Emma Stone

It is important to note that Rowling lets Harry make mistakes and succumb to the temptation of using the Unforgivable Curses. The key to this honest understanding of how and why Harry makes his decisions comes from Rowling’s ability to create believable situations where Harry makes the believable choice, as Lana A. Whited and M. Katherine Grimes describe in “What Would Harry Do? J.K. Rowling and Lawrence Kohlberg’s Theories of Moral Development”: “Although Harry’s dilemmas involve creatures and…

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's stone , a book that almost every child worldwide has sitting on their bookshelf and Star Wars: new hope a movie that has captured the eyes of millions , has multitudes of differences yet the similarities are striking. Most stories follow the same mythic pattern. Every movie seems to have a hero and every book seems to have a villain. According to the archetype notes these are archetypes (the hero, the villain, the mentor ), a hero starts in the everyday world,…

Cat Johnson is a New York Times and USA Today best selling author of contemporary romance novels. Johnson has sold about one million copies of her various stories in either print or digital format since 2006. She has written many novels and short stories, her series include: Studs in Spurs, Oklahoma Nights, Midnight Cowboys, Hot SEALs, Red, Hot, & Blue, The Trilogy Collection, Olympus; which features four novellas, Texas Two Step, Maverick Ranch, USMC Military Romance. The Studs in Spurs is a…

Once there was a place called Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia had many people who were all happy. But those people were all dumb and didn’t take care of themselves. They didn’t take care of themselves because they never became adults. The children of Mesopotamia grew old, but never got the mind of an adult. So Mesopotamia was a dangerous place because of this problem. The kind of Mesopotamia, Logan, had the mind of an adult given to him by a god named Kitty Cat. Logan didn’t like his people and decided…

"My brain is the key that sets my mind free." This quote is one of the many famous statements made by Harry Houdini, a master mind in the art of illusion. Harry was one of the biggest entertainers of his generation, amazing his audiences with his hand cuff tricks. He set high standards for Magicians at the time. Harry took magic to whole new level. Over time, he evolved from doing simple illusions to death defying acts which left audiences all over America quaking in their seats. Harry Houdini…

Four goals. Four simple goals help George Orwell create such intriguing writing. Orwell makes sures he uses egotism, aesthetics, historical impulse, and political purpose in each and every one of his writings in order to get his message across to others. Due to his persistence throughout his writings, 1984, a dystopian novel set in Oceania, meets the same four concepts. Over the course of several years, dystopian novels have become popular among young adult literature. Writing way before…

Mike Thaler was born October 8, 1963 in Los Angeles, California. As a child, Mike was always very creative, he enjoyed modeling clay, drawing pictures and writing. He drew cartoons for the school annual and for his school paper at the University of California. He drove from California to New York to begin his career drawing cartoons for adults. Until one day he was contacted by his first editor Ursula Nordstrom after she saw one of his cartoons, she reached out to him to write a children's…

ATTENTION GRABBING SENTENCE HERE. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien was written in 1954. It follows Bilbo Baggins' adoptive son, Frodo, on his quest to destroy the Ring of power. After Bilbo's eleventy-first birthday in the Shire, he disappears and goes on an adventure by himself. He ends up staying with the elves. Before he left, Bilbo wrote a will that proclaimed that all of his belongings would by passed onto Frodo, including his ring, which made him invisible. Gandalf the Grey, a…

The rivalry in the wizarding world, resembles the competition in our world. We often see this in the text, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone written by J.K Rowling in 1995. Throughout book, there is many examples of rivalry. One of the examples is when, Harry uses his word when competing against Malfoy. In the Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone, Harry portrays rivalry against Malfoy in the novel through his words, and actions. The theme of rivalry, is shown through between Harry…

Assessment Task 1A 10% “I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.” Imagine you are Hugo Cabret, you have lost your father, live inside the walls of a train station, always being cautious when suddenly everything changes. Hugo Cabret is an interesting book with many plots, and twists. In this book the idea of mystery and secrets is explored. Hugo has many secrets piecing the story into a curious…