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“The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy play written by William Shakespeare. Deception radiates throughout the play, driving the plot. Claudio is a young gullible count, who is infatuated with Hero. Hero is a sweet, young, & innocent lady pledged to marry him. Claudio only met Hero by the gracious hospitality offered by…

For my independent reading this month, I chose to read The Outsiders written by S.E Hinton (which she wrote in high school). I would classify this book as a “coming of age” novel, but since that wasn’t an option on the genre list, it also classifies as a realistic fiction novel. I think it can be both of those genres because the protagonist of the book, Ponyboy, emotionally and mentally grows over the book and bonds with people who you wouldn’t expect. At the beginning of the book, Ponyboy is…

FUN FACTS ABOUT HARRY POTTER. Ginny Weasley was the first female born into the Weasley family for several generations, the others were married in. Robbie Coltrane, who plays Hagrid, has gotten a mini-fan and a fruit but stuck in his Hagrid beard. Crabbe and Gayle never actually became Death Eaters like their fathers, they only worked under Malfoy. During the dementor attack, Dudley saw himself the way he truly was, making him realise, rather harshly, that he needed to change. Neville…

Does the educational value of attending college outweigh the considerable debt that is accrued as a consequence of the cost of education? Barbara Ehrenreich considers this topic in her work titled ‘College Students Welcome to a Lifetime of Debt’ that addresses young adults trapped in university debt. She sarcastically informs the reader that the social norm to attend post secondary has been capitalized upon and now students are blindly lured into paying ridiculous fees. Ehrenreich strengthens…

about a good vs. evil, and it is about a boy…who finds out he is a wizard? What are the effects of Harry potter on the western World? Harry Potter is one of the central tenants of 21st society and century pop culture; it revolutionized what we know as fiction, you can ask anyone what the boy they the lightning mark and the goofy glasses is and many will respond with “You’re a wizard Harry” (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone). It has…

The Change Everybody goes through change at some point in their life. In Christopher Paul Curtis’s book, The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963, both the characters Byron and Kenny go through change. However, Kenny goes through a more dramatic change, inside and out. He is growing a mustache, he learns that magic isn’t even real, and he learns, sadly, the world isn’t fair. That’s a lot to take in for a 10 year old boy. The first change that Kenny goes through is physical. Being 10, he is starting…

harry potter spends the summer with The Dursleys without receiving letters from his Hogwarts friends. Harry is desperate to return to Hogwarts as soon as possible because the Dursleys have been treating him very badly ever since he got home from his first term. In his room, Harry meets Dobby, a house-elf, who warns Harry bad things will happen if he returns to Hogwarts, and reveals he intercepted his friends' letters. The Dursleys lock Harry up, but Ron, Fred and George Weasley rescue him in…

In the book The Golden Goblet, Eloise Jarvis McGraw explains the story of Ranofer. He meets a boy named Hequet and together they do great things, they spy on Ranofer’s half brother Gebu. In Gebu’s room Ranofer finds a golden goblet with the name Thutmose II engraved on it, but he doesn’t tell Hequet about it. Nevertheless the most important event is when Ranofer meets Hequet. In the early chapters Ranofer is a porter at a goldsmith when Hequet becomes apprenticed there. Hequet asks Ranofer…

Harry found himself enjoying the company that Ron brought; although they had only met a few hours before, he felt completely at ease. He wondered whether the red head would prove to be his first actual friend. As Ron pulled out his wand, determined to turn Scabbers yellow, the door their compartment was pulled open and a girl their age peered in. She had wild, frizzy hair and brown eyes, and her expression was slightly disdainful. "Have you happened to see a toad?" She asked," A boy called…

Brandon Garcia Professor Preston English 1302.43480 02 February 2016 The Unknown World: A Parallel World Mirrors have always fascinated man. Without mirrors or any reflective surface man would never see how they look like. Mirrors have been thought to contain a separate world behind the reflection. Hand with Reflecting Sphere is a lithograph made by Mauritis Cornelis Escher in the year 1935. Hands with Reflecting Sphere basically shows a hand holding a sphere with a reflective surface against…