The Glass Castle

Part One: The Melting Man Robert ‘Melting Man’ Kellerman has long suffered a complex guilt — the kind that stems from an unhealthy appetite for women. He rents a cramped studio apartment in Fitzroy North but spends most of his time in a workshop in St Kilda. This is where he brings the girls. The workshop is cold, damp, and grey. It once housed an automotive repairs business. On one side a half-rusted car sits, jacked up on a hoist. Its wheels are missing. All the windows have been…

The submissions for this assignment are posts in the assignment's discussion. Below are the discussion posts for Lesli Robles, or you can view the full discussion. from Discussion #1 - The Glass Menagerie Aug 31, 2017 1:01pm Click to change profile picture for Lesli Robles Characters Amanda Wingfield(Mother) While she doesn’t intentionally mean to hurt her children, she does with her sense of not being able to come to terms with reality. She very clearly lives in a…

Avenue stayed where it was with police tape surrounding the cracked brick. However, to the people inside it was beautiful. The tall ceilings and their wooden supports framed the cracked windows where the light filtered through the old tinted glass. Stained glass chandeliers hung from the faded bricks that made up the ceiling. There was old floral couches that looked like they…

The cathedral of Bourges, France, known as Saint-Étienne Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church with French gothic architectural style. This cathedral is dedicated to Saint Stephen. Initially, the groundbreaking for this building was in 1195, yet was not fully finished until 1230. The structure is still in use to this day. The Western façade on this cathedral is the most grandiose facade in the compilation of the previous cathedrals that have been visited. Cathedral Saint Étienne too has a…

When people don’t like the situation they’re in, their first instinct is to escape it. In The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, Tom Wingfield narrates the memory of a time when he worked or ran off to the movies, and when Amanda, his mother, was on a desperate hunt for a gentleman caller for his sister, Laura. While Tom struggles with his insatiable need for a change in life, his mom clings to the chance of reliving her convivial past through her daughter. Amanda escapes the present…

Tom Wingfield - The protagonist of the play, was abandoned with his mother and older sister by their father a very long time ago. He works with his family in a warehouse but hates his future of having to work there for the rest of his life. Tom is more interested in becoming a poet and frequently uses writing to escape his current situation. Laura Wingfield - Older sister to Tom, Laura who has become overly afraid of her appearance to the public due to her injured leg that causes her to…

In Tennessee Williams’s play “The Glass Menagerie”, the characters’ perspectives of reality are mixed with those of appearance. Amanda, the mother, tries to make the lives of her children perfect, but in doing so, only causes them grief and anguish. Amanda still lives in the past and sees no reason why her two children should live anything but perfect lives. However, her children, Laura, a crippled and unsociable girl; and Tom, an ambitious young man, believe they should be able to choose their…

The Gender Wage Gap In 1963 the Federal government passed the Equal Pay Act to prohibit employers from discriminating based on the way employees of opposite sexes are compensated. The Act required employers to compensate employees of equal skill, effort, and responsibility, equally. While the gender wage gap has closed significantly since then, women are still making less than men at the same jobs. A portion of the pay gap for working young college graduates can be attributed to their individual…

Despite the fact that over the last fifty years women significantly improved their social position in America and drastically changed the economic situation, by taking over almost half of today’s professions, they are still facing wage discrimination based on gender. According to the Labor Department, the wage gap over the last few years was continuously narrowing; however, the monetary expansion that happened in the last few months greatly improved the economic position of men. As a result of…

architecture of churches, such as stained glass,…