Descriptive Essay About Waves

The waves were coming too fast and I felt like I couldn’t breathe. I was stuck in the impact zone, and I didn’t know where I was. I got a mouthful of saltwater in my mouth, and I couldn’t help but swallow it. I remember going around and around in somersaults on the bottom of the ocean floor just getting stuck over and over again in the cycle of the waves breaking one after another. I thought to myself that this was a terrible decision. That lead me to ask myself, “Why did I think I could surf?” I

The waves, the beautiful, calming waves. Their resonance, their slow rolling and crashing, their white caps cresting over and plunging back into the water fully display the beauty and majesty of creation from the shoreline. And their connection to countless parts of science is amazing. However, as I have found in the past few years, the beauty of the waves isn’t necessarily in looking at them, but in being beneath them. Being beneath them, you feel a slow rocking, the pressure of the waves above

of his chapter. In my essay, “________”, I made a conscience effort to mimic this literary device; however, failed to properly utilize it as an entry point. At the forefront of “Faking It”, Michael Chabon paints a descriptive scene in which he was attempting to install a towel rack in the bathroom. To start the chapter, Chabon dictated that the only reason he was granted this chore was because he “knew, kind of, how to use an electric drill.” He then provided a descriptive image of his efforts,

Feminism is a key concept that has become popular and is widely spoken about even before Charles Fourier keyed the word in the 18th century. Jennifer Baumgardner’s excerpt from the book F’em: Goo Goo, Gaga and Some Thoughts on Balls, outlines the various waves of feminism and its existence, importance, growth and history over the past few centuries. Her excerpt begins by introducing the “first wave” which according to her was, ‘the designation that was applied to the suffragists retroactively after

I am making a descriptive essay about the time I almost won the Cattlemen’s Classic. It is in Kearney, Nebraska. I was 9 or 10 years old when this happened. I was shaking in my seat as we are role into Kearney. I was ready to prance out like a tiger on its prey. When we got out we had to set up our stall. So I slowly walked to the back of the trailer Laging my feet as much as possible so I didn't have to help. So when it was all over setting up my brother said I could go run around maybe

this essay I will compare the ways in which the poets present people in “Two Scavengers in a truck, two beautiful people in a Mercedes” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and “Island Man” by Grace Nichols. In this essay I will look at the shape, structure, poetic devices and language in both poems. Firstly I will examine what the two poems are about and the ways how both poets portray the people in the poems. The poem “Two Scavengers in a truck, two beautiful people in a Mercedes” is about a coincidence

The fragility of a tradition is emphasized through a rich character portrayal and inferred admiration. Thick description is the method in which Lortat-Jacob arrives at his conclusions, or more accurately, his notable lack of them. Such a vivd, descriptive way of writing lends itself to unique interpretation by each reader individually. By including himself, Lortat-Jacob shies away from the empirical tradition of ethnography and emphasizes the importance of the character. The narrative style allows

For my first essay on short stories I have chosen “A Rose for Emily”, which is a Southern Gothic tale written in 1931 by William Faulker. The story is located on pages 31-37 of the Literature textbook. The reason why I had initially chosen “A Rose for Emily” was because the title intrigued me. It left me wondering what the rose symbolized. Did it suggest a wedding? Perhaps a romance? However, I was thoroughly surprised to find out that the story was the complete opposite; the tone and description

ENG 101 Feb. 3, 2011 The Open Boat Compare and Contrast Essay Rough Draft This paper is about the story “The Open Boat” written by Stephen Crane. In this paper, I will try to provide the similarities of the original story with the newspaper account. The differences in each article will also be discussed. Lastly, I will provide a conclusion based on the facts of both articles. "The Open Boat'' begins with a description of men aboard a small boat on a rough sea

Poetry Comparison Essay Today I will be comparing ‘Thistles’ by Ted Hughes and ‘The Daffodils’ by William Wordsworth in this essay. In the poem ‘Thistles’, Ted Hughes describes the life cycle of the thistles, and how difficult is to rid them for good. The poem does not have a rhyming pattern but uses much alliteration, and conveys a negative mood, one that is aggressive and violent. In the second poem, ‘Daffodils’, it is the contrary, embracing the speaker with glee and happy thoughts. In such a