The Glass Menagerie

Does crossed hand/eye dominance affect basketball shooting percentage? The goal is to collect a variety of samples of people shooting with and without crossed hand/eye dominances to see if it affects a shooting percentage. Different factors such as hand dominance and eye dominances are included in in testing crossed hand/eye dominances. The idea of testing crossed hand/eye dominance is based on a 2007 California State Science Fair entry. Keith Hines and Robert Thurman, winners of the Science…

The book, The Glass Castle, written by Jeanette Walls, discusses the struggles of the author’s family’s life from her childhood to her adulthood. The Walls lived a very simple life due to being impoverished. The parents Rose Mary and Rex usually find a way to look at things in a positive way, as they use their unorthodox parenting methods to attempt to give their four children a good life. The beginning of the book takes place in an array of different places as the family is always doing the…

Neglect is the state or fact of being uncared for. The Glass castle is about Jeannette Walls and her family. Constantly short on cash and food. The family moves around the country frequently and tries to re-settle. They encounter many situations but they manage to overcome it. These problems should have been easily avoided if the parents did not neglect their children. Rex and Rose mary Walls are one of the reasons why the children feel like they are neglected. Rex is an alcoholic and can’t…

Jeannette’s childhood consisted of negligent parents and her long time dream of getting away from them by moving to New York to fulfill what she dreams of being, a journalist. She knew something better was out there than always having to work in order to keep a roof over her family’s heads. She knew, when she received the right amount of money, she needed to do something for herself by moving away from her family. She also knew she had what it takes to go to New York by herself because she was…

While I have not had nearly as many hardships in my life as Jeannette Walls in her book The Glass Castle, there are still some things that her and I have in common. Throughout the book, Walls endured many struggles while traveling with her dysfunctional family. Jeannette’s father is constantly getting in the way of her success, from stealing her money to not always making her go to school. Eventually, she leaves her parents behind and makes her way to New York City, where she goes to college and…

Throughout life many of the problems that people face are overlooked. Whether the conflicts are internal or external, they tend to affect not only the person, but others around them. In Jeannette Walls’s, The Glass Castle, she documents her life story through the eyes of a child growing up. Much of this includes how her dad’s internal conflicts rippled to create problems with every other member of the family; in turn, this created more internal conflicts for them all. From early on in the book,…

In times of hardship, people tend to do one of two things: give up, or fight to overcome their problems. The Glass Castle, written by Jeannette Walls, is a memoir that tells the story of a young girl who fought to overcome obstacles throughout her childhood. Jeannette spends most of her childhood in the Southwest, then later moves to Welch, West Virginia. The Walls family rarely lives in suitable conditions, often living in abandoned houses, with inadequate food, water, and finances. They move…

Negligence from parental characters can subsequently affect a child while also having an instantaneous effect. Rex and Rose Mary Walls in The Glass Castle by Jeannette walls pay little attention to their children and the effects their actions inflict on them. As the parents act childish and dismiss their responsibilities Jeanette is made to assume a parental role. She has faced with the families financial issues as well as her sibling's personal lives. She adapts to her role in the family…

I believe that the learner profile trait that describes Jeanette Walls the best is risk taker because throughout her life, she takes many risks despite the possible outcomes. She grew up in a very turbulent family with lots of drama and struggles. Once her older sister was able to move out, she put in so much work to be able to go with her, including raising money and working hard in school, all at the same time as taking care of her family. On page 238, she says, “”Dad,” I said, “as soon as I…

In novel the glass castle the Glass Castle written by Jeannette Walls, has a powerful meaning. While reading the novel it had some intense scenes and made you question everything. I believe the meaning and theme behind the title of novel is hope. As Rex, the father of the novel promises his daughter Jeannette, that he would build her own glass castle when he finds the money for it later in the novel. Jeannette didn’t want to lose hope her in father and believed that he was going keep his promise…