Grand Wizard Theodore

I have been playing tennis for about three years now and I have also coached few candidates to become a better tennis player. Tennis is a very complicated sport as it is not only about having the right skills but also the proper knowledge and passion! Some of the skills include knowing fundamental tennis, having general athletic abilities, and mentally being involved in tennis. Based on my experiences from past two years, it is very important that a player should be mentally tough and physically…

Roger Federer (German pronunciation: [ˈrɔdʒər ˈfeːdərər]; born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss professional tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 2 in men's singles tennis by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).[2] Federer has won 20 Grand Slam singles titles—the most in history for a male player—and has held the world No. 1 spot in the ATP rankings for 302 weeks, including 237 consecutive weeks. After turning professional in 1998, he was continuously ranked in the top ten from…

“The Wizard of Oz” is a 1939 classic film featuring Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, and directing them all would be the great Victor Fleming. Victor Fleming’s classic film is about a young girl, named Dorothy, who lived with her aunt and uncle on their Kansas farm. A wealthy and nasty neighbor, Miss Gulch, are in conflict with Gale family regarding Dorothy’s dog Toto. Miss Gulch accused Toto of chasing her cat once more and biting her leg. After Dorothy had stolen…

Gregory Maguire’s novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, is a rework of the classic novel, The Wizard of Oz, written by L. Frank Baum. The novel aims to reveal the other side of Oz; the true side that the first novel masked. Munchkinland is no longer the peaceful place that we are accustomed to, but rather it is now full of political upheaval. The Wizard in Wicked has managed to usurp the throne and instill his own totalitarian regime. One important political issue…

I first saw The Wizard of Oz on television when I was six years old and fell in love with it and have loved it ever since. The special effects in this movie hold up to this day! Which I find absolutely amazing. I have never ever grown tired of watching it. Have now lost count how many times I’ve watched this truly WONDROUS film! The Wizard of Oz is as visually exciting and emotionally stirring today as it was when first released in 1939. It’s the most famous and beloved family movie of all time…

How is the book different than the play’s? Well, it started when we started reading the books about the play’s. Some of the books we read are called The Raven, Celebrated Jumping Frog, and The Monkey's Paw. We had five to read then take a quiz on all of them and then we could go watch a play about all of them. So, how are the books different than the play’s? Well, let me tell you. Prediction, is a lot in these stories. When you read the book you do not know what is going to happen when in the…

Sly Chavey Mrs. Wunderle American Lit. 30 April, 2018 A wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin Who is the protagonist of the story? The main character was a boy, named Duny, who lived first in the small village of Ten Alders and became a great wizard later in life. Later his name, Ged, was chosen by a wizard named Ogion. He was an impatient young boy that soon developed into a wise young man. He wished to become a wizard since he was very young instead of following in his father’s footsteps as…

home? Dorothy was right: there’s no place like it. We go through life dodging wicked witches of all cardinal directions but, ideally, our homes are places where we feel most comfortable. At home we should no longer have to battle immorality. In the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy struggled to find her way back to her family, her friends, and her lifestyle in Kansas. The story of Dorothy Gale resonated the human desire to return home after being forcefully removed from them. We have a natural desire to…

“Something Wicked This Way Comes,” by Ray Bradbury tells a chilling story in which two boys, Jim and Will, get entranced by Cooger and Dark's wicked carnival in Green Town, Illinois. The story embarks a journey in defeating evil while also portraying strained relationships through the process, especially that of Will Halloway and his dad. Throughout his childhood, Will had never felt a connection with his father due to their distance; especially due to Mr. Holloway and Wills extensive age gap,…

The representation of a New Religious Movement can be seen throughout the movie “The Wizard of Oz” (Dir. Victor Fleming and George Cukor, 1939). This can be displayed through numerous aspects, such as the mystic symbolism in the film, the ideologies of the witches, and the setting of the plot. Many of the films that we see on a daily basis…