Harry Houdini

sneer down their noses at anyone who says they were sorted into the Slytherin House. It’s a common misconception that those who are sorted into Slytherin have an overall dark nature about them. The Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from the Harry Potter series has four school “houses” that students are sorted into; each house has its own history and the students in that house usually have very specific personality traits. The Slytherin house is notoriously hated by outsiders for many…

Question one Harry Saidler was born in 1923. He was among the most proficient architecture in Australia (Australian Government, 2009). Some architects would admire his work because of the international methodologies and modernist ideas. This caused a great impact in the local architecture’s shape. Even though most of his work was done in Australia, but he is considered to be an international architecture. Furthermore, humanist ideals inspired his career. The structure of the practice of Saidler…

sensations, such as Harry Potter, “[are not] even good nonsense. [They are] insufferable” (Bloom second article), disapproving of the entire contemporary literary phenomenon. Whilst Bloom argues that ‘reading for pleasure is selfish’ and will provide the reader with nothing to intrapersonally gain, what Bloom ignores is that during the release of each Harry Potter novel, “on trains, in airport lounges, in parks and on beaches, everywhere one went, everybody seemed to be reading Harry…

ID Number: 160026059 Tutorial Name and Code: Mind and World PY1010 Clotilde Torregrossa Does free will require the ability to do otherwise? I hereby declare that the attached piece of written work is my own work and that I have not reproduced, without acknowledgment, the work of another.  In this essay I will refute the notion that the type of free will worth wanting, or the kind that grants us moral responsibility, is not incumbent upon an ability to do otherwise. To do so, I will…

Hermione Granger: The Badass Heroine We All Want To Be Let’s face it. Without Hermione Granger, Harry Potter would be a footnote in Voldemort: Rise to Power, and we muggles would be little more than subservient house elves to our magical overlords. Hermione Granger, for anyone who’s been living on Mars for the past two decades, is one of the three central characters in JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books. If you haven’t read them/seen the movies and plan to, stop reading now and instead check out…

Lindsey Kelk is a British award winning and bestselling author that was born in Doncaster, lived in Nottingham and London before moving to the New York and Los Angeles in the States. So far, she has more than thirteen novels in the I Heart series, two e-novellas, A Girl series and several freestanding novels. Her novels have been so popular that they have been published in more than twenty language all across the globe and gone on to sol more than a million copies. She spends much of her tome…

The Ethan Gage Series is a series of historical thrillers by Pulitzer Award winning journalist turned novelist William Dietrich. One of the most popular of the Dietrich series of novels, the series is composed of 8 novels and two collections of the same. A prolific writer, the author released all eight titles between 2007 and 2014 releasing a book every year. The chief protagonist in all the novels is Ethan Gage, a jack-of-all-trades being an opportunist, idealist, womanizer, romantic, treasure…

In the book A Good and Happy Child, Justin Evans uses the idea of a demonic presence to suggest the idea that there are sources of evil in everyday life, for example, the significant theme of technology in Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan. Both authors present pernicious issues that cause obsession, emotional turmoil, and strained relationships in the lives of the protagonists. Also, each book introduces the malevolent subjects as things that are supposed to be helpful to the…

Trey Parker and Matt Stone are the producers of the well-known Comedy Central show "South Park", which first aired in 1997 and is the most popular show on Comedy Central ever since. The show is quite successful, given that it is one of the highest rated shows on Comedy Central for 18 seasons and will continue to air until at least 2016. One of the main characters, Kyle, is inspired by the co-creator Matt Stone. Kyle has an auburn Jewfro resembling Stone’s, which Kyle prefers to hide. Stone…

The idea of banning books has been around for decades. These types of book banned even include your favorite child hood bedtime stories. Of Mice and Men is a classic book with an important meaning written throughout its pages. Throughout the years many people have tried to ban Of Mice and Men due the controversial issues displayed in the book. These issues allow readers to take a look through the lens of the era in which the book is written. It teachers about the hardships of race, sexism,…