“Somewhere Over the Rainbow” for the first time‚ left me with a lasting memory. It was as if I felt what she wasfeeling at that moment; that there was a better place...The predominant theme of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is self-sufficiency. The Scarecrow‚ Tin Woodman‚ and Cowardly Lion all seek external magic to give them qualities they already possess but fail to recognize. When the travelers come to a wide ditch (chapter seven)‚ the Cowardly Lion volunteers to try jumping over it. If he can make
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and the life skills that they three all obtain. Of each of the characters I will be focusing on; the Tin Woodman‚ the Cowardly Lion‚ and the Scarecrow‚ they all have a more advanced coming of age; for they are already at the peak of adolescence but still have to mastery that maturity and confidence needed to reach their journeys in adulthood. The Scarecrow is the first character Dorothy meets as she begins her journey to the Emerald City to meet the Wizard. She finds him and help him
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APUSH “There’s no place like home‚ there’s no place like home‚ there’s no place like home”‚ repeated Dorothy. A young girl trying to go back home to Kansas after a cyclone lands her and her dog‚ Toto‚ in the Land of Oz. There Dorothy meets the Scarecrow‚ the TinMan‚ and the Cowardly Lion who are all in need of something that is considered important to them; a brain‚ a heart‚ and courage. Along the way‚ they have to travel to Emerald City to see the Wizard of Oz‚ directed by the Good Witch of the
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were at least three moments when Phoenix might have abandoned her mission in “ A Worn Path”‚ written by author Eudora Welty‚ in 1940. They are when she sat down to rest at the bank‚ after she crossed the log‚ another is when she came across the scarecrow in the cornfield and started dancing with it‚ and the third time is when was “meditating and not ready‚ and when a black dog came upon her”(Welty‚1940). While Phoenix sat on the river bank‚ she was recovering from the task of crossing a log‚ that
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and faster like machines. When Dorothy and the Scarecrow find the Tin Man‚ he was all rusted. The depression of 1893 was shown here. In May 1893‚ the weakened economy collapsed into the panic of 1893. Business slowed‚ and workers were laid off. Many people were unemployed. After working hard‚ they were unemployed. They feel that they didn’t live like a human before. All they need are to be a human again like the Tin Man needs a heart. 2. The Scarecrow: He represents American farmers. They have to
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considered to be a coward by many of his critics for opposing the war with Spain in 1898. He also ended up disappointing many populists when he failed to provide a valiant effort to fight for free silver in his 1900 election. Just as the Tin Woodman and scarecrow‚ the lion thought he didn’t have courage even though in the end‚ it turns out he does and the Wizard of Oz also ensures him of
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Three Types of Dieters A gloomy fact in American society remains that thousands of people search for the intangible dream of being thin. On any given day‚ one finds neighbors‚ friends‚ and relatives on some sort of diet. Dieters assume various disguises‚ but the noteworthy ones transpire‚ the "bandwagoneer‚" the "promise maker” and the "lethal loser." People want to lose weight quickly and effortlessly; therefore‚ any fad diet promising overnight results attract the "bandwagoneer." People try
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The Wizard of Oz was released August 25‚ 1939. In this story Dorothy‚ her little dog Toto‚ a Man of tin‚ a Scarecrow‚ and a cowardly lion all travel down a “yellow brick” road (a symbol for gold and a value to our currency) to find the Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz. After a long journey‚ they finally get to him and find out that he is nothing more than a man behind a curtain speaking through a microphone and operating levers‚ knobs and switches to keep the illusion alive. Frank Baum‚ the writer
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A closer look at the characters in The Wizard of Oz By Mary Ann Monjeau-Warner HUMA 205 Film Critique #1 Instructor: Dr. Tomory March 15‚ 2013 “Transported to a surreal landscape‚ a young girl kills the first woman she meets‚ and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.”(Polito) You would think this is a horror flick coming up. It’s
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civilization. The well-known theorem is named after the Greek mathematician and philosopher‚ Pythagoras. In the Wizard of Oz‚ after the Scarecrow gets a brain‚ he states the Pythagorean theorem. However‚ he mistakenly says it applies to an isosceles triangle when it applies to a right triangle. He not only says the wrong triangle‚ he also gets the equation wrong. The Scarecrow says‚ “The sum of the square root of two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the third side.” The correct
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