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    Reilly appeals to pathos to convince his readers that sports are a powerful influence on everyday life and evoke the feeling of sympathy from his audience . This appeal supports sports journalism is the best form of journalism because of the influence it has on everyday lives. Reilly describes how the relationship between a father and son was healed through a sports team's victory; “I knew a Boston dad and son who hadn’t spoken in five years… But when the Red Sox won it all in 2004, the son came

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    will to support the Friends Of Dorothy House. Michael walked around the room eagerly greeting friends, new and old. I sat at a table with my classmate as we both took it all in. It’s clear that since its conception in 1993, this event has grown into a colossal undertaking with overwhelming support from the community. I was able to catch up with Roxanne, one of Michael’s childhood friends, who was in town visiting her father. “We’d get into many shenanigans… But from day one he has always cared about

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    In the first chapter of the wonderful wizard of Oz, we are introduced to Dorothy, her uncle Henry and his wife Em. Dorothy and her family lived in a very petite, four-walled house in the core of the Kansas prairie. Inside the house, they had a very small hole in the ground that serve as a "cyclone cellar". Whenever Dorothy set foot outside the house, all she would notice is how gray and dull everything would look; including her aunt Em. She who once was "a young and pretty wife", was now "thin and

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    story about a little girl named Dorothy and her dog, Toto. Dorothy is an orphan who lives with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry in Kansas. Everything there is gray, grayed by the ever-present sun. One day, a tornado arrives. Dorothy doesn’t make it to the emergency cellar with her aunt and uncle. Instead, she just arrives at the house with her dog. The tornado sweeps up the house and takes it to the Land of Munchkins. Glenda, the Good Witch of the North, tells Dorothy to go to the Emerald City, where

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    Wizard of Oz as a Fairytale This question is deceptive in its apparent simplicity as it raises some problematic issues, which extend beyond the text right across fairytale scholarship. The term "fairytale" itself is a contentious one and is unpopular with many folklorists (see Luthi, Warner, Luke). Often epithets like "wondertale", "magic tale" are employed. Even in some English translations of European works the more semantically accurate Russian or German terms

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    countless individuals hope to undergo in their lifetime. Many can relate the journey protagonist Dorothy Gale takes to better herself and find answers in life which are represented as the she travels "off to see the wizard" to find her healing. When analyzing “The Wizard of Oz”, film adaption by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), the process of individuation and achievement of self are responsible as the character Dorothy Gale challenges various archetypes as well as the stereotypical journey towards “oneness”

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    The desolate lifestyle of Dorothy and her family in Kansas is shown with the color gray, the fruitful region of Munchkinland is expressed through the color blue, while towards the end of the novel, yellow is used to represent the joy of the Winkies when they are released from the grasp of the Wicked Witch of the West. Before Dorothy is whisked away to Oz she is spending her days during the Dust Bowl of the 1930’s in Kansas; nothing was growing for Dorothy and her family during this

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    Dorothy’s quest to the Emerald City. The biggest, and most important difference between the book The Wizard of OZ and the movie edition is that in the movie, Dorothy is simply dreaming, and in the other, she was carried to the land of OZ because of the tornado that swept through Kansas. The Wizard of Oz the movie portrays the story as a dream that Dorothy is having, with people in her life showing up as characters in the dream. This is a clever twist on the story plot, and it provides a little more entertainment

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    approach “allows the students to make as many of the decision about what the drama is going to be about as possible.” (Wagner, 1999. P.9) In one way this approach works well for various people such as Adam Proctor, as for Adam he found that like Dorothy Heathcote he believes in the children’s ability and potential, therefore, he likes to approach his work with a sense of improvisation, where decisions which the children make in the lesson determine the overall outcome of the workshop, but this being

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    Dorothy Dandridge

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    Abstract This paper reflects Dorothy Dandridge the first African American actress to achieve a leading-role status. Mrs. Dandridge also had a deeply troubled life, marked by the scars of a miserable childhood, a string of failed personal relationships, numerous career setbacks, and ongoing struggles with drug and alcohol abuse. Racism was also one of the demons with which she had to deal with. The terms race, ethnicity and culture have no generally agreed upon definitions. There’s a growing

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