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When I was little I preferred playing Harry Potter over playing hide and seek. Usually I played Ginny and I would be kidnapped by “Bellatrix”. Then I got rescued and we’d start the game over. To me the world 's made up in books were so much more interesting than the real world. They were better, brighter, and full of magic. My love of reading from a young age was the foundation to so many other branches of my personality as well. I read so much that understanding words and writing them was…

1a. The Black Lives Matter movement has taken America and the world by storm by highlights the racial injustices in America. However, I recently read a criticism that Black Lives Matter movement only considers the lives of Black Americans. At first, I thought this was ridiculous. I posted the article to a group chat with some of my closest friends to see what they thought about it, and most of them ignored it. At that point, I thought there might be some validity to the author’s criticism…

“The God’s Script,” by Jorge Luis Borges, is revealing the structure of knowledge through a dream of Tzinacán, the central character, and the narration presence of the jaguar. Borges wrote the short text story to describe Tzinacán’s dream. Tzinacán is a magician of the pyramid of Qaholom. He is strong minded with many hardships. Obstacles come and go, but Tzinacán will never lose hope. Dreams reveal knowledge of things that can come to reality. In the short story, Borges is trying to say the…

A dream is just something everyone gets automatically, it is a thought in the back of your mind that is somewhat wanted even though it would never come true, but is it? In Of Mice and Men characters like Lennie, Candy, and Curly’s wife prove that a dream is more than just an idea in your head, it is what they live for. It is what helps them get through hard times and keep persevering when nobody else believes in them or listens. These three characters, especially, have it hard but they have…

Sudha Murty’s ‘The Day I Stopped Drinking Milk’ (Life Stories Here And There) is a collection of real life stories delighting the readers of all ages. Over the years, Sudha Murty has come across some fascinating characters in the real life whose lives made an indelible impression upon her mind and compelled her to write interesting stories about them because all these female protagonists had an astonishing lesson to reveal. This is really great book that describes down to detail about how myriad…

Emalyn Stephens Exquisite Biography Do you like to read fun, exciting stories?If you do then join me on this amazing adventure of my life.It all started eleven years and three months ago.It was 7:11, June, twenty third, two thousand six, when I the pickiest baby ever born came into the world.I was six lbs two oz and very small.My brother was three years and ten Emalyn Stephens Exquisite Biography Do you like to read fun, exciting stories? If you do then join me on this…

The Caper Court are a series of novels authored by British novelist Caroline “Caro” Fraser. The first published novel in the series was the 1994 published The Pupil that was an exposition of her experiences living as a trainee barrister at Caper Court. With the massive popularity of the first novel in the series, The Pupil, Caroline Fraser went on to publish about a novel every two to three years in the series. The series is set in Caper Court an elite Barrister training school in London and…

Imagine your favorite book seen on a television screen as a movie. Countless of times people want to create one of their favorite books into a movie. It can be a movie with real actors or it can be an animated movie, but sometimes people do not go exactly with what the book says. Rikki Tikki Tavi is a brave and heroic mongoose and the main character of the story, Rikki Tikki Tavi. He is the protagonist of the story and Nag is being the antagonist. Rikki had just arrived with people that have…

Are We There Yet? On February 4th 1968 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave an intriguing speech at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta Georgia, called “The Drum Major Instinct.” Within his speech, King talked about how humanity is called to harvest their drum major instincts. When harnessed correctly, a drum major instinct should be used for unselfish reasons as Jesus did (7-8). Incorrectly harvested it could become dangerous and unpredictable (4). Humanity today rarely correctly harvest their drum…

from ear to ear. She had chosen the first book that we would read together. She opened the book immediately and began to read aloud in the most obnoxious British accent I had ever heard. This was the first time I fell in love with Harry Potter. The more she read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer 's Stone, the more I slipped into this fascinating world of witches, wizards, mudbloods, and muggles. Eventually I felt like I was watching a movie, not reading a book. I could see their faces and hear their…