Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

The Sacrifices of Harry Potter Sirius Black in the Order of the Phoenix once said “We’ve all got both light and dark inside of us. What matters is the part we choose to act on, that's who we really are.” Often we can identify the moral values of a person through the sacrifices they make. Throughout J.K Rowling's Harry Potter series it is apparent how important sacrifice is throughout the progression of the novels. However, one of the most notable sacrifices happens before the books even begin.…

Harry Potter-Action, Adventure, Fantasy, and so much more! Harry Potter is the type of book series that'll make your mind go wild with the plot twists, amazing characters, millions of pages to keep you on your toes, and much more! But why should it be added? Well here's why! Firstly, Harry Potter is a book series that makes you think more from imagining how they perform their spells to even how an action happened. Harry Potter is full of adventures, mysteries, action, and other genres that'll…

“Before I discovered the miracles of science, magic ruled the world.” (Kamkwamba 1). Magic took over the world that William Kamkwamba knew growing up in the early 2000’s in Malawi. He heard many stories from his father about magic and how it influenced his life. Magic was almost used in the way people use religion, to explain the supernatural of the everyday. In the very beginning of the book, William is given a bag of bubble gum, not knowing the bag had been stolen. After finding out the bag of…

In the book titled American Born Chinese, written by Gene Luen Yang, there are many plot elements. Each character in this book have different scenarios and different stages of plot elements. The main characters in this story are The Monkey King, Jin Wang, Wei-Chen Sun, Danny, and his cousin Chin-Kee. Each one has different problems and there are many plot elements to each. In the first story, about the Monkey King, there is major conflict in the beginning. The Monkey King wants to be let into…

Miss Peregrine In Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, a novel written by the well-known author Ransom Riggs, Jacob Portman is searching for his late grandfather’s past, as well as his own future. At an orphanage on a British island, he discovers a mysterious and magical world within a time-loop set in the 1940s. Jacob receives unexpected help and support from the children living at the orphanage, and especially from their headmistress Miss Peregrine. Miss Alma LeFay Peregrine is a…

Great Deku tree of his dream, he is forewarned and ultimately tasked with defeating the evil thief Ganondorf. As Link begins his journey throughout Hyrule he seeks out the wisdom of Princess Zelda, who sends him on a quest to collect the spiritual stones in order to secure the Triforce. Ultimately failing to keep the Triforce out of Ganondorf’s hands, Link must now travel back and forth between time to enlist the help of the seven sages. Thus granting him enough power to defeat Ganondorf and…

I was actually starting to really get into the idea of spending a month reviewing exclusively films from Full Moon Entertainment, then The Vault came down like a hammer smashing that cozy idea. I don't know why I was expecting more out of The Vault than what got delivered. It's not that I set my standards all the high, I think the issue is that the Vault is a genuine bad movie. Possibly the worst I've seen to date and that's including Bitten. At least I can say with Bitten that it was at least…

Harry Potter has brilliant green eyes and inky black hair. He has to stay with his horrid aunt and uncle (the Dursleys) until school starts. He is a wizard and he attends Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry. He loves it there. He can really be himself, plus his friends were amazing. The night of Harry’s twelfth birthday he was forced to stay in his room until his uncle's dinner party was over, but something unexpected happened. A house elf appears in his room. The house elf’s name is…

Most moviegoers would expect the magical wizarding world of Harry Potter to come back to life in this new Rowling movie, yet this film takes a new twist. Fantastic Beasts takes place in New York City the 1920s. Newt Scamander, played by Eddie Redmayne, arrives with a suitcase full of magical creatures, in pre-Depression New York City with the goal releasing a rare thunderbird back to its home in Arizona. The city he enters is filled with two worlds. One being the wizards and the other being the…

The new “Ghostbusters”, released by Columbia Pictures and directed by the comedy expert Paul Feig (“Bridesmaids”, “The Heat”, “Spy”), is now part of those unnecessary remakes adulterated for the worse. The comedy, written by Mr. Feig and Katie Dippold, was adapted from Ivan Reitman’s 1984 original version, which starred Bill Murray (he has a brief appearance here too), Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis as three paranormal savvies whose goal is to keep the Big Apple clean from mischievous ghosts and…