VINCENT

Monday, April 18, 2011

A day in the life of the Second World War

Dear Diary,
Today was a bad day. We could not hold our position and were pushed back by the Germans. We lost many good men and lost our supplies. Our reinforcements have been delayed and we are running out of options. If this goes on, we may have to surrender or this entire battalion will be killed. I saw Miller get shot right beside me and bleed to death. We could not even try to save him, our medical supplies had completely run out. As the sergeant, I should be leading troops into victory and not be losing all my men for nothing. I am at my wit's end, the troops are demoralised, we are getting pushed back further everyday and we are getting completely overrun. When will all this end? When will help arrive? I need answers but I'm not getting any.

Descriptive paragraph

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Gunfire filled the sky and rang in the ears of the soldiers. They could barely feel it, their ears had already been deafened by previous gunshots. Soldiers took up their positions, firing at the enemy as their comrades fell beside them. They shut out their emotions as their comrades bled to their death, the smell of burning flesh in the air. What used to be a bustling town, lies a barren land with structures of what used to be houses. A soldier flung a grenade from what was formerly a family's save haven.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Exposition Essay (1)

There are many different types of exposition essays, such as Classification and Causal Analysis. I find Process Analysis the easiest as you only need to know what the process is and write down the step-by-step process. Causal Analysis is where you find the cause and effect of something. You need to write what are the causes for that specific thing and what are the effects. Compare and Contrast is, well, what it's name implies, comparing and contrasting. You usually compare two different things or people and see the direct similarities or differences. Classification is where you categorize the content of a certain topic for easier referencing and taking out the irrelevant things. There are a few other types of essays but I will go into them another day.