The New Land

nations to nations, and feeling strong without obeying laws. The attraction were that these tribes were urban with many agricultural goods (White, 1993). The other tribes that the Israelites took liken to was Canaanites they possessed the Promised Land. They lived in the city-states where each city had its own government, army, and laws. Canaanites were hard to defeat even individually, there was no single king to defeat them (Life Application Bible, 1997).…

perspective grown accustomed to seeing color on screen, this world seems "less real  than that of the Technicolor Oz, however, at its time of production, color was still relatively new and uncommon in such a plot driven movie. Audiences expect the black and white, accepting it as the "more real  of the two. This gives the colorful Land of Oz the appearance of a dream and grounds audiences in the world of Kansas.…

Imagine being sucked into a story you have heard about and watched for years...literally! In the book, Dorothy Must Die, by Danielle Paige, this is a girl powered book. This book was published by HarperCollins Publishers in 2014, it is inspired by the Wizard of Oz. Amy Gumm is just an ordinary girl from Kansas who lives an ordinary life, until she gets swept up by a tornado, dropping her into the one and only Oz. Only Oz is not the same, “This wasn’t Dorothy’s Oz” (35). everything has been…

The Wizard of Oz is known for its wild and outrageous scenes that are said to be one of the most viewed films ever. The story focuses mainly on a girl named Dorothy who got whisked away into a magical land by a tornado, and has to learn where her heart belongs in order to return home to her family. This movie really generates the perfect theme of good and evil by using several film devices to help capture these feelings. The Wizard of Oz uses many technical devices to help establish the good…

Figure 1 below illustrates the predicted route of the track as identified during the least cost paths analysis. The four parts of the route are shown: Punakiki to the ventilation shaft; shaft to the mine portal (lookout point); portal to the amenities area; and the ventilation shaft to Blackball. The results clearly illustrate it is possible to use cost paths modelling to identify a track. However, further assessment will be necessary around the aesthetic value of the track, to assess whether it…

religious war started by the catholic Christian to capture the holy city of Jerusalem. Pope Urban II, the leader of catholic Christian started the war in 1095. He wanted to increase his personal power, stop the Seljuk Turks and a safe route to Holy land. Seizing the opportunity given by the feudal system, Peter the hermit inspired all to join the force against the Muslim force. Noble wanted the crusade to continue to become more rich and powerful. Peasant were inspired by the money and job…

and then some. Although there are many characters in the first formative years of Israel’s existence, the character of Joshua, leads Israel into a temporary Promised Land, which foreshadows the role that Jesus plays in the unfolding narrative. Joshua was critical to the establishment of Israel as their own country, leading them to a land to call their own. Israel, “under the leadership of Joshua… successfully maintained a foothold despite enemy pressure” (Anderson, 40). Israel, under the…

The Battle for Power within the Wizard of Oz In Stephen Greenblatt’s book, Renaissance Self-Fashioning from More to Shakespeare, Greenblatt takes different pieces of Renaissance literature and gives a New Historicist approach to them. Within chapter six, Greenblatt brings up the famous play Othello by William Shakespeare. This section is where Greenblatt brings up his theory of having power v. occupying power. In his theory he states that Iago, the antagonist, is the one that truly has the…

many others. If even one of these needs is left unmet, the quality of life of man would decline, eventual death of some is not impossible. Among the many needs of man, land is involved most of the times. Men need shelter, they put their houses in lands; men need food, they cultivates them in lands. According to Kassas (1995), land is the terrestrial system that includes soil, water, some organismal growth, and the environmental processes that occur within the system. Such system may produce…

“The Waste Land” is a wonderfully complex work by T.S. Eliot. In this work Eliot illuminates ideas in “The Waste Land” by comparing and contrasting events happening there to events that have happened in the past. One of the myths we see echoed throughout the story as a reoccurring, central theme to the work is the myth of Philomela. Eliot depicts an image of human stagnation in his work, which can be compared to the unfruitfulness that comes from the rape Philomela story and the loveless central…