Harry Frankfurt

landscape over the last 60 years, focusing on the development of our post war suburban architecture. It examines the success and popular culture of visionary architects from the 1950 's and 60's. Architects like Robyn Boyd, Sydney Ancher, Roy Grounds and Harry Seidler whom adopted the international style of modernism Streets of Your Town is a two-part ABC series, hosted by Tim Ross. Tim is a successful comedian, broadcaster, social commentator and enthusiastic - lover of all things modernism. In…

I have been a big fan of Stephen King the writer, ever since the first time I picked up one of his novels, while I was in the seventh grade. I found myself completely hooked and unable to turn away from anything that he writes. I find most of his writings to be full of suspense and chilling clarity, as a reader Stephen King does a trendous job with bringing your imingation alive. While reading the review done by Berry, Jedediah.”Under the Dome.” Los Angeles Times [Los Angeles, Calif] 09 Nov…

that Cath is extremely passionate about her writing and reading of fanfiction. “I love love stories, Cath said.” (Rowell 56). Cath and I both have a common interest in reading fanfiction. I have read several fanfictions before based off of the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. The connections I have made have caused me to make a few predictions based off of the…

K. Rowling influences society in multiple ways. Her Harry Potter series has changed the world of entertainment, and through it she has actually made the world a better place. Rowling’s most well known accomplishment is how she wrote the book Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone that later became a series and spread throughout the world. Statistics say that there are 450 million Harry Potter books sold throughout the world, available in 73 languages, as stated on usatoday…

I wrote about your brushwork, beginning to work more alla prima, as opposed to the resurrection series which I imagine was wet on dry… I’ll tell you about that period, and leading up to it. Do you see this piece here, it’s the “Southill Salome”. What happened was that I was in the studio one morning, I didn’t have the place downtown at that time. I used to paint in the morning at the time and I was painting in this realist style… well, they were surreal, surrealist realist you know. The…

There were two “mothers”, a cloth mother and a wire mother with food. The monkey would go to the wire mother for food but spend most of its time on the cloth mother. They came to the conclusion that contact comfort is important and overshadowed all other variables, including nursing. They then presented a scary apparatus and the monkey runs to his mother (the cloth one), to touch her and have contact with the mother. His personality completely changed when he had contact with his mother. In…

indeed correct. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone has been banned. Books offer kids to get ideas and have the power to imagine, they teach kids life lessons, and authors have the right to publish their work and share their ideas. These reasons apply to why Harry Potter should not have been banned. “Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up” (Holmes). This quote explains why it is important for kids to read. Harry Potter gives kids…

Evolutionarily speaking, bravery is what has allowed our species to survive. The importance of bravery is indisputable but the necessity of bravery to achieve a better life can be debated on. In this essay, I will examine the rituals performed in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone directed by Chris Columbus to prove that bravery is absolutely essential in order to achieve an overall better live. By examining Harry’s first Quidditch match and the troll attack on Hogwarts using Emile Durkheim’s…

"Freedom Writers" Banned Book What is a banned book? A banned book is a challenged book that has actually been removed from the shelves. According to several sources, this book has been prohibited from most high schools for the following reasons: drug references, violence, and profanity. The literary merit of this book outweighs the reasons for the book being prohibited from book shelves. Although I can understand the reasoning behind the prohibition of this book, I feel teens are mature…

FANDOM Over the years since television came into the world shows came out after months and years, but over that year, some shows got more attention than any other and that started the fandom on mainly shows that ”intrigued them” and that had started the fandom. Now I wonder how were they created and why they were, not just because they just like the show or movie. How were fandoms created and why people hate them? From what I learned at first, Fandom is a word used to refer to a group…