The Wizard of Oz

The most prominent symbolic property is the use of comparison to The Wizard of Oz. Through the innocence of the little girl, the black mary janes versus the Dorothy ruby slippers present opposing ideas about chastity. By comparing the two shoes and the dialogue ‘There’s no place like home’, the contextual reading within this…

4. Advertisements from Marks and Spencer In comparison to John Lewis’ advertisements, which are based on humanitarianism, Marks and Spencer’s advertisements depict Christmas as a magical and fairytale-like season. According to Patrick Bousquet-Chavanne, who is the executive director of marketing, these magical advertisements aim to represent a “moment to escape the realities of every day life” (Bousquet-Chavanne). Thus, rather than creating a sentimental advertisement that leaves a heavy…

"delicate and sensitive" in Arabic. Latifah began singing in the choir of Shiloh Baptist Church in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and had her first public performance when she sang a version of "Home" as one of the two Dorothy’s in a production of The Wizard of Oz at St. Anne's parochial school. In her first year of high school,…

What do movies like The Wizard Of Oz, The Godfather, and Star Wars have in common? These movies aren’t just good, they aren’t just great. They’re classics. But what makes these movies a masterpiece? Most would say the actors or the script, which is true. But these are not what leaves you walking out of the theatre with a smile on your face. Every movie is like a puzzle, and each element is a puzzle piece. All of these pieces come together to create the film, and if any of the pieces are missing…

Naive and somewhat foolish. These two words best exemplify our childhood. It was a time when failure carried no special meaning. Take my story. Six years ago, my teacher announced that my class would be performing The Wizard of Oz. The older children would get the big, fancy roles, and the younger ones like me, would probably be just another munchkin. Still, my seven year old was ecstatic. hen the day came to audition, somehow I decided that I did not want to be just another munchkin. I wanted…

Vanessa Hudgens may be best known for her role in the hit Disney series High School Musical as Gabrielle Montez singing beside future star and fellow teen heart-throb Zac Efron. The warm reception and success of the original movie led to several sequels, catapulting the young starlet to fame and making Vanessa Hudgens a household name. Though after the completion of HSM, the starlet said goodbye to her Disney roots and left the company to pursue a career in film. The rising star would go on to…

Chapter 3 The 1964 book continued to be the epitome of Ladybird’s Cinderella until the 1970s. Winter’s illustrations and Southgate’s storytelling proved to be such a success within Ladybird that it became one of the most famous Ladybird books in existence. The 1970s saw the publishing house enter a new era of change. Amongst the changes in pricing the books, the company also brought on a new parent company the Pearson Longman Group. In Ladybird By Design, Lawrence Zeegan states “On 3 January…

Follow The Bloody Brick Road “Where off to see the maniac the most craziest person of all. Because because because because of the stupidest things he done. Were off to see the maniac the most craziest person of all.” I love to sing parodies of the wizard of oz. And the best part about that is Lilly Rose loves that kind of thing. So I knew that we were a perfect match. We were heading to china when a swarm of Organs surrounding us. Leading them was no better than the x president Harmony…

I am Groot: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy Films start a conversation about difficult subjects like racism with the film Get Out or to empower women with the release of Wonder Women. However, before the film is released the industry uses trailers to promote their films, trailers are promotional devices through showing scenes from the movie but, holding enough information back to pique the interest of the viewer trailers are quite short in length compared to the…

slept in what seemed like days. That next morning, Bolby woke up with an odd sensation. “Something’s not right,” Bolby thought. He walked into the living space of his home, and sat down to read a book. The book he was reading was “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”, by L. Frank Baum. Right then, an abnormal sound had emanated from down the hall and in his room. “What could this possibly be?” wondered Bolby. Bolby had decided to investigate as to what made this sound. He had sworn he had left his door…