Descriptive Essay About a Place You Visited

paired fun alliterations regarding the countries Amelia visited including “France was fun” and she was “freezing in Finland” that are sure to keep young children entertained. The book also contains two full-spread maps, one in the beginning and one at the end. In addition, it has small inset maps throughout the book that allows children to follow Amelia’s…

and foreign tourists wanting to get away from it all for over 30 years due to its comfortable accommodations, wide range of outdoor activities, pampering services, and music and sports lounge. Resort staffs are very helpful and attentive to some of our inquiries. It is a place for a weekend family outing and best for a company or wedding event. The shoreline of Matabungkay is just small, the sand is cream in color but the place is decent for swimming. There are sports activities like snorkeling…

Magical ale, haunted crews, headless goblins, and witchcraft, all elements of these two short stories by Washington Irving, used to draw the reader’s attention. Both “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” share characteristics of Irving’s love for the areas he visited as a young man, his sense of humor, and a knack for alternative plot development. These pieces more specifically share descriptive settings placed in the same region, as well as Irving’s sarcasm toward gossiping wives…

different, however. The compound was attacked multiple times, and many people died. It was a sad day for America. Only a few people made it out alive. 13 Hours is a book of fact, not of opinion. Zuckoff writes accounts of the Annex Security Team. Many people want to know what really happened that night, and to those who want to find out, this is a great book to read. Zuckoff wrote this book with the Annex Security Team, which gives this book very credible sources. 13 Hours gives the cold hard…

Christmas is truely about.It’s not about spending money, or who has the most Christmas lights and decorations up, it’s about a special time of year when god had showed his great love for us. It’s a time for healing and renewed strength, Christmas is when we celebrate the birth of Christ. The book and movie on “The Christmas Carol” will show you the true meaning of Christmas, and not some phony Christmas full of selfishness and hate. The movie and the book are very different.…

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien was written on September 21, 1937 and tells of an epic fantasy starring many complex characters. The main theme of The Hobbit is bravery and courage, it highlights the importance of the main character, Bilbo Baggins turning from a self conscious and scared hobbit to a courageous hobbit. The novel takes place in Middle Earth during a time when Smaug, a dragon, has ruled the Lonely Mountains for years. I really enjoyed reading The Hobbit and I think it is a…

Diagon Alley Descriptive Essay Do you believe in magic? When you visit Diagon Alley in Universal Studios Orlando, you are transported to a different world. This is a place where your senses can take over. You don’t have to see to believe, believing is seeing. Visiting Diagon Alley in Universal Studios made me see a new perspective into what J.K. Rowling envisioned, my senses were awakened and alive that day, and made new memories. Walking into the entrance was enchanting. I could sense the…

A Certain Music draws you in from the very first page. A story of a nine year old child who knew no friends, only her mum and her dad were best friends, until one day she hears the most beautiful music coming from a house in the Reisnerstrasse. When you pick up the book you can't stop reading it, because you are so intrigued of where the story is going to take you. It is a unique story of a friendship between a very famous composer, who could not hear, but yet was recognised worldwide for his…

John Howard Griffin wrote the book Black Like Me. Griffin was a white man that wanted a first hand account of what it was like being black in the south. In his book Black like me, he wanted to see the extent of segregation and prejudice outside of his white man perspective and see what lay beneath the surface of southern life. He decided to go to a dermatologist to get his skin darkened to carry out his plan. He conducted his observations in the deep south that was notorious for segregation in…

1. Just a gathering of mothers (pp. 76). The photo albums were thick with memory: hairstyles, running meets, graduations (pp. 76). They were all so different, so little in common (pp. 78). No newspapers big enough to paste him back together in Saigon (pp. 81). The only thing you need to know about war, son, is: Don’t go (pp. 86). Mother seeks bones of son (pp. 90). That’s my boy up there and he’s come to say hello (pp. 98.) At all of their coffee mornings, it had always been distant, belonging…