This is an example of an expository essay where the student followed three different patterns: Sequencing, Cause and Effect, and Description. Good job, Jonathan! Hurricane Irene The Mid-Atlantic Region is experiencing some winds up to fifty miles per hour and most states in that area are in very high chances of flooding. Both regions Read more…
Fifty Back Finals I was in the water, ready for action. All I could see while I was in the frigid water was the diving block in front of my face. I was thinking, “Will I get first? Will I get last? Will I drop time?” Then, cutting short my daydreaming, the official sounded the Read more…
From Skagway to Ketchikan to Juneau Up in the air with all this equipment in a helicopter looking down onto the city of Skagway: my favorite thing in Alaska was the helicopter ride up to the glaciers. The helicopter was very small, but we managed to fit in. When we got onto the glacier, Read more…
B.P.’s Cover-up and Local Response On the eve of BP’s catastrophe, its man-made disaster that killed eleven of its workers and numerous innocent animals, bankrupting thousands of businesses on the Gulf of Mexico, the Minerals Management Service, the agency that supposedly regulates and manages oil companies’ leases of our natural resources, was sitting on its hands. Read more…
BP Oil Spill: Past, Present, and Future In the autumn of 2010, I decided to look into the recent, horrendous BP oil spill. I felt so strongly about the incident that I decided to write an essay and a questionnaire about the topic to educate others. The essay and questionnaire were used to evaluate Read more…
