I watched “The Wiz” last week at school in my Theatre class. Dorothy was having some problems with her Aunt‚ and got whirled away in a tornado to a magical land called Oz. To get home‚ she had to go talk to the Wiz‚ but along the way she had some friends to help her get there. Before she gets to go home she has to fight the Wicked Witch of the West with the help of her friends. In my opinion the play was decent it wasn’t all that good‚ but it was okay. Was the actors’ acting extraordinary or was
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Dorothy refers to Toto as a “meat” dog‚ which takes away consciousness from the animal since meat is something people associate with something already dead or a thing of possession. The contrast of the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman to Dorothy and the Lion also presents the idea that flesh is inconvenient and requires a great deal more work than those who do not have it because
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Dorothy Irene Height was born March 24‚ 1912 in Richmond‚ Virginia to Fannie Burroughs and James Height. Both of Height’s parents had been widowed twice before and each brought children to the marriage. Fannie Burroughs and James Height had two children together‚ Dorothy and her sister Anthanette. In 1916 the family moved north to Rankin‚ Pennsylvania (near Pittsburgh) where Height attended public schools. Height’s mother was active in the Pennsylvania Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs and regularly
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Can We Learn More From Verse Than Text? History‚ as a whole‚ teaches us almost everything we need to know. Politics‚ literature‚ social issues and human improvement are all recorded so we learn from our past mistakes. A popular opinion is that one learns more from history than poetry –or any art form for that matter- and although this may be true‚ it can also be argued against it. Without poetry‚ our knowledge of ancient Greek‚ Chinese and other early civilizations would be minimal. Poetry allows
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people decided to step up and fight for their rights. For example‚ Dorothy Heights was a leader of the African American and Women’s Rights Movement. “During the 1960s Height facilitated voter registration‚ campaigned for desegregation‚ helped organize Martin Luther King’s March on Washington‚ and worked on other civil-rights projects. In the 1990s she emphasized the need for self-help in the black community.”(“Dorothy Irene Height”) Dorothy knew the hardships that African Americans and women‚ as well as
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The Development of Modern Dance in British Education There were significant developments to the provision of dance in education post 1950. Modern dance was emerging as an important art form‚ both within schools and in vocational and teacher training colleges. In order to have an understanding of the developments in dance education in the era being studied (1965 – 1985)‚ it is important to have some knowledge and understanding of the provision offered before this time. 1920’s/1930’s * Dartington
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representation of the free coinage of silver and that Emerald city is the Washington DC is unconvincing because Dorothy did not obtain the shoes in Emerald city. If the story was a parable to populism than Dorothy would have had to obtain the shoes in Emerald city because the only place where the the free coinage would have been able to be obtained was Washington. Also‚ in the end Oz was able to save Dorothy and let her go home. the populists did not have such favorable view of the gilded age presidents. The
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cited in Karen Littleton and Dorothy Miell‚ 2005‚ ‘Children’s interactions: siblings and peers in Sharon Ding and Karen Littleton‚ Children’s personal and Social Development‚ The Open university‚ pp.95 Fein‚ (1944) cited in Karen Littleton and Dorothy Miell‚ 2005‚ ‘Children’s interactions: siblings and peers in Sharon Ding and Karen Littleton‚ Children’s personal and Social Development‚ The Open university pp100- 104 Vass‚ (2004) cited in Karen Littleton and Dorothy Miell‚ 2005‚ ‘Children’s interactions:
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Suitors‚ John Williams Waterhouse uses the Suitors of Penelope to show that when people are gone for a long time their loved ones still have hope they will come home and the loved ones will be there waiting for them‚ while in her poem “Penelope‚” Dorothy Parker uses the same scene to show that people long for their
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During the era of US racial segregation‚ a handful of black female mathematicians managed to break social barriers and propel the US space agency to new heights. The heroines of the story are Dorothy Vaughan‚ Katherine Johnson and Mary Jackson. The US involvement in World War II in 1941 opened the door to them. The country needed engineers and scientists to come up with new technologies to help planes fly higher and faster. But segregation was still a reality. There were dozens of African-Americans
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