The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

How would participating in the BLAST program impact my life? To be honest with you, it would impact my life in more ways than I can possibly think of off the top of my head. But the major reason it would impact my life is that it would help me build a better understanding of the STEM program. Which would prepare me for the career I hope to pursue.2. Ever since I was a little tike I had always been fascinated by all four branches of STEM. I live in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia so I have had…

For my essay, I am going to write about tornadoes. My question is how do storm chasers measure the speed of a tornado? The first topic I will be telling you about is the F scale. Did you know the person who invented the F scale went to the University of Chicago. The second topic is about tornadoes and about 1,200 tornadoes hit the U.S. each year. My final topic is over storm chasers. I learned that storm chasers park southeast of the tornado because usually it is the safest place to park. There…

In the chapter “Silver Hair, Golden Years” in the book Somebody Told Me by Rick Bragg, there are elder characters with some wonderful stories. In the articles: “All She Has, $150,000, Is Going to a University”; “Band Plays On for Class of ‘39”; “Woman Clings to Her Paradise”; “Little Women Look Back on a Lost World”; and “Country Club Meets Enemy: Country Music and Pigs”, all of the characters went through things that people today have never experienced. All of the characters grew up in hard…

humorous event, Diana’s friends are successful in their use of verbal irony. While their words show Diana that they acknowledge her pain, they also offer a light perspective and probably lead to laughter. SUCCESS! Situatio nal Irony In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the characters all turn out to have what they have been searching for all along…

Drama club has given me so many opportunities. I’ve been in numerous productions, including “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown”, “The Wizard of Oz”, “Kilroy Was Here”, and “The Sound of Music.” I’ve made many lifelong friends through theater, including one best friend in particular whom is very important to me. I met my best friend, Samuel Gouldsmith, in the seventh grade. We have been best…

She was simply asleep. After finding a pillow for her head, I left her to enjoy it. (37) MY SATURDAY MORNINGS WERE RESERVED for Christina Heal: a devoutly religious woman who might have been older than Jesus Christ himself with a pear shaped body and hazel eyes that once twinkled upon hearing my stories. It was a particularly warm day for fall in New York; so I decided to stroll down to Ms. Heal’s office on Forty-Fourth Street. The sun glistened in the sky and the children playing baseball in…

Two of Broadway’s most talented voices emerged from the hit musical, “Wicked.” Idina Menzel and Kristen Chenoweth both had been in broadway shows long before but wicked was the one that blew them into stardom. The musical displays numerous singing acts that tell the story of a girl who grew up slightly different from the rest and a stereotypical popular girl that tried to help her gain her confidence. Idina and Kristen’s voices are like no other in the musical because their voices bring our…

She discovered acting from a program at a center on deafness that helps bring hearing and the deaf kids together. She landed her first role as the main character Dorothy in The Wizard Of Oz. Her acting life started with a company in Chicago. Matlin continued acting throughout her adulthood. She hit her big break in Chicago. She got a big role in the movie Children Of a Lesser God. She played as a deaf woman who becomes involved with…

Kancil : Good or Bad? A few years ago, when I was nine or ten years-old, I was familiar with nursery rhymes and bedtime stories. Every night, before going to bed, I used to have a bedtime story from my father. I listened to him seriously, until I felt asleep. My father is my most favorite comedian, and he told a story before we went to bed. At nine o’clock, he would sit down in front of us and told the same story about a family which consist of four people: They are the old man (aki-aki), old…

Thornstein Veblen and the Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Bunde Veblen was a 19th century Norwegian-American economist and sociologist who attained a degree of reputation thanks to his critique of Capitalism, especially after the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the ensuing period of Great Depression. Veblen published his most prominent work, “The Theory of the Leisure Class” in 1899, in which he married Darwinism to Sociology to present a concept of evolutionary development of human…