Descriptive Essays Examples

I had to ask myself an interesting question. What is something that I am certain of? It seemed simple at first glance, but grew more complicated the longer I looked at it. I am positive that everyone makes their own decisions. I know that I…

Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and colonizer who completed four voyages a cross the Atlantic Ocean that opened the New World for conquest and permanent European colonization of the Americas. Columbus had embarked with intent to find and develop a westward route to the…

The play “Trying to Find Chinatown” published in 1996 by David H. Hwang describes two strangers who happen to argue in the middle of the street in New York. Ronnie, an Asian American male who identifies himself as a musician, and Benjamin, a Caucasian who…

Have you ever heard of Selena Quintanilla’s music? It is the best music in the world that you could ever listen to. I chose Selena because I love her music and she was inspiring. Selena learned to sing at a young age and started her…

Many people for this assignment may do the main, technology-based innovators such as Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and all the main guys of large companies that are key to society these days. Well, I’m not like most people and neither is this modern…

Expectations are created with a desired outcome in mind. These expectations are used as goals and shape the way that one acts and develops while trying to reach the goal. In J. D. Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the Rye, the protagonist, Holden Caulfield, shows…

Gender expectation refers to a normative conception of appropriate attitudes and activities for a particular racialized and gendered group. My first experience that highlights gender expectations relates to my childhood, where I engaged in activities considered appropriate for men such as camping, football and hunting….

John Adams was born on October 19th, 1735 in Braintree Massachusetts to a family of farmers like a lot of New England folks were in his time considering many of the residents of Braintree were farmers, and like many of New England farm homes the…

The hardest part of a person’s life is finding out who they are. To find out who they are, they might go to college or drop out of college to travel or do something else with their life completely. Both 2005 Kenyon College graduates and…

David Foster Wallace was born February 21, 1962 in Ithaca, New York. He was an American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. He was the son of a philosophical professor and an English teacher. In 1985, Wallace received his B.A. from Amherst College, and was working…