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Like all other countries around the world, the relationship between the United States and Mexico has changed throughout the years. The US has been a good source of help for the Mexican government during times of economic hardships. Mexico has provided the US with support with its workforce and economy during times of war. Today the presidents of both countries maintain close relationships as they strive for a better country. They unite to discuss the nation’s problems in hopes to finding the…

Joanne Rowling, Author of the famed Harry Potter series, was born July 31, 1965 in Yate of the United Kingdom (“J.K.Rowling”). Rowling has grown to be one of the most profoundly known children’s authors of the twenty-first century. The genesis of Rowling’s writing career began at a very young age. Since childhood, Rowling knew that she wanted to be a writer. At primary school, Rowling would entertain her classmates by telling thrilling tales of rabbits and a bee. This quality of storytelling…

Pivotal Moment in Literacy Development Getting my hands Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was a pivotal moment in my literacy development. I remember receiving the first book in the series, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, at the age of 11 for Christmas. There were six other books that followed, all better than the last. At the pace that these books were released, they had successfully accompanied me through my critical years of development and on to adulthood. JK Rowling and her…

Phillip K. Dick published A Scanner Darkly, a semi-autobiographical story set in the then future of June 1994. Taking place in an anti-utopia Orange County, California, the novel is an all-embracing depiction of drug culture and drug use, both recreational and abusive. The main character and protagonist of the story is Bob Arctor, junkie and drug dealer, who happens to be living a parallel life as Agent Fred, a law enforcement agent assigned to bring down Arctor. In A Scanner Darkly, Phillip K…

themselves with groups of people in fiction writing due to their personalities. This article is informative because it was written by psychologists to inform the readers about their research and experiment. The experiment is about people who have taken J,K. Rowling’s Pottermore test and how the four houses in Harry Potter relates to certain personality traits. The intended audience for this article are other psychologists who may take this information and continue to study it or people who are…

As you guys might have been able to tell, I love Harry Potter. Harry Potter is one of the best series ever and the author, J. K. Rowling, is the first author to ever become a billionaire off their series of books. It truly is a magical book that follows three friends, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger, on their adventures. It is a great book to start as a third grader and read throughout grade and middle school. There are many deaths through out the series with most of them…

Have you heard the story about how J.K. Rowling saved books from being outlawed. When J. K. Rowling was a kid she wrote everyday and night. So everyday the characters would talk to her. J.K. Rowling wrote such good books that most of the time the words came off the page. Everyone one loved her books. At the time she was writing the Harry Potter series. She was friends with every character. She started writing Harry Potter and The Cursed Child, but was stopped. She was stopped because the…

Throughout the series of Harry Potter it is easy to acknowledge that each character is layered, each has their limitations and motivations. Amongst the many, Sirius Black genuinely exemplifies each of the key virtues; prudence, temperance, fortitude and justice. Though he did not have the most upstanding reputation, in the end he was honored once light had shed on his reasoning. From his background, to fall, to redemption, ultimately to being killed by his deranged cousin Bellatrix, Sirius had a…

In 1997, JK Rowling published the first installment of the Harry Potter books, a series which would come to define a generation. From apparition to house elves, every detail about this wizarding world enthralls a reader, completely transporting them into the story, to live the excellent plot alongside beautifully written characters. Due to the success of the book series, Harry Potter’s world has been under examination across multiple academic fields, from literary experts to scientific…

Could there be parallels between a novel series filled with witchcraft and wizardry such as Harry Potter and the literal Son of God, Jesus Christ? Of course. There are several ways in which you could interpret the character Harry Potter as a Christ figure. Really, even if J.K Rowling didn’t have Harry as a Christ figure in mind while writing the series, there is no denying the extreme similarities between the two. Also, according to Thomas C. Foster’s book How to Read Literature Like a Professor…