CHAPTER 8 Showing and Telling: Description‚ Narration‚ and Example “I was this far away when the mailman threw his bag at me and started running. All I could see were legs and letters . . .” T he essays you write and the stories you tell come alive when you use description‚ narration‚ and example. Descriptive techniques help you show your reader what you see‚ hear‚ smell‚ touch‚ or taste. Narrative techniques help you concisely tell a reader a story that makes a point. Examples
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grades! As a student who also has a family to support‚ managing my time is a challenge. There are simply not enough hours in the day‚ and on top of that‚ I have to work part-time instead of full time in order to meet all the demands of my family and education. I don’t get benefits‚ either. I have a husband with a job providing benefits‚ but I am one of the lucky ones. Judith Warner in her article “The Full Time Blues‚” makes a plea to readers of the New York Times to support European-style family
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Narrative Essay When I was in the sixth grade I came home from a typical day at school and was certainly expecting the same for my evening at home. As I walked through the door I immediately noticed that something was different. My mother was ecstatic and stood in the living room clutching a piece of mail. She told me that I had received a scholarship to attend Catholic school the following fall. This was not exactly good news for me; I always thought Catholic school children were like robots
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gentlemen my name is Karen and my team and I are here to present to you an array of arguments to suggest why junk food must not be banned! Before I begin I will rebut some of the main arguments put forward by the affirmative team. While some people believe that junk food In this speech I will outline why junk food mustn’t banned from canteens‚ due to the misleading thoughts that junk food is the main cause of obesity and for my second argument‚ I will outline how less money will be earned
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his or her best to protect or save other people by putting themselves in danger and sacrificing their lives to help others. Anyone can be a hero for their own special reason or purpose. For me‚ I believe people can have their own issues and still be a hero and help. For instance‚ in the article “Where I Find My Heroes” by Oliver Stone‚ it states that “Simple acts of heroism are often overlooked -The meaning of heroism has a lot to do
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Guaman English 101-P Narrative Essay Life is full of surprises and difficulties. A twist of fate can make your life miserable or blooming as the spring flower. When my brother and I used to live in Ecuador‚ everything was so amazing. We always used to be so close to each other. Our relationship as brothers was unique and wonderful. I remember we used to go play soccer together every Friday‚ Saturday‚ and Sunday. We were actually the best soccer players that you can find. But my mom always
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high school. I grew away from many people that I considered some of my closest friends. I also suffered academically because I began to spend less time doing work and being focused on less important things. I got caught up in unnecessary drama‚ went on my first college visits‚ and met new people in the matter of one year. Not only did I grow as a person‚ I grew as an athlete‚ I grew as a sibling‚ and I grew as a young woman. My junior year allowed me to develop my expectations for myself in life and
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trouble on the internet because they might be doing something important and when they are searching in the internet‚ it says that the work has been copyrighted. How would you feel when you are looking for something important online and this message pops up saying “error… you cannot see the following work because we had online problems” you’ll probably be upset because there is no internet. How come parents never notice that some teens use their phone in the night while they are sleeping? Parents do
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Waking up to Evil Everyone knows that cancer is bad‚ right? Cancer is nefarious. It kills and it’s hard to get rid of. In one way or another it affects everyone. I hate it. Things changed when my grandma died. I didn’t know much about her cancer‚ but I knew enough to know she was in a lot of pain. Before she died I had heard all the stories about what cigarettes do to you and about all of the relatives that had cancer. I heard them‚ but I didn’t really understand. They affected me‚ there is no
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return to college‚ before I began my journey in the spring session at the School of New Resources at College of New Rochelle in 2010. At first it didn’t seem possible with the countless obstacles I would face. Juggling the duties of running a household‚ providing for a sick elderly grandmother and having a full time job was overwhelming to say the least. I am pleased to say a few months ago the once absurd idea of pursuing a college education was made possible. I received my Bachelor of Arts
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