Emerald City Essays

  • The Color Red In The Wizard Of Oz

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    Baum the colors represent the regions. The color green represent Emerald City, blue represents the munchkins, and yellow represents the yellow brick road. The colors play an important role in the story they mean something in a way. The color scheme is utilized to acknowledge the principle of the color theory. Emerald City was symbolized by the color green. The people were green also clothes, candy, pop, shoes and etc. Also, Emerald City is where the Wizard of Oz lives. You have to wear glasses to protect

  • Wizard Of Oz: American Culture And Society In The 20th Century

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    concepts of color, material wealth, and magic that helped commodity the American popular culture in the early 1900s. Dorothy’s ability to return home and all of the characters accomplishments of traveling to Emerald city, gave Americans hope to help their transition from the country to the city, with the concepts of color and magic helping to commodity the American culture in the early 20th century. Dorothy and her friends traveled

  • Why Are There So Many Tornados In The Wizard Of Oz

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    David GEO161 Geography Paper 4/9/18 The Wizard of Oz is a movie that is based off the book by Frank Baum. One of the major themes of this story is geography. There are diverse habitats, varied transportation, and the use of directions. Geography is an important part of any story but especially the Wizard of Oz. Dorothy lives in Kansas which is a place that many people would hate to call home. Specifically, Kansas is an environmentally stressed place. Life is led in survival mode and organized by

  • The American Dream In The Glass Castle

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    The American Dream is aspiring for more than the circumstances in which you were born. This includes: realizing there is more to life than what a person is subject to, realizing that they have more opportunity than those before them, and acting upon these aspirations to any degree. Altogether these concepts make up the American Dream, because the American Dream is more of a mindset rather than a state of being. Someone who does the previously defined things is living the American Dream more than

  • Wizard Of Oz Theories

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    politician William Jennings Bryan, seen by many at the time as being all talk and no action. The religious Allegory is suggesting that Dorothy, the Lion, the Tin-man, and the Scarecrow encounter a variety of sins and temptations along the way toward the Emerald City, which would be a type of a heaven. The Atheist Allegory suggests that there is no god. The Wizard who was behind the curtain was a mortal rather than a god. The Feminist Allegory shows that anyone who has any real power in the movie would be the

  • Comparison Of Populism And The Wizard Of Oz

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    Dorothy’s iconic “There is no place like home,” from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has echoed in the hearts of millions since L. Frank Baum’s novel came out in 1900. This American fairy tale has been recreated on stage and film, the most popular adaptation being the 1939 Wizard of Oz film (Ziaukus, Tim). The movie offered American citizens motivation and distraction during the Great Depressions because of its affiliation with youth, family, progress, community, and the American dream. Henry Littlefield

  • Textual Analysis Of A Biblical Text

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    In the 1990s a popular theory arose that the psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd’s 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon and the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz could be played simultaneously to create moments where the song lyrics described events within the movie. This simultaneous playing is often called The Dark Side of the Rainbow and is considered an instance of apophenia, which is the tendency to find consequential patterns between unrelated things (Merriam-Webster). What is different about the Biblical

  • Major Themes In Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

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    Have you ever thought about what living in a world with talking animals and foods that can change your size would be like? Well, in the book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, the main character, Alice, falls down a rabbit hole into Wonderland, a place filled with strange people, animals, and odd encounters with these characters. Some major events in this story are when Alice first finds the door to the garden, drinks the strange liquid so she would shrink, then she meets the Cheshire

  • Miss Gulch In 'The Wizard Of Oz'

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    Gulch is used as a metaphor in “The Wizard of Oz” to symbolize Miss Gulch’s extreme threat towards Dorothy throughout the movie. In the beginning of the movie, Miss Gulch is a villian towards Dorothy because she wants to take away Dorothy. After Dorothy arrived home, Miss Gulch came and showed Dorothy’s aunt and uncle her warrant to take away Toto and put him down. This makes Miss Gulch a threat to Dorothy because she wanted to take away one of the things that matters most to her. Miss Gulch

  • The Alchemist's Journey To The Soul Of The World

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    grandfather learned from his own father. Furthermore, this essentially means the practice of alchemy has no special importance in the novel except for the fact is stands a metaphor for a person’s purification in pursuit in their Personal Legend, except the emerald tablet, because it contains a direct passage to the Soul of the World. However, some alchemists have lost sight of their Personal Legend and only sought the gold they were going to create, so they lost their ability to practice alchemy. Overall, the

  • Emerald Ash Borer Research Paper

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    specifically focusing on a small town, LaGrange, Indiana, to find answers to the many questions for this project. I wanted to see what kind of an impact the Emerald Ash Borer had on the environment, and if there could be any impact on human health. Along with the impact these beetles had on the environment I hoped to find out how the Emerald Ash Borer arrived in the United States, because it is an invasive species, and to find out how they were moving so rapidly through northern states. Not only

  • Welcome To Oz Short Story

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    Welcome to Oz. Take a look at the Yellow Brick Road. Like it? Good. Now run away, run faaaaaaaaaaar away. Pray for a tornado to take you back to Kansas, because man, Oz is fucked up as shit. “Oz has changed,” Gert said. “The trees don’t talk. The Pond of Truth tells lies, the Wandering Water stays put. The Land of Naught is on fire. People are starting to get old. People are forgetting how it used to be.” But let's get back to the beginning, what the fuck happened?! How did Oz get to...this? The

  • Urban Regeneration In China

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    mechanism to take private property for city-sponsored development projects. It includes the renewal of rural areas and result in urban sprawls and help deal with overpopulation or traffic jams as an example. Throughout this paper I will explain my understanding of some critical issues in China’s recent urban regeneration policies that include the cause and effect of communities, and their residents economic

  • Urban Sprawl And Biodiversity

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    The topic that I have chosen to address in this unit is urban sprawl’s threat to biodiversity in our world. Urban sprawl is the term used to describe the expansion of developed and inhabited areas into the previously natural landscape, this term is most often associated with areas that are expanding at a rapid pace. Biodiversity is the term used to represent the total variety of life present in a given area. Biodiversity can be used on a global scale or can be localized to represent what is present

  • How Did Railroads Affect America After The Civil War

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    How did railroads impact America after the Civil War? Throughout history, transportation has helped move people and materials around in civilizations. Transportation has enabled the growth of cities and has further increased the development of complex societies. A method of transportation widely used is the system of railroads; before cars and airplanes became popular, trains dominated passenger and freight services due to their simplicity and business versatility. Railroads became more widespread

  • Disney Resort Analysis

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    Tokyo Disney Resort Analysis I. General Background: Tokyo Disney Resort is one of the most popular theme park – resort combination of Japan located in Urayasu, Chiba – the east of Tokyo. This resort is based on the famous Disneyland by The Walt Disney Company, and is operated and owned by Oriental Land Company. Mentioning geographical advantages, it is easily accessed from Kanto Region by bus, train or private car: the resort is just outside the Tokyo metropolitan borders, it takes 15 minutes

  • The Maze Runner Film Analysis

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    affect them in ways they never imagined. Depending on past experiences and one’s personal abilities, a surrounding or an area is different to everyone. In a city, there are inhabitants. These people have their own unique experiences compared to the people who visit. Visitors have different experiences compared to people who live in the city because of their varying perspectives. The root of everything is people’s mind and how they experience what exists. The past describes people’s present and everyone

  • Essay About Tourism In Oman

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    Oman is known for its tourist attractions from all around the world. Wadi's deserts, beaches, and mountains are areas which make Oman different to other gulf countries. Mountainous areas such as Jabel Shams are widely common in Oman which makes camping even more interesting. Moreover, there are many deserts and sand plains in Oman. Wadies are also common land features in Oman. In the capital of Oman, Muscat we can find many malls and more civilized areas that will make anybody more interested. During

  • Essay On Bassinets

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    When your tiny little bundle of joy arrives, you will want to ensure that you’re as well prepared as you can possibly be. In terms of importance, there are fewer baby-related items that are more important than a bassinet, so you will need to ensure that you get things right the first time. Whilst cribs are all well and good, bassinets offer a fantastic alternative, especially if you have limited space, or if you want a cozy and convenient alternative. Bassinets are especially useful because due to

  • Materialism In The Great Gatsby Essay

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    Teens, in the United States, are constantly pressured by parents to do well academically, so they can make it in life, It had gotten to the point that the grade of a student is the ambition and not the learning material and grasping it. Every student wants to make a bug in life, but not everyone knows the ways to success. Jay Gatsby is the embodiment of the American Dream. He went from a poor Midwestern farmer to a wealthy businessman running large extravagant parties. His lifestyle: however, shows