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    Harry Potter and Doctor Who have many things in common yet though the main ideas and plot couldn’t be more different.The main things you will find that are the same is that the main character is inhuman which gives them certain powers, they both die more than once and they both have arch rivals that are the main reason their family is dead.The main difference is that one is alien the other is a wizard and one has an immortal villain the other keeps having offspring.Although Harry Potter and…

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    to Find Them’. In the ‘Harry Potter’ universe, there exists a textbook entitled ‘Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them,’ but who wrote it? And what’s his story? This new spin-off film hopes to answer those questions, and to spark a franchise even half as successful as its source material. Warner Bros. recently held a press release where they confirmed the news that Eddie Redmayne is going to star in this new film. Redmayne is set to play the fictional writer Newt…

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    Harry Potter, who? Walking through campus, a mall, or even through a park, one will see people reading several different types of novels. However, nowadays it is rare to find a J.K Rowling novel in sight. It is much more common to find the works of Suzanne Collins or John Green being read now since the Harry Potter series ended in 2011. One will even find that it is increasingly common to find people who know nothing of the “chosen one” and would prefer to keep it that way. Due to these things…

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    Jack Thorne, JK Rowling, and John Tiffany’s playwright Harry Potter and the Cursed Child follows up on the wizarding world and Harry Potter’s life. Throughout this intriguing story, Harry and Ginny’s youngest son, Albus Severus Potter, and his best friend, Scorpius Malfoy, attempt to rebel against Harry and his past. A conversation between Harry and Amos Diggory sparks an idea in the two boys that Cedric Diggory, a boy who was previously murdered by Voldemort, shouldn’t have been killed and…

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    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is an outstanding movie! There was tons of action, the magical creatures looked very realistic, and the movie had amazing actors! In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry, Ron and Hermione quest to find the heir of Slytherin. For the heir has opened the chamber and muggle borns of Hogwarts are being found petrified, forcing them to close the school. In the end, Harry is able to get into the chamber and defeat the basilisk, who was responsible…

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    the summer when Nelson heard stomping coming closer and closer to them . Nelson looked down and saw a herd of chipmunks coming. Nelson got in his armor and grabbed his shield and sward. He told all the squirrels to get ready for battle. All of the squirrels climbed down the tree and stood in formation. They all marched closer to each other. When the chipmunk leader said that they just needed some acorns for the winter because they took all the acorns from their tree. Nelson walked up to…

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    If the characters in Dead Poet 's Society had watched Half Nelson or other movies like it that stereotype African-American youth, urban schools, and the communities in which both reside; their elitist, predominately white surroundings at Welton Academy would not have given them any reason to negate those myths. The students, parents, and school administrators/faculty in Dead Poet 's Society would most likely conclude that urban, African American youth are thugs and drug dealers who dress like…

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    Lewis, a young girl, at the tender age of two and half years old, inadvertently fell or stepped on the defendant’s dog’s tail as a result of playing ‘crack-the-whip’ in the defendant’s backyard. In response, the dog, whose attention was occupied by chewing on a bone, pawed the young girl in the left eye…

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    It was bound to happen in the Prince Rogers Nelson estate as his family of half-siblings and full blood sister all wait and wonder how much of his estate they will get. According to ET, the probate hearing lasted about 12 minutes, but it was the meeting before the court hearing that has Prince's siblings in an uproar. There is a threat to their inheritance that Prince may have had two other children. Approximately 40 minutes before the hearing, the lawyers met in the judge’s chambers to…

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    John Nelson Essay

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    One time a man named John Nelson inferred“good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf”. John Nelson was born May 14, 1928 and died February 18, 2003. He created the swat team (Special Weapons And Tactics team) and suggested the idea of swat to a detective by the name of Darryl F. Gates. John Nelson created the swat team, used taking responsible risks to innovate ways to overcome the more dangerous threats and illuminated…

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