Monday, December 10, 2007

The Unplanned Vacation : Descriptive essay

The Unplanned Vacation
By: Freddie Ervin

In my entire life, I was dreaming of going to vacation in Portland, Oregon. I consulted my two friends who already had seen the place. They told me that place was incredible and lots of friendly people. Last three weeks ago, I made a reservation plane ticket through the telephone going to Portland, Oregon for two days vaction. Actually the trip was not totally planned. After three days of waiting, I was scheduled to flight to Portland, Oregon. I bought new clothes in case I have important place to go. It's my first time to travel alone so I have no idea about that place. I took the bart going to the domestic airport. I saw three people who just had finished their convention and ready to flight back to Seattle, Washington. I asked them where exacly the barts going to stop. I had two hours to depart from San Francisco domestic airport. I made a verification regarding my plane ticket to the Southwest Airlines. The agent told me that I was registered in the Horizon which was owned by Alaska Airlines. I walked far carrying my luggage going to Horizon to obtained plane ticket. I beseeched the agent to assist me in my luggage. He asked me to proceed at the security check. I passed the security so I felt relieve. I sat in the waiting area for thirty minutes and the airplane landed. I prayed that I travel safe. The flight took one hour and thirty minutes. I said" Oh my God". I felt that my whole body would collapse. I was happy that I landeed safely. I didn't know what to do when the airplane landed. I arrived the airport around 6: 30 at night. My next problem was I forgot to reserve a hotel but I have the adress. I took the taxi going to Southeast Stark street. When I reached the place, I slept for two hours. I woke up and ready to fix myself. I wore the most attractive outfit going to the club. Three people told me that I was so adorable. I thanked them for the complement. I party until 3: 45 in the morning. I was so exhausted. The next morning, I took bus 15 going to the downtown. I had seen Chinese Garden, Japanese, Garden, Oregon Zoo, and Rose Garden. I arrived to my hoted exactly 9:30 at night. I need to go to the club because I want to see my friends which I met yesterday. We party until five in the morning. The following morning was my last day to that place. I was ready to fix my things. I said to myself I will come back to this place. I flew back to San Francisco airport.

An ultimate happiness: Persuasive

An Ultimate Happines
By : Freddie Ervin

In this world, all people crave happiness in their lives. I observe that people would do everything to become happy in whatever ways they want to. Happiness is a significant aspect in people life. In order to attain ultimate happiness in life, people must learn to be satisfied of what he or she have in his or her life. It means contentment for everybody. There is no envy. Forgiveness also can be form of happiness because there is a peace of mind. If everybody forgive other people, there is no solitary moments that will occur in life. I think happiness takes place anywhere. For me, love is the best happiness I ever have in my entire life. My parents give me unconditional love. I would consider the fact that most people tend to become happy as soon as they reach stability in life. Most people encounter depression or other mental disorder because they couldn't have the happiness they are longing for in their life. They come up being miserable and full of solitary. They have a feeble feelings. As a result, they perpetrate suicide. The three factors that makes people happy are love, money , and health. As I've said earlier , love is significant to people because it brings satisfaction to everyone. Money is another form of happiness because everyone knows that you can buy whatever you dream in this world like house,car, and jewelry. Health is the last form of happiness because you live longer. You can spend more time to people you love. If you are healthy, you don't think of dying early. Ultimate happiness always have correlation with satisfaction.

Where do I stand?

In my everyday life, writing uphold me to make communication possible. People react more on writing than saying words. Writing is a pathway so that an author and a reader forms a powerful connection. I write everything that comes in my mind especially in times of affliction. I feel upset when I perpetrate mistakes in writing. Sometimes I write things that others disagree. For example, regarding issues on our society. I love to write things that enlighten other people. There is an alteration of the way of living. Upon writing words, I usually encourage other people to pay attention to the messages that I am trying to transmit. I observe that that when I write I am trying to express my inner self. I think I should write more so that other people would realize how writing becomes more significant.

Summary of discussion

I)
A) Essay- is a piece of writing, usually from an author's personal point of view. Essays are non-fictional but often subjective; while expository, they can also include narrative. Essays can be literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author.
The writing process composed of:
1. Planning - a list, summary, or outline of the items to be included in something such as a piece of writing.
2. Drafting - A piece of writing that is literary composition devoted to the presentation of the writer's own idea.
3. Revising - give updated version of something: to change a previous estimate in order to make it more accurate or realistic.
4. Editing and Profreading - prepare text for publication: to prepare a text for publication by correcting errors and ensuring clarity and accuracy.
5. Essay checklist - is the list of things to be done in writing an essay.

B) Clustering - is a form of brainstorming which connects one idea to another.
A) Personal narrative - is a short composition which deals with a subject drawn directly to the writer's life.
(*) Anecdote- A short personal account of an incident or event.
B) Personal reflection - is all about the reminiscence of the experiences written in the past which brought significant detail to the writer.
C) Personal description - process of describing: the process of giving an account or explanation of something in the essay.
D) Analytical Writing - Uses reasoning to come up with a new idea of writing. (Ethos, pathos, philo).
E) Cause and Effect Essay - is an essay that uses reasoning for certain action or interpretation why a certain occurences result that way.
F) Comparison and contrast - A form of essay that determines the differences of each other.
G) Classification essay - is an essay that have certain variety of of thought or interpretation.
H) Process writing - is a step - by - step guidelines of writing a story in oder to develop a well organize thought.
I) Definition - is an essay that composed of meaning : A brief precise statement of what a word or expression means.

III) Persuasive essay - is a short composition that intend to sway readers to the writing point of view.
A) Argument - A reason put forward in support of or in opposition to a point of view.
B) Insights - perceptiveness: the ability to see clearly and intuitively into the nature of a complex person, situation, or subjectin a writing .
C) Misusing language - is a fallacious argument which uses illogical thought.
D) Obfuscation - make something obscure: to make something obscure or unclear, especially by making it unnecessarily complicated through writing.
E) Ambiguity - doubt about meaning: a situation in which something can be understood in more than one way and it is not clear which meaning is intended.
F) Slanted language - is something that is not appropriate in writing an article.