Stepping through the door of my dorm room, you first see the pillow atop my bed and next to the computer desk. Sitting atop the desk you see a sleek smooth pearly box with a bright screen called an eMac, a superbly crafted machine of the highest caliber, consisting of a main unit and its accessories.

Right across from the main unit is a jumbled heap of objects, such as my Palm, wallet and pens, taken from my pocket and left. On the desk sits the keyboard and mouse, attached by slender white wires to the main unit. These are unimportant for now, except to show the state of existence in which the eMac lives. This is a tower of heaped up items, within which the eMac stands as a representation of perfection, a monolith of beauty. As it is, it sits amongst this ruin as a king left to rule a ruined kingdom that was once a mighty symbol of splendor, like the temples of ancient Greece. Like a loyal, faithful old hound dog, he patiently waits for his master’s instructions, patiently biding his time resting.

My eMac sits patiently, awaiting instructions, the abstract artwork on the background of the desktop changing every few seconds as a sort of hidden screensaver. First a rainbow spectrum of reds and oranges then to a collection of vivid greens and blues then to a surreal crystalline set of colors, it pulses back and forth. It quietly hums along the sound barely noticeable above the background of the room as it sits, processing. The purr of his internal organs is working steadily to digest the latest bits of information, thinking outside the box. The little speakers along the base of the machine emit quiet beeps as it works on one operation or another, and occasionally a mechanical soulless voice speaks through the machine telling you it needs your attention. Yes, he patiently sits waiting for instructions, loyally awaiting instructions.

Directly to the right of the eMac a snarled crow's nest of wires connects the machine to the rest of the world. Winding around and around these wires extend as far right as possible and spill over onto the bed and even up onto the bolster behind the bed. But that still isn’t the full extent of the wiring of this contraption.

Several wires wind up along the side of the bookshelf and go all the way to the left of the unit making another crow's nest of wires further complicating things. The bright screen lights up the entire room filling it with hypnotic, dazzling colors. Across the illuminated screen a scratch in the colors flickers in a brilliant white flash, showing where a defect exists within the crystalline surface.

Within essay 1.1 I used different literary techniques to describe an object within my dorm room. The object within my dorm room that I described was my computer called an eMac. The first technique I used was called show words, instead of tell words, and show words are more descriptive because they illustrate to the reader what you are talking about. A positive example of this is "A tower of heaped up items, in which the eMac stands as a representation of perfection, a monolith of beauty." A negative example of this is, "Directly to the right of the eMac a snarled crows nest of wires connects the machine to the rest of the world." The details in each description differed a lot. The reason for this difference was because one of the descriptions was positive, while the other was more of a negative.

The words I chose to use to describe my computer had either a positive or negative connotation. Different words were chosen to help to understand the implication of the paragraph. An example of a phrase with a positive connotation would be "A superbly crafted machine of the highest caliber, consisting of a main unit and its accessories." A sentence with a negative connotation would have been when I said, "Winding around and around these wires extend as far right as possible and spill over onto the bed and even up onto the bolster behind the bed." To my knowledge I did not use figurative language that often in my essay at all.

In essay 1.1 my sentence structure did not vary often at all in the two separate descriptions. To my knowledge I used the same basic sentence structure in the both descriptions of my computer. I did not use any other way to describe my computer, because at the time I did not think about it. Reflecting on it, perhaps I could use some onomatopoeia, metaphors, similes and even some personification. These could be used to make essay 1.3 even better than 1.2 and 1.1.