On a rainy day, April 3 ,1982, Diana Rae Lundell (Frahm) went into labor at our cousin’s birthday party. Melanie Rae Lundell was born at 11:35 pm, at the Cannon Falls hospital. Following melanie’s birth, Melissa Kay Lundell was born at 11:41 pm. Melanie weighed five pounds and three ounces. Melissa weighed five pounds and two ounces.…
Saving Gotham The novel Saving Gotham, written by Tom Farley, MD, is a significant piece of public health literature that dives into the details of the biggest and most influential campaigns of the modern century. It exposes the behind the scene workings of public health advocacy, policy and implementation, and tackles various topics that guide the overall outcome of health in a community. These topics include the removal of big soda sizes from the market and the addition of a soda tax, the application of laws that limit and reduce smoking, and policies that enforce the display of the nutrition calorie count on restaurant menus, ensure the removal of trans fat from restaurant food, and reduce the amount of sodium intake from prepackaged foods across the consumer market.…
Initiation This is where the Harry Potter novels begin to deviate from Campbell’s original principles in order to allow for multiple books to be made. Each novel follows these plot points but in an open ended way, leaving room to revisit certain aspects and themes as the story progresses. Below are the plotted points from the Philosophers Stone. The Road of Trials Harry and his new found friends are presented with many challenges and tests that force him to use both his intellect and wizarding skills.…
The Dark Soul: An Annotated Bibliography April is a month to never forget, as it is one of the most despicable crimes ever known in the human history, so that it will never again be repeated. Adolf Hitler referred it to “The Final Solution.” We now know it as the Holocaust. We know it as what it was, racism, hate and pure, unadulterated evil. “Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier (IA).…
The Great Harry Houdini could escape anything. Houdini was a man who could take a hard hit. He was a unpredictable human being. At one point he had a straight jacket on held by his ankles upside down and some escaped the straight jacket. Harry Houdini was born in Budapest Hungary.…
Nobody’s perfect. Perfection is a utopian quality that is far from realistic as it means “without fault or flawless.” Therefore, stating that nobody’s perfect is just another way of rewording the phrase everybody has their flaws. Afterall, there is a reason behind why pencils have built in erasers, white out was invented, and apologies can be said. Mistakes and faults are a natural part of human nature.…
Fan Theory: Did Hagrid Know That Voldemort Unintentionally Made Harry A Horcrux? Theories about characters and other subjects within the Wizarding World have existed for years. However, there is one that hasn’t been considered. Did Hagrid know that Voldemort unintentionally made Harry a Horcrux? Let’s take a look at the facts.…
For example, Mayella was beat up on her right side; Tom’s left arm is injured and could not be used to fight. “As he raised his right hand, the useless one slipped of the bible” (Lee 254). Obviously he would not be able to hurt anyone with it. Tom merely went to the Ewells because Mayella had called on him to help her fix the door hinges. He soon found out that this was not the case.…
Lockhart then tries to cast memory altering spells on the boys after he snatches Ron’s broken wand. The spell ultimately backfires and he loses his memory. He can’t remember who he is and or Harry and Ron are. While we don’t see what happens to him after the events of The Chamber of Secrets film, the Order of the Phoenix book…
Harry stayed in the hospital wing for a few more days and was always visited, but his friends, his team, and others. Harry had told no one about seeing the Grim. I think he didn’t tell his friends because he was nervous about what they would say. On Monday, Harry returned to school and had Defense Against the Dark Arts Class with Professor Lupin. All the students were complaining about Snape and his teachings.…
Not only does that far outpace any reported ER visits by his classmates, but his injuries stand out as well. While classmates visit for things like having their "skin complexion altered to resemble cornflakes," Harry tends to get injured in more normal ways, like a cracked skull or broken arm. Even more interestingly, there is almost always a bizarre, long-winded explanation for how these injuries happened. Abused children have been know to make things up to cope with their injuries like saying you were injured because an elf cursed a magical steel baseball and made it smash you in the…
In the film Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the setting takes place in a magical world in London, England where the main characters attend a school named Hogwarts: School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. In the film numerous characters and moments embody the theories Malory Nye point out in his book Religion: The Basics. Essentially, rituals and beliefs are prevalent in this film and the use of the theories can analyze such things. Examining Harry Potter using Arnold Van Gennep’s rites of passage, Edmund Leach’s theory of rituals and repetition, Claude Levi-Strauss’ ritualistic symbolism, and Malcolm Ruel’s definition of beliefs being “weak” and “strong” to convey that the aspect of the character’s lives basically comes down to the forming…
Modern day films have been suspect to cleverly and indirectly create films that showcase the concepts and theories of famous sociologists from many years ago. The film Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is one example of a modern day film that executes theories from the popular sociologist, Emile Durkheim. The core of this paper will be exploring how the theories of Emilie Durkheim are executed in the film Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. This paper will mainly be connecting Durkheim’s ideas of social solidarity and collective consciousness with the movie. There are three symbols in this movie that create a group identity and that is: the wand, the sorting hat, and the quidditch game.…
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban uses principles of sound, cinematography and elements of Mis En Scene to immerse the audience in the dark and mysterious wizarding world. Sound is a powerful film technique, especially one such as Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, where sound and sound effects help to shape the understanding of the wizarding world (Bordwell and Thompson, 267). Generally, there are two different types of sound, diegetic and non-diegetic.…
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Synopsis J.K. Rowling (2014) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is the story of an eleven-year-old boy learns that he is a wizard and is inviting to study at Hogwarts, where is hiding the mystical stone and there is someone planning to steal it. After Lord Voldemort, the wicked wizard defeats and disappears, Harry Potter lives with the Dursley family for 10 years. He grows up in the cupboard under the stairs and eats leftover food from the Dursleys. One day, a strange incident occurs to him. He accidentally releases a viper to his cousin while visiting the zoo; it causes his uncle to be very angry and punishes him.…