...failing. In the novel, The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls didn’t want a part in this, she had the mindset of no other. She wanted to explore, take risks, and accomplish something extraordinary. She managed to live an exciting and adventurous life where she was able to make her own choices. It didn’t matter to her that she would fail. It mattered that she was able to choose her decisions for herself and not having other people do it for her. She was bullied, pushed to the brink, but still she never gave up on living an adventurous...
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...People have said, “The hard way ends is in the easy way.” Throughout The Glass Castle, written by Jeannette Walls, Rex the father does not follow this advice. He is a caring yet neglectful father. He is a smart man that could have gone far in life but chose to be lazy and get in fights for the people he works for. Rex ended up becoming an alcoholic father and starting to be absent with his family because of it. He would never make the right decisions and ended up having him or his family pay for it. In this memoir, readers see that Rex Walls unrealistic dreamer that changes from a thoughtful, more caring father to being a selfish and absent one. In the memoir readers notice that Rex is a unrealistic dreamer. Rex really wants to build this big dream house called the Glass Castle. “He was telling us all the wondrous things he was going to do”. “ Like build the glass castle”(Walls, 25). This quote shows that Rex has dreams like...
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...The Glass Castle: Resilience “The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.” –Robert Jordan This quote demonstrates how, in human culture, we must be flexible to change and hardship considering, rather, embracing its certain unavoidability. As a living organism, one is bound to the natural tendency to make mistakes; consequently, one is susceptible to the associated consequence of his/her actions. Concerning the above quote by author Robert Jordan, the previous statement describes the oak tree, such that the inability to adapt to the situation presented before oneself may cause such an internal conflict of resilience that he/she fails to persevere in solving the problem at hand. Supporting...
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...The Glass Castle is a book by Jeanette Walls that details her life and family as she grows up. Jeannette Walls has some interesting characters in the book but the most compelling out of them all is her mother, Rose Mary. She is married to Rex, Jeanette’s father, and is a self described artist who is qualified to be a teacher. Also, she is a free spirit woman like her husband and very optimistic. Rose Mary is intriguing because of how she deals with problems, her mentality, and how she is as a parent. Not much is said in the story about Rose Mary’s past or mental illness, which contributes to much curiosity and theories surrounding her. It does not take a genius to see that Rose Mary has not mentally matured. Not much is revealed about her...
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...coaches and teachers. When I first started on the swim team, I wasn't nearly as skilled as I am now. These improvements were made because of the struggles I faced over time, as well as the feedback that I was given. This also works with grades, as success without failure would result in no change and no further effort to do better. A player who wins every game, would be considered the best, therefore their strategies and skills would remain the same while their interest would decrease. When you face challenges in sports, you motivate yourself to play better and work towards having better opportunities to show off your athletic abilities. Without having setbacks, whether in a recreational or academic setting, you would never be pushed to continue to work hard in life. Facing adversity is what gives someone their traits such as patience, perseverance, and bravery. Adversity is what causes a person to show their true strengths and weaknesses, which may not have been evident prior to the setbacks. Society as a whole faces setbacks and faces adversity which forces us to come up with solutions and better our ways in order to better our lifestyles. In an academic setting, students are shown both sides of success and failure, which helps build a stronger, more perseverant character. When you score low on a test, you learn what you did right and what you did wrong. This helps us in the future because you learn from your mistakes and acknowledge your strengths as you continue to go through...
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...Regarding the Walls Family Children Every child deserves a warm and caring family. These days, many children are left in abused and neglected families that affect their life afterwards. I believe it is the duty of Child Protective Services to give children the best environment in which to succeed and grow, to evaluate the situation and develop plan for the family while their parents demonstrate that they love their children, their shortcomings as parents outweigh their good intentions. In Jeannette Wall’s memoir The Glass Castle, she talks about her childhood and life, her parents Rex and Mary Walls, her two sisters, Lori and Maureen, and her brother Brian. According to her memoir, Walls family is very different from others families. They are free spirited; moving from town to town, experiencing exciting adventures, using different approaches of teaching their kids, while looking for help from others despite their rough life. The Walls family presents a difficult challenge to me, as the family dynamic is such that a case can be made both for and against the removal of the children from the parents' custody, but Rex and Rose Mary Walls have subjected their children to a host of questionable situations as they have moved about the country in a transitory lifestyle that I cannot consider permissible for the development of healthy children. As an agent of CPS I cannot in good conscience recommend that Lori, Jeanette, Brian, and Maureen Walls remain in the custody of their parents...
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... Drake, and Rachel Gillet. "Science Says Parents of Successful Kids Have These 9 Things in Common." Business Insider. Business Insider, Inc, 28 July 2015. Web. 26 Oct. 2015. Business Insider’s article by Drake Baer and Rachel Gillet begins with stating that parents who raise successful children have nine traits in common; it then discusses the nine common traits that the parents possess; and it ends with explaining the mindsets that parents create for their children. In the article, most of the qualities that the parents of successful children possess value effort over failure. Some of the qualities that were mentioned include, developing a relationship with their children, having a higher socioeconomic status, and teaching their children social and arithmetic skills. I didn’t agree with all of the traits that the article presented such as having a higher socioeconomic status. The author of The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls, is a perfect example of how this quality doesn’t define success. One-fifth of American children grow up in poverty. Jeannette happened to be a victim of this; however, it’s proven that she is a very successful author and has a family of her own. I also think that in the memoir, the members of the family all have a different view of success. When Rex Walls lets the children each pick out a star, it reveals that he doesn’t value material things instead he values the beauty of nature. Therefore, I agree with the article in some ways but I also think people...
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...the person suffering but the immediate family of the alcoholic. “Alcoholism and drug addiction affects the whole family- young, teenage, or grown-up children; wives or husbands; brothers or sister; parents or other relatives and friends.” ("Family Disease"). In the memoir, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, her siblings and mother’s daily lives, health, and personalities were greatly affected by Jeanette's father, Rex Walls alcoholism. Some specific effects of alcoholism on families are conflict between spouses, infidelity, domestic violence, economic hardships, isolation or divorce, jealousy...
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...Senna and The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls share the same similarities in their life stories: a bad childhood within an alcoholic father. However, these two writers are separated from each other about their feeling toward their family: Senna has child anger to her broken family while Walls has forgiven her careless parents. This anger leads Senna to write this book that she explored her father’s past within her self-discovery. However, Walls writes about her past by telling about her memories of childhood without seeking self-exploration; instead she shows how forgiveness played an important role in her relationship with her parents. Senna’s was a daughter of bi-racial couple who has very different backgrounds. Her parents divorced when she was a young child. Her troubled past drives her to investigate both sides of her family, particularly her paternal line. She says, “I thought of what was not there, the other half of me, my father’s side, which I knew nothing about” (13). Her father’s background is multiracial and filled with oral stories with unanswered questions. Because of this, she was challenged to discover her father’s origins and to see what they were all about so she would be able to discover her own identity within his lineage. In fact, it was a self-discovery for her with convoluted past that was filled with pain and gaping holes that illuminates her own childhood. Through this process she aims to understand her difficult father, failure marriage of their...
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...In Aesop’s fable, “The Wolf and the Lamb,” the moral of the story asks the reader to examine the desire for an object—and how we justify our behavior if we cannot obtain that object. This moral is graphically presented through the repeated use of key words to describe the fox’s repeated failure to get what he wants. The fox’s first attempt is foiled as he “just missed” the grapes (35). He attempts “again and again”, running and jumping repeatedly, but has “no greater success” (35). He then becomes disgusted and walks away. These successive descriptions of his failure build to his disdainful comment that the grapes are probably sour (35). The repeated demonstration of fox’s failures and his self-rationalization of why is he walking away—not that he has failed but because he has decided that the grapes are sour and he does not want them anyway—cleverly portrays the moral of the fable: if you can’t get it, blame something else, not yourself. It therefore asks the readers to Aesop’s Fables 3 of 93 The Wolf and the Lamb Once upon a time a Wolf was lapping at a spring on a hillside, when, looking up, what should he see but a Lamb just beginning to drink a little lower down. ‘There’s my supper,’ thought he, ‘if only I can find some excuse to seize it.’ Then he called out to the Lamb, ‘How dare you muddle the water from which I am drinking?’ ‘Nay, master, nay,’ said Lambikin; ‘if the water be muddy up there, I cannot be the cause of it, for it runs down from you to me.’ ‘Well...
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...1. The challenges is when manages the whole company. It is depends how you manage something to make it done by my skill. The challenges is how I can get or to attract the customers come to our restaurant because we have to do a lot of job during implementation our duty. How to overcome it is we must generate our own idea, some promotion through internet and internet connect must strong to make the online promotion progress well. Besides, use the what app, using telephone, and facebook to tell the people about the company. In addition we must go outside to get somebody and pass out and go to the surrounding hotel before the people know your restaurant. We must do something step by step in order to attract people come. Some advertising will do step by step. We must know how to deliver the food and drink fast , if not the customers will complain. To maintain the quality of the services we need to do that is some good services. The condition of the kitchen, floor, surrounding must be clean and safe because if not every customers will complain and tell others talk by talk fast than email. Besides that, we have to keep focus in duty. The world is big and life is short. You can’t know or do everything. In our career as in life, we need to focus, and to focus on the right things. Focus on the activities that will propel your career in the direction you want to take it. Don’t let the urgent crowd out the important. Learn to say no to make time for yes. Simplify, prioritize, delegate...
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...University of Phoenix Material Literary Conventions and Devices Worksheet Names of Team Members:___Deborah Brown :Yolanda Powell; Joan Skeeter; Florence Ames; Amy Kennedy; Date: 12 Sept 2011 Each Learning Team should select two works of drama from the assigned readings for this assignment. All team members should contribute to filling out the tables and answering the questions for each play. Teams should be prepared to discuss their responses in class. |Literary Conventions and Devices Table | |Play #1 | |Title of the work |Significance of Title | |The Tragedy of Hamlet, |These plays were more over a small “history” of the main character and for this reason Shakespeare named all of | |Prince of Denmark |his great tragedies after his protagonist. | | | | |Identify |Describe |Explain Impact | |Major characters ...
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...also brought darkness in the form of a serial killer in a murder castle. An event meant for pride for Chicago, instead, brought shame upon the police for incompetence. Larson uses juxtaposition, appeal to the reader’s emotions, and the structure of the book to convey the drive that pushes an individual to either “engage the impossible” or “manufacture sorrow.” Starting off, Larson leaves a note describing what his book will be about. He explicitly states the main characters :Burnham, the architect, who is a “builder of many of America’s most important structure”, and “the other was a murderer” — Holmes— “the most prolific in and harbinger of an American archetype” Burnham, although being rejected from his top choice schools still pulled through with hard work to be able to reach the level he is at leading up to the world fair. Burnham had severe “test anxiety” and when it was actually time for the examination, he “sat through two or three examinations without being able to write a word”(19). Burnham failed too many times to count. He tried his hand at mining gold “he failed”, he ran for Nevada legislature and “failed again, he sold plate glass “failed”, he became a druggist “quit.” (19). He was never the best at anything, even his partner Root was “a musical prodigy who could sing before he could talk” and “accepted into Oxford” and later “studied engineering at New York University” (20). All of these failures, yet he is still determined to be the best that he can be. He was...
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...Death is a natural part of life, thus it is inevitable that every living creature’s time will eventually come to an end. Comparable to most obstacles we encounter in life, there is not a uniform way to deal with death; therefore, everyone copes with it in differently. Death is not a positive topic; nevertheless, it is a topic that has influenced the work of many authors, artists, and musicians from every era. In my opinion, here is the most memorable author, artist, and musician that’s work has been greatly influenced by the topic of death. Shirley Jackson is an American author that is responsible for writing one of the most well known fictional short stories concerning death, entitled “The Lottery”. The title may be deceiving and seem innocent; however, it is an oxymoron. Instead of the lottery winner joyfully prospering in some way; it actually refers to the selection of a victim for a ritual sacrifice. The story is very dark, as it introduces horror into a peaceful community. It became a very controversial among readers and was even banned by South Africa. Shirley replied to the banning of “The Lottery” by saying that is a sign that they, at least, understood the story. During another interview Jackson jokingly described herself as a practicing witch. Regardless of what motivated her to write, writing was always her passion. At the age of twelve she won her first poetry prize, and throughout high she kept diary where she frequently wrote. She attended Rochester University...
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...Chapter II: literature of the renaissance (End of the 15th - beginning of the 17th century) In the 15th - 16th centuries capitalist relation began to develop in Europe. The former townspeople became the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie fought against feudalism because it held back the development of capitalism. The decay of feudalism and the development of capitalist relation were followed by a great rise in the cultural life of Europe. There was an attempt at creating a new culture which would be free from the limitation of the feudal ideology of the Middle Ages. The epoch was characterized by a thirst for knowledge and discoveries, by a powerful development of individuality. It was then that great geographical discoveries of Columbus, Magellan and other travelers as well as astronomical discoveries of Copernicus, Bruno, Galilei were made. The invention of the printing press (Fyodorov in Russia, Guttenberg in Germany, Caxton in England) contributed to the development of culture in all European countries. Universities stopped being citadels of religious learning and turned into centers of humanist study. There was a revival of interest in the ancient culture of Greece and Rome ("Renaissance" is French for "rebirth"). The study of the works of ancient philosophers, writers, and artists helped the people to widen their outlook, to know the world and man's nature. On the basis of both the ancient culture and the most progressive elements of the culture of the...
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