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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In March of 2005‚ Jeannette Walls released her memoir called “The Glass castle”. Recently‚ in August of 2017 “The Glass Castle” was released as a movie that was written by Destin Daniel Cretton and Andrew Lanham. The movie starred Brie Larson as Jeannette and also casted Emmy Award winning actor Woody Harrelson. More minor roles such as‚ Rose Mary‚ Lori‚ and Brian were played by Naomi Watts‚ Charlie Shotwell‚ and Sadie Sink. When watching the film my expectations and hopes became present in my head
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a screen‚ where your face is into a book with paper pages. The book I’ll be summarizing is a book about lesson about to be responsible‚ a book about having an unstable family and an unstable family life. The title of my reading is about The Glass Castle. The author’s name is Jeannette Walls‚ the book is about a family with poverty‚ the lesson of this entire book is about being responsible. being a good influence and to have a good structurized family because things can affect others and you
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In my latest read “The Castle Behind Thorns” it starts off in the perspective of a young boy named Sand who lives in the times of kings and queens‚ he has awaken in the fireplace inside of a castle he once could only peer at from the outside. After a brutal attempt to escape he figures out that the thorns surrounding have been placed by some type of magic. Once he decides to take a creep into the crypt he realizes that everything in the castle has been broken apart from the spoons to the walls. When
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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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Verbal and Situational Irony in “The Simpsons” “The Simpsons” is the longest animated series with twenty-two seasons which has the main characters consisting of Homer‚ Marge‚ Lisa‚ Bart‚ and Maggie Simpson. The show satirizes American culture‚ society‚ television and many aspects of the human condition. Not only does “The Simpsons” have a lot of fans in America‚ but the show is watched around the globe. The Simpsons has kept their population viewing for over twenty years. For this reason
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Kyle Scott Reading 96 Journal # 2 The Glass Castle #2 After the Walls had been in Welch a while‚ Rex and Rose-Mary decided to leave the children with Rex’s mother Erma‚ and make a road trip back to Phoenix. Their excuse for leaving them was that it was only going to be a short trip‚ all business‚ and to retrieve anything they had left behind. A week after the parents had left Erma was hammered‚ she had been drinking since before breakfast‚ and told Brian that his pants needed sewed up. She
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Generational poverty is when two generations have been born into poverty. Situational poverty is caused by a sudden job loss‚ an economic crisis‚ health problems‚ or an environmental disaster. Both forms of poverty can last for a few years or many. However‚ generational poverty is typically much worse than situational poverty since the family has been in poverty for at least two generations‚ making it harder for their children to overcome poverty
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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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‘Building Castles’ is a romance that follows the journey of Cynthia Starling as she trawls through her past romantic entanglements‚ trying to glean information about where she keeps going wrong in relationships. Reaching just over 12000 words‚ it’s a short story that tells the tale of the lengths a woman will go to‚ to get over a broken heart in the hopes of finding a happy ending and her very own fairy-tale. My very first idea sprung out at me from a line in a song by P!nk‚ “What about all the
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