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British Life and Culture A Wizard’s Dream: Harry Potter Studio Tour In 1997, world-renowned author J.K. Rowling introduced the world to the story of a young wizard, Harry Potter. Now 19 years later the Harry Potter series has become one of the top book series in the world. During the past 19 years the commercial success of Harry Potter series led to eight films to turn the novels into an onscreen dream for the world of Harry Potter fans. The Harry Potter film series has made more than…

affected many cities but described its effects on Tallahassee’s removal system instead of Florida as a whole. The local paper also described events that were going on in the city. It features a story about how the residential theater was having a Harry Potter marathon starting next week. The two papers are similar by highlighting big events going on in America and information that the civilians want to read about. On the other hands, they do have big differences. The national paper focuses…

start to affect people around the age of 15. Many movies and books have at least one character with a phobia. Perhaps the best examples of this are the movies Cliff Hanger and Kingdom of the Spiders. My favorite example of this is Ron Weasley from Harry Potter. There are many different phobias in the world. There is fear of water, agoraphobia; fear of spiders, arachnophobia; and many, many more. Psychologists have come up with many ways to overcome phobias. Hypnotism, exposure, and existential…

Epic Heroes: Odysseus and Harry Potter Heroes have always been presented in our lives and will always be there in the future. It is complicated to explain who is considered as a hero because every era has its own heroic characteristics. In the ancient Greece, heroes were either demigods or mortals who served gods and goddesses and performed great deeds for humanity (LaBarge). Today’s heroes are characters who “display courage and self-sacrifice in face of adversity and act for the greater good”…

The Maze Runner and The Lord Of The Flies are in two different scenarios. One scenario is a plane crashed and the boys get stranded on an island. The other boys are stuck in the Glade and are sent up on an elevator. These two places are completely different. For example, in the Glade the boys are trapped in an area closed off by giant moving walls. In Lord of the flies the boys are free and can roam around. The boys behavior is extremely different in these two books. In The Maze Runner…

The most fascinating thing about the word “courage” is the diversely different meaning it gives to different people. Courage has been interpreted through the years on many different avenues. Anyone who has ever dreamed, or strived to be something, could not achieve the end result without courage. Everyone is where they are in this world, because they had the courage to do so. The oxford english dictionary defines courage as “confidence, boldness” (OED.com), while Merriam webster's dictionary…

things and I need to forget about them for a while, so in Harry Potter you’re taken to this wonderful imaginary world where everything is different. But also the main characters are completely real and modern so you can relate to them.”(Evanna Lynch, N.D)Evanna Lynch faced challenges as a child and got through them by following something she loved. She started acting and later became an iconic actress. INNOVATE: Evanna was introduced into the Harry Potter franchise when she was about 8 years…

task, Harry had to fight a dragon to retrieve an egg, in Arthurian legends, dragons have always been a prominent feature as Arthur sent out to hunt a “dragon that had laid waste to [the Seven Estuary] part of the kingdom” (Mersey p.51) as well as in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the King’s of Britain, Merlin is a boy who finds two dragons buried under a tower and then made a prophecy about the coming of Arthur. In Harry’s second task, he had to rescue Ron from the depths of a lake. Harry…

Books are great to expand your knowledge and broaden your thinking and imagination. There is a numerous amount of genre’s. The variations are endless and it all depends on the author. Not all books make it big time, some come across being banned in certain countries for the content it contains. For example, The Hobbit is a banned book, but it should not be. It is filled with great humor, adventure, and it is a good read for fantasy lovers. In fact, before the book was published a ten year old…

J.K. Rowling is a world renowned writer with a great sense of Aristotelian appeals. She is the writer of the Harry Potter series and a graduate of the University of Exeter. In June of 2008, she was asked to write the commencement speech at Harvard University. She titled the speech, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination.” As the title explains, she decides to speak about the benefits of failure and her personal failures. As she talks about failure, she tells the…