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    In "Ban Harry Potter," the author uses hypostatization, faulty analogy, and false use of authority in an attempt to prove their point that Harry Potter books in school will inevitably cause children to "grow into suicidal nuts." First, Hypostatization is found in the second paragraph where it says, "History has shown that encouraging... drug addiction." This is hypostatization because the abstract concept of Harry Potter leading to drug addiction is not backed up with any evidence, but is…

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    Jk Rowling Research Paper

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    Rowling, was born in Yute, United Kingdom in 1965 (“J. K.,” Contemporary). She is best known for writing the Harry Potter series (“J.K., Authors). She has a creative imagination and has been writing since she was a child (“J. K.,” Authors). She wrote her first book when she was six years old; it was about a rabbit named Rabbit and a giant bee named Miss Bee (“J. K.,” Encyclopedia). Soon after writing this story, she knew she wanted to be a writer (“J. K.,” Encyclopedia). Rowling had many jobs…

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    Harry Potter, who? Walking through campus, a mall, or even through a park, one will see people reading several different types of novels. However, nowadays it is rare to find a J.K Rowling novel in sight. It is much more common to find the works of Suzanne Collins or John Green being read now since the Harry Potter series ended in 2011. One will even find that it is increasingly common to find people who know nothing of the “chosen one” and would prefer to keep it that way. Due to these things…

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    J.K Rowling is an exceptional author and is seen as a big role model in the modern world. She continuously demonstrates her ambition to succeed in every novel she gets published. She has taught many people the importance of failure and why on the contrary of some beliefs, it’s actually a good thing. She speaks about this concept in her 2008 Harvard commencement speech. J.K Rowling emphasises three key points in her speech which are to pursue your dreams and interests even if they don’t lead to…

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    College does help to enhance knowledge and have an exceptional job, but not everyone has that, due to the obstacles people have to face. For those people who can go to college have the opportunity to study their desired majors and for the ones who are undecided on what they want to major still have the opportunity to finish the prerequisites yet gain knowledge while they are there. I don’t find it fair that some people who are in college because their parents told them even though it’s not the…

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    Because of the mathematical complexity of his outline, he chose to work with an advanced programming which is considered for the aerospace industry, CATIA, t make an interpretation of his idea to the structure and to help development. r than reproducing the models on the PC by hand, the group arranged the model with a digitizing wand. Once foreign made into CATIA, this information was determined into parametric surfaces that Gehry 's creators could digitally control to advance for design…

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    a) life expectancy/ the number of years that an average person at any age, including newborns, can expect to live. Libby Montana and any other place that deals with asbestos should be in a separate category because, this video shows that most of the people in the town died a lot younger. The average life expectance in the united states is around the age of eighty. Since it takes forty years from exposure for effects of asbestos to fully develop, only people who are not exposed until they are…

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    239. The Crossing. Bill Viola. 1996 C.E. video/sound installation. Bill Viola’s The Crossing, created in 1996 C.E., is a room-sized video installation that is made up of a large two-sided screen onto which two video sequences are projected at the same time. They each open in the same fashion: having a male figure walking slowly towards the front of the camera, his body dramatically lit from above, appearing to glow against the black background. After some time, he pauses and stands completely…

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    The kimbell museum located in Fort worth texas, widely recognized for its different art pieces it houses. The kimbell hosts an art collection as well as traveling art exhibitions, educational programs and an extensive research library. With the Kimbell having an impressive art collection, the Kimbell may need a more impressive building to house everything. But before we get into the building we need to know the people who designed it. Louis Kahn was born in Pärnu, Estonia, on February…

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    Dale Chihuly

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    Dale Chihuly’s installations do not only appear in Museum’s. Two Chandeliers were set up at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California. Dr. Jonas Salk, the founder of the Institute, commissioned Chihuly, because he believed that art and science coincide. These chandeliers were specifically designed to hang between the towers, bordering the courtyard. Each chandelier contained a different color-scheme, but both were vivid colors that could serve as an inspiration to the…

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