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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�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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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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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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“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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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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education (character 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
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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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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 walls. In the beginning of The Veldt, Bradbury uses many similes
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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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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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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 and the presumed requirements of a position. Prescriptive point talks about women should be
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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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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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then got on the gold rush and headed to California in search for gold. “He came back the following year not with gold but with story nuggets.”(Raymond 493) California and all the adventure had influenced him to write by giving him good ideas to write about in his stories. There were two more influences that helped London write such wonderful adventurous stories. Economics affected my author in several different ways. Because the economy was bad and he lived in a poor household, Jack learned responsibility
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Sandra Cisneros is the author of the Straw Into Gold; Metamorphosis of the Everyday. Cisneros has a personal writing style. The way she words her sentences illustrates that she is talking about a situation that has actually occurred to her. “I had the same sick feeling when I was required to write my MFA exam…” Cisneros then speaks on issues she experienced growing up as well as what she experiences as an adult. Olaudah is the author of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. Equiano
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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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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.” “...it fell upon me, my blood ran cold...” “...to
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phenomena, a construct that has widerspread use age because it helps describe and explain human behaviour" Cialdini & Trost (1998: 151). 'Social norms are rules and standards that are understood by members of a group, they identity belief systems about our perceptions of how or not to behave. They are used to guide behaviour without the force of laws' Prislin & Wood (2008). Social norms help us to apprehend uneasiness. They attribute to our judge ment of how
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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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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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avenue that McBride Financial Services should consider traveling. By using web marketing and advertising the company can produce responsibility in the eyes of the consumer. Faith with the company and its services can be built because transparency about the services offered and the charges being assessed by the company are clearly stated. The customer would also be able to evaluate the prices and services offered by the company with their competition, which would generate a sensation of contentment
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things. Quantitative research is defined by Yvonne (2009) is that about collecting data from a relatively large sample or population in a structured and standardized way. Quantitative research design is a great method to finalize results and prove or disprove the hypothesis. Structure of the quantitative research has not changed over the centuries, because of the reason this kind research method of investigation can have a place in any field of science. The common research method of this quantitative
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"There Will Come Soft Rains" is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury. It involves many descriptive languages, provides clues for inferences and conveying deep messages. The story is set in the future on August 4th, 2026 in an abandoned house beside the ruins. Throughout the story, there was an anonymous voice calling out the time and reminders to do things. Every time the voice uttered, machines in the house operates. At 10 p.m., the house caught on fire and the voices cried, "Fire, fire
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view and the author’s purpose go hand in hand with understanding the text. Today's lesson objective is: students will be able to determine an author's point of view or purpose within a text, providing examples from the text. Take a moment to think about this objective. What learning skills can you use to achieve this objective? We’ve been using analysis of the text to find central idea and define unfamiliar words. Maybe this analysis will be useful in determining the author’s point of view and purpose
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through the use of explicit imagery and metaphors describes fiddle playing to the audience in a way that is both descriptive and appealing. In the first metaphor, ““the first way, learned from the rubbing of three limbs the one upon the other, and from the sitting of rocks quietly on beds of moss, and from the rocking of streams on curving banks, produces notes that lull” Ball is using descriptive imagery to describe playing a fiddle. He does this by using the imagery form the metaphor “The rubbing of
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Disorders.’ The DSM-5 is also known for collecting and communicating accurate public-health statistics. To classify psychological disorders, clinicians focus on three main components: the diagnostic classification, the diagnostic criteria sets, and the descriptive texts. During the diagnostic classification, clinicians use this list of mental disorders to diagnose and try to help their patient. When using the diagnostic classification, it comes along with a diagnostic code which is used universally amongst
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it shows you everyone’s true feelings towards that sensitive event. Coben is superb at layering his novels in terms of plot and he reduces the lives of his characters bizarreness. There is something very solid and stable about Harlan Cobens narrative here and character and place are given enough ‘reality’ to persuade and support the varying of the complicated plot. An example of sarcasm is when Paul Copeland insults Chamiques attorney. “‘The sum has now reached a level where your attorney here
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as you write. So, no need to worry about space. Do not write your answers in a separate document because your instructor uses the rubric after each question to grade that section of this worksheet. You may use the rubric as a guide to make sure you completed that question
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