Philosopher's stone

Four goals. Four simple goals help George Orwell create such intriguing writing. Orwell makes sures he uses egotism, aesthetics, historical impulse, and political purpose in each and every one of his writings in order to get his message across to others. Due to his persistence throughout his writings, 1984, a dystopian novel set in Oceania, meets the same four concepts. Over the course of several years, dystopian novels have become popular among young adult literature. Writing way before…

Mike Thaler was born October 8, 1963 in Los Angeles, California. As a child, Mike was always very creative, he enjoyed modeling clay, drawing pictures and writing. He drew cartoons for the school annual and for his school paper at the University of California. He drove from California to New York to begin his career drawing cartoons for adults. Until one day he was contacted by his first editor Ursula Nordstrom after she saw one of his cartoons, she reached out to him to write a children's…

ATTENTION GRABBING SENTENCE HERE. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien was written in 1954. It follows Bilbo Baggins' adoptive son, Frodo, on his quest to destroy the Ring of power. After Bilbo's eleventy-first birthday in the Shire, he disappears and goes on an adventure by himself. He ends up staying with the elves. Before he left, Bilbo wrote a will that proclaimed that all of his belongings would by passed onto Frodo, including his ring, which made him invisible. Gandalf the Grey, a…

Assessment Task 1A 10% “I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.” Imagine you are Hugo Cabret, you have lost your father, live inside the walls of a train station, always being cautious when suddenly everything changes. Hugo Cabret is an interesting book with many plots, and twists. In this book the idea of mystery and secrets is explored. Hugo has many secrets piecing the story into a curious…

Nicholas Sparks is a well-known romance author whose novels almost never disappoint, considering all of his books have been New York Times best sellers. One of the books, The Notebook, was turned into a movie. Even though The Notebook isn’t the only movie inspired by his best-selling novels, I think it was the most popular and hands down the best movie. Sparks wrote The Notebook in only a short period of six months. Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams are the two main characters in the movie.…

PoPoLoCrois The game opens with the ten year old prince of Popolocrois, Pietro, discovering that his mother is not dead as he was initially led to believe but is instead in a magical induced coma. It would seem his mother protected the country from an ice demon but lost her soul to the world of darkness in the process. Pietro is determined to save his mother and thus sets off on a quest. That is only the first Playstation title, called “Book One” in this PSP compilation with the sequel tucked…

Harry Houdini is a very famous magician. Harry Houdini has risen to fame over the years by amazing people with his magic tricks. Houdini is a good honest man that has taken the world by storm due to his magic tricks. Houdini is a great escape artist with many tricks up his sleeve . In the following paragraphs I will be answering the questions and supporting my claim with text evidence about Harry Houdini. I believe Houdini is such a popular entertainer because he amazed people with his…

Their daring , nerve, and chivalry set Gryffindors apart.”- from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. The letter types that are associated with Gryffindor are INFJ, ENFJ, ESFJ and ESFP, each of these patterns have similar but different meanings behind them. Those who have INFJ as their letter type are known to be very independent and intuitive, much…

The patriarchal society in the first three books of Earthsea is clearly shown through the description of Roke, and its students. Roke is described as the most powerful, and as far as the reader can tell, only wizarding school where young people go to learn about magic, and harness their true powers. When Ogion is describing Roke, he says, “I will send you to Roke Island where all high arts are taught. Any craft you undertake to learn, you will learn” (A Wizard of Earthsea 32) Ged can go there to…

“Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone” the author uses conflict as the main literary element of the story, in the current event of a school shooting in Oregon it also connects to conflict. In the book, Rowling uses different characters and emotions to create a conflict between them. In this book Voldemort is after the stone and if he got it he would control the world of wizards and make an Elixir of life. As stated by the author, “If Snape gets hold of the Stone, Voldemort's coming back!…