9-Year-Old Girl Raises Funds for Brother Surgery amid Family 's Financial Strain Wonder kid Addison Witulski has surprised her ailing 7-year old brother, Kaden Witulski, family and the community for spearheading a fundraising effort to support her brother who is suffering from Wolff-Parkinson White (WPW) syndrome. Although Kaden was born with this heart condition; in most people, the symptoms of WPM begin to manifest at age 11 to 50. According to Heart Racing, this rare electrical system disorder comes about when an anomalous accessory electrical conduction passageway develops between the heart’s ventricles and atria. Although the condition is not considered fatal, the symptoms associated with WPM include severe shortness of breath and pain
The surviving Hartman daughters admitted their mother had collected the insurance money, totaling $4700 on all three family members, but they had no idea how she spent it. Police said the Hartman home was heavily mortgaged, but the money had not been spent to pay down the loan. Daughter Nettie, who also lived with her mother, was apparently the next target. Nettie reported receiving several boxes of candy from an anonymous sender who was later revealed to be her mother. Could this too have been poisoned?
Literary Devices: Foreshadowing: “If you add in the twenty dollars from the pawnshop, I have $136.87. It's not going to be enough, but there's got to be a way around that. Jesse didn't have $2,900 when he bought his beat-up Jeep, and the bank gave him some kind of loan. " - Anna Response: This text shows that Anna would like to buy a car and cannot come up with a solution on how she will buy the car because she doesn't have enough money. She wonders how her older brother Jesse bought his first car.
They said that she want the money to buy herself a nicer home with other things she had wanted her whole life but her dad would not allow it (Berni, C. (1997). After he died she went a bought what she had
Viviana Zelizer was interested in how money affects personal and intimate relationships. “A Dollar of Her Own,” gives great details and explains brief how money brings conflicts in a relationship. The whole main point of the chapter is families (in 1870) declined their private financial from strangers, but husbands and wives often lie and deceive on another and conceal information from each other. Also when money enters the families it is assumed to be equitably distributed between family members, serving to maximize their collective welfare. In today’s society spouse couples do have conflicts when it comes to sharing their money with one another, like who is which going to pay this and that.
First, Ashleigh took the money because her dad isn’t very wealthy and he needed the money. Her dad owes someone some money in the text it said that “you owe them two hundred dollars?” She asked her dad if he had enough money to buy them dinner. In the text it says “can you
“My friends fathers, they just tell them to study more. They never tell them they have flair or style. ”(Pfeffer 2). This is a big reason for her taking the money.
In preparation for this paper I chose to read Fire in the ashes: twenty five years among the poorest children in America by Jonathan Kozol. In this book Kozol has followed these children and their family’s lives for the past twenty five years. In his writing Kozol portrays a point of view most from his background and standing would not be capable of having. He portrays what life is like for those who have been let down by the system that was meant to protect them. Kozols writing style can be very blunt at times, not for shock value, but for the sake of portraying these children’s realities, and not sugarcoating the inequalities that they are faced with.
Ashleigh wants to make her dad happy. He is always nice to her and she wants to return the favor like when he said “‘You get more and more beautiful.’” (pg 2).
Ashes Common Assessment Imagine being faced with the toughest choice of your life, choosing between your parents. Ashleigh, or Ashes, has been torn between her mother and father her entire life. Her mother, a logical women who bases her decisions on the facts, and her father, who is more of a people person and bases his decisions others. So when her father asked her to “borrow” $200 from her mother to pay off a loan, Ashes was faced with the toughest decision she could ever imagine.
This can be seen in the story is when Ashleigh’s mom berates her dad. In the story, she says “He’s an irresponsible bum.” Ashleigh won’t want to go through with stealing the money because she knows that her dad will do something irresponsible with it. The second way this can be observed in the story is when Ashleigh says she doesn’t understand why her parents ever wed. In the story, Ashleigh comments, “I don’t know why mom ever married him.” Ashleigh doesn’t know understand how her mom ever decided to marry an irresponsible person like her dad.
Ashes’ father is basically implying that he made a bet with someone and he has not paid them back. Typically when that happens, you are probably in trouble. Not only is Ashes’ dad putting her in trouble, he is lying to her face about it in the first
“I hate it here anyway!” It would be easier if they threw me out before I really wanted to stay.” This reveals how Ashley was shaped by the abandonment of her mother. She acts out in the foster homes that take her in and hopes that her mother comes back and gets her. Another piece of evidence that conveys this is on page 113, “Something boiled up inside me and I grabbed the back of his head and yanked his hair.
When she didn’t receive the money she decided to take action and have a meeting with her father. Of the 3.2 million that Temple earned she only had 44,000 dollars in her bank account (CNN). “I have no regrets about my father losing most of my money..” (Taylor). Temple forgave her father and to add on, was still grateful for the thousands of dollars she still received.
“ I looked out the window and saw only the ash-grey sky.” (pg.4) . Ashleigh’s dad calls her Ashes a lot during the story. The dark ash sky represents that Ashleigh listened to her father and that she chose to steal the money so, he can start his new life. Whenever the protagonist describes the time with her dad it's always warm and sunny even though it's cold throughout this story.
