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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…

Structure of the Bacterial Cell Wall Bacterial cells differ from mammalian cells due to highly developed cell walls outside the cytoplasmic membranes that provide structural integrity and shape to the cell. Bacteria live in dilute aqueous environments, which causes an intracellular pressure equivalent of 10-25 atm. Without the structural support of the cell wall, the cell is susceptible to lysis and osmotic rupture due to osmotic rupture due to turgor pressure. Figure 1: Comparison between…

“The Glass Castle,” by Jeannette Walls, is a memoir about the struggles of a young girl and her siblings growing up under very dysfunctional family circumstances. Rex and Rose Mary Walls, Jeannette’s mother and father, find themselves continuously short on cash and food, and usually unable to provide well for their children. Regardless of these destitute living conditions, Jeannette and her three siblings, Lori, Brian, and Maureen, find themselves able to flourish as individuals and escape their…

Great Wall of China The Great Wall of China is “the most awesome structure ever devised by man, one that “lies across the northern borders of China like some great sleeping dragon, stretching and sunning itself on the peaks and ridges of some of the most beautiful mountain scenery in the world…The Great Wall of China was more than 2,000 years in the building, and the only way man can look upon the sum total of handiwork is by viewing it from outer space (Waldron, pg 2).” The Great Wall of…

Rebecca Chua 10 Honors Summer Assignment: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls  “Like build the Glass Castle. All of Dad’s engineering skills and mathematical genius were coming together in one special project: a great big house he was going to build for us in the desert. It would have a glass ceiling and thick glass walls and even a glass staircase… All we had to do was find gold, Dad said, and we were on the verge of that. Once he finished the Prospector and we struck it rich, he’d start…

The Wolf of Wall Street Analysis The Wolf of Wall Street is a film filled with sex, drugs, and lots of money. It was directed by Martin Scorsese, and released on December 25th, 2013. The movie revolves around the life of Jordan Belfort, a stockbroker who founded his brokerage firm, Stratton Oakmont. After watching the trailer multiple times, it can be concluded that the audience targeted were mainly adults and teenagers. Even more specific, they use rhetoric to appeal to large groups like…

This was the reality for author Jeannette Walls. In her book, The Glass Castle: A Memoir, Walls describes growing up in a dysfunctional family with an alcoholic father and a childish mother. After Walls published her book, Alex Witchel of The New York Times Magazine interviewed her. Within the article, “How Jeannette Walls Spins Good Stories Out of Bad Memories,” Witchel recounts her visit to the farm where Walls lives with her husband and mother. Both Walls and Witchel have distinctive styles…

by Jeannette Walls brings the reader back in time to when she was very young and recalls her life experiences that deal with poverty, dysfunctional parents, and the choice between family first or herself. The Glass Castle reveals that Wall lived a large portion of her life on the run due to her adventurous, yet troublesome parents. Overtime, Walls discovers that life has more to offer if she gives herself a chance to experience the real world. Because of her parents’ influence, Walls grew up…

one controlling the capital. Because of this, the East Germany constructed the Berlin Wall. While many people tried to escape across the Berlin Wall from East Berlin over to the West, the wall was successful at keeping many people from making it across alive. Before the Berlin Wall was put up, it was easy for people to flee across the border of East and West Berlin. Between 1945 and 1961, before the Berlin Wall was put up by the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), many people fled over…

memoir, The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls explains how Welch was a place full of people who liked to fight due to the harsh nature of the town. Walls illustrates this explanation by describing the reasoning behind people’s rough attitudes in Welch, and why these attitudes evolve into fighting. Walls purpose is to show how Welch was a place of negativity and obscurity in order to justify how she and her family had to survive and live in a town like Welch. Walls claims that she and her family…