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    families, how to manage resources, environmental influences, and the important steps in the decision making process. All of these factors come in play when answering why people are the way they are and the varying traits within families. The Glass Castle, written by Jeannette Walls is a memoir that expresses the hardships and obstacles she faced while growing up. The book starts out with Jeannette going to an event but on the way she was overwhelmed with embarrassment when she saw her homeless…

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    way to compare any two types of work. There is also always some way that two works are similar. The Glass Castle and A Raisin in the Sun are two works that are completely different in almost every way. The two are different in the way that the two have a completely different American Dream that they are trying to achieve, the struggles that the families go through, and that The Glass Castle is a memoir, while A Raisin in the Sun is a play. However, their differences also bring out their…

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    literally a combination of horrors and fictions and even romance at times it also includes death and supernaturalism. It was known to be introduced by a famous Victorian writer Horace Walpole during the 17th century with his famous and well known book The Castle of Otranto also known as the Gothic Story. When he used the word gothic it literally meant something like ‘barbarous’, as well as ‘deriving from the Middle Ages’. Walpole provided that the story itself was an old relic, providing a…

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    Ohio’s castle law gives citizens legal right to self-defense. If you feel threatened, if an intruder comes in your house or vandalizes your property you have the legal right to use the castle law in the proper situation. You have the right to use self-defense, when you feel like your life is on the line. Such as an intruder coming in your house with a weapon or someone trying to steal your car while you are sitting in a traffic jam. This is why everyone that has a clean record should have their…

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    Also in The Glass Castle, the children lose sight of meaningful relationships. Instead, they lose these relationships with their parents because they believe that getting to a better life is necessary, even if it isn’t agreed upon by their parents. Unlike in Great Expectations, it isn’t necessarily the children’s fault that these family bonds weaken. Their parents are holding them back from living a healthy life and they need to break free. With their parents not doing what is best for their…

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    1. Name of the case: Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales 2. Citation: 545 US 748 3. Date Decided: 2005 4. Facts: Jessica Lenahan Gonzales, resident of Castle Rock, Colorado, was able to obtain a permanent restraining order order against he former husband Simon, on June 4,1999. The permanent restraining order required that Simon remained at least 100 yards from her and her four children, except during designated visitation times. On June 22, Simon abducted his three biological children. Gonzales…

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    The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is a memoir of her increasingly difficult and troubling life. Throughout these adventures her and her three siblings travel to many places from California to Phoenix, to the quite backward town of Welch, and to New York City itself. In which, her relationship with her parents is at times, straining and at the times, one of the strongest relationships she has. Whether or not that is true, is up for debate. The relationship she has with her parents can be…

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    Ubik By Philip K. Dick

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    In the science fiction novel Ubik by Philip K Dick there is a product named ubik that is advertised in many different ways and as many different things but each way shows a new side of how advertising affects consumerism and how produces manipulate the advertisement industry to make their product more desirable. Philip K. Dick incorporates advertisements throughout the book that all around the same item, Ubik. This item is portrayed as many different things but all these different versions of…

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    strives to be is perfect. Is that the sole purpose of life? To belittle or gain power over someone’s struggles? Merely to make yourself feel better or look as though you're perfect? Jeannette Walls takes us on a journey through her memoir The Glass Castle and explains her struggles throughout life. Jeanette grew up with a set of neglecting parents who never tried to provide for her siblings or herself like they should’ve. Jeannette begins to see just how bad her living situation is and so do…

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    Foster care has many success stories of kids coming from troubled households. Foster care allows for kids to get a second chance in a better household with structure. Jeannette Walls came from a very troubled household as she details in The Glass Castle. While Rose Mary and Rex Walls were able to make the kids happy, the kids needed to be placed in foster care for their own well-being. Rose Mary and Rex Walls made the kids happy in how they treated them. As Jeannette recalled, “We laughed…

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