Gale Sayers

This is Gale’s rookie year for the Chicago Bears football team. They both play running back. Throughout training camp, the competition between them heats up. Brian is a white man, and Gale is a black man. Surprisingly, during camp they are roomed together. Gale eventually wins the starting job. Gale begins to become a star. Brian plays in his shadow. The next year, Brian vows to be better, to compete for the sake of both of them. Gale wins the job again, but he gets hurt partway into the season and needs surgery. Brian takes his job and shines in it. Yet, through the great bond he and Gale have began to share, Brian finds it his duty to help Gale get back to full health. Brian pushed him very hard, and eventually they are competing again. Gale wins again, but Brian gets the fullback job. Both of them excel on the on the field together. Yet, through the season, Brian’s health begins to deteriorate. It worsens to the point that Brian loses his job and has to be taken in for a diagnosis. Brian discovers he has cancer, and he needs a surgery to remove the tumor. With Gale by his side, Brian fights the best he can. And them taking it on together is all Brian is concerned…

Three (3) values that direct family-centered services. Application, implication, and characteristics of each value. “Values are important to the practice of human services because they are the criteria by which helpers and clients make choices” (Woodside and McClam, 2011, p. 164). One of the values that direct family-centered services is that family plays a vital role in children growth. In Nelson & Landsman Alternative models of family preservation: Family-based services in context (as cited…

Dorothy asks. Alice came to the Underland when she was a child and she followed me just like you did. Nivens said. The White Queen will tell you more about Alice when you meet her. Nivens said. They walk to the castle. Dorothy saw the Red Queen. The Red Queen was reading a book. Who that? Dorothy asks. That the Red Queen. Nivens answer. They walk to the White Queen. I am so sorry your highness, I did not find Alice because I went to the wrong dimension. This girl name Dorothy Gale follow me.…

There is no Place like home Today we are going to go about the major theme in the movie The Wizard of Oz. According to the text, “A theme is an idea, subject, or topic of some kind that pervades the plot. It is not so much what happens, but rather what the movie is about, part of the meaning you are expected to take away from the work” (Goodykoontz, 2014 ). The one theme that is depicted in Wizard of Oz, and many critics would say that it is the main theme and flow of the film which is beckoned…

The song Over The Rainbow is a very iconic song sung by Judy Garland in the late 1930s. This song was written for the movie The Wizard of Oz that is most likely where it gained most of its popularity and praise. The song has also had a very unique cover done by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole in 1993. This cover of the popular ballad was and is loved by many. This cover also includes a verse from the song What a Wonderful World, by Louis Armstrong. Although songs that are covered have mostly the same…

Imagine you are dropped in a new land, unknown to you. You meet witches and a talking scarecrow, lion and tinman. That is what happened to humble Dorothy Gale from Kansas in The Wizard Of Oz by L. Frank Baum. In order to get home Dorothy needs to go on an adventure to emerald city. She is faced with hard challenges but proceeds to conquer those challenges. However, Dorothy was scared initially, she learns to face her fears throughout the story. Therefore, she is becoming more independent, she…

There’s No Place like Oz Caroline lived in the midst of the great North Carolina piedmont with Jamie, who was her mother, and Alex, who was her older brother. Their house was made of brick, and sat upon a tall, grassy hill overlooking the road below that no one ever drove on. When Caroline stood in the doorway and looked around, she could see nothing but the great gray small town on every side. Neither a Starbucks nor a Forever 21 broke the broad sweep of mountainous country that…

Wicked, by Gregory Maguire, explores the life of the infamous “Wicked Witch of the West,” formerly known as Elphaba. Elphaba is born green. On top of that, she is almost completely/entirely unloved by her parents. Elphaba must navigate through life in Oz, facing the challenges of her appearance, an unjust government, racial injustices, life in society, and a world that seems like it’s out to get her. Slowly and steadily, Elphaba begins to tumble down farther and farther away from her reasonable…

“There’s no place like home.” For my remix analysis I am focusing on the phenomenon that is the Wizard of Oz and how it became the starting point for so many different remixes that are very well know today. First off, the 1939 movie that was directed by a few different directors but in the end was finished being directed by Victor Fleming. This movie, being one of the first movies to use color, brought L. Frank Baum’s vision of Oz to life. Secondly, Wicked, the musical with music by Stephen…

“The Wizard of Oz” play was about a girl named Dorothy, who goes on a journey with a scarecrow, a tin man, and lion to see the wizard of Oz. On this journey she encounters many people, some friendly and some not. Dorothy and her friends go to see the wizard each for their own purposes, but all had intentions of stopping the Wicked Witch of the West. There are many entertaining scenes in this play. Two of them are the flying monkey scene and when she first arrives in Oz. When Dorothy first…