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    Oz is one of the biggest American Musicals in film. It has become known world wide‚ it is apart of our American popular culture‚ and is best known of all films. It was based on the novel‚ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz written by L. Frank Baum in the 1900s. It was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayar in the year of 1939. This film just hit the end of the “Golden Age of the Musical” that started in the early 1930s. MGM benefited greatly from the hit of the rebirth of musicals. It’s known for the use of technicolor

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    Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz writes: In spite of this difference‚ many people believe we Hispanics could have become as successful as the European immigrants. So why haven’t we? For one thing‚ by the time Hispanics grew in numbers in the United States‚ the economy was no longer labor-intensive. Hispanics have lacked not “a strong back and a willingness to work‚” but the opportunity to capitalize on them. Then‚ unlike the European immigrants who went west and were able to buy land‚ Hispanics arrived here

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    Velasco‚ Jonathan ENGL 375 Ethnic Writers March 9‚ 2015 Writing Response #1 In the novel The Moths And Other Short Stories‚ Helena Maria Viramontes writes the life’s struggles of what Latinas in Los Angeles‚ and maybe around the world‚ may have to experience through the different Latina characters in the novel. Each chapter represents a different experience these Latinas may face as they become adolescents and enter adulthood. The characters in the novel cover different aspects of a Latina’s life

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    Oklahoma! Response Paper The musical being watched and analysed is Oklahoma! It is a 1999 Broadway musical directed by Sir Trevor Nunn and choreographed by Susan Stroman starring Hugh Jackman‚ Josefina Gabrielle and Shular Hensley amongst others. Oklahoma! is originally the result of collaboration between Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II‚ with the former composing the music and the latter writing the screenplay. It is touted as a landmark American musical‚ and the 1999 production is a marker

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    Maria Montessori

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    1. Which are the traits of character in Dr. Montessori do you identify that contributed to her great achievements? Dr. Maria Montessori was a keen observer of children. She used her observational and experimental proclivities from her medical background to develop‚ what we might today call‚ a Constructivist understanding of the process of learning. She studied them scientifically. If she saw some unusual behavior in a child‚ she would say‚”I won’t believe it now‚ I shall if it happens again”

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    Juliet vs Maria: A Comparison Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is considered to be one of the greatest love stories of all time. It is the tragic tale of two star crossed lovers; Romeo of the house of Montague and Juliet of the house of Capulet. Both houses have an ongoing feud with the other that had yet to be broken‚ until Romeo and Juliet fell desperately in love and were secretly married. Their relationship was doomed when Juliet’s cousin Tybalt and Romeo and his friend Mercutio ended up

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    Cultural Event Analysis: Heathers: The Musical The Center for the Living Arts is a small building in the downtown district in Rock Island. The district was dead except for the small line outside of a locked door. The 1989 movie Heathers had a cult following‚ people today have the same passion for Heathers: The Musical. I had first heard of the musical from people online raving about how good it was and how catchy the songs are. After I had sat though Davenport West’s spring play Seussical‚ I needed

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    Musical Regret

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    Vivienne Lee Per.6 A Musical Regret All throughout my life‚ I’ve made many mistakes. Whether it was picking the wrong type of food‚ the wrong clothes for my doll‚ or just making the wrong choices in my life‚ I was never one to look back upon those mistakes‚ and ponder upon them; I would usually just brush them off‚ and say to myself "Oh well‚ it’s not a big deal." However‚ there came a time when I did make a mistake‚ a big mistake; even to this day‚ I regret not doing the one thing I had always

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    Into the West

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    The West Amanda Miranda America was beginning to boom! With the war over and immigrants coming to the land of “freedom” from all over the world‚ people began to adventure to the West. There was a new‚ unsettled land presenting opportunities beyond what anyone could imagine. The west offered natural resources such as gold‚ oil‚ and lumber‚ also it gave hope to freedom and landownership all the while guarding it with dangerous obstacle such as natives‚ disease‚ and drought. The forge west brought

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    of short stories like this. This essay at hand will concentrate on the Western elements in the nine short stories of East‚ West by Salman Rushdie. Special attention will be given to the composition of the book. The division into East‚ West and East‚ West will be examined‚ too. It will be followed how Rushdie deconstructs the seeming oppositions East and West and how stereotypes play a part in this. The thesis is the volume of short stories contains a very stereotypical picture of the West. Apart from

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