Sam Cooke Mr. Villmer Honors British Literature ACP 29 August 2014 A Heroic Hobbit and Deft Dwarves J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit portrays a wide range of characters throughout the novel. In which, a tale wrought with adventure and danger unfolds with two unlikely forces aiding one another in order to achieve a common goal. The hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, is a well to do little creature who enjoys a quiet life in his comfortable hole in the earth. In fact, upon Gandalf inquiring about Bilbo…
After being taken from her mother in an unauthorized C-section, she is quarantined in a facility and tested on by the only people she knew. Eleven or El is a girl with a shaved head, and telemetry tic powers, which causes bleeding in the head when used. She escapes her facility in 1983 Hawkins, Indiana the day Will Byers disappeared and she met a group of boys Wills friends; Mike, Lukas, and Dustin who hide her from society and help her away from the bad men. Stranger things is a sci-fi thriller…
She shot him. She was scared, she didn’t mean to kill him. All Evanna was trying to do was save her friend and feed her family. Looking at the lifeless body in front of her, she thinks back to how she got into this mess in the first place….She was put into this life 16 years ago on a cold rainy night in the Rata Forest when she was founded by The Forest Raider leaders. A group of people that were outcasts who started a whole new life for them and other people like them. A brunette blue eyed baby…
If you want to scare the hell out of yourself then Dungeon is the place to be. Experience interactive faceoff with the one of most notorious murder, Jack the Ripper. Take the ghost walks through the city on the Halloween’s night. Visit the site of Sir William Wallace’s execution and the churchyard haunted…
How Players Experience Flow in Video Games Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi flow is explained as the satisfaction the person gets when they concentrate on performing a task. However these activities must not be part of the person 's daily routine. Also ever person will experience flow depending on their preferences in activities (Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Smith, & Tosca, 2008, p. 3757). There are seven elements that characterizes flow, which are: a challenging activity, merging of action and awareness, clear…
Arthur was fuming. Gaius had been as evasive as ever and made excuses to be elsewhere. Answering his king 's questions certainly wasn 't his priority. If Arthur had been his father, he might have threatened Gaius with the dungeons or at the very least, given him a severe reprimand. If they had been in Camelot, he would have forced the issue. Muttering curses, Arthur made a promise to himself to get answers when they did return to Camelot. For the time being, however, they were still in an…
Gwaine's eyes were wide, but he didn't dare look at the others. "What do you mean?" "He thinks that Morgause somehow captured the Red Dragon." Percival told him. "That is who he actually meant when he said 'she's here.'" He cast an apologetic smile at Clarissant. She felt a pang of embarrassment at her current state, even though she was confused by his words. "It's alright," she muttered…
Band, choir, and theatre programs in the school are constantly planning performances for students to be involved in.Outside of school, there are groups supported by hobby shops and the library that participate in live action role playing, Dungeon and Dragons, and other alternative interests like astrology or robotics. Culpeper has a movie theatre, skating rink, skate park, park, and the already mentioned library where teenagers could spend their time. All of these reasons support why there are…
crisis. The Anti-Satanism Movement and the media helped spark fear, crediting satanic worship to cemetery and church desecrations, animal mutilations and children sacrifices. They also blamed heavy metal rock music and fantasy games, such as Dungeons and Dragons, for containing occult themes that lead to homicide and suicides. The Anti-Satanism Movement characterized Satanist not as ordinary deviants, but as an underground embodiment of the ultimate evil. Classifications for police and social…
I Kill Giants, a graphic novel by Joe Kelly and JM Ken Niimura is about elementary-schooler Barbara Thornson, a cheeky, imaginative, and awkward girl, and how she deals with difficulties at home and school by escaping to a fantasy world where she claims to “kill giants” with her prized hammer Coveleski contained in her purse. Throughout the book, Barbara dons four sets of animal ears: bear, fox, bat and rabbit ears. While wearing the ears she shows certain qualities that the animal has and…