Joaquin Phoenix

THE HUNGER GAMES The Hunger Games is the film and novel everyone has seen and loved, so if you haven’t already seen it, it’s time to see it now. The Hunger Games is the first novel in Suzanne Collins trilogy. The novel was released in 2008 and became popular fast. The trilogy has sold more than 65 million copies and that only in the U.S. The series are ranked second, only beaten by Harry Potter. The genre is drama, adventure, science fiction and action. The main characters is Katniss Everdeen…

All great Wizards started as a student, as did Harry Potter. He started his journey clueless about the wizard world, but now he is known as a great wizard in fact a hero, but Harry Potter reached the point of becoming a hero by going through the 5 stages of a hero’s journey; departure, Initiation, the road of trials, the innermost cave, and finally the return and reintegration with society. Specifically, in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone the hero, Harry Potter follows these essential…

Krabat is a children’s novel published in the 1970s; Marco Kreuzpaintner Krabat’s director worked his hardest to modernize Krabat in order to make it more interesting and successful. In 2011 a movie was published under the original name Krabat. Instead of creating it for children, Krabat was anticipated more for adults especially those who read the book in their childhood. Krabat as a movie is very interesting, and exciting as it showed innovative ideas about black magic, friendship, and wicked…

Emma Watson was born in Paris, France on April, 15, 1990. She was born to English lawyers Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson. Although, she was born in France her childhood was mostly spent in England. In England, she attended the Stagecoach Theatre Arts School at Oxford. At that school she studied singing, acting, and dancing. Her first spark of interest in the theatrical world, was when she won a poetry contest for reciting James Reeves’ “The Sea” at age 7. She had no prior acting experience…

.Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince is the sixth book in J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter series. It is a pivotal point in the seven book series. It was all fun and games up until this point, but with the ever growing power of Lord Voldemort, fear is sinking into the heart of all witches and wizards. Harry tried to warn them years ago of the dark master’s return to power but nobody seemed to want accept the fact that the most powerful dark wizard in existence is back. Now it is up to Harry Potter,…

ultimately transcend death. Harry and Beowulf both were chosen by supernatural forces, separating them from the average person as well as guiding them to their destiny. The wand that chooses Harry just so happens to have a feather from the same phoenix as Voldemort.…

The year 2001 was a big year for films, especially animated and book adaptations. With the critically acclaimed animated films like Shrek and Monsters Inc., that each made over $250 million worldwide (IMDb, 2001). Along with animated movies, the two top grossing films in 2001 were based off two separate, and very popular, book series, that already had huge following before they had even gone into production. The second highest grossing movie in 2001 was the first of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic…

years, and what did the human community get from after three years? The violence caused from the war was haunting the world. After three years of wasting money and killing of people, the victory didn’t seem to cover all the lost and the expenses. The Sword of Welleran also mentioned how the hero fell after he looked back at the expense for the victory. The expenses were too huge even the joy of victory can’t cover it. The time period and the social concern are really important elements for the…

In social psychology, fundamental attribution error is described as the tendency of people to attribute the behaviors of others to internal factors --such as character, personality, and intent-- rather than resulting from external factors and/or circumstance (Schwarz, 2014). This contrasts with an individual 's self-perception, which accounts for all readily available knowledge of personal circumstance, when evaluating personal behavior. Fundamental attribution error is an intensely common…

Catcher in the Rye’s Holden Caulfield, Harry Potter’s Severus Snape, and Neuromancer’s Henry Case all share something in common—they are antiheroes. Merriam-Webster’s definition of an antihero is, “a protagonist or notable figure who is conspicuously lacking in heroic qualities” (Merriam-Webster). While that is the ‘dictionary definition,’ many authors have taken liberties in describing which “heroic qualities” are missing, and which traits are used instead (Merriam-Webster). Through a…