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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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Healthcare service utilization among Asian-Americans in the United States
The research in this study is exploratory and descriptive. The study begins with the declaration that this topic of study has been pursued in the past, yet the sampling methods used proved ineffective in defining or describing why less Asian Americans utilize healthcare services in the United States. This research seeks to describe the problem of little use of healthcare with their study. The research in this study classifies the phenomenon of lack of healthcare service use/participation by Asian Americans. The research problem is that Asian Americans are not using the healthcare services available to them for a variety of reasons. The paper critiques an article charting research in this area.
Research Paper Doctorate
Saussure's principle of arbitrariness and linguistic structure
Saussure makes a distinction between langue and parole. Modern-day generative linguistics makes a similar distinction, though using different terms. What are the terms for this contemporary distinction.
Research Paper Doctorate
Macon and Pilate in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison's novel, Song of Solomon, is a story of discovery as well as a story of celebrating heritage. With her stylistic technique, Morrison is able to create colorful characters to help demonstrate the perplexity…
Thesis Undergraduate
Merchandise organization and fabric selection at a specialty textile store
What does this store specialize in selling? Who is the target customer for this store? Do they sell fashion fabrics or home fabrics or both?
Research Paper Doctorate
Charlotte Bronte's "The Professor": autobiography and rejection
¶ … Charlotte Bronte's first novel entitled "The Professor." The paper describes the novel's basis, its narrator and key characters.
Research Paper Doctorate
Unexamined tradition in Frost's "Mending Wall" and Eliot's "Prufrock"
¶ … Mending Wall" by Robert Frost, and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," by T.S. Eliot. Specifically, it compares and contraststhe two works and how they are both excellent examples of the dangers of unexamined…
Research Paper Doctorate
The relationship between learned alcoholism and self-esteem in treatment
¶ … exist between alcoholism as a learned behavior (rather than as a condition arising from any genetic predisposition) and self-esteem. This research is based upon the assumption that there is a direct connection…
Paper Undergraduate
Boolean operators and search strategies for counseling databases
The paper responds to various questions, for example, the description of Boolean approach, the distinction between PDF and HTML page, meaning and types of plagiarism, meaning of Cryptomnesia, description of cyber cheating, statement of different measurement skills in statistics, differences between numerals and numbers, description of null hypothesis and others.
Paper Undergraduate
Brain drain of health professionals in Zimbabwe and its consequences
Brain Drain is described in the work of Lowell and Findlay (2001) as something that can occur "...if emigration of tertiary educated persons for permanent or long-stays abroad reaches significant levels and is not…
Research Paper Doctorate
Comparison of three substance abuse screening instruments: MAST, CDAP, and SASSI
There are a variety of assessment or diagnostic instruments which can determine substance abuse. It is interesting to compare and contrast the Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (MAST), Chemical Dependency Assessment…