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Dorothy Dandridge Ruby Dandridge Dottie
611 wordsDorothy Jean Dandridge was born on November 9, 1922, in Cleveland, Ohio. Her parents (Cyril and Ruby Dandridge) had a troubled marriage, which eventually lead to them going their separate ways. Ruby met the new "love" of her life, a woman, later was much despised by Dottie. She was very domineering and abusive toward Ruby's two children, especially Dottie. Early in their youth Ruby and her friend trained them for performing onstage. Between the ages 4 - 6 depending on who you ask, was about the ...
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Opened Her Eyes Favorite Doll Lisa
841 wordsHurry up, Lisa! Make a wish and blow the candles! exclaimed Mr and Mrs. Jones. It was Lisa's 7 th birthday and the Jones were celebrating it in their large, luxurious living room. Lisa was the happiest girl because she basically had everything, every toy she wanted. Her parents had her in their mid forties, so Lisa was a very valuable gift to them. So that was the reason why they bought her everything she asked for, making her the happiest yet the brattiest kid on earth. After Lisa made a wish a...
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Dorothy Parker Vicious Circle
1,984 wordsBorn 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. Dropping out o...
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Wordsworth William And Dorothy
605 wordsWilliam Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, were so close that not only did they live together for the majority of their lives, but also they each considered the other to be his or her closest confidante and inspiration. Like Wordsworth and his other close associate, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the relationship between William and Dorothy can be seen in each of their literary works. This is no more evident than in William's "I wandered lonely as a cloud" and Dorothy's April 15, 1802 published journ...
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Wizard Of Oz Wicked Witch
1,165 wordsFairy 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 child ventures solely in ...
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The Evolution Of Black Actresses In American Film
1,783 wordsThere is a rich history in American film. There is one group of people that were many times overlooked for their great attributes to American film: the Black actors. There were many aspiring black actors. Unfortunately, as in most things in the past, they did not have the same opportunities as other mainstream Hollywood actors. They were only allowed to be coons, tragic mulatto's, mammies, and the servants. Even with those roles, they were never allowed to be the leading lady. There are many asp...
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Television Show York City
1,109 wordsI am going to be writing about the lifetime television show, " The Golden Girls." There are many different episodes and I have probably seen them all, at least twice. I first started watching the show with my mom. My curfew when I was in high school was 11: 00 or 11: 30. While I was going into detail about the many things that had happened that night, "The Golden Girls" would be on. At first I did not enjoy them, but as I got to know the characters I was addicted. First, and most important there...
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Dorothy Day Saint Worthy
950 wordsAlmost immediately after her death in 1980 controversy arose about whether Dorothy Day should be canonized a Saint by the Church. Now that the Vatican has approved the late Cardinal John O'Connor's request to consider Dorothy Day's 'cause, ' the controversy is being rekindled. After converting, she dedicated her life to New York's poor and immigrants, building hospitality homes that operated much like homeless shelters. Her endeavor grew into the national Catholic Worker movement, a social justi...
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Wizard Of Oz Wicked Witch
1,861 wordsHaving learnt the principles of Joseph Campbells The Hero Has Thousand Faces we can say that the stages can be logically found in the famous and beloved book Wizard of Oz. For many decades the book has been read by millions of young people. Thats why a lot of screen versions were made and now we try to examine the plot of the film, and show, how closely the film and Campbells book are connected. First lets start with pointing out main ideas of Campbells book. I think that the stages are an excel...
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Didn T Real
715 wordsAll you have to do is knock the heels together three times? ? Guinea 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 life? s dilemmas and flawlessness and replaces your soul with many hopes, dreams a...
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Wizard Of Oz Primal Scene
1,712 wordsFreud'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 from t...
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Early Twentieth Century Quot And Quot
2,286 words[Currently, " The Waltz" is probably Parkers best known and most frequently anthologized short story. Two female voices, an external compliant one, and an internal critical one, construct the tale of a couples dance. The story also generates the most critical and scholarly attention as well as differences of opinion. Below are brief excerpts from the critical discussion surrounding this story presented chronologically. They are designed to give you not only a taste of the variety of re...
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Dante Alighieri Divine Comedy
1,056 wordsAlthough there seem to be similarities between Dantes vision of Satan and his vision of God, Satan is actually an inversion of the Trinity and God. There are also significant differences between the two visions, which are essential to understanding this inversion. The most obvious instance of inversion is Dantes construction of the world of his Divine Comedy. A simplified version of this world looks like this: EMPYREAN (God) PLANETS PURGATORY HELL SATAN From this depiction, it is obvious that Go...
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