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    Within popular culture as well as true life events, humans look for a person to root for in hard times or difficult events. William Wallace within the movie Braveheart captures that idea completely while trying to tell the story of how a group set out to overthrow foreign rule as well as shake up the feudal system. This piece sets out to take a historical event and turn it into a blockbuster hit through love, battles, and a martyr to root for. Although as many know that movies rarely hold up to…

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    While standing on a grassy knoll, high in the hills which surround a majestic kingdom, an ancient looking wizard, with extensively long, bushy eyebrows, and dressed in an overly large flowing robe, flicked his right hand and extended index finger as though he were a maestro conducting a symphony. However, Wizard Lorff did not contain an iota of musical talent in his willowy body. Despite this fact, he was a sort of maestro, because with each nimble flick of his hand and finger, he conducted the…

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    Between 1990 and 2000, there were 6,364 attempts to remove or restrict materials. (1) Around 60% of these attempts were from parents, 15% were from patrons of libraries, and only 9% were by administration. People wanted these materials removed for reasons such as “sexually explicit material”, “graphic language”, material that was “unsuited to age group”, “occult themes or promoting the occult or Satanism”, “violence”, “a homosexual theme or promoted homosexuality”, “promoting a religious…

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    I was actually reading a book for once. Even if I don’t usually get enraptured by many books, this one caught my eye, and I was flying through the pages. Here I was, reading a book about people in robes that can use magic sticks to cast spells. I read on in the book, reading more about how certain people teach the students in robes about certain things they can do with their magic stick. The brown haired boy, which was the main character, was talking to an old man who had lots of experience…

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    after trying to land a big role that he actually got paid that exact sum to play in “Dumb and dumber”. The same fate awaited British author, J.K .Rowling, who is one of the most famous writers of the last decade. Even though she has seen her book (Harry Potter) rejected by many great publishing companies, she never stopped trying. It’s after a small publishing company accepted her work that she ended up having her big break, the rest is…

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    hour. Obviously I only finished a couple books not the whole series within a year I read at least four books. I decided that I wanted to finish the rest of the series , when I was born Warner Brothers Studios had already began making movies for the Harry Potter series…

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    Macneil argues that Harry and his friends, portrayed as all white in the films, have varied racial backgrounds (2002). Other studies discuss direct racial representation and are more critical of how Rowling writes race. Messinger cities that Harry is a white, British male and that none of these characteristics are paid particular attention to because they are not considered remarkable (2012). Different studies are all in agreement that race and related issues are relevant in the Harry Potter…

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    What did the janitor say when he jumped out of the closet? Supplies! Being a janitor is back breaking work. Trust me, I am one at River Heights Elementary School. I use urine remover on a daily basis. I also sweep up hairs from the teacher bathroom floor. Although my job is difficult and somewhat gruesome, there’s one magnificent part. I get a master key to the entire school. It opens everything! All of us have keys to something. I bet you could pull them out of your pockets or purses right now.…

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    In Shannon Nichols’ “Proficiency”, she dislikes writing due to her experience with writing. I never knew I would not like writing growing up. People in my life told me I had great handwriting and loved how I use to write stories. In college, I continue to struggle in writing essays and it is a challenge for me. Although Shannon Nichols and I despise writing growing up, we still have become successful writers. My experience with literature started when I was in the first grade. My first-grade…

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    Throughout Harry Mulisch’s The Assault, the killing of Anton’s family leaves Anton with internal questions as to how exactly this event transpired for most of his life. Over the course of the novel Anton is provided with many answers to his questions, some simple and some complex. As the novel progresses so does the complexity of explanations Anton is given about the assault on his family. To clarify, in the beginning Anton is offered many simple explanations and, seeing that he is young and his…

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