Dorothy Day

mammies, and maids. These beautiful actresses showed the film industry that they are able to hold lead parts and even carry the whole cast if need be. Phenomenal actresses such as Hattie McDaniels, Pearl Bailey, Ethel Waters, Nina Mae McKinney, and Dorothy

today. Things would be chaotic, feminists would be furious and outraged. Chapter 26 -- Is He Serious? And Other Ironies The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an example of irony. The whole plot of the story and characters represent situational irony. Dorothy if trying to find her way home so she goes to see the wizard. As the show progresses towards the end she later on finds out that if she wanted to go home she could have been gone earlier. Just with the simple help to clicking her shoes while saying

characters; Dorothy Gale! I rushed out the door. It was cold and windy but the sky was clear and the sun was shining brightly in the sky so it seemed like any other Oklahoma city September day. I jumped into the car and my mom started the car. As soon as I got to school I noticed that it was 7:00 a.m, just in time! “Hey, over here”, my friend Jenny called. “Hi Jenny!”, I replied and rushed to the other side . “I didn’t know you were going to audition too. What are you trying out for?” “Dorothy Gale

The original book of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, has many differences within the plot when compared to the 1951 Disney movie adaptation. One of the differences between these two adaptations is that in the book, Tweedledee and Tweedledum never appear or are mentioned. In the movie, Tweedledee and Tweedledum are included. This makes the reader/audience understand the text differently because there are more characters incorporated into the movie that change the plot. Adding new

Comparing Frank Baum’s Dorothy Gale of the Oz series and Lewis Carroll’s Alice of Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll’s Alice and Frank Baum’s Dorothy are two of the most well-known and well-loved heroines of all time. At first glance, both Alice and Dorothy appear to be rather accurate renditions of actual little girls who embark on their own adventures in strange and fantastical lands. However, closer scrutiny reveals that only one of these characters is a true portrayal of what a little girl

The Wizard of Oz Film and Book Background The Wizard of Oz is a book by L. Frank Baum written in 1900 and adapted into a musical fantasy in 1939. It starred a young Judy Garland, and was notable because of its use of special effects, color, unusual characters, and a fantasy storyline made into a major motion picture. It has become almost iconoclastic in film history, shown regularly on network television and becoming a part of American cultural history. The song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," won

poem “Penelope” Odysseus leaves to go fight in the Trojan War. While he was gone at war Penelope shows her faithful and loyalness by doing tasks like weaving during the day a shurod and as soon as night comes she unweaves it just so the suitors will keep waiting for her affection. Painter John Williams Waterhouse and poet Dorothy Parker portray to different sides of Penelope. While Waterhouse uses the myth of Penelope to show that people might try to pressure others into making bad decisions but

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder is a historical fiction book because although much of what the author writes about are memories of her childhood while growing up in the Big Woods of Wisconsin some of the stories and characters were added or embellished. This story tells of Laura Ingalls and her family and how life was for them in the Big Woods in the early 1870s. Survival was not always easy for them but life was rewarding. For the Ingalls, survival meant growing and harvesting

story streams. A planet can be held still so that one side is constantly in light and shadows can become sentient beings on the other side. In Oz and on Kahani, anything is possible, which is quite different from Kansas and the Sad City, where every day goes by just as dismally and uneventfully as the one before. The distinction between the two settings, just like the distinction between dream and reality, are important for keeping children entertained without making adults feel like they are being

As Dorothy enters deeper into the world of Oz, we see the vibrant color of green in the trees and the shades of yellow and blue in the flowers (Fig. 3). One remarkable aspect of the Wizard of Oz has to be Dorothy’s red, sparkly shoes, the famous ruby slippers. They were originally scripted as being silver but half way through the production they decided to change it to red to take full advantage of the capabilities of Technicolor. Another reason why they were changed to ruby red was so they can stand