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While "I Shot My Brother" examined growth and transformation through familial relationships and the effects of jealousy on one's actions. "Food" strictly focused on the accomplishment of the writer, the fortitude it took to change their eating habits and the leadership roles they have now taken up.

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Both essays started with childhood memories and recollections and built off of that to describe themselves as a person

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A Study in Ambidexterity had a pretty casual ton, but it was also very straight to the point, in a light way. The Blue Armchair used a lot elaborate comparisons and imagery, that made the story more visual and rich.

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In A Study of Ambidexterity, the writer mainly just talked about themself and their own quality shaped who they are while the writer for The Blue Armchair talked about how her world and external factors shaped who she is.

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they both have a main symbol that ties the theme and purpose of the essay together. for the first essay, it was his ambidexterity that lead him to explain his wide range of skills and easily adaptable personality. For the second essay the writer used her parent's bookstore, and specifically the blue armchair in the bookstore to get her main point across of growing up around her parent's business and self-growth and discovery.

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I read A Study in Ambidexterity and The Blue Armchair. I would say the main topics for them would be balance and versatility, while the main theme for the second essay would be self-discovery and gaining awareness for one's self and their world

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I read one which mentioned their entire family and went into great detail about those relationships, while another mentioned no one but themself

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Both ended with the person reaching some new understanding

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Both ended with the person reaching some new understanding

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quite eye-catching

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"Burying Grandma" & "figuring out what really mattered challenge"

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"Burying Grandma" & "figuring out what really mattered challenge"

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I read a a more scientific essay on the JHU site and a "literary" one on the essayguy. One used a more logical and straightforward tone to get to the point, and the other jumped around with metaphors and figurative ideas.

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I read a a more scientific essay on the JHU site and a "literary" one on the essayguy. One used a more logical and straightforward tone to get to the point, and the other jumped around with metaphors and figurative ideas.

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Both essays told very vivid stories from the writers perspective about a past experience. "Dead Bird" suddenly switched topics and to share a completely different story that had an underlying connection to the original story.

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long

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they talked about how they became them and why. Also what triggered their push to greatness

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They both ended with a moment of growth.

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The essay "Fried Rice in One (not so easy) step", used humor and real life experiences to help the readers get to know the applicant, and I think this was really effective.

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"Musical Movement" was just the author talking passionately about how they would combine their interests into a product that interested them (that also sounded pretty cool to me)

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I wound up reading a ton of essays, but I thought the structure of "20 Questions" was particularly interesting. Following the essay's focus on the game 20 Questions, there was a yes or no question before (and separate from) each paragraph to introduce the next bit of information about the student.

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"Threatened By Isis"  was more of a suspenseful our tragic story.

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The two are different in how they are structured and how the tone kind of sounded.

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"I Shot My Brother" story sounds like a secret. The student even mentioned that he wasn't going to say anything until the essay.

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"I Shot My Brother" vs "Threatened By Isis"

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"I Shot My Brother" vs "Threatened By Isis"

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Both stories were structured similarly but more different. One was just paragraph after paragraph, while the other had quotes and dialogue.

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The two essays are similar in the way that they are both something that someone wouldn't tell anyone right off the bat. These were very personal and possibly secret stories.