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    Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 musical fantasy film. It is the most commercially successful adaptation of the 1900 novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", written by L. Frank Baum. It was a box office failure when it was first released, making only $3,017,000 on a $2,777,000 budget, a meager profit of $240,000. It wasn 't until it was subsequently released did it make a substantial profit. Although It was nominated for six Academy Awards, this film failed to be victorious

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    London, being the densest settlement on the planet with 2.5 million people into 30 square miles, was emerging as the most populated urban metropolitan in the mid 19th century. Although, London started enjoying the fruits, it was not prepared to face the challenges of the urbanization. It was lacking the infrastructure necessary to support dense civilization like the garbage disposal, clean water supply, sewers, public health care etc. In the absence of an efficient sewage system, people were dumping

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    A Study on the Influence of Hedonic Shopping Value on Customer Satisfaction among Chennai Online Consumers Author R. Vasudha, Research Scholar, Department of Management Studies University of Madras, Chennai Co-Author Dr. K. Sathyanarayan, Assistant Professor, Department of Management Studies University of Madras, Chennai Abstract The online shopping scenario has greatly developed because of its ease of use and convenience with which people buy product/services online. The affinity to shop online

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    diminution of Ansel//m, spouting a half-baked self-help philosophy of radical freedom which mistakes the will to happiness for that of justice, as if he actually believes anyone can simply choose to be in happy control of one’s socio-economic context in toto, who is himself without money, friends, family, or even the willpower to dodge a right hook to his face at his own book’s

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    identity; Muslim political culture; affection and rejection towards the West; and Islam’s central role. This thesis aims to offer a more methodical examination of this debate, and thereby provides an more dispassionate objective comprehensive answer as toto the relative relation and to the explanatory power of an important global event, the Arab spring, in regards to one of some of the most important contemporaneous IR debates, tThe clash of Civilizations. The answer that this thesis provides

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    between his or her home and the new world (Campbell: 1968). The Wizard of Oz very closely follows the monomyth as coined by Joseph Campbell. The hero, Dorothy, attempts to runaway from her home in Kansas after a neighbor threatens to kill her dog, Toto, but instead gets caught in a tornado, the ‘Call to Adventure,’ that drops her in the Land of Oz. After landing in Oz,

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    Right Bub Sure it was: The Narrator’s Ability to Control Perceptions From the scrolls in the Library of Alexandria in the third century BC telling the stories of the romans conquering barbarians, to the negative portrayal of political enemies in modern history textbooks, the historian recounting the stories has power over the entire story. Able to describe other seemingly established civilizations in the Americas as savages, European historians were able to control the entire story, portraying themselves

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    In life, heroes are everywhere. They fight crime, save lives, and basically just do good deeds. Heroes follow their journey, which, when written, is actually very cliché. A hero follows a set of events in their journey that are rarely changed. In this essay, two hero’s are examined, Santiago from The Alchemist, and Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz. These two stories seem very different, but in the end, are actually very similar. When examined closely, one may find that their journeys are very similar

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    RIGHT TO FAIR TRIAL IN DIFFERENT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENT: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in December 1948, provides in Article 10 that: everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him. Article 6 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental

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    Ever since the invention of film as a mass media medium, fantasy films has been emerged and evolved with the technological influence from film industry and the cultural influence from the society. Despite its variation throughout the years, the continuing attraction of fantasy films is largely attributed to the fact that they provide an expression of resistance to authority, and coincide with escapism at the same time. Being an often-overlooked genre, fantasy films at one time was believed as nothing

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