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    Audette woke on the wet slab in a sweat. A draft provided by the open doors of the Temple gave her with the motivation to make her way out. Her eyes had to re-adjust to the sunlight coming in through the oak doors. She felt different. For the first time in her life she felt confident, both about life and her future; after all, she was going to become a Dark-Witch. She mused herself and wondered how long it would take to turn a boy into a toad. She remembered the boys at the orphanage. She had…

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    The Chronicles of Narnia: The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe By: C.S Lewis “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” is a fantastic fantasy book about three children who go to a Professor’s house to get away from the air raids in London. As the children were playing hide and go seek, the youngest, Lucy, finds a wardrobe that leads to a magical world called Narnia. She then convinces her siblings that Narnia is real and not made up. There the children find friendly animals that can talk but…

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    Sick Pay Case Summary

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    Facts Harry, a sheriff’s deputy, was injured on the job. He was allowed under his contract with the state to choose between $1,000 weekly sick-pay distributions or an $850 weekly workers’ compensation payment. Issue(s) Should Harry choose sick-pay or workers’ compensation based on the effects of income tax? Conclusions Harry’s best option is to select $850 weekly worker’s compensation payment, as such amount will be excluded from gross income. In comparation, the sick-pay distribution will be…

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    The first thing I noticed about this book was the amazing quality of writing. Right off the bat, I was hooked, drawn in by the fantastic storytelling of Ransom Riggs. In Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Riggs creates a world all it's own by mixing humor, magic, and mystery flawlessly. The way in which he writes is beautiful: ". . . these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around- they were monsters with…

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    The film Dirty Harry shows us a cop willing and preferring to go against protocol and standard professional procedure to fight crime and in doing so causes crimes of his own as well as unneeded damages and cruelty even causing the main antagonist to go free from convictions in his initial crimes. Law conflicts with order in this film by having Harry break the law numerous times attempting to stop a criminal from causing arguably greater crimes from occurring to little avail as the hostage as…

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    Rathdoen Research Paper

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    Introduction: "Rathdoen....." This word is actually a place in some other parts of other galaxies, a world filled with opportunities that you could never get and experience before. The magic and the mystery within this world will shock you, but enough of me talking and let's go straight into this world. Rathdoen is actually consumed of six kingdoms that keep the world and people together by their power. Aloemos, the Kingdom of the Wind, living in the clouds in the sky with their clean air to…

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    When i did the Reductor Cu5rse I waved my wand in a sideways V with the bottom of my wnd pointing towards the right. Then i kept my focous high so I was able to break the gargoyle into lots of pieces. You have to use low to moderate willpower depending on how you want to break the gargoyle and your focous must be high because you do not want to accidentily hit another object. You have to try 5 times before you get it right. The Venatus Jinx movement is move your wand in a whiplike motion then…

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    I was 12, it was raining. I leaned into the broad shoulders of my favorite armchair, and watched the raindrops race down the pane and onto the sill. My fingers absently traced the spine of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien; the book was my father’s copy, illustrated. Opening the book, the pages unfurled like an eagle taking flight. Fantastic images flew by as I scanned the interior. I took a few more moments to watch the raindrops, and then I turned to the beginning chapter “An Unexpected Party”.…

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    he believe in blood purity when one of the brightest witches of our age, and perhaps all time was a muggleborn? “Just a faux pas! I haven’t believed in blood purity for years now. My parents just brought me up that way! I didn’t know any better.” Potter looked soft now as he contemplated Draco’s words, he opened his mouth to respond but no words came out as he was struck dumb by the appearance of something probably large and altogether terrifying behind him. Great. Whipping around he turned…

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    and thus he was placed in the next best house suited for him. For a Harry Potter fan taking the Pottermore quiz, it would not be dissimilar for them to answer the questions in such a way that causes them to be placed in one house over another at the end whether they answered the questions truthfully or not. In a way, the sorting hat can also be viewed as the scorer for a test such as the Big Five personality inventory in Harry Potter’s world. It analyzes a person’s traits, qualities,…

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