This Land Is Your Land

astonishing novel could be followed up by a movie just as brilliant. Baum used his own life struggles for a topic for his novel ideas as expressed in this quote, “Baum was the kind of…

The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot is a poem that explains how people have become disconnected. Whether it be that mankind has become disconnected with nature, with a spiritual force, or with time, we have drifted away from having connections with others and the world that we live in, instead people are focusing more on themselves. Even though The Waste Land was written in 1922 it still holds some truth about how we are disconnected with time in today’s society. Time is an essential part in everyone’s…

The road of yellow brick is an element in the novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, with additional such roads appearing in The Marvelous Land of Oz and The Patchwork Girl of Oz. The 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, based on the novel, gave it the name by which it is better known, the Yellow Brick Road (it is never referenced by that title in the original novel). In the later film The Wiz, Dorothy has to find the road, as the house was not deposited directly in front of it; in the novel…

elements of the film such as theme, cinematic techniques, and genre helps beguile us into worlds we have never explored, people we have never met and lives we have never lived. Although a movie can have many thematic concepts, it allows you to derive your own theme that can enlighten you about an issue. Cinematographic techniques can greatly influence the structure and meaning of a film, giving you a sense of realism and involvement. New worlds, ideas and adventures are created by the…

of Oz, and was the first to direct a film with Technicolor using a 3-strip color process. All movies at this time were filmed in black and white, so The Wizard of Oz was a sure crowd pleaser because of its color experience. It was said that the commercial for The Wizard of Oz was shown in black in white, so that moviegoers could experience the first ever color movie with a surprise. During this time, movies were very momentary. There were no DVDs or TVs that could carry on the life of movies.…

I have chosen to go back to school because I can‘t make it in this world without it. No one takes you serious unless you have a degree to back up everything you already know. its probably the only way to get recognized for your talent. I am trying to get my degree to prove that I am as smart and as worthy as anyone else is. I can do great things and be an effective leader. Mid Term Essay I am writing this paper for revenge! This is for anybody who has ever been passed over for a promotion, or…

some very exiting Bible passages. There is a lot of action and a lot of plot. However, with all this action there comes a lot of bloodshed. The Lord hardens Pharaoh’s heart so that he does not let the people of Israel go to claim the land the Lord has promised to them. The Lord sends ten plagues to Egypt to show his power. The last one is the slaying of the firstborns’ of the Egyptians. At first glance, this seems like an absolutely atrocious act and it is. Killing is never good; however, God is…

in Manhattan1. The base of wicked comes from the novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witches of the West written by Gregory Magurire. To create this broadways musical took a couple of years because Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman had to come together and create the “world” that this musical would be based in. In order to write this musical they had to put in certain scenes but they also had to remove scenes when they saw that the musical wasn’t going a certain way. Wicked the…

go and visit her nephew Clark in Boston, he suggested to see a performance at the Music Hall. Since Georgiana had hardened herself to her reality, the concert hall transformed her, causing everything she left to start flooding back. “She preserved this utter immobility throughout the number from The Flying Dutchman, though her fingers worked mechanically upon her black dress, as though, of themselves, they were recalling the piano score they had once played”. The music penetrated all of her…

Any rich story weaves in symbolism and foreshadowing. This enhances the meaning of the narrative, gives the audience clues to the future, and sets the stage for multiple themes. The drama of the Bible checks all of these boxes and then some. Although there are many characters in the first formative years of Israel’s existence, the character of Joshua, leads Israel into a temporary Promised Land, which foreshadows the role that Jesus plays in the unfolding narrative. Joshua was critical to the…