...The book The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls tells the story of Jeannette and her family. Jeannette certainly did not have the easiest life growing up, but she may have had one of the most interesting. I enjoyed the book because the experiences that Jeanette and her family went through make for a very exciting read. These experiences are out of the ordinary and don't represent how a typical American family would live. Jeannette was born into a rather peculiar family. She had a mother and father, and two older siblings, but the way that the family lived made them peculiar. Her parents were not the most cautious of her well being. They believed that their kids should be able to take care of themselves, and that too much parental intervention would lead kids into becoming too dependent. This said, one can imagine how the kids lived. Jeanette and her siblings were constantly in dangerous situations since supervision was limited. Walls even writes that her first memory is being on fire (9). She was making hot dogs over a stove and caught herself on fire. Her mother thought that it was a good idea to let her three year old daughter cook hotdogs over an open fire. She was alright other than a few burns and was hospitalized. Six weeks into her hospitalization her father comes to "check out, Rex Walls-style". He picks her up out of her bed and runs out of the hospital (14). Anecdotes like these are frequent in The Glass Castle. They are not all as tragic as this, but they are all very...
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...The Glass Castle journal #4 4.15.17 The next discussion I am going to talk about is from pages one hundred and twenty-two to pages two hundred and twenty-five. The characters discussed in the section include Erma (grandmother), Ted (grandpa), Stanley (uncle), Dinitia Hewitt, Ginnie Sue Pastor, Kathy Pastor, Ernie Goad, and Chuck Yeager. The family arrives in Welch, West Virginia and meet their Grandmother, Erma, their grandpa, Ted, and their uncle Stanley. Jean and her siblings are enrolled at the new school and since they can not understand the accent from the principal, they are put in the learning disability classes. In the beginning of the year she is beat up everyday by Dinitia Hewitt, an african american girl, and her gang because...
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...In The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls Is embarrassed of the way her mother acts. Walls argues that despite this humiliating act, her mother deserves respect. This essay will examine whether Jeannette Walls succeeded in persuading the reader to not judge unique people. One way an author affects his or her audience is through their carefully selected choice of diction. Walls uses formal (elevated) phrases such as “I was overcome with panic” this helps persuade to not judge unique people,because she sounds smart and smart people are trusted. Another tactic authors deploy in their writing is a varied use of syntax. Whenever Walls wants to emphasize a main idea,She uses a long sentence such as,To the people walking by she probably looked like any...
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...A biography is a story written about somebody’s life. Biographies can be memoirs, autobiographies, and biographies written by someone else. Biographies are written for countless reasons and can be thematic, religious, narrative, historical, and intellectual. The Glass Castle is an example of a memoir. Jeannette Walls, the author of the book, writes about some of her early memories with her family. By the end, she states that her mother tells her the reason she never talks about her upbringing is because she is ashamed. The Glass Castle was a memoir written for the reason of sharing her story publicly after realizing she had been hiding the truth. Memoirs can be written for numerous reasons. Authors of memoirs can write them because they feel...
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...I am currently reading The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls. I believe that the author chose this title because it had some sort of significance to her. This reason could be something simple to see, or something much deeper. When the author was young, her father said that he would build the family a castle made of glass. “When dad wasn’t telling us about all the amazing things he had already done, he was telling us about all wondrous things he was going to do. Like build the Glass Castle.” (pg.25) As a girl, she constantly looked forward to the day she would finally live in the castle. Her father had already made the blueprints and carried them on his person wherever he went. “Dad had worked out the architecture and the floor plans...
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...been offered for the consideration of the board and a detailed plan for implementation has attached. We will be looking forward to discuss the plan after you had reviewed our proposal. As always, please do not hesitate to call us or drop us an email if you have any enquiries or if we can be of further assistance. Thank you for your time and attention. Sincerely, Syndicate Group 1, Tutorial 10 – 11, Tuesday. Table of Contents Description | Pages | 1.0 Executive Summary | 4 | 2.0 Introduction 3.1 Background | 55 | 3.0 Investment Ideas 3.1 Eagle Nest Resorts & Spa in South East Asia 3.2 Aurora Resort in Iceland with spa 3.3 Castle by Eagle Nest with wine yard | 6789 | 4.0 Cost and Benefits 4.1 Cost/Income Statements | 1011-12 | 5.0 Recommended Idea | 13 | 6.0 Project Plan 6.1 Financial Evaluation 6.2 Timescales | 141515 | 7.0 Conclusion | 16 | 1.0 Executive Summary This proposal provides suggestions of investment ideas with details that fit within the given budget to create a sustained and long term growth for Eagle Nest Hotel Inc. The purpose of this proposal is to: * Create long...
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...The Glass Castle is a memoir written by Jeannette Walls. The book illustrates her struggle through life and how her hardships shaped her into the person she is now. Jeanette is the second out of four children, she has an older sister, Lori, a younger brother, Brian, and a younger sister Maureen. The family is very dysfunctional, they are always doing the skedaddle and living in very poor conditions. They move all around Western America running from their father's mistakes. The way Jeanette's parents raised her, it took her a while to realize that the way she was living was not right, eventually her and Lori came up with a plan to get away from their toxic living conditions. The Glass Castle has three pages in the beginning reserved for praise...
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...Jack and the Beanstalk summary Jack and the beanstalk is the story of a young boy living with his widowed mother in a tiny house. Their only means of small income is a cow. When this cow stops giving milk one morning, Jack is sent to the market to sell it. On the way to the market he meets an old man who offers to give him tiny, little magic beans in exchange for the big, healthy cow. Jack takes the beans but when he arrives home without money, his mother becomes furious and throws the beans out the window and sends Jack to bed without supper. While Jack was sleeping, the bean grows into a gigantic beanstalk. Jack wakes up to behold an enormous beanstalk. He climbs the monumental beanstalk and arrives in a land high up in the sky where he follows a road to a gigantic house, which is the home of a giant. He enters the immense castle and asks the giant's wife for food. She gives him food, but the giant returns and senses that a human is nearby. The giant says he smells the blood of an Englishman and would want to grind his bones to make bread. However, Jack is hidden in a closet by the giant's wife and from there tiny Jack heard the giant sit down at his monstrous table. His wife serves him from a huge bowl and he drank from his very big wine glass. Afterwards, the giant asks for his hen that lays golden eggs. The giant watched as it laid dozens of large admirable golden eggs before he sleeps off snoring. Jack steals the hen which lays big golden eggs. He is almost caught...
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...Beauregarde the gum addict who chew all day Mike Teavee the child who loves TV and guns Grandpa Joe the grandpa of Charlie who accompanies him with his tour SETTING: The story happened on a winter, in a place where everyone loves chocolates and sweets. SUMMARY: (1)The family of Charlie Bucket has seven members -- his father and his mother, his grandparents on both father and mother side, and the young Charlie himself – yet they live in a small house and they are very poor. But despite their status in life, the young Charlie is not asking for anything… Anything else but chocolate… So sad he cannot buy even one for himself when in fact just a short walk from home there stood an enormous chocolate factory. (2)Charlie was curious of the chocolate factory and its owner Willy Wonka so he ask his Grandpa Joe to tell him stories about the factory and its owner. Charlie found out that the factory is the most successful and the biggest in the world and that it has strange stories. (3)Grandpa Joe told Charlie about the story of Willy Wonka and the Indian Prince. He said that the prince ask Mr. Wonka to build a castle out of chocolates. Mr. Wonka did so but he warned the prince that it will not...
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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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...Introduction to Art History – Study Guide and Image List for Final Exam Gothic Architecture in France – the opening of the wall into windows; the use of the rib vault, the flying buttress, stained glass, and increased verticality. The way structure and aesthetics were thought to merge in geometry. The role of Abbot Suger in Saint Denis and the beginning of the Gothic style. The symbolism of light. Renaissance Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture – Re-birth of classical culture; the continued development of naturalistic techniques, especially perspective; the High Renaissance achievement of Leonardo da Vinci, followed by Michelangelo and Raphael. Baroque – A continuation of the Grand Manner; in Italy, a naturalism employed for dynamic effect often in support of Counter-Reformation aims, the same bombast is used in support of the French kings and, with more Calvinist sobriety, for the new rulers of Holland where realistic tendencies tended to outweigh the idealistic approaches of the Italians. Rococo a late outgrowth of Baroque. Neo-Classic Painting – In the work of David, an idealizing style associated with the French Revolution, a heroic art looking back to classical ideals and values, and Renaissance like stability and balance of composition. In the work of his followers a less political, even conservative style. Romantic Painting – In the work of Gericault and Delacroix, the use of loose expressive brushstroke, vigorous color and light, and sometimes controversial contemporary...
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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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...Plot Overview A ghost resembling the recently deceased King of Denmark stalks the ramparts of Elsinore, the royal castle. Terrified guardsmen convince a skeptical nobleman, Horatio, to watch with them. When he sees the ghost, he decides they should tell Hamlet, the dead King's son. Hamlet is also the nephew of the present King, Claudius, who not only assumed his dead brother's crown but also married his widow, Gertrude. Claudius seems an able King, easily handling the threat of the Norwegian Prince Fortinbras. But Hamlet is furious about Gertrude's marriage to Claudius. Hamlet meets the ghost, which claims to be the spirit of his father, murdered by Claudius. Hamlet quickly accepts the ghost's command to seek revenge. Yet Hamlet is uncertain if what the ghost said is true. He delays his revenge and begins to act half-mad, contemplate suicide, and becomes furious at all women. The Lord Chamberlain, Polonius, concludes that Hamlet's behavior comes from lovesickness for Ophelia, Polonius's daughter. Claudius and Gertrude summon two of Hamlet's old friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, to find out what's wrong with him. As Polonius develops a plot to spy on a meeting between Hamlet and Ophelia, Hamlet develops a plot of his own: to have a recently arrived troupe of actors put on a play that resembles Claudius's alleged murder of Old Hamlet, and watch Claudius's reaction. Polonius and Claudius spy on the meeting between Ophelia and Hamlet, during which Hamlet flies into a rage against...
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...: 6577 7309 (Park Ops Team Manager) Approved by : Joey Kuo (Park Ops Area Manager) Approval date : 15th January 2011 Offices & Other Information REGISTERED OFFICE IFG International Limited, International House, Castle Hill, Victoria Road, Douglas, Isle of Man, IM2 4RB, British Isles Tel : +441 624 630 600 Fax : +441 624 624 469 REGISTERED OFFICE International House, Castle Hill, Victoria Road, Douglas, Isle of Man, IM2 4RB, British Isles Tel : +441 624 630 600 Fax : +441 624 624 469 HEAD OFFICE AND SINGAPORE BRANCH 10 Sentosa Gateway, Resorts World Sentosa, Singapore 098270 Tel : +65 6577 8888 Fax : +65 6577 8890 REGISTRARS AND TRANSFER OFFICE IFG International (Registrars) Limited International House, Castle Hill, Victoria Road, Douglas, Isle of Man, IM2 4RB, British Isles Tel : +441 624 630 600 Fax : +441 624 624 469 SINGAPORE TRANSFER AGENT M & C Services Private Limited 138 Robinson Road, #17-00, The Coporate Office Singapore 068906 Tel : +65 6228 6660 Fax : +65 6225 1452 Company Summary Resort World Sentosa Private Limited is the leisure and gaming company that owns and operates Singapore’s biggest Integrated Resort, a 49-hectare development called Resorts World Sentosa. The mega resort is located on Singapore’s holiday island of Sentosa. The S$6.59 billion must-see destination welcomed its first visitors at...
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...The Glass Castle has been a great memoir to allow readers to make sense of what Jeannette Walls had gone through as little girl on the many journeys with her family and with herself. It addresses the many social issues such as: neglect, sexual abuse, homelessness, unsanitary conditions, and alcohol abuse. In this memoir we are able to see a glimpse of how Rex and Rosemary Walls choose to educate their children to see the better side of their daily hardships. To show that no matter what nature throws at us we can handle it. Rex and Rosemary Walls may not have been the best parents however they were able to turn their children into well-educated adults. They were able to accomplish this by ensuring them that they loved them and would never fail them. Also by finding creative ways to teach them important life lessons. Like to learn how to face your fears and what doesn’t kill you will make you stronger. Although many people would not necessarily agree with the manner these parents educated their children we can certainly accept the fact that most of the children gained exceptional values that otherwise may have not been learned. The positive effects of the Walls parents parenting skills were; their children learned important values, they learned what it means to stand by each other, and they gained the importance of having something to inspire them to a great future. The Walls children learned important values like humility, loyalty, forgiveness, and appreciation. These young...
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