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    1. Short summary of the film.- Dorothy and her dog Toto are caught in a tornado’s path and somehow end up in the land of Oz. Here she meets some memorable friends and foes in her journey to meet the Wizard of Oz who everyone says can help her return home and possibly grant her new friends their goals of a brain‚ heart and courage 2. The film’s genre. - Fantasy‚ Children’s novel 3. Major character’s conflict and change. - Dorothy only considers herself as an ordinary girl‚ but she is more. She liberates

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    Etta James

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    prodigy. Jamesetta mother Dorothy Hawkins had her at the age of fourteen years old. Despite the struggles as a child‚ raising a child was hell. But Dorothy knew her daughter had a spontaneous voice. In the church choir‚ receiving fame and praise from the neighborhoods’ radio station. Jamesetta took the world or should I say began the buzzing in towns. Dorothy knew her daughter had talented voice; Dorothy always kept intriguing Jamesetta to be all she can and do her all. Dorothy never gave up on her.

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    message trying to be conveyed is actually contradictory to what is provided on screen‚ leaving Rushdie and many others questioning. Why exactly would Dorothy want to go back to the horrible Kansas when she has experienced the magic of Oz? The answer “there is no place like home” would be irrelevant here‚ as Kansas is not a good place to be in and Dorothy herself longed to go to a place over the rainbow as she felt unappreciated in Kansas. As stated in the caption by the editors at the British Film Institute

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    counselor. This is taken direct from the text: Dorothy‚ age 23‚ seeks counseling from Gerald‚ an LPC in private practice. Her goal is to work through issues related to the sexual abuse by her stepfather that she had endured when she was a child. After 2 months of counseling‚ Gerald initiates a sexual relationship with Dorothy. He rationalizes his behavior by telling himself that she can benefit from having a “healthy” sexual relationship. Dorothy feels guilty‚ confused‚ and isolated by this betrayal

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    the Wicked Witch of the West when her house lands on and kills the Wicked Witch’s sister. The Witch also wants to claim her sister’s magical slippers‚ which Glinda has rewarded to Dorothy. She makes friends with the Munchkins‚ who proclaim her a hero for freeing them from the bondage of the Wicked Witch of the East. Dorothy must now find her way back home to Kansas‚ and is directed by Glinda to seek out the all-knowing and powerful Wizard of Oz. Along her way‚ she assembles a group of companions whom

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    paper. A: The short story by Jane Rogers from 2006 is about a mother‚ Dorothy and her sister‚ Lucy. When Dorothy dies her sister temporarily moves in with her niece‚ the narrator. They don’t communicate that well but when they start talking about Dorothy they open up and the narrator expands her knowledge about her mother and her aunt. The main characters in the story are Lucy and the narrator. Lucy is the sister of Dorothy who died. She is 75 years old and has become a widow after 49 years of

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    The development of footbinding was so distant and steam long and the regions influenced by footbinding were so vast that none of a descriptive and explanatory framing could state the real meaning of the footbinding completely. The author Dorothy Ko illustrated the complex historical development of footbinding in her journal “The Shifting Meanings of Footbinding in Seventeen-Century China”. She described three historic stages of footbinding: the heyday of footbinding‚ the prohibition of footbinding

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    INTRODUCTION The following book report is about The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum. This is a story about a little girl named Dorothy who gets caught in a cyclone along with her dog Toto‚ and they are transported to the unknown Land of Oz where she meets amazing friends in her way to meet the Wizard of Oz‚ who is said to help her find a way to get back home. The intention of this report is to analyze the following aspects: • Symbolism and Imagery • Irony • Tone and Mood • Point of

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    to the gilded age in American history which took place from 1880– 1900. The main symbols are: Dorothy‚ the Land of Oz‚ lion‚ Emerald City‚ flying monkeys. <br> <br>The first person the story talks about in the story is Dorothy. She’s a girl that comes form Kansas and was carried by a tornado. In the story when the reader first meet Dorothy he finds out that she is very curios‚ and straight forward. Dorothy in the story represents the average farmers in Kansas. On the other hand the tornado represents

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    journey. In Baum‚ L. Frank “The Wizard of Oz”‚ Dorothy meets three characters that help her find the wizard‚ defeat the wicked witch and return home. In this journey‚ every character helps her to grow up and understand why she needs a brain‚ a heart and courage. The journey would not have been possible without her three companions. The intelligence of the Scarecrow‚ the love of the Tin Man and the courage of Cowardly Lion represent three fact of Dorothy herself. The Scarecrow was important

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