Magic

Magic and Merlyn Moment #1 On a warm day near the end of summer, the Wart was sitting near the tilting yard watching Kay practice his skills. Wart was feeling particularly dreary that day and decided to console in Merlyn about his seemingly pathetic dreams of being a knight, like Kay was destined to be. Wart began to go on about how he would call himself the Black Knight. “ And I should have hoved at a well or a fjord or something and made all true knights that came way to joust with me in honor…

As with any genre or form, fairy tales provoke a certain kind of thought when approached. The ideas of magic and adventure, marriage and loss, and more jump to mind. One technique in particular relies on a fairy tale’s established environment: “normalized magic” (Bernheimer). The fairy tale itself exists in a uniform world, one with rules and laws different from reality. Magic exists in varying forms, sometimes grandiose and sometimes subtle. But its existence in typically preserved throughout…

The topic of the book Magic and Loss focuses on the Internet. The positive effect it has on the society, how influential it is, and the exploration and transition it withholds. Internet is a parallel universe that we live in besides earth, and we constantly teleport from one to another. While others argue that the internet, is cruel, ruins your energy, and causes health problems which is partially true, other belief that it is empowering, enlightening, inspiring and a work of art. My totem is…

How to build a Mid-Range Mill deck in Magic the Gathering? Imagine a trading card game that has already existed over 20 years but still has more than 20 million current players. Magic the Gathering (MTG) is first published in 1993, and the most common way to win the game is to take down your opponent’s health from 20 to 0. On the other hand, the goal of a Mill (the action of putting opponent’s library to his/her graveyard) deck is to win the game by making your opponent to draw from an empty…

themselves. The name I was trying to create for myself was Tyler Vold, a unique individual who desired to write with passion and attack the intricacies of the English language head on. Mrs. Jones, my first grade teacher, unlocked the secrets of The Magic Treehouse series to my eyes, and the beauty of cursive to my hands. I did not know as a first grader…

completely different individuals, cultural variations will jeopardize those friendships if the two cultures conflict, and one friend decides their culture is a lot of “important”, “correct” or “sound” rather than respecting each. The theme in “No black magic for Sale” is everywhere in every sentence in the story. Each character within the entire story was certain to a precise culture. Teddy, Mr. and Mrs. Farquar, their neighbors, and also the someone or the “Big Baas”, all follow what will…

Every book has characters and setting. The book “A Snicker Of Magic” mostly centers Felicity Pickle who is the main character. Felicity Pickle is a sixth grader who is unusual on in her way. Felicity is shy and timid, but she is a wonderful writer. Also she lets everyone take her everywhere without questioning. But what makes her weird is the fact that she collects words and sees them hover around things and people. Felicity has never had friends and has never found the word home.When Felicity…

Our name of our culture is Tropic of Magic. We are located at 34*N 25*W. The nearest bodies of water is the Atlantic Ocean. The Nearest Countries are Africa and Europe. Our climate type is moderate. We are in the middle latitudes. Our culture may experience hurricanes and flooding. Day 2 Our culture was first discovered by a sailor and his three friends who got stranded on the island in 1800’s. The people who got credit where Garroth Okasis, Jess Julia, Emmalyn Turtle, Laurence Swan.They…

There is magic in New Orleans. Not the magic found in a Disney movie, or the magic shown in parlour tricks common in cities such as Las Vegas or Los Angeles, but a magic much more real and substantial: the magic of possibility. This realization dawned on me in the most abnormal way as I was watching a Disney movie. A girl in New Orleans spends her whole life idolizing her father and working towards the dream they shared together- owning their own restaurant. When her father dies, that dream…

Magic City was written with the purpose of explaining a black boy’s coming of age and trying to understand the world around him, while growing up in 1950s Louisiana. In each poem Yusef Komunakaa shows the reader snapshots of the narrator’s life and the steps of losing innocence while becoming an adult. He does an excellent job of creating a childlike honesty through out the book. The author creates such brilliant poems that unite to make a holistic view of a young boys’ life. Komunyakaa uses…