Hogwarts

immense effort invested behind the creation of idols and pandals (stalls) is nothing less than a work of art. Imagine yourself, walking along the roads where you see idols as tall as skyscrapers, pandals replicating the Taj Mahal or Harry Potter’s Hogwarts and lights adorning every building of the entire city. I had often wondered what madness felt like, well, after my whole night pandal-hopping sessions with midnight meals and hour long queues even at 4 am in the morning, I think I know what…

Metacognitive Processes and Skills: How our students think and have thought processes How we think and how we process information varies as we age, but for purpose of this paper I will discuss the thought processes of a child until their adolescent years. The older a child becomes the more aware they are of their thoughts and the more capable they become to process higher levels of information (Broderick, & Blewitt, 2015). These metacognitive processes vary a bit from child to child, but…

Throughout every hero’s journey they are faced with many challenges, create alliances, and remain humble. In the epic Beowulf, defeats multiple monsters, gains many loyal followers, and stays modest through his journey. Even in the modern world our characteristics of a hero has changed since the Anglo-Saxon period, one concept still remains, defending the good from. Much like the Dragon in Beowulf, Harry Potter must come to a final battle with the one thing that represents evil and death,…

The first mythological reference that provides a new perspective for the reader to look at the story from is when Dumbledore mentions in the Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone to not enter the 3rd floor because it is extremely dangerous and might lead to their deaths. But when Harry and his compatriots find themselves in the out-of-bounds corridor by mistake, they come face-to-face to a three-headed monstrous dog guarding what it seemed like a trapdoor, drooling from all his mouths. (PS, p…

A Guide to Classroom Gamification Games have become an essential part in the EL classrooms. Many teachers tend to use games either to introduce the lesson, practice a piece of grammar, revise vocabularies, or even as energizers. Hence, the term gam-ifi-cation might be confused with the use of different games inside a classroom. Gamification, as defined by Claudia Pesce, "is the use of game elements and game design techniques in non-game context” ( Claudia Pesce, para. 2, n.d) In this article, I…

literature has ideology within it regardless of it being intentional or not. (Hunt, 2009) Within the Harry Potter extract there are clear stereotypical power relations, between the children and the adults in this case the teachers and pupils at Hogwarts. (Hunt, 2009) Harry’s fear of losing house points for his team, alongside the description of Harry looking at the floor to avoid Snape’s stare reinforces the ideology that…

Joseph Campbell was an American writer who researched and developed theories about mythology. One of his most well-known works is the 17 Stages of Monomyth. These 17 stages are split into three phases. The first of the three phases of monomyth is the departure. This phase includes the call to adventure, the refusal of the call, supernatural aid, crossing of the first threshold, and belly of the whale. The second phase is the initiation which includes the road of trials, the meeting with the…

Since ancient times, people used to treat disabled individuals in a special way. Human beings with physical disabilities are considered unable to work and perform some tasks while people with mental disabilities are not perceived seriously at all. Such situation occurs everywhere, and it depends not on the citizens of society in particular but the whole society in general. The problem of ableist society is important because, in such society, handicapped persons cannot enjoy life with all its…

Growing up, Harry Potter was a story that was ever present in the lives of my family. My older brother and sister are eight and ten years older, and they quickly became fascinated by this world. My dad would take them to the midnight book openings and they would bring home three copies of the new book. My siblings become enthralled with this world, and I so badly wanted to know and share in their passion. The Prisoner of Azkaban was the first Harry Potter book that I read by myself, and it…

I used to hate reading. I would whine and procrastinate every time a reading assignment was given, and then I would trudge through the book, hating it the whole time. As far back as I can remember we had to read books and take tests on them to earn points. We stopped doing that around seventh grade, but for years I would do the bare minimum to receive those points, usually reading a bunch of easy books to accumulate points. In fourth grade I attempted to start the first Harry Potter book, which…