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    The Wizard of Oz

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    by a cyclone‚ as the cyclone lifted the house Dorothy and her dog‚ Toto‚ were in‚ to the Land of Oz. The house accidentally landed on a Wicked Witch of the East and killed her‚ which made the Munchkins freed from the Wicked Witch slavery. Despite the beauty of the Land of Oz and the gratefulness of the Munchkins‚ Dorothy still wanted to go back to Kansas. Thus the Good Witch of the North‚ which came to the Land of the East after the Munchkins sent her a message about the incident‚ suggested Dorothy

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    The Free Land Is Not Free

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    The free land is not free The author of “In the Land of Free”‚ Edith Maud Eaton‚ with pen name Sui Sin Far‚ was not a direct immigrant from Asia to the United States‚ but she portrayed the harsh treatment Asian immigrants faced upon entering in the U.S. in the late 1800s.  Sui Sin Far‚ working as a journalist for Fly Lea‚ had exposed the extreme injustice done to Asian Americans in U.S. while she was living on the west coast of the United States. In addition‚ Sui Sin Far’s narration throughout “The

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    We find belonging most importantly in our family. Discuss. (Prescribed texts and related) A sense of belonging is the feeling of being accepted or connected to something or someone. One can find belonging within family‚ through shared experiences‚ notions of identity‚ forming relationships‚ and culture. Peter Skrzynecki’s poems “Postcard” (PC) and “Feliks Skrzynecki” (FS)‚ alongside Shaun Tan’s silent graphic novel ‘The Arrival’ (TA)‚ work together to convey this idea‚ through a range of language

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    Crusades and Its Impact on Christianity By Tanzim Chowdhury The three crusades really are some interesting topics to discuss. They represent the perseverance that the Christians showed to gain control of the holy land‚ Jerusalem. It is said that whoever joined the Crusades was promised a ticket to heaven so this battle was supposedly driven by religion. The fact that this cause was triggered three times really surprises me. There were three leaders who responded to the calls of the Crusades and they

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    The Fire Sermon Analysis

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    Sofilda Totoni March 3rd‚ 2011 Lit 216 “The Fire Sermon” Analysis. This section‚ and the longest of Elliot’s “The Waste Land”‚ depicts poor‚ gloomy‚ lethargic scenery in which the themes of lust‚ sexual ambiguity‚ moral degradation‚ spiritual melancholy‚ abound throughout the poem. The poet himself often embodies the role of ancient and mythological figures to which he alludes in order to strike the reader ’s infatuation. He continually reminds

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    Early Civilizations Matrix

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    Ancient Civilizations Matrix HUM/100 INTRO TO THE HUMANITIES THE ANCIENT WORLD TO MEDIEVAL TIMES Early Civilizations Matrix Using your readings and outside sources complete the following matrix. Be sure to address the following in your matrix: • Provide names‚ titles‚ dates‚ brief descriptions of important events‚ and other details as necessary. • Note the details of key political‚ socioeconomic‚ technological‚ artistic‚ musical‚ architectural‚ philosophical‚ and literary developments for

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    The quaint and obsolete buildings are the remains of some prototype air-raid warning structures built in 1920; by accompanying the images with ambient sound recorded in 1999‚ she doubles the act of preservation of those buildings‚ already saved from destruction in 1988. She was shortlisted for the 1998 Turner Prize. Tacita Dean’s newest series of blackboard drawings‚ ‘Fatigues’ (2012)‚ presents a discourse on the fragility of the human gesture. This vulnerability stands in the face of many things:

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    Dispensational Truth

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    Dispensational Truth XXIX. The Three Trees to which Israel is Compared in the Scripture These three trees are particularly fit symbols of Israel‚ for in Palestine the “Vine‚” the “Fig‐tree‚” and the “Olive‚” stand for the fruitfulness of the land. And the “Vine” and “Fig‐tree” prefigure the Millennial days when every man shall sit under his own “Vine” and “Fig‐tree.” Micah 4:3-4. When Jacob (Israel) was about to die he summoned his sons‚ and prophesied their future. Of Judah he said that his

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    Women Characters in The Waste Land Thomas Stearns Eliot’s The Waste land presents a galaxy of characters. Some women characters include a priestess‚ a princess‚ a fortune teller‚ a lady of the upper class‚ a lower middle class girl‚ a typist girl as well as the girls of the river Thames. None of them is happy in the true sense. In the Epigraph we come across the Sybil at Cumae who was hung in a cage. Children threw stones at her and asked‚ “What do you want?” In answer‚ she said‚ ‘I want to die

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    CRITICAL APPRECIATION OF ELIOT’S WASTELAND T.S.Eliot was born in the United States in 1888 and was educated there and in France before settling down in England and at length adopting British citizenship. He published his first poems Prufrock and other Observations in 1917 and all his work is strongly individual and creatively personal. With The Wasteland(1922) he established the reputation which made him the leading living poet of the English speaking world‚ though his output for some years was extremely

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