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Descriptive essay exemplars
Writing descriptive essays is one of a number of assignments that you will be given in college. Robin Givhan, style editor for the Washington Post, has won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Her series of articles under consideration incorporate description in a manner that is illustrative of the genre. In her 2005 article “An Image a Little too Carefully Coordinated,” Givhan wants her readers to see that John Roberts, Supreme Court hopeful, is out of touch and apace of the times. She uses the words “nostalgia” and “1950s-style” in the first two sentences to set her tone. By the time the reader gets to the word “seersucker,” a type of fabric, the reader feels like a “sucker” for having been taken in by his “nostalgic costuming.” Ghivan frequently references popular culture to make her writing current, and her apt references make sense. See this “Condoleezza Rice’s Commanding Clothes” to get the full impact and “Dick Cheney, Dressing Down.” Writing, be it descriptive or otherwise, can be both fun to read and impactful, as indicated by Ms. Givhan’s award. Click Pulitzer for prize winning articles and Givhan for more current articles.
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“Today the Build Your Campus in 3D Competition begins. This spring, you and your (presumably equally artistic) friends can honor your campus turf as you hone your 3D design skills just by modeling your school’s campus buildings in Google SketchUp, geo-reference them in Google Earth, and submit them through the competition website to earn lasting online glory. And the winners get a visit to Google, all expenses paid.
You’re eligible if you’re a higher education student in the U. S. or Canada. You can team up with other students, or take the project on yourself. (To do the best work possible, we suggest you have a faculty advisor.) The deadline for entries is June 1, and the winning entries will be posted to the 3D Warehouse by July 10.”
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Every semester credit card companies arrive on campus to entice students with new credit cards and t-shirts, frisbees, stress balls and such. But that t-shirt ain’t free. High interest rates and fees are enough to pay for all that chachka and then some. If you are juggling multiple credit cards, this debt calculator helps you to reduce your debt load by showing you in what specific order to pay off your debt. Here is a similar PC software download called CreditCardMath that purports to do the same and more. Debtinator , Burn and Spendthrift are MAC applications with a similar function. Online lender, Prosper, may help to secure you a loan at a lower interest rate. Debt to Income calculates your debt/income ratio, Fundable can help you describe a project and collect funds online, and Snowball Calculator helps you to calculate the true cost of a loan. Click NYT prosper article for the New York Times opinion. Also, why not try one of these free personal finance management software from the Consumerist or iCompta for the MAC. Click debt advise to get more advise on how to avoid debt. Watch “Maxed Out” full documentary on how credit cards impose modern slavery on people.
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Those ubiquitous noodle packets in dorm rooms everywhere have an illustrious history. They were developed to stem hunger in Japan in the wake of World War II deprivation. Click noodles to read more about the inventor.
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