Emerald City

and it lets them get the full effect of the scene. The Close-up angle is one of the most important because viewers get to see the full emotion of the character in play. People are allowed to see the reaction and emotion in Dorothy’s face when she learns that a timer determines when she will die. The lighting in this scene also helps set an almost evil impression in the witch’s castle. Down lighting is used the most in this scene to create shadows on the witches face to help create and evil look to her. Also they used the camera movement tracking as seen in the scene before to focus on a certain character. They use these devices to help infiltrate the evil side of the witch. One of the very lasts scenes Dorothy finally reaches the Emerald City of Oz and continues on to go see the Wizard himself. As they are directed into the castle of the Wizard they enter this room that is very dark and also spooky. In the matter of seconds, the Wizard himself appears to them in a powerful way. Several different sound effects were used to infiltrate the sense of how powerful the Wizard actually is. Smoke, fire and lightening sounds were used as he is talking to Dorothy and her friends to also intimidate them in a way. However they also use mid-shot and close-up to allow the viewers to again get the full effect of the scene and allow them to see the emotion and reaction from Dorothy as she meets the Wizard. Camera angles also play a role in this scene as they use high and low angles.…

The Wizard of Oz is a story of a girl named Dorothy and her pet dog named Toto. The two become lost when a cyclone carries them away, from their home in Kansas, to the beautiful, enchanted, magical land of Oz. Dorothy and Toto need help in getting back home. Along the way, and in so doing, they make enemies with the Wicked Witch of the West. And they make friends with the Tin Woodman, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion. The friendship helps the five to survive many adventures, and to make each…

Emerald City is a polarizing and courageous piece from Matthew Klingle. Matthew Klingle had explored the functions of nature in the development of Seattle as from the early days when settlement began to the present time. The book has made a combination of environmental history, human geography, urban history, among others, as he tries to attempt to reshape how nature looks like within the period of ecological disaster and social inequality. Matthew Klingle has explored many things that are…

In the book Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone, former Washington Post Baghdad bureau chief, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, investigates the Green Zone, a sectioned off lavished city in Iraq where the United State authorities lived and worked. The book is centered on the failure of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) not achieving their goal of helping the postwar nation Iraq, due to not fixing crucial immediate needs. Chandrasekaran does a wonderful job of explaining how…

The car was ready for our trip to Emerald Isle North Carolina. My brother Will and I argued on who would sit in the “hump” in the car. The “hump” was the tightest, most cramped and the seat that can’t adjust in the middle of the two awesome window seats. Will even tried to get my older brother Danny who was almost 15 to sit in that seat! “I have been sitting in that seat for 13 hours for 14 years! No way Will!” Danny complained. Annoyed, I held my breathe and volunteered to sit in the awful…

Aulacorhynchus prasinus is a kind of toucans and usually called Emerald toucanet. In the genus aulacorhynchus, it contains seven kinds of species and in the species of prasinus which has seven different kinds of birds. They are main in Mexico, Central and South America. Most of them are living in the eastern coast of rainforest from lowland to high mountains which the range is 915m to 3050m (Gould 1834). Males and females are the color like which are all main in green, but the body size of the…

Signs of decay or fungi, such as mushrooms • Then move to the root’s collar, the area of the trunk just above the soil. Look for: o Peeling or loose bark o Cracks or deep slits in the tree • Now scrutinize the rest of the trunk for other signs of decay, such as: o Signs of swelling o Cavities • Finally, look up to the canopy, the upper layer of branches and leaves. Spot these: o Dead or dying branches that hang low, lack bark and show no signs of life o Weak, V-shaped branch unions, where two…

Seattle is consistently one of the strongest realty markets in the U.S. Some believe this is because the Emerald City cultivates a hip culture that attracts all ages with its laid-back lifestyle, inclusive community, proximity to natural splendor, as well as vibrant music and arts scenes. Others credit the city’s alluring neighborhoods that feature homes for every lifestyle: from spacious urban condos to…

education as a way of using the “city as a classroom” and “nature” as well as “integrated social and ecological [system]” (2-5). There are numerous ways to become involved in urban environmental educational projects. Fortunately, “urban environmental education continues to reinvent itself” in many ways (Cornell University Civic Ecology Lab). Used to focus on social-ecological systems, urban environmental education uses many forms of community based practices “such as...streamside…

Also, Socrates will try to argue that a city is necessary because humans need to rely on one another in order to accomplish tasks. Socrates begins his argument when he states, “So if you approve, why don’t we start by finding out what sort of thing it is in cities? After that we can make a similar inquiry into the individual, trying to find the likeness of the larger version in the form the smaller takes” (line 369). He first proposes the dissection of a city. First, you must look for justice in…