essays

篇一：download essays

It’s true that it’s convenient to download essays from Internet for people wanting to get some essential information. However, downloading essays have brought about a discussion about whether it should be legal or not. Of course, every coin has two sides and there is no exception about downloading essays.

Significantly, at first, downloading essays are widely used in education where they play a role of model essays. With the help of them, teachers are easier to teach students how to write essays. What’s more, effectively providing people with lots of information, downloading essays may enlarge people’s horizons.

Though, it’s important to say that it do bad to protecting intellectual property right because some of people would steal the gains of writers, which may impair writer’ enthusiasm to write essays again. Furthermore, it may make students lazier. As we all know, it’s likely that students may only copy the downloading essays as their homework to hand in and cheat their teachers.

Clearly, the advantages of downloading essays, personally I think, weigh its disadvantages. It’s known to all that in China, the creation culture must own one soft and wide circumstance to develop. And there is no doubt that searching and downloading essays from Internet is helpful to build up this circumstance. Therefore, in my eye, downloading essays are needed.

篇二：example essays

Sample 1:

The Gloom Room

October often looks and feels dreary because school is by then in full swing. Today, a rainy Thursday, is no different. What makes it worse is that I am forced to sit in my writing class on the second floor of Boylan Hall at Brooklyn College and write a theme. It is no wonder that a shadow of gloom hangs over the things and the people that surround me in this room

As I look around, I see that the surroundings are old and depressing.] There is a broken brown chair beside the teacher?s desk; no one will sit in it for fear of leaning back and toppling over onto the floor. There is also a mahogany bookcase with a missing shelf, and all the books are piled on the bottom in a stack of blue and yellowed covers, instead of standing in a straight row. This ugly desk of mine is filled with holes and scratches because other impatient students, no doubt, lost their tempers and took out their anger on the wooden surface. As I rub my hand across it, I feel coldness. Even the gray walls and the rumble of thunder outside reflect the atmosphere of seriousness as we write our first theme of the semester. When some air sails through an open window beside me, there is the annoying smell of coffee grounds from a garbage pail not far off. (That smell is a perfect indication of our discomfort?)

Aside from the unattractive surrounding, [the people around me show this mood of tension and displeasure. ] Mary, a slim blonde at my right, chews the inside of her lower lip. I can see by the way her forehead is wrinkled that she is having quite a bit of trouble. Because only one or two words in blue ink stand upon her clean white page, she looks around the room fearfully for some new ideas. Slouching in his seat in the third row, David Harris nibbles each finger of each hand. Then he plays with alack collar button that stands open on the top of his red plaid shirt. The tension gets to him too; drops of perspiration run slowly down his cheeks. I hear a thump as he uncrosses his legs and his scuffed shoe hits the floor. A painful cough slices the air from behind me. I hear a woman?s heels click from the hall beyond the closed door and a car engine whine annoyingly from Bedford Avenue. All these signs of gloom do not help my mood at all.

These last few painful moments make me wonder if what my friends told me about college was all true. Where are all the beautiful girls I?m supposed to be meeting and talking to in every room? Where are the freedom and relaxed atmosphere my friends bragged about? I?m supposed to be enjoying myself instead of suffering! Everybody seems to have forgotten that college is hard work too. My first day in writing class proves that delight and pleasure often disappear when assignments are due!

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examples? Do you think they are helpful in cohesion of the paragraph?

Sample 2:

Changing What We Can

Many situations are out of our control, yet we can make ourselves sick feeling angry or frustrated about them. Sometimes we can achieve peace of mind by simply changing our attitude.

For instance, Fred used to waste hours of his life being angry at this city?s train system. He must rely on the trains to get to work and to school each day. The trains are rarely on time, and when they finally do arrive, they creep along the track, stopping for five or ten minutes at every station before they begin creeping again. They are physically uncomfortable besides----freezing on cold days and sweltering on hot days. Fred used to get so angry at the train system every morning that his whole day would be ruined

When Fred finally admitted that the train system was creating a serious problem in his life, he thought long and hard about how to solve it. He decided he would have to change his attitude. He stopped expecting the trains to come on time and started expecting the opposite. He stopped thinking how unfair it was that the trains were slow, cold, or hot and started assuming that they would always be late, always uncomfortable. These were simply the facts.

Fred?s changed attitude transformed the situation. It did not solve the train?s lateness or slowness, but it did solve the problem of his pointless anger.

Sample 3:

Learning from Failure

By Tojy Mandapam

When failure knocks you down, will you have the guts to get up and get going? Or will you give up? Achieving success can be difficult. At times, distractions, delays and defeats discourage everyone. Giving up seems better than going on. But the principle of rising after each fall to try again applies to all struggles.

History informs us that stories of success are also stories of great failures. Take

the young Winston Churchill as an example. He did not exhibit signs of greatness as a child. He hated mathematics and, at Ascot School, he had to be frequently caned by the principal. When he changed his school to Brighton, his reputation as a dunce followed him. The story goes that the ladies running the school were so relieved when Churchill left that they declared a half-holiday. At Harrow, he failed the entrance examination. He also failed the entrance test to Sandhurst Military College twice and scraped through on the third attempt. He was undeterred by these failures and went on to become the greatest Prime Minister England ever had.

At school, Albert Einstein was so dull that he was called "Dull Albert". His teacher described him as "mentally slow, unsociable and adrift forever in his foolish dreams." He did not even pass the entrance examination to get into Zurich Polytechnic School. Only in the fourth attempt did he make the grade. Today Einstein is regarded as the architect of the Nuclear Age.

Charles Darwin, father of the Theory of Evolution, was voted the "dullest boy of the year". He had to give up a medical career and his father told him, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs and rat catching." In his autobiography, Darwin wrote, "I was considered by all my masters and by my father, a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard in intellect." And yet every student knows about Darwin today. The greatest novelist of the 19th Century, Sir Walter Scott, was given the title of "king of blockheads" and was made to wear a dunce cap for a whole month. Yet this man rose up in life to write the classic, Ivanhoe. His poems are a class apart.

Have you heard of Lord Keynes? When at school he failed so many times in one subject that the principal had to send for his parents. And what subject did he fail in? Economics. Virtually every year in college, he got the lowest marks in economics. Yet he is now considered as the father of modern economic theories.

These men were like any other students. The only difference was that every time they failed, they bounced back. This is called failing forward, rather than backward. You learn and move forward. Ask yourself after every failure: what did I learn form this experience? Learn from your failure and keep going.

Some things take a lot of time. Staying on course can keep you focused on what

you need to do. Like Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Walter Scott and Lord Keynes, you may have to persevere in the face of almost inevitable defeat. You must remember that your goals should be moral and reasonable. But if your goals are both, then stay on course. Don?t quit. A second effort or a third or a fourth pays off.

1. How many examples does the writer use to develop the thesis statement?

2. What specific examples does the writer give to support the general statement?

History informs us that stories of success are also stories of great failures. Take the young Winston Churchill as an example. He did not exhibit signs of greatness as a child. At Harrow, he failed the entrance examination. He also failed the entrance test to Sandhurst Military College twice and scraped through on the third attempt. He was undeterred by these failures and went on to become the greatest Prime Minister England ever had. At school, Albert Einstein was so dull that he was called "Dull Albert". He did not even pass the entrance examination to get into Zurich Polytechnic School. Only

in the fourth attempt did he make the grade. Today Einstein is regarded as the architect of the Nuclear Age. Have you heard of Lord Keynes? When at school he failed so many times in one subject that the principal had to send for his parents. And what subject did he fail in? Economics. Virtually every year in college, he got the lowest marks in economics. Yet he is now considered as the father of modern economic theories. These men were like any other students. The only difference was that every time they failed, they bounced back, learned from their failure and move forward. Like Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, and Lord Keynes, you may have to persevere in the face of almost inevitable defeat. Don?t quit.

A second effort or a third or a fourth pays off.

Sample 4:

Familiarity Breeds Boredom

The US Fortune magazine once posed to its reader such a question in a questionnaire: “If you were to choose again, what would you like to be?” “I?d like to run a grocery store in the countryside,” a high-ranking official in the military responded. “My dream,” said a woman minister, “is to go down to the beach of Costa Rica and open a small inn.” A mayor indicated that his desire is to start afresh as a photographer. The Minister of Labor preferred to become the manager of a beverage company. The answers from several businessmen, however, were by far the most bizarre. One wanted to become a woman; another wanted to be a dog; one even indicated his wish to withdraw from the human world and simply transform into a plant. People in other trades answered the same question in various ways. Some wished to run for President. Others wanted to be diplomats, and still others cherished the idea of working in a bakery. Whatever they set their mind on, none was willing to remain what they are should new choice arise.

People are forever in a dilemma. They live a fairly good life, and their circumstance are as good as can be, but from time to time they grow tired of all this. One can hardly attribute this to mentality, arising from life?s monotony and lake of passion, to insatiability on the part of humans.

I used to envy a married couple who lived in a forest, where groves of fir trees and bamboos flourished, with quite and secluded cobble stone paths meandering through the woods, birds chirping beautifully and flowers permeating fragrance. Yet when they realized that they had unwittingly become an object of admiration owing to the unique location of their house, they were truly perplexed. In their eyes, there was little in the forest which deserved to be seen or made such a fuss about when compared to the fun and abundant life a metropolis can provide!

That experience told me that when one becomes too familiar with something, one stops enjoying it. The couple had long been used to everything within their sight---the trees and the flowers, breeze and the moon--- that those were no longer regarded as natural wonders but simply a constituent of their unvarying life.

During a life's journey, the worst thing that can happen to a person is perhaps not poverty nor misfortune, but an unutterable, nagging sense of languor. What may have moved him so much, no longer does. What he once found so charming has lost its charm. Even things that infuriated him so much fail to make a single stir in his heart! Such being the case, the person truly needs to go elsewhere to look for different scenery.

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篇三：English essays

1 .Are we too dependent on computers?

Nowadays computers have become an important part in our daily life: we contact with our friends through the QQ, we write many essays by clicking the keyboard, sometimes we also use the computers to do business......computers have changed our life in many aspects. However, here comes the problem: are we too dependent on computers?

It is astonishing to find that lots of people always make many mistakes in writing with a pen, some of them even lost their inspiration because they have got used to copying essays from the computers. There is no doubt that computers have done great contribution to improving our quality of life, but we can never neglect the importance of maintaining our initial ability to do things with our own head. One day computers would be ubiquitous in every where, but if we become too dependent on them, we would suffer a lot. Imagine that in a case when you are required to write a paper with your pen, but you found yourself cannot remember the correct spelling of several words, or you are not capable to get your own ideas without searching information from a computer,that would draw you into anxiety.

We are all too dependent on computers nowadays, t his is not a good thing which may add to our indolence and laziness. So now that we have already realized that, it is time for us to do something to change it.

2 what makes a fine student

Whenever we talk about fine students, we will usually attach some qualities to them: they should be diligent, polite to others, get high marks in their studies, etc. In fact, all of us want yo know what kind of quality that makes a fine student. Nowadays, our standard for a fine student have already changed.

In the past, students who just do well in their studies can be called fine students because it seems that they have done something remarkable that not everybody can. However, with the development of the time, our society have stepped into a new period which requires more and more from everyone, thus a fine student must improve themselves in all aspects.

In my opinion, as a student, learning is our first duty, so a fine student should first do a good job in his study which would require him to be responsible and diligent. The reason why I emphasize the importance of the sense of

responsibility is because I think nobody can get rid of it, only if we hold a sense of responsibility, can we get to know what to do and how to care about people beside you.

Speaking of diligence, there is no doubt that a fine student should be

diligent even if his IQ is more than 100 because we stress more on a student's attitude than his cleverness. What's more, students who are diligent can always persistently stick to their goals and they will finally make great progress and succeed.

So I think the sense of responsibility and diligence is that what makes a fine student, as a responsible student, he wouldn't neglect the importance of his study and the development of himself ; with diligence, he wouldn't miss the chance to get improved in his study, so he can finally be a successful man.

3 Why should we attach importance to both theory and practise? Why should we attach importance to both theory and practise? It is really a worthy problem for us all to think of. In human society, we have accumulated

abundant experience from various of activities. Later, we learn to systematic those experience and then summarize it into theory.

Theory is based on practise. Human beings have gone through a long period of history. We first konw how to get fire through trying, we developed a series experience from all kinds of attempts, and these practise became the origin of the theory. Without practise, the theory is just like a tree without roots, which can never exist stably for a long time. That is to say, practise is the source of theory and provide it with vitality.

Theory, in turn, serves practise. Theory influence our mind, its existence affect our knowledge to the world, ideas of the life, and the senses of values, It gradually becomes the guide of our behavior. Evidently.

the correct theory always lead us to step forward yet the wrong theory can mislead us. In other words, we should put it to an important place that we need develop correct theory to conduct our practice.

篇四：一篇关于downloading essays 的英语作文

Nowadays, downloading essays are more and more popular and acceptable among students. From my perspective, downloading essay is like a double edged sword, there are both advantages and disadvantages.

I think the foremost advantage of downloading essay is that it provides initial learners with a masterplate. Then they could conclude the writing skills by skimming plenty of downloading essays. In addition, downloading essays could broaden students’ horizons, after all essays online contain a lot of knowledge.

On the other hand, skimming too many essays online would stifle students’

creativity, they would dependent on it. As time passes, students cannot write essays by themselves. What’s more, downloading essays are not always worth learning, sometimes you will encounter some low-grade essays.

In a word, the advantages and disadvantages of downloading essays exists

together. Then whether the downloading essays will be helpful or the disadvantages exceed advantages, it depends on we how to use it. We should carry forward the strengths and cover the shortages at the same time. Only in this way can we maximum the value of downloading essays.

篇五：Essays 2

Essays 2

Love Your Life

Henry David Thoreau

However mean your life is,meet it and live it;do not shun it and call it hard names.It is not so bad as you are.It looks poorest when you are richest.The fault-finder will find faults in paradise.Love your life,poor as it is.You may perhaps have some pleasant,thrilling,glorious hours,even in a poor-house.The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode;the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there,and have as cheering thoughts,as in a palace.The town's poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any.May be they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving.Most think that they are above being supported by the town;but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which should be more disreputable.Cultivate poverty like a garden herb,like sage.Do not trouble yourself much to get new things,whether clothes or friends,turn the old,return to them.Things do not change;we change.Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Hour in the Sun

“…I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days.”----- Henry David Thoreau.

When Thoreau wrote that line, he was thinking of the Walden. Pond he knew as a boy.

Woodchoppers and the Iron Horse had not yet greatly damaged the beauty of its setting. A boy could go to the pond and lie on his back against the seat of a boat, lazily drifting from shore to shore while the loons dived and the swallows dipped around him. Thoreau loved to recall such sunny hours and summer days “when idleness was the most attractive and productive business.”

I too was a boy in love with a pond, rich in sunny hours and summer days. Sun and summer are still what they always were, but the boy and the pond changed. The boy, who is now a man, no longer find much time for idle drifting. The pond has been annexed by a great city. The swamps where herons once hunted are now drained and filled with houses. The bay where water lilies quietly floated is now a harbor for motor boats. In short, everything that the boy loved no longer exists----except in the man’s memory of it.

Some people insist that only today and tomorrow matter. But how much poorer we would be if we really lived by that rule! So much of what we do today is frivolous and futile and soon forgotten. So much

of what we hope to do tomorrow never happens.

The past is the bank in which we store our most valuable possession: the memories that give meaning and depth to our lives. Those who truly treasure the past will not bemoan the passing of the good old days, because days enshrined in memory are never lost. Death itself is powerless to still a remembered voice or erase a remembered smile. And for one boy who is now a man, there is a pond which neither time nor tide can change, where he can still spend a quite hour in the sun.

The Happy Door

Happiness is like a pebble dropped into a pool to set in motion an ever-widening circle of ripples. As Stevenson has said, "Being happy is a duty."

There is no exact definition of the word happiness. Happy people are happy for all sorts of reasons. The key is not wealth or physical well-being, since we find beggars, invalids and so-called failures who are extremely happy.

Being happy is a sort of unexpected dividend. But staying happy is an accomplishment, a triumph of soul and character. It is not selfish to strive for it. It is, indeed, a duty to ourselves and others.

Being unhappy is like an infectious disease. It causes people to shrink away from the sufferer. He soon finds himself alone, miserable and embittered. There is, however, a cure so simple as to seem, at first glance, ridiculous: if you don’t feel happy, pretend to be!

It works. Before long you will find that instead of repelling people, you attract them. You discover how deeply rewarding it is to be the center of a wider and wider circles of good will.

Then the make-believe becomes a reality. You possess the secret peace of mind, and can forget yourself in being of service to others.

Being happy, once it is realized as a duty and established as a habit, opens doors into unimaginable gardens thronged with grateful friends.

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