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  • Dorothys Return Home
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    The Development of Dorothy The movie The Wizard of Oz opens on a farm in Kansas. The lead character is a twelve-year-old girl named Dorothy. Dorothy exists in a world limited by aged beliefs and fears, which make up a great part of her reality. In Kansas, Dorothy is a twelve-year-old girl, with twelve-year-old needs and emotions. I feel that the movie is a device by which we can analyze Dorothy in all states of mind, her conscious, pre-conscious, and unconscious. I believe that Sigmund Freud pri...
  • Helps Dorothy Relive The Primal Scene
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    Freud's Oz: Freudian Views in The Wizard of Oz The film The Wizard of Oz is definitely about the concept of returning home. This is made clear throughout the film. Dorothy's entire time in Oz is spent trying to get back home to Kansas. Then when she gets back home she tells Aunt Em that 'all I kept saying to everybody was 'I want to go home. ' ' This fits perfectly with the time, 1939, that The Wizard of Oz was produced. One reason was that due to the depression, many people were forced away fro...
  • Suzanne L Bunkers Dorothy Parker
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    Suzanne L. Bunkers Dorothy Parker was not only a wit also a chronicler and a harsh critic of 1920's-1930's social roles. Her poems and short stories are not simply "cute" or "funny"; they also function as a vehicle for social criticism. Of particular importance is Parker's use of stereotypical female characters to satirize, more bitterly than playfully, the limited roles available to American women during the Twenties and Thirties, decades when the predominant image of the American woman was tha...
  • Wizard Of Ozs Beauty
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    Survival of the Fittest Fairy tales, such as Mervyn Leroy's 1939 production of The Wizard of Oz, follow children throughout the ages because each child contains a wholesome instinctive desire for fantastic stories and manifest reality. Characters like the munchkins and fairies of Grimm and Anderson have brought more joy to young hearts than from all other human inventions. The Wizard of Oz has served for generations and is now considered a historical tale in the childrens library. Contemporary c...
  • Dorothy And Scarecrow
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    The Compiled Sync List 001-Echoes 1) The first indicator that everything is going right is the change from 'Speak to Me' to 'Breathe' which coincides exactly with the fade-in appearance of the name of producer Mervyn LeRoy Note: In the prologue the word 'Time' (one of the songs on the CD) is written with a capital letter even though it isn't at the start of the sentence. Also you will find the word 'Heart' capitalized in the middle of a sentence (a sound particular to 'The Dark Side of the Moon'...
  • Catholic Worker Houses
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    Dorothy Day (1897-1980) Born in Brooklyn, New York on November 8th, 1897 Dorthy Day was a very influential person in the catholic economic lifestyle. Her father, John Day was out of work when she was little, which gave her empathy for other then, and later on in life because she also knows what its like to be there. When she moved to Chicago her life turned for the better, Her father became sports editor of a major Chicago newspaper. In 1914 she relieved a scholarship for the university of Illin...
  • Lot For Dorothy
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    "All you have to do is knock the heels together three times G linda the witch made this clear as she told Dorothy how her only way of escaping Oz and returning home was by the ruby slippers she was wearing. Kansas City was a place where Dorothy overcame many different obstacles that played in her mind and led her to fantasizing about a place somewhere over the rainbow way up high. This utopia takes away all of lifes dilemmas and flawlessness and replaces your soul with many hopes, dreams and hap...
  • Late Mrs Dorothy Parker
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    Patti Smith Born in Chicago and raised in Woodbury, New Jersey, just across the state line from Philadelphia, Patti's mother, Beverly, was a jazz singer cum waitress. Her father, Grant, worked at the Honeywell plant; she was the oldest of four siblings: her sisters Linda and Kimberly (the latter plays mandolin on Gone Again's "Ravens", ), and brother Todd. Unable to find her place in high school society, she took refuge in the images of Rimbaud, Bob Dylan, James Brown, and the Rolling Stones. Dr...
  • Dorothy's Fearless Friends
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    "Somewhere over the rainbow", - my favorite song from The Wizard of Oz from the first time I saw it at age five to now. The very thought of leaving behind the black and white reality to escape to a land of color and excitement fascinated me. Each time in viewing this movie my imagination was filled with the dreams of what lay outside of Kemp. Dorothy Gayle was an only child living on a farm on the Kansas countryside. Without the companionship of any other children, Dorothy grew up alone with Aun...
  • Life Of A Clergyman's Daughter
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    A Clergyman's Daughter Author: A Clergyman's Daughter Essay, Research Paper Author: George Orwell Title: A Clergyman's Daughter Title explanation: The title is called A Clergyman's Daughter, because the book gives a description of Dorothy's life as a clergyman's daughter. Cast of characters The main character is Dorothy Hare, the only child of a reverend. Further more, the reverend Charles Hare, Dorothy's father. Mr. Warburton, Dorothy's friend. Nobby, an other friend of Dorothy's. Mrs. Creevy, ...

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