The Castle is an Australian film based on the Kerrigan Family‚ who live at 3 Highview Crescent‚ Coolaroo. Dale narrates the film‚ first stating‚ “I’m Dale Kerrigan‚ and this is my story.” Darryl is an upbeat working class Australian. He is a tow truck driver and is the proud husband and father of four children. The eldest son‚ Wayne is in prison for 8 years for armed robbery. He is a good guy‚ but got in with a bad crowd. Middle son Steve is constantly reading The Trading Post hunting for good
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Annotating (Glass Castle) Glass Castle Did you notice anything unusual about Jeannette Walls portrayal of poverty‚ or homelessness? * Even though they had bad times with food and other necessities‚ they still were happy as a family * When she was young‚ she viewed life as an adventure and when she got older and in West Virginia she started to see reality of her life and she didn’t want to be seen as the girl who lives in the beat up house and the family that didn’t always have food
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Roman Noel English 9 18 January 2013 Mr. Jaeger Final Essay While most good relationships take years to build‚ Romeo and Juliet met two hours before they decided to get married. They had never met before and didn’t even know each other’s names before they exchanged passionate kisses at the Capulet’s party. Talk about rushing things! Second‚ Romeo and Juliet are supposed to be very young. Romeo is seventeen or
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Whale Rider Questions 1.The movie starts underwater‚ we can hear whale noises and haunting music. 2.The baby is named after the first chief/whale rider Paikea. 3.The mother and twin brother die. 4. The new chief must be male. 5. The argument is about what Porourangi should do next‚ stay or leave? They also fought about Pai’s name. 6. The 3 ladies were smoking. According to Pai “Maori women need to protect their child bearing properties” so they should stop. 7. Pai’s Father. 8.A boy passes
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“I mean no offense Miss Castle‚ but I was simply doing my job. Now I ask you to continue.” “Marisa continued to tell me that Stephan was taking me out to his car. She had asked him what he was doing‚ he said he was helping me get home. She asked if she could come along since her date had left with another girl. She continued to tell me that Stephen’s best friend Alexander Sosa had gotten in the car after her. She said she had seen Alexander begin to act drunk and ended up falling asleep in her lap
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It is understood that in order to accomplish anything in life‚ dedication and hard work are needed to overcome any obstacle or challenge to achieve success. In Jeannette Walls’‚ The Glass Castle‚ the author gives insight of her lifestyle as well as her family’s. She and her family were drifters and lived in different desert towns until Jeannette and her siblings abandoned their adventurous lifestyle and moved to New York. Furthermore‚ Jeannette left behind a life of poverty and focused on her new
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Fiction is important to all 5 percent of global income is made up of 40% of the world’s population.. In the memoir‚ The Glass Castle‚ one of the Walls family main problem is the father of the family. In the book the main character‚ Jeannette Walls always explains her dad’s alcohol problem. It gets so bad that for her birthday gift she asked him to get sober. He also gets very angry‚ violent‚ and isolated. Fiction needs to be included in the curriculum because fiction brings people in a different
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The Glass Castle Do you think that too much change in a family can cause dysfunction? Well in the story “The Glass Castle” the author Jeanette Walls tells her story about how the changes in her family caused dysfunction amongst them. Through her experiences‚ she shows her readers how changes caused mainly by her father changed the lives of their family. In “The Glass Castle” the author uses simile‚ imagery‚ and flashback to show the message of change. The first element Jeanette used to show how
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effectively →fsd‚ For me personally a text that has had a profound effect upon my understanding of the global village is the film The Castle. The Castle’s explores highly relevant issues like the rights of individuals in the globalised world and the egalitarian nature of Australian society. Both of these issues are discussed in the scene at the High Court. During this scene
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The Gediminas Castle The funicular is 71m long and will take you 40m high. The angle is said to be 36 degrees. Opening hours 10.00 - 19.00 all year round. Tickets: - up and down adults 3Lt‚ pensioners and school children 2Lt - up OR down adults 2 Lt‚ pensioners and school children 1Lt The so called Upper Castle‚ or Gediminas Castle‚ was built at the beginning of the 14th century on the site of an earlier wooden one. A century later it was rebuilt and strenghtened. Along with the Lower
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