Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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    Jaden Skye is an American author best known for the writing of bestselling contemporary romance novels that also fit the narrower definition of romantic suspense. Her most popular novel series is the Caribbean Murder debuted with the 2011 Death by Honeymoon that was an instant bestseller. With over 16 novels written over the course of less than five years, the novel series is still ongoing. Another of her series is Murder in The Keys, Killing Game, and Toms River Saga. She has also written the A…

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    comparison between Okonkwo,Asher lev and Raffi The dark city is full of magic,illusory elements.it is perfectly portray that raffi is the brave and hansome hero.At the beggining of the book,the writer’ve already decribed him how to defeat his enemy before.after that,the citizens call him the savior,he became the legend of the world.the time was passed away,10 years later,raffi is 29 years old now. he conceals one’s identity with his wife,they have a fine time.However,the black wizard return to…

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    FUN FACTS ABOUT HARRY POTTER. Ginny Weasley was the first female born into the Weasley family for several generations, the others were married in. Robbie Coltrane, who plays Hagrid, has gotten a mini-fan and a fruit but stuck in his Hagrid beard. Crabbe and Gayle never actually became Death Eaters like their fathers, they only worked under Malfoy. During the dementor attack, Dudley saw himself the way he truly was, making him realise, rather harshly, that he needed to change. Neville…

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    she appeared to be the only one who had finished it in advance. Harry would, of course, be grateful for her assistance, and he need never know that she had a copy of his book. Then again, why was she doing this? Curiosity? Or maybe it was intrigue. After all, Slughorn had never derided her ability in Potions, even in the spare moments he had for the rest of his class. He had never questioned her status as a student even though Harry received better results. Did she really need to go through…

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    An inference I can make about a relationship between two characters is the relationship between Harry and Hagrid. Since Hagrid told Harry the truth about his parent. “But you must know about your mom and dad,” he said. “I mean, they’re famous. You’re famous.” Hagrid said this to Harry in Chapter 4, after bursting into the hut on the island where Mr. Dursley has brought Harry to escape the magical letters. Hagrid’s was surprise at Harry’s ignorance of himself and of his family underscores the…

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    The character with the most leadership that I noticed was Hiccup. He has a lot of pressure on him being Stoick the Vast’s son, and he’s not really a Viking at all. Watching How To Train Your Dragon is like reading a Mark Twain novel; you watch the boy grow up. In the beginning of the movie Hiccup is more of a burden to the village than helpful. Nevertheless at the end Hiccup leads the other teenagers in Dragon Training to save the villagers from the dragon’s nest. That is a big turning point…

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    I chose the children’s book How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel). This book’s original copyright year is 1957 and is at reading level P with an interest level of grades K-3. I compared this original story to its remake into a comedy movie, How the Grinch Stole Christmas directed by Ron Howard, produced by both Ron Howard and Brain Grazer, staring Jim Carrey as the Grinch. This movie rendition of this Dr. Seuss classic was originally released on November 17th, 2000. The…

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    map after they kill the beast. This map leads them to a much more dangerous thing. As they follow the map , they finally bump into Medusa. She can turn people into stone with the snakes on top of her head. Annabeth comes up with plan to defeat Medusa. Grover distracts her while Annabeth gets a mirror so she will turn her own self into stone. The last challenge lies ahead of them as the follow the map to last place. It leads to Jason or their former friend. He stole Zeus' Lightning Bolt. Grover…

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    Interpreter of Maladies is a book collection of nine short stories by Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri published in 2000 It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Foundation in the year 2001 and has sold over 15 million copies worldwide. It was also chosen as The New Yorker's Best Debut of the Year and is on Oprah Winfrey's Top Ten Book List. The stories are about the lives of Indians and Indian Americans who are caught between their roots and the "New World." Most of Jhumpa…

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    Harry Potter is a movie series filled with fantasy scripted from a series of seven novels written by J.K Rowling. It talks about how little Harry Potter survived a deadly attack on his family by the darkest wizard in the “world” and how he is supposed to destroy the killer of his parents. (Columbus, 2001-2011). Structuralists believe that the world is governed by rules and codes and so in giving meaning to a text such as this, these structural codes or rules must not be broken. However, there is…

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