Quarter 1 Reading Guide Title of Novel _The Glass Castle ___ Author __Jeanette Walls _ I. Introduction. What was good about the first few paragraphs? Was it an effective beginning to the story? The story starts out rather well. It gives you a good first couple of pages to give you a good idea of what the story is going to be about. Plus‚ it also gives you a desire to continue reading to get the entire story. It starts out with Jeanette in a taxi‚ going to a party‚ only to
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My timeline for the fire comes from Fairchild’s 2015 NFPA conference‚ revisiting The Great Adventure Haunted Castle Fire. He uses the NFPA investigation and the trial testimony for his information. The foam pad caught on fire. After the fire started it took 60 seconds for the ceiling above the foam pad to become involved. Two minutes for other parts of the Castle to smell smoke. Two and a half minutes for the end of the strobe corridor (end where the fire started) to reach flashover. Three minutes
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Most memoirs are written with the intention of telling the author’s significant experiences‚ each conveying their individual purpose. In both Jeannette Walls’‚ The Glass Castle‚ and Mary Karr’s‚ The Liars Club‚ the authors utilize their dysfunctional childhoods to achieve their independent purposes. Walls uses numerous strategies to achieve her purpose of the memoir being a way to accept the past and to not let the past define oneself. Unlike Walls‚ Karr also uses her strategies to show the endurance
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Name of the Case: Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales Citation: 545 U.S. 748 Date Decided: 2005 Facts: In June of 1999 Jessica Gonzalez had her husband served with a protective order during divorce proceedings. The protective order stated the husband must stay 100 feet from the estranged wife and 3 young female children. It allowed for preannounced visitations and predetermined weekend custody. On several occasions the husband picked the children up without notice returning them late in the evening.
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Castle Family Restaurant: HRIS Evaluation BUSINESS ASSESSMENT: Castle Family Restaurants has 8 locations throughout Northern California and is run by 30 members of the Castle Family‚ including 6 elder members. Castle Family Restaurant is a buffet style restaurant that specializes in a steak and shrimp themed buffet. Nightly we offer 5 shrimp favorites and three steak cuts grilled to perfection. Our strengths include a very committed base employee structure with a shared value and belief system
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never to know true poverty‚ we are rarely so fortunate to know true financial security. Many Americans are only a small medical emergency or moderate natural disasters away from extreme financial distress‚ or even bankruptcy. The authors of The Glass Castle and Being Poor extraordinarily impact their readers about the issue of poverty based on their own experiences‚ the time periods‚ and their specific childhoods. Through her
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Unprotected Jeannette People are often unprotected when they face a financial dilemma. Some people choose to deal with their dilemma rather than working to solve the dilemma. In Jeannettes Walls’ memoir The Glass Castle‚ Jeannette is unprotected because of her parents‚ environment‚ situations‚ and the conflicts that she is involved in. She is never safe; her life is full of dangers. She is unable to protect herself. Jeannette is unable to protect herself from hearing the curses that her father
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At Castle Boterel by Thomas Hardy The poem was written in March 1913 when Hardy visited Cornwall after the death of his wife Emma Lavinia Gifford. The fictional name of the poem came from Boscastle‚ a mile from where Emma lived when she first met Hardy. It recalls a small incident during a journey he had together with Emma on a road near Boscastle forty years earlier. The fact that the poem is set in Cornwall means that it immediately stands out from the bulk of Hardy’s work which was set in
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Wall’s Parents Philosophy on Life The Glass Castle‚ a memoir by Jeannette Walls reveals one look into a dysfunctional family. This personal memoir is full of lessons of redemption and reliance for all. Jeannette and her siblings thrived with parents whose beliefs and stubborn ways of life‚ changed their children’s’ lives forever. Though their parent’s dreadful actions‚ the children tried to fend for them. Rex‚ a very brilliant man‚ when sober and Rose Mary‚ an inspirational artist‚ when not a
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle revolves around Mary Katherine Blackwood‚ an eighteen year old who lives in a mansion isolated from the village with her sister Constance and her mentally ill uncle Julian Blackwood. Mary Katherine‚ often referred as Merricat by her sister Constance‚ is an odd adult who has a cat named Jonas. Constance takes care of Merricat and Uncle Julian. Both Julian and Constance haven’t left their home in over six years due to a family tragedy that killed most of the Blackwood
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