Thesis Statement and Main Ideas: Judy Garland/Dorothy “Somewhere over the Rainbow way up high,There’s a land that I once heard in a lullaby,somewhere over the rainbow,” Oh hello my name is Dorothy Gale from Kansas I’ve lost my path and need to find the way back home, Can you help me? My real name is Judy Garland. I was born in Minnesota on June 10, 1922, and immediately my career took off in 1939 when I scored a lead part in the award winning movie “The Wizard of Oz”. I started filming “The…
The leprechaun’s straggly red beard dragged along the floor of the county courthouse as he looked down at his handcuffs wondering how he’d gotten himself in this position. “All I’d wanted was me pot of gold,” he said to the sheriff forlornly. “Me rainbow led me there. I swear!” “Well, that wasn’t your pot of gold,” the sheriff replied. “We still don’t know how you got in there, but you were in the Fort Knox safe. That’s more like a million of your pots of gold.” The leprechaun tried to think of…
Snow, c. 1957. In the article “Rock and Roll Unplugged” it explains to us the major influence African music has had on the American culture throughout the years. Much of the music back then is still being used today. For instance, "God gave Noah the Rainbow sign, No more water, the fire next time, Better get a home in that Rock, don't you see?" Song lyrics that were used in the article, and they're very…
Introduction to the LGBTQ+ Community I have been a part of the LGBTQ+ community since my junior year of high school, and I can say that the people in this community are some of the strongest, toughest, and most pride-filled people there is. LGBTQ+ stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer, and any other identities that have yet to be broadly publicized, including Asexuality, and Intersex people (Weinberg). These groups are very tight-knit, both amongst their intersections and in…
Some of the oldest art traditions in the world originate in Australian, art can be found carved in rock dating back 30,000 years. The Aboriginal people were also body painters and made ground designs by arranging small stones to create patterns. One of the most interesting is the art carved in tree-bark showing skill, inspiration and creativity. The Aboriginal people are also known for tracking, they have successfully tracked and found people that were lost for days. Aboriginal Myths…
goddess of harvest, Demeter upset. Zeus heard her complaints and found a possible solution. Zeus wanted Khroma to put colors in the sky when the Nymph cried to help cheer her up. These colors in the sky are called rainbows, they were beautiful. The Nymph’s crying stopped after the rainbow…
added to the film’s magic. The quotes are so memorable such as “There's no place like home.”, “I'll get you, my pretty and your little dog, too!” and “Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.” The songs are memorable too such as Over the Rainbow, Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead, If I only Had a Heart. I find myself singing along to the songs every single time I watch this wonderful film. “Time has been powerless to put its kindly philosophy out of fashion”. And I wholeheartedly…
In the movie, The Wizard of Oz, the protagonist is Dorothy and the antagonist is Dorothy herself and her not appreciating home and what she has. The type of conflict is person versus self. The actual problem is that Dorothy wants to go “over the rainbow” or she isn’t seeing and appreciating what she has. She is blind to her blessings. The reader sees this in the initial incident when she is worried about Toto and Ms Gulch, she is singing about some faraway place where all her problems will be…
Trout Fishing Vacation If you like this great hobby of fishing, then you have to make trout your favorite fish to go after. Due to the great abundance of this fish, the popularity in catching them is superior to other species. However, don’t think that this abundance in trout fish makes them easier to catch than the others. Expert fishers can tell you than even they have had difficult times trying to get this popular fish. You must know that there are many experts in the art of trout fishing…
This perspective is made apparent when the speaker addresses her boat as it symbolizes her ability to expand and take in all of her surroundings. This "rented boat" "leaking oil" from its "rusted engine" created a rainbow so beautiful that she became overwhelmed and released the fish. Here, the boat can be compared to the fish, in it’s initial imperfection, then to its final magnificence. The descriptive words allow the reader to, again, visualize the moment vividly…