play‚ how many affect the situation of Gerald and Sheila’s relationship when new points of information are addressed to the Birling family‚ and also about the character of Gerald and how he has entitlement and shows great emotion
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its original dimensions”. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr (Morris‚ 1997‚ p. 48). In the aesthetic of what we see “we are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it”. – Lawrence Durrell (Morris‚ 1997‚ p. 75). Morality makes “goodness easier to recognize than to define”. – W. H. Auden (Morris‚ 1997‚ p. 149). Lastly through spirituality “no task‚ rightly done‚ is truly private. It is part of the world’s work”. – Woodrow Wilson (Morris
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father and mother‚ there are my elder brother Gerald‚ my younger brother Kenny and my younger sister Rita. Gerald is a seaman‚ and he is away from home most of the time. I remember his stories about his voyages around the world‚ and the many fascinating things which he has seen on his long journeys. When Gerald’s twenty-first birthday drew near‚ both Mother and Father decided to organize a birthday party. We did not have much to spend but we knew that Gerald would be delighted with whatever we could
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tutorial class on the first day of his school in Ngee Ann Polytechnic with his best friend‚ Gerald‚ who has also enrolled into the Banking and Finance Services (BFS). When they first entered the classroom‚ students on the left side of the classroom are sitting quietly waiting for the lesson to start while students on the right are talking loudly‚ trying to mingle around with each other. Immediately‚ Gerald walks to the left side to find a seat and whisper to Jonathon‚ telling him that students on
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