Land of Oz

her I’ve had and have electricity to read, I’ve never had to stitch up my drunken father’s arm, an I’ve never had to fend for myself while my parents didn’t. I think that she should do what her older sister Lori does: read books like the Wizards of Oz to escape into a fantasy to put her at ease for a little bit. She needs a break from her terrifying life and from her ignorant “guardians”. I don’t know how she copes, her mother tried to make her kiss Erma’s corpse when she thankfully died, was…

The Cincinnati Museum The Cincinnati Museum was built in 1933, originally as the Cincinnati Union Terminal (a train terminal). This terminal was a passenger station in the Queensgate neighborhood of Cincinnati. In the late 19th and 20th centuries, Cincinnati, Ohio was a bustling metropolitan area - a hub for transportation and activity. Goods and supplies were shipped in and out of the city everyday. Because of the city’s central location in the continental United States, Cincinnati became an…

creatures. Otters are active hunters, chasing prey in the water or searching the beds of rivers, lakes or the seas. Most species live beside water, but river otters usually enter it only to hunt or travel, otherwise spending much of their time on land to avoid their fur becoming waterlogged. Sea otters are considerably more aquatic and live in the ocean for most of their lives. Otters are playful animals and appear to engage in various behaviors for sheer enjoyment, such as making waterslides…

important and where a person belongs can be different although people of different backgrounds can find their belonging with each other. In the film, Australia, Baz Luhrman represents the Indigenous culture through Nullah as his cultural bond to the land and to…

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Little did they know how much trouble that was going to cause me. Growing up, evil people always tried to do me harm, when baby, the Evil Queen tried to kidnap me and raise me as her own, as a toddler, the Wicked Witch of the West from the Land of Oz, dressed herself as my nanny and tried to use me for her benefit. Once a teenager however, I had learned ways to protect myself, I already knew my way through every single town. Specially through Peter Pan’s village, when kids, peter and I had an…

From there, everything turns out to be weird and without any sense. Her adventures are patched together with strange dream logic and fantastic vivid wordplay. She returns to the real world and finds herself in another adventure behind the mirror in a sequel called “Through the Looking Glass.” After she finishes her journeys she feels like she has grown up a bit through her strange adventures. Apart from Carroll’s strange way of balancing the darkness against mad, whimsical humor, this story…

it wasn't until 2010 when I realized I really wanted to act, I remember the day so clearly; I was downstairs doing some of my “grade 6 school work” when my mom called me upstairs to show me an ad in the paper for munchkin auditions for The Wizard of Oz at Theatre Ancaster. I was ecstatic when I saw this, I have always had a passion for theatre, drama, and acting in general; but, unfortunately I…

the phone stopped ringing and I could hear Holly’s voice again. “Now tell me, do you ride horses?”, Holly asked , “My brother Fred absolutely adores horses. He’s in the army right now, but when we gets back I promised him that we would go buy some land and raise horses. Of course, I don’t have that kind of money right now.” Horses? How did they get talking about horses? “My father taught me how to ride — my real father — not one of the men that ma used to bring home” Holly said with a stern tone…

Walter Hugh McDougall was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of John Alexander McDougall (1810–1894),[3] a painter and close associate of writers such as Edgar Allan Poe and Washington Irving.[4] Walt attended a military academy, and from the age of 16 was self-educated. He began his professional work in 1876 with the New York Daily Graphic, which three years earlier had become the nation's first illustrated daily newspaper. He also sold early works to Harper's Weekly and Puck.[5][6] For a time…