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    respected Aboriginal leaders and impressive intellects and powerful orators in Australia. He is a popular defender for Aboriginal rights, especially Aboriginal land. He has changed the approach to welfare, child abuse, child protection, education and economic development. In 2007, together with the Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough, he launched a new welfare scheme for the Aboriginal people at Hope Vale. This scheme offers funds to help the Aboriginal community for home improvements, and…

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    Theodora Gender Roles

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    of imperatives and interrogatives which makes the audience realise the power shifts between the characters. I anticipate that in the film Oz the Great and Powerful she will use imperatives and Interrogatives towards the character of Oz, as he is a new character of whom she has little knowledge.…

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    Americans living throughout the twentieth century. In fact, August Wilson uses The piano Lesson to uncover the hardships Boy Willie and his family face focusing on a time when his family was held captive as slaves to a chance to own his own piece of land. The Piano Lesson demonstrates the importance of family heirlooms and how no amount of money could ever replace the sentimental value they hold. Berniece and Boy Willie battle over whether the piano should be sold to help re-write the family…

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    The Piano Lesson Analysis

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    Wilson uses The Piano Lesson to illustrate the hardships of two siblings involving conflicts, symbolism, religion, and folklore. Boy Willie focuses mainly on the time at which his family was held captive as slaves to a chance to buy his own piece of land. The Piano Lesson demonstrates the importance of family heirlooms and how no amount of money could ever replace the sentimental value of they hold. Berniece and Boy Willie constantly argue as to whether the piano should be sold to help re-write…

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    the then-current president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt. Toto, Dorothy’s dog, has been speculated to resemble average Americans. In the beginning of the movie, Dorothy’s house gets enveloped in a cyclone before being taken to “Munchkin Land” and crushing the Wicked Witch of the East. The cyclone has been compared to the free silver movement, in which farmers wanted silver to remain in the monetary system in order to be able to pay off their debts, resulting in a “political storm” of…

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    two films and a play. The first film was The Wizard of Oz in 1939 produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM); the second film was broadcasted by Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) in 1956 and finally The Wiz play. According to Frank Nugent, writer for the New York Times, the first adaptation film was fantastic and succeeded well. On another hand, the first adaptation “changed significant details of the story, blurring the monetary connection by making the Silver Shoes red and the Witch 's Golden Cap…

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    their problems themselves but they do not have the confidence within themselves so they are relying on the Wizard to help them which is where the theme of Self Sufficiency and Self Confidence comes into the production. L. Frank Baum was born in 1856, New York. He was homeschooled but often found spending hours in his father's library reading. His first bestselling children's book was Father Goose (1899). The following year he had…

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    Dorothy’s character is willing to help her friends solve their problems, however she maintains that there is only one place she wants to go to: home As depicted in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank. L. Baum, Dorothy is whisked away to the foreign Land of Oz, but remains calm and only desires to go back to Kansas. Dorothy refuses to be stopped by anything in her way; she bravely begins the journey to the Emerald City alone, battles against the Wicked Witch of the West; she does not give up hope…

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    The story of Dorothy Gale’s tornado swept trailer is an American classic. It tells the story of a young girl finding her way through a fictitious land filled with munchkins and flying monkeys on her way to the Emerald City. The original novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has been found to relate to the Great Depression and Populist movement that occurred in the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century. There are many reasons why the modern spin on this classic story is a…

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    children’s novel revolving around a young girl’s journey through the Yellow Brick Road. The young girl, named Dorothy, arrives to the magical Land of Oz, after being caught in a tornado. The Land of Oz is where she meets the Tin-Man, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion. Dorothy and her three new companions are in search for things that no one else in the Land of Oz can grant them, besides the Wizard of Oz himself. However, what they’re seeking for are attributes that are already found within…

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