The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

transparent, rather than the colorful golden slippers of tradition. Earlier films have changed the color of traditional items to emphasize them, but they usually choose a brighter hue. For example, in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, the shoes Dorothy wears are ruby, a bright color that looks wonderful on a screen; however, in the novel the slippers are silver. The director made the decision to make the slippers red to emphasize the use of Technicolor in the film. It is quite possible that Walt…

A wonderful example of his expression of youth lies within one of his first major works, Electronic Superhighway. This artwork is a 49 channel, closed circuit video installation made up of neon, steel, and other electronic components. (Hanhardt) Electronic Superhighway…

Tale of a Third Grade Something Bill Porter is a third grader at Lake Superior Elementary School in Ashland, Wisconsin. He is nine years old and he has cerebral palsy (CP). Bill has no cognitive delays but he does have gross and fine motor delays for which he receives occupational and physical therapy. He also has articulation deficits and some expressive language delay. Bill is pulled out of his third grade classroom for both OT/PT and speech therapy. He receives all of his…

Two of the easiest poems in this collection to find the feminist message in are “Cinderella” and “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” Sexton takes these two timeless tales and picks out the ways in which they cause readers to condescend women. She does this deftly and magically in these poems and provokes deep thoughts on the ways women are portrayed in the original tales. Sexton does her best to take the focus of her poem “Cinderella” off of how ugly the step-sisters and move it to how black…