Sirius

When he learns that Sirius Black is supposedly after him, he is more disappointed that he will not be allowed to visit Hogsmeade than the actual danger that he is in. Whether he’s facing a hippogriff or Voldemort, Harry always rushes to face it, to the point of brashness or…

There are many drugs, legal and illegal, that are used every day all over the world. Drugs are high on the lists of concerns of Americans, and are considered one of the major problems in the United States. There are a number of negative effects that are associated with drugs and this would be reduced if the United States banned the allowance of marijuana. Marijuana is said to be one of the least negative effecting drugs there are today, but in saying that the most commonly used illegal drug is…

Hogwarts was Harry Potter’s Delusion: There is a theory that Harry Potter’s wonderful idealistic adventures in Hogwarts were a delusion he created for himself in reaction to the Verbal and Physical abuse. For starters, Harry's magic fantasies begin when, in real life, he's about to begin school at Stonewall High, being separated from his abusive cousin for the first time. It's a new school, a new environment, and therefore the perfect time to begin his delusions. First creation: Hagrid.…

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde sold forty thousand copies in six months. This fact helps show that the book was instantly popular, but does not show that it is a classic. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson, is a classic because there are multiple morals, students read the book in school, and it changes the reader. First, there are morals in the story. One moral is everyone has both good and bad in them. For example, Mr. Hyde is the evil in Dr. Jekyll. Another example is in the…

Candace Bushnell is an American television producer and novelist best known for writing a series of chick lit novels. Her best known works are the Sex and the City novels which were adapted from the columns by the same name that she wrote for the New York Observer between 1994 and 1996. Candace was born to Camile Salonia and Calvin L. Bushnell in 1958 Glastonbury, Connecticut. Her father was something of a celebrity in her town having been an inventor of the Air Cooled Hydrogen Fuel Cell that…

PREHISTORIC TO MIDDLE AGE ASTRONOMY Over the course of countless millennia, astronomy has served as a widespread source of curiosity amongst mankind. The stars, planets and various other objects that engulf our skies have captured the interests of this world’s inhabitants, from the simplest of tribesmen to city dwelling scholars and philosophers alike. As early as 32,000 years ago, humans are believed to have been tracking cosmic cycles like our Moon’s phases (Burnham, Dyer & Kanpipe 22).…

in order to save Gotham, but at the end of the day, he was just a minor character, but despite that, Oldman still managed to nail the part. Gary Oldman has been a part of another successful franchise, the Harry Potter series. He played the role of Sirius Black, Harry’s godfather. In his first film, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, which was considered to be the best one in the series because it was directed by Alfonso Cuaron, Oldman’s character was the main antagonist until it was…

their garage studio. Just two years after its formation, Atlas Genius achieved every musician’s dream when it released its first single, “Trojans”. Co-written by all four members of the band, the song caught the attention of programmers at Sirius XM, who played the song frequently on the network’s Alt Nation Channel. The success of “Trojans” led to a…

brought back to America where was her place of birth. This transformation considerably shaped her perception of the world. "Julia Alvarez’s philosophy of poetry is that she made her personal experiences the core of her creative endeavors in poetry" (Sirius, 2001). She grew up to be aware the kind of life she experienced was what other Latinos were undergoing. She also learns poetry as “a resting place for the soul… and …a world teeming with discoveries and luminous little ah-ha! Moments.” I…

the sky. They said 30 days was one month and they would switch it up. They would do 30 one month and 28 the next. The earliest Egyptian calendars was based on the moon cycles but later the egyptians realized that the dog star in canis major, we call Sirius rose…