Glinda

“Nel cor più non mi sento” by Giovanni Paisiello The composer of “Nel cor più non mi sento” is Giovanni Paisiello, an Italian opera composer born in 1740. Giovanni’s musical talent was discovered when his singing ability was revealed while at school. As a result, Giovanni was sent to the Conservatory of Dan Onofrio at Naples. While in school, he composed multiple intermezzi, which garnered enough attention to grant him the opportunity to write two operas. Giovanni’s career advanced from there, spending

In the 1939 film The Wizard Of Oz, Dorothy Gale is a farmer’s daughter living with her family and dog Toto in the plains of Kansas when suddenly a tornado strikes, sending her into an alternate reality from which she must figure out how to return home. The story proves itself to be pretty trippy like many epics and sacred texts of ancient religions, as it involves munchkins, haunted forests, flying monkeys, a tin man, and a yellow brick road. But imagine The Wizard Of Oz as having a religious twist--not

Many schools, libraries, and bookstores are always challenging or banning books that they say are inappropriate to some children or that they have no meaning. It’s not only them parents also have a big influence of whether some specific books should be challenged or banned as well. Many people have their own reasons for why they do not like some of the author's books mostly because it messes with religion, race, and the people's morals. Not everyone has to agree with the authors but is it really

Wicked, the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the East is a fantasy book by Gregory Maguire. It follows the life of the Wicked Witch, the character from the Wizard of Oz, from her birth to her death, or her pseudo-death. It also explores the question the nature of good and evil. The main character is, of course, the Wicked Witch, Elphaba. She is born green, with really sharp teeth, and afraid of water. When she gets near water, she just gets really scared, and when she cries or a couple

can outweigh physical attributes. This is comforting for both children and adults alike because, overall, no one wants to be juded on outer appearance, even if they are indeed good-looking. Intelligence is more important in the long run. In Wicked, Glinda is obsessed with her prettiness and seems to outweigh Elphaba 's popularity, but Elphaba is the one who triumphs in the end when the teacher gives her special privelages with a wand because she realizes how smart and gifted she is, disregarding her

Oh, the Wizard of Oz, an amazing tale of scarecrows, flying monkeys, and Tin Man, one of the very first Technicolor films ever! Even though most of the film is in color, we start in a black and white Kansas. Dorthy Gale is a young girl who lives on a small farm with her Aunt Em, Uncle Henry, and dog Toto. All seems peaceful until Toto bites the mean neighbor, Miss Almira Gulch, who then comes to the farm with permission to put Toto down. She takes him away but he soon makes a narrow escape and returns

Dorothy lives in a place that many people would be loath to call home. The Kansas prairie is vast and monochromatic, with dangerous cyclones and an absence of color and beauty. It turns the once-pretty and young Aunt Em into an old, dour woman before her time. Oz, by contrast, is stunningly gorgeous and fantastical. It is peopled with strange folk, a marvelous emerald city, verdant fields of flowers and miles of healthy farmland, deep forests, and adventures galore. Most of its inhabitants are cheerful

Dorothy that everyone is different and that people don’t all think and act the same, her imagination has allowed her to experience these three different personality traits that have helped her to find her way home. At the end of the novel Dorothy finds Glinda the good witch and she help’s Dorothy to get back to the farm. “The red shoes have wonderful powers … they can carry you to any place in the world in three steps” instead of the object that transports the child’s imagination to a different world being

The 1939 classic, The Wizard of Oz and I, Robot, which premiered in 2004, are similar because in each film the main character follows a path that plays with time and space, faces the unknown while fighting an impossible opponent, and reach within to deep-rooted cultural values to win the battle so they can return to normalcy or their own original world. The format used in both of these films mimics the structure of a science fiction genre. By following the structure of this genre, the writers and

Assignment 1 – Narrative Report Story and Plot In a narrative film, a plot is considered all visible and audible elements present in a film, in essence the film in its entirety including nondiegetic images. In The Wizard of Oz, the plot begins with Dorothy (Judy Garland), a young farm girl from Kansas who dreams of escaping to ‘somewhere over the rainbow’ without troubles and torment for her dog Toto from a horrible neighbour Miss Gulch (Margaret Hamilton). During a tornado she is hit on the head