Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Colour and J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter septology, prejudice and stereotyping often prove inaccurate when making judgments about others, specifically those perceived negatively. In their principal arrival to Hogwarts, young students get ‘sorted’ into one of…

Diana’s homecoming date arrived late and left early—without her. When her friends took her home, they hugged her and said, "What a great night and date!" Diana’s friends are trying to jokingly make the point that they know it was a bad night and a terrible date. They are using verbal irony because they know it was not a "great night" for their friend. By making what could be a stressful situation into a humorous event, Diana’s friends are successful in their use of verbal irony. While their…

In 1997, nobody knew that the new book Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s (Philosopher’s) Stone by J.K. Rowling would change society forever. The first edition was rejected by twelve publishers until Bloomsbury Publishing paid her £1,500, equivalent to $2,247.93 in the United States. Now Rowling herself has a net worth of one-billion dollars and the Harry Potter brand is said to be worth about fifteen-billion dollars (“J.K. Rowling Net Worth”)! The topics that Rowling wrote about caused her…

Avengers ($207.4 million). On the single day front, Jurassic World managed to gross $84.4 million on Friday, alone – good enough for the second highest single day opening of all-time (though still well below the $91 million earned by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2).…

to think of herself as a girl of many quirks. For example, she is a dog person, a Libra, and an avid reader. Reading is a huge part of Rachel's life! Her favorite book is probably My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult and her favorite Harry Potter book is The Deathly Hallows. If it wasn't obvious, Rachel likes sad books that will mess with her emotions and ruin her life. Luckily, her amazing family is always there to pick her up after the effects of this destructive habit occur. After she breaks…

family, impacted America like never before. Rowling thought of an idea for a novel upon a subway, not knowing that the idea would one day come to life and revolutionize the way readers look at fantasy novels. This idea was none other than the Harry Potter series. The story of wizards and spells made its way to the shelves of every single library and bookstore in America, and was created into eight movies that collected around almost eight billion dollars.…

University of St. Francis Psych 350 Hammond April 1, 2016 Abstract This paper will conduct an analysis of Severus Snape. Severus Snape is a character in the Harry Potter book series who is seen as cold, calculating, and bitter. Another major aspect of him is his constant bullying of the main character Harry Potter. The purpose of this analysis is to theorize why Severus Snape is the way that he is by applying two theories of personality to the character. The two theories that will…

What even is love? Love is a very complicated and difficult to understand thing. Love gives you raging levels of dopamine and serotonin an you just overall feel happy and excited. Love, whether platonic or romantic, makes you do irrational things that you wouldn’t normally do. In the book “Looking for Alaska”, Miles starts smoking in order to look cool with his tobacco addicted friends, Alaska and the Colonel. These kids are juniors in highschool. Miles probably would’ve never started smoking…

James Roy Horner (1953 – 2015) was an Academy and Golden Globe award-winning American composer; conductor and orchestrator of film scores. He was mostly known for the vocal and electronic elements in many of his film scores. Horner was also a respected composer of concert music before he started writing film scores. His first major film score was for the film "The Lady in Red," but he did not establish himself as a well known film composer until he worked on the 1982 film "Star Trek II: The…

Young Adult fiction has always been enriched with ancient myths, folklore and legends. This can be seen from The Chronicles of Narnia to Harry Potter. By using myths and alluding to ancient sources in Young Adult fiction this has normally guaranteed these books to be a success. The main books which will be focused on in this dissertation are the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman. All of these books, according to the…