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A descriptive essay is an essay that describes something like a person, location, thing, event, or process.  Descriptive essays can be non-fiction, but they can also be fiction.  The goal is to allow the reader to visualize whatever is being described.  Good descriptive essays evoke all of the senses, so that the reader knows how what is being described looks, sounds, smells, tastes, and feels.

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Maya Angelou's poem "Africa" as autobiography and continental analogy
¶ … prolific black American writers recognized in the world of contemporary American literature is Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou was born Margurite Johnson in Arkansas, but later changed her name to Maya Angelou, after her…
Paper Undergraduate
Cognitive strategies college sophomores employ when confronting misperceptions
Questions Generated for a Social Science Analysis
Paper Undergraduate
Lydia Davis's "Cows" and Wallace Stevens's "Thirteen Ways"
¶ … Cows by Lydia Davis, and Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens
Paper Doctorate
The rising epidemic of type II diabetes in the United States
This is an essay which discusses the different issues which can lead to diabetes and uses current research to discover why diabetes has become more prevalent in the past few decades. Research was also examined to determine the stable and modifiable factors of morbidity and mortality which occur with a diabetes diagnosis. The overall function of the paper is to discover why diabetes is so much more prevalent in today's society.
Paper High School
The consumer decision-making process in marketing
This paper consists of a summary of three chapters on the subject of marketing in the modern Internet environment. The first chapter is entitled Chapter 6: Why should marketing managers understand consumer behavior? The second chapter summary is Chapter 8: Market segmentation: What is the value of market segmentation? The third is Chapter 9: Marketing research: Why is it valuable? The overviews are theoretical but some specific examples are given to ground the theory.
Paper Undergraduate
Social media strategy and risk management for retail companies
This study examines the use of social media such as MySpace and Facebook by retailers to grow their businesses in recent years, including the background and overview, the benefits of social media for retailers, and factors to consider and best practices in administering social media. A series of recommendations concludes the study.
Paper Doctorate
Information and communication technology in tourism and hospitality industries
This work examines the use of ICT in the hospitality and tourism industry. This work also conducts a literature review and conducts an assessment of the Disney travel website.
Thesis Undergraduate
Snort as an open source intrusion detection and prevention system
Snort was created by Martin Roesch in 1998. Sourcefire, Inc. is the company that provides Snort. Roesch is the founder and Chief Technical Officer of Sourcefire, Inc. Snort is free of charge. In 2009, InfoWorld entered Snort into its Open Source Hall of Fame as one of the greatest pieces of open source software of all time. Granted, the Internet has not existed as long as ancient ruins, yet still the accolade comes with a certain sense of gravity. The paper describes the primary traits and uses for Snort. The paper attempts to expose Snort's strengths and weaknesses as well as imagine the implementation in a relevant, yet hypothetical professional situation.
Paper Undergraduate
Procurement processes in nonprofit organizations: A phenomenological survey study
Creating a strong understanding of the proucrement process as it manifests in the non-profit sector is truly something which can enlighten and illuminate the process as a whole. This paper seeks to do exactly that via the use of a qualitative research survey made up of a range of specific and crafted questions for just this purpose. It ultimately demonstrates that standardization is so important for the entire method.
Paper Undergraduate
The interplay between theory and method in research design
The paper looks at the Integration of Research Question, Theory and Methodology in the process of conducting a research. The paper looks first at the definition of key terms like the theory and methodology then looks at how each can be constructed or chosen and how a researcher can use all these factors to come up with a comprehensive paper