Descriptive Paragraph One of the things that I treasure in summertime is my weekends. I start my day early‚ getting ready to ride in my boyfriend’s car‚ to pick up the boat from a friend. The boat is a camouflaged‚ flat bottom‚ twelve feet long; spray painted on one side is the name for the boat “Esox Lucius”. We get to the creek and Jake dismounts the boat‚ I help by bringing the fishing poles‚ tackle boxes and my bag down to the bank. The familiar creek where we go is not too wide‚ covered on
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Robert Campbell Mrs. Overly ENGL 1301.54 11/1/2005 Assignment: Ch.3. Descriptive Writing—“The Body Farm” p.139‚ #1. Write an essay in which you describe something that most people would find repulsive or frightening. Skydiving It was an ordinary day in June when a few friends and I decided that we wanted to do something that we thought was exhilarating‚ so we went skydiving. What is skydiving you might ask yourself? Skydiving is exactly what it sounds like‚ the act of jumping or falling
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In the documentary‚ “Paper Clips”‚ it is shown that a class of students in Tennessee is learning about the Holocaust. The kids watch videos and read stories about the infamous Hitler and his Nazi party. Adolf Hitler killed at least 6 million Jews‚ before committing suicide. The class then decides to get 6 million paper clips‚ as a representation of the 6 million Jewish people that were killed. Each paper clip contains a Jew’s soul‚ and the students want to make a permanent remembrance for the people
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Note: This is the complete assignment from the beginning to the end. Descriptive Essay Assignment: Final draft is due -Monday‚ February 24‚ 2014. Directions: Use the MLA style as describe on my policy syllabus. Final draft must be typed. You should use as your guide the Sample Essay “Salt Marsh” in your Longman textbook on pages 135 - 136. Due Wednesday‚ September 19‚ 2013 Writing Assignment: Like Martinez‚ describe a place where you go to collect your thoughts and get in touch with
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Descriptive Analyses of the Essays and Short Stories Narration and Description THE STRATEGIES Although the narrative and descriptive essays are often given as separate assignments in composition courses‚ they are combined in this first section so that teachers can present expressive writing and still reserve time for the many forms of informative and argumentative writing. This choice is tricky because it confirms the folk wisdom about expressive writing and rhetorical difficulty. According to
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And it is within this collectivity and institutional space of ’childhood‚ as a member of the category ’children’ that any individual ’child’ comes to exercise his or her unique agency’.2 Until the end of the middle ages‚ Phillipe Aries (1962) first highlighted the socially constructed character‚ he said that children were sometimes seen as miniature versions of adults‚ looking at paintings from the 15th and 16th Century‚ children’s clothes and bodily proportions were the same as adults. His assertion
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headed to my first class which just so happened to be my favorite subject‚ English. The hallways were very wide but when filled with students I felt like I had to shove my way through just to get to my locker. The lockers were a mixture between Gray and purple. The school colors were supposed to be purple and silver but there was no way that these lockers could be considered. I took a look at the little piece of paper that the lady in the office had given me and tried out the combination on my locker
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I was the first baby born on January 4th‚ 1997 in Lima‚ Ohio. Then the story began. Growing up I’ve hit a lot of misfortunes and missed out on a lot of opportunities most people had. I’m from a broken home‚ but a giant ass family. I have four brothers and one older sister‚ which makes me the baby of the family. A young girl with short rich brown hair‚ bangs in her green eyes‚ and an extremely loud mouth; that was me. Typically‚ as a child I entertained myself rather than playing with my siblings
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Wesley Miller 9/1/13 Mr. Reynolds Descriptive Essay As a young boy my parents and I moved around often‚ never stopping in one place for more than a few months at a time. It was quite annoying that in every place I moved to I never got to unpack my boxes; I figured there was no point when I would be uprooted again soon. At the age of fourteen we moved to a large city named San Bernardino in California. As we arrived in the city I wasn’t surprised in the least seemed like any other
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Allen 9-12-13 English Descriptive Essay: First day of school 12 September‚ 2013 My first day of school started out like any other day. It was dull‚ slow‚ and early in the morning. I wake up to a mixture of both my alarm ringing louder than band horns and my mother yelling at me to get up. The first thing I do is put some music on. While I jam to the speaker playing‚ Im pulling out clothes and making outfits to wear. After about fifteen minutes I finally find one. I put my clothes on and as usually
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