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    Mining of Tin

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    Tin Tin is one of the oldest elements that has been used and mined by mankind. Tin is used as cans in the food industry, construction products, oil filter in the automobile industry, and miscellaneous applications, such as cookie pans, furnace filters, toys and bulletin board. The chemical symbol for tin is ‘Sn’ which originated from the latin word ‘Stannum’ which means tin in latin. After Britain was invaded by Anglo-Saxon, ‘Stannum’ was changed to ‘tin’ which we have been using until today. Tin

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    Foils In The Tin Men

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    A character foil helps reveal something about a main character. The Scarecrow, The Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion are all character foils to Dorothy. The thing that each of these characters lack, and therefore wish for, are what Dorothy took for granted from her home life. Starting off, the Scarecrow Dorothy meets lacks a brain, or guidance, of which Dorothy discovers she took for granted. Upon Dorothy’s meeting of the Scarecrow, she discovers that he lacks a brain, thus they set out for Emerald

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    Themes Of The Tin Drum

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    The film “The Tin Drum” is a German movie made in 1959 based off of the novel written by Gunter Grass. This story begins with the birth of a interesting boy named Oskar Matzerath who turns out to be born with full intellect and knowledge of the world around him. With this self-understanding, he decides on his third birthday, after getting a toy tin drum, that he will fall down the stairs to the cellar in order to make himself never grow again. After this fall that is exactly what happens and through

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    evident to the rest of the characters of the book, when the Lion says "One would almost suspect you had brains in your head, instead of straw”. Similarly, the Tin Woodman’s character also seems to be a contradiction, since even though he has no heart, his actions show a great capacity of love, caring and empathy, such as "Once, indeed, the Tin Woodman stepped upon a beetle that was crawling along the road, and killed the poor little thing. This made the

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    The Tin Flute Analysis

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    Gabrielle Roy’s novel the tin flute takes place in Saint-Henri neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec during the Second War World. This novel examines many themes, literary devices and important aspects seen through the perspective of the Lacasse family as they struggle through life in poverty. At the beginning, it is seen that a 19-year-old girl, who works as a waitress at the Five and Ten restaurant named Florentine is the main focus, but the novel revolves around Florentine’s mother, Rose-Anna. Rose-Anna

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    1.) TIN MAN: In the movie the Tin Man was a man, who looked like he was covered in aluminum and was in love with a munchkin when he was a real man, but the wicked witch of the east made him lose his limbs and he became without a heart. The munchkins lived in the east and so did the witch so I figured the tin man represented the eastern factory workers. The eastern factory workers were almost as if they weren’t humanlike, like something overcame them. 2.) THE SCARECROW: In the movie the scarecrow

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    In the movie The Wizard of Oz, the Tin Man is a dynamic character, and goes through changes as the book progresses. First when the Tin Man is introduced, he acts as though he is worthless. For example, in the movie he claims, “My - my neck. My - my neck. Perfect? Oh - bang on my chest if you think I'm perfect. Go ahead - bang on it!” When the Tin Man says this, he implies that he does not think highly of himself. He acts as though he is not competent, because the tinsmith neglected to give him a

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    opportunity because they do not want it to pass by them and live the rest of their life wondering what if. That is what Florentine was battling with in The Tin Flute. She does not know if she should follow Jean and see the movie with him or let him pass her by. Florentine is almost afraid to say no because she wants this chance at happiness. In “The Tin Flute” by Gabrielle Roy the reader should learn that people can throw everything they have into a chance at happiness because they are afraid of what may

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    Tin Pan Alley was the place to be discovered, New York had artists of all genres looking to produce their own sheet music. It all began in the late 1880's on the block of West 28th Street, between Broadway and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan. () The block had multiple music publishing studios , welcoming new talent. The name comes from the sounds made by all the pianos played desperately by hopeful song writers looking for approval. At the beginning the, money was in the sheet music for Tin Pan Alley;

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    Tin Pan Alley consisted of New York City music publishers and songwriters who began the emerge of popular music in the United States. The origin of the name Tin Pan Alley is said to come from reference to the sound of several different pianos, which resembled the banging of tin pans. The action of the Tin Pan Alley sheet music industry took place for the most part on West 28th Street between Broadway and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan. Many of the music publishers had their offices on this street (Jasen

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