In October, I find my favorite place of serenity in the woods of Tamarack. Tamarack Ranch is an almost 12,000-acre state wildlife area located 35 miles northeast of Sterling, Colorado near the tiny town of Crook. Just off of Highway 38, an inconspicuous muddy trail leads to the goat head infested parking area. A dense stand of bare trees surrounds the parking area with a carpet of dull gold leaves. Coolness under the trees allows the morning dew to linger and freshen the air. No set path exists
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Zalika Moore Dr. Chambers Writing 1 September/24/13 My Place Seven/Eleven is my place because it remind me of last summer. The summer of 2012 was so much fun for me, I did what I wanted I started to act like an adult and stay out late seven/eleven is one of the only places near my house that is open 24 hours and sells food and coffee all night. It is fat rectangular shaped building it is made out of brown brick the seven/Eleven logo in front of the store has the number seven with the begin half
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location, yet an incredibly familiar sight. I stand in the most amazing place—almost feels like a miracle. This spectacular place always brings enormous elation and a grin of satisfaction; therefore, I shut my eyes tighter to avoid the slightest glimpse to fade. This place is truly memorable to me. This is the place where my eyes first saw the light as I entered this world, where I grew up and is a part of my childhood. This place also holds the people that I love dearly and holds the most amazing recollections
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fill in the blanks with descriptive adjectives, vivid verbs, and specific nouns. Remember the types of nouns we just reviewed. Do not use any word choice more than once. Try to be as descriptive as possible, and do not fall into the pattern of giving “pat” answers. I’ll never forget the descriptive adjective night my descriptive adjective friends and I vivid verb to camp out in the proper noun about two miles from my house. That was one of the descriptive adjective nights of my life
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are the answers to questions in a pattern of black and white squares. We must fill the white squares that placed in the grid from left to right or from top to bottom with some word by descriptive audio as the clues. It is the familiar game that can played by every people by easier make it fun and used every place including school. The teacher can make simple and applied it at teaching learning process. According to Wharton (1995: 48) stated that crossword puzzle for use in the language classroom
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“It’s like moist black velvet” to describe the darkness of the night in the woods. Also, he used phrases like, “Crawled slowly by like a wounded snake.” This helped to create good imagery within the story. Also, Connell used words that were very descriptive to create imagery; some of these words are: “Dank tropical night” and “Thick warm blackness.” These words and sentences helped create a good mood and tone as well as great imagery. The words that the author used to create imagery are very important
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�1� Running Header: DESCRIPTIVE VS. � PAGE * MERGEFORMAT �3� DESCRIPTIVE VS. DESCRIPTIVE VS. NARRATIVE: WHICH ONE IS BETTER? DIANA YOUNG ENG121: ENGLISH COMPOSITION I PROFESSOR GARTEN MAY 25, 2014 � DESCRIPTIVE VS. NARRATIVE : WHICH ONE IS BETTER? Descriptive and narrative writing are both two different styles of personal writing that are used to enhance a writer's portfolio. When looking at descriptive writing, a person is using words that describe a person, place, thing, or event to paint
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As it not only clarifies the possibly descriptive action of the word combination in this case as to the owner of this trademark it is meant as a preposition and not a verb, or noun “Off” (moving away and often down from, “He rolled off the bed”.) and “spec” as an informal noun (in the hope of success
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Henson Do you like descriptive stories? The Cruelest Journey by Kira Salak and Northward Bound by Matthew Henson uses descriptive details and action very well in their stories, but Kira Salak is the best author of descriptive details and action in her story. Sira Kalak went on an cruel journey that she wasn’t afraid of. She uses action to convey the challenges she had throughout the journey. A piece of evidence is, “My right arm lurches in pain. But this is no time and place for an injury, I won't
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development) Virtues Positive character traits…. … that allow people to habitually act in a manner that benefits others and themselves Examples: compassion, courage, generosity, loyalty, honesty Opinions about virtues vary depending on time and place Medieval Christians: humility, chastity, obedience, faith 18th century Europeans: frugality, industry, cleanliness, tranquility Aristotle’s Views Virtues are means between two vices Cowardice – COURAGE – rashness Stinginess – GENEROSITY – wastefulness
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In a Day, by Ray Bradbury, uses symbolism and similes to illustrate what the sun is in the children's eyes. Symbolism showed the sun as a happy place for the children. First off, when the sun comes out the kids happiness lighten up. Although on the other hand others say the descriptive language was a significant part of all summer in a day. The descriptive language showed what it was really like for the children. Another claim shows That similes made the story also because it showed what this kid
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Marketing principles( 200083) Individual assignment-2 Exploratory, Descriptive and Causal research Business market research is the procedure of gathering statistics to establish whether a particular product or service would be competent to persuade the needs of the customers. If efficient marketing research is conducted the company could achieve precious information about their contenders, economic shifts, demographics, current market trends and the spending behavior of their customers. The
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sound echoing through the night. Williams crafts his poetry in order to emphasize the perception of objects. He focuses on engagement of the senses, as opposed to crafting a poem based on rhetoric. Williams' poem are not argumentative instead they place the reader in the objectivist perspective, and often there is no clear resolution at the conclusion of a poem. In "Spring and All," Williams directs the reader's attention from the cold bleakness of winter to the reawakening of the natural world in
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In the short story The Veldt by Ray Bradbury, the author focuses largely on metaphors throughout the whole story to help the reader gain a deeper understanding of places and objects that are new to the reader’s world. The story is about two parents who live in a dystopian world with two kids that are misbehaving. The kids won’t stop thinking about Africa which makes the nursery create an African environment. No matter what the parents do, the kids just continue to lie about the nursery and the nursery’s
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Rashi Taneja Andrea Feldman SA #3 2/9/15 Rhetorical analysis/ Inquiry and Descriptive genres Satire, persuasive, argumentative, the list goes on for the different types of styles that make up the written language as a whole. Three examples of different genres of literature are Rhetorical analysis, Inquiry analysis and Descriptive. The first genre of literature to examine is Rhetorical analysis. This type of writing is usually in the form of criticism to explore the relationships between a text
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I compared this essay to smores, because my descriptive essay has many strong details that drags people in to read my essay, just like the smell of a marshmallow roasting over the fire. Everyone enjoys a warm summer day just like they love to enjoy a smore along with it. When Mrs. Gelwicks first introduced this paper she told us to think about our happy place. I had a few ideas in mind, but nothing compared to sitting on the dock by the lake where I have spent every summer since I was born. After
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and Support Three or more excellent points are made with good support. It is evident the writer put much thought and research into this assignment. Three or more excellent points are made with good support but the arguments are somewhat weak in places. The writer doesn’t persuade completely. Two points made; shows some preparation, but weak arguments. Preparation is weak; arguments are weak or missing; and less than three points are made. Conclusion Summarizes personal opinion in a strong
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out a study using injunctive and descriptive norms in order to prevent the theft of petrified wood from the National Park. He placed various injunctive and descriptive messages across the park in order to change behaviour. An example of the injunctive would be " Please do not remove the petrified wood in the park" and then an example of descriptive "Many past visitors have removed the petrified wood from the park". From this study we can see that by using descriptive messages the theft of the wood
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research was used as the research design. The survey research is suitable for describing a large population in a certain place. The researcher proposes to use the descriptive survey design to gather data relating to the impact of social media among the youth on behaviour change,
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Madeline Heilman and Elizabeth J. Parks- Stamm. It covers how gender stereotypes hinder women’s advances in work place. In this article, the author discusses about gender stereotypes from both descriptive and prescriptive points of view. Descriptive stereotype talks about what men and women are like and prescriptive stereotype discusses about what men and women should be like. In descriptive stereotype, Heilman(1983) mentioned that there is a perceived “lack of fit” between women’s assumed capabilities
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Don't Judge a Book by its Cover Imagine walking into a foreign place to listen to a speaker you do not know. You take your place in the back and pray that nobody acknowledges you. As you scan the room, you notice the diversity of the audience. The room is filled with strangers of all ages ranging from 30 years to 50 years while you are a senior in high school, who had a few friends that tagged along. In spite of your few friends, the audience consists of four white males and 12 females, one of which
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the novel that uses descriptive language to describe Victor's journey, when he describes how he feels when the monster breathes life in his laboratory, “... but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart” (Shelley 59). This scene paints the image of how he realizes his ambition of recreating life has led him blindly to his goal. Although the visual effects of the movie is appealing, Mary Shelley’s use of descriptive language gives a much
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of his poor childhood. “Life in the frozen Yukon had shown him nature in its harshest form, as the enemy of human survival.” (Hodgins 416) When he visited the Yukon it inspired him to write about nature; that is why London has such descriptive stories of snowy places. He started writing as soon as he had gotten back from California and got his first book, A Daughter of the Snows, published in 1900, the year he got married to his wife Bessie Maddern. While he was in California we can assume that
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What made me choose this poem was the title. When I saw “ The Tide rises, The Tide Falls” it instantly brought a picture of the beach to my head and I like going to the beach. This poem interests me because I read the poem and it is one great piece of art! The poet well described many things and it gave me an image of what is going on throughout it and I really loved it. The poem is trying to state that whatever happens to us, life continues. Life doesn’t stop for us; time doesn’t stop for us when
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two authors are personal experiences that have taken place in their life. Cisneros didn't necessarily provide us with as much description as Equiano did but she did include pieces of descriptive context throughout the text. “I'm the skinny girl in the picture with skinny arms and a crumpled shirt and crooked hair,” gives us an ideal image of how Cisneros looked when she was younger which allows us to picture her. Equiano’s text was very descriptive where he states,“Many a time we were near suffocation
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In “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe he uses different craft moves to show how the eye made the boy kill the old man then made the boy go insane. In this story Poe uses motivation, descriptive language, and symbolism. Edgar Allan Poe demonstrates that if you do something bad the guilt will eventually start to drive you insane and get the better of you. In the beginning the boy starts talking about the old man’s eye and this shows his motivation. “...a pale blue eye, with a film over it.”
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difficult for me to make sense of at first, but I slowly started to absorb it as I read it a few times. Although I still don’t have a complete understanding of come of the specific details, the tone was conveyed to me almost immediately through Hardy’s descriptive language. The first two stanzas were filled with bleak words and phrases that brought dark images to mind when you read them. My favorite phrase in particular was “The tangled bine-stems scored the sky; Like strings of broken lyres”. This resonated
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Do not over explain concepts. Only use evidence that goes with your topic. Description Used for events, or to visually describe a person, place, even or action. Mainly so the reader can actually picture what is going on. Spatial order. Use details that express thoughts that others will understand. Try not to use words that are not really that descriptive. Classification It is used when you want to identify something specific. You would break what you are classifying into different parts.
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steady sound of the stream passing through reeds under the bridge, while combing his feathers for the unwanteds—whatever they might be." Here is a descriptive essay about a first visit to a favorite diner written by a student at Roane State Community College:"When entering the door at Lou’s, two things are immediately noticeable: the place is rarely empty and seems to consist of a maze of rooms. The first room, through the door, is the main part of the restaurant. There is another, rarely used
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credit crunch in 2008 and there was further decline in 2009 as the UK economy was gripped with the recession. 2.Research Design and Sampling Plan Descriptive research is a type of conclusive research method which aims to build a picture, with its main objective being, to give a description of a market characteristics. In descriptive research the researcher usually has a clear idea of what is need from the research and clearly defined questions to answer, as in this case, the research objectives
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