Dorothy Day

when Dorothy emerges from her sepia-toned Kansas home to a technicolored Munchkinland. The two worlds are juxtaposed to emphasize the beginning of an adventure. While in Kansas, Dorothy’s world is black and white, to symbolize “Dorothy’s boredom and the land’s barrenness”. The use of colors in Oz and Munchkinland are vibrant and surreal, indicating that Dorothy is entering a dream within the recesses of her mind, which is played on at the end of the film when the characters wake Dorothy from

Eyes Wide Shut: A Look at Emily’s Oz Imagine for a moment what your favorite movie would look like if you couldn’t actually see it. Such an image may be challenging to picture, but not for blind, seven-year-old Emily, whose passionate, vivid descriptions of her favorite film, The Wizard of Oz, are the focus for a recent commercial to promote Comcast Xfinity’s new talking guide feature designed to help visually disabled people watch television. The ad, which premiered on Oscar night this past February

This melodious song was originally sung by Judy Garland as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz but in 1993 Israel Kamakawiwo’ole remade the song to the melody of Over the Rainbow and What a Wonderful World. Kamakawiwo’ole’s voice coupled with new lyrics create a masterpiece of a song. Listening to the lyrics makes me believe that everything will turn out ok, and dreams will come true. In “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” Kamakawiwo’ole wants the listener to know that better times are coming, you might just

is that the main character Dorothy gets swept away from her home by a twister. When she landed, she was in the Land of Oz. She later finds out that she can get home just by clicking the heels of the silver shoes together, which she got from the good witch of the north. The good witch of the north and the munchkins gave the shoes to Dorothy because her house fell on the wicked witch of the east, killing her. And when she died all her munchkins and slaves were free. Dorothy could have solved her problem

Heartland: A Portrait of Survival The film’s director, Erica Tremblay, lived in Joplin before her career as a documentary filmmaker. However, in both local news interviews and the description of the film on Amazon.com, Tremblay describes the film as the “inspirational story of a close-knit Ozark Mountain community that was struck by a historic deadly EF5 tornado May 22, 2011.” Several citizens who viewed the film and praised the work, later expressed dislike for the description. Anyone who has

The Protagonist is Dorothy, the antoagonist is the wicked witch, and the conflict was person versus person. The protagonist of the Wizard of Oz was Dorothy. First of all, in the text it said that Dorothy was the person going through change. At first she was wanting to leave Kansa because she wanted more than her life now had to offer but throughout the book she changed and all she wanted was her regular life back. The antagonist was the wicked witch. The text states “Dorothy was attacked by the

Wizard of Oz the main character Dorothy is what's known as a dynamic character. A dynamic character is one that changes throughout the story this may be for better or worse but in Dorothy's case it was good. At the beginning of the movie we see dorathy run away from her home without thinking of the people who care for her, later on we see her attitude change this is what makes her a dynamic character. The first scene that shows this comes from the beginning where Dorothy says this “Toto, darling!

In Vincent O’Sullivan’s Finding the Pattern, Solving the Problem: Katherine Mansfield The New Zealand European, it is noted that Katherine Mansfield ‘was an enthusiast for the cinema’, that ‘she acted in several movies’ and that ‘her letters frequently took up such images as the months that “stream by like a movie picture”’(18). Furthermore, her short story At the Bay begins with the line ‘Very early morning’(Mansfield 5), that when interpreted from a literary standpoint, is more suited to a screenplay

can tell that your eyelashes are there. And in one swift motion, much like the act of painting, a dollop of crimson red lines the cheekbone in a grand finale. The makeup is what makes you appear different. It keeps the illusion alive. Becoming Dorothy Gale (from Kansas) was a simple process, considering my

Dorothy Dandridge may seem to be like a beautiful and strong African American woman on the outside, but on the inside she held in a lot of pain. Dorothy Dandridge is an actress, singer, and entertainer, who no longer walk this green Earth, but when she did, she made history. Dorothy was the first African American actress to achieve a leading-role status. Dorothy also had a deeply troubled life and racism didn’t make her life any easier especially when it came to achieving her dreams, but she got