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    After 20 years of consistent growth, the company had emerged as a major force in both the domestic and international metal container markets (see Exhibit 1). During those 20 years, Crown Cork and Seal had concentrated its manufacturing efforts on tin-plated cans for holding beer, soft drinks, and aerosol products. By 1977, however, the ozone controversy and the trend toward legislative regulation of nonreturnable containers was threatening

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    Bibliography 1. Roy, Gabrielle. The Tin Flute. Translated by Alan Brown. Toronto: McCelland & Stewart Inc., 1989 2. Srigley, Katrina. Breadwinning Daughters: young working women in a depression-era city. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010, YorkLibrary e-book.

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    by L.Frank Baum, is a novel that comes to life when a cyclone lifts Dorothy and deposits her in the enchanted country of the Munchkins.On her journey down the yellow brick road she meets the Tin Woodman, Cowardly Lion, the Scarecrow and the Wicked Witch of the West.Dorothy is a young girl from Kansas, the Tin Woodman is a man who lost his true love because of losing his heart. The Cowardly Lion was a lion who seeked to find courage in himself, and the Scarecrow seeked to have a brain and understand

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    When Dorothy meets the Tin Woodman, he is completely rusted and unable to move from his fixed position. The article The Wizard of Oz: More Than Just a Children’s Story by Lauren Houlberg suggests that this reflects how, following the depression, the factory workers became stuck in their unemployed positions. Nevertheless, Dorothy applying oil on the Tin Woodman’s joints symbolizes that although the workers went through a difficult period

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    She summon band of winged monkey, they tear the scarecrow, and place his clothe to the top of tree. Throw tin woodman to the rocky hill. And make the Lion become her pet. The wicked witch makes Dorothy became her personal slave, she also made a scheme to steal the silver shoe from Dorothy. One day she place a block of iron that invisible to the normal eyes

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    Frank Baum’s, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the quest of the minor characters, the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion, contribute to their individual discoveries of inner strength. The self-acclaimed unintelligent Scarecrow demonstrates his smarts and resourcefulness multiple times during the voyage to the Land of Oz but does not acknowledge his full capability until the end of the trip. Similarly, the Tin Woodman, despite the lack of a physical heart, does not realize his compassionate acts throughout

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    way, really making her the heroine of the story. Two other women that were empowered by Baum were the female stork and the Queen of Mice. The group came upon the female stork when they were in trouble. The Scarecrow was stuck in the river, and the Tin Woodman and the Lion were not able to save him. It seemed as if they had given up, until the Stork came and offered her help to get him across. “Then the Stork with her great claws grabbed the Scarecrow by the arm and carried him up into the air and

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    and he utilized the famed Silver Slippers and the Yellow Brick Road to express his opinion about the free silver issue. After arriving at Oz and setting down the Yellow Brick Road for the Emerald City, Dorothy meets a Woodman made completely out of tin. Long before Dorothy ever made his acquaintance, the Wicked Witch of the East cursed him; he noticed that his axe

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    The Wizard of Oz (1939) Known for the infamous ruby red slippers, The Wizard of Oz premiered in theaters in 1939 by Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer Studios. The film came into production after director, Victor Fleming, bought the rights of the novel and adapted the novel into a film. This classic children’s story encaptures Dorothy Gale’s (Judy Garland) long, adventurous journey down the yellow brick road in the land of Oz. As we follow Dorothy’s venture home, Fleming holds the audience's attention throughout

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    The Tin Woodman wanted a heart while the Cowardly Lion wanted some courage. While they were going to the City of Emeralds, where the great Oz lived, they faced many challenges. Most of the irony, which means language that normally signifies the opposite,

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