Rosetta Stone

In many ways, Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues does more than explore what it means to be a part of the LGBTQ community. In many ways, Stone Butch Blues is a “how to” book just as much as it is a lifeline for the LGBTQ community. It is a “how to” book in the sense it examines how to be a member of the LGBTQ community, while at the same time revealing the follies of a definitive correct way how. In doing so, Feinberg reveals not only the performative nature of gender, but also how the concept…

Imagine the abuse and the neglect you would feel, the loneliness, the heartbreak, the sorrow. Now stop imagining and realize that this is the life of someone else. This is the life of Jess Goldberg, the stone butch. The novel Stone Butch Blues written by Leslie Feinberg follows the life of stone butch Jess Goldberg. To understand…

Stone circles can be found all around the United Kingdom. These structures range in size and most commonly hold connections to folkloric tales or practices, and are usually regarded as being sacred. Many theories have been crafted over time concerning stone circles. However, their true known origins are vague and open for interpretation, which makes them a complex topic to discuss and research. By linking stone circles in various places in the United Kingdom and their connections to folktales,…

Writer of the Wizarding World Harry Potter a great story for people through the decades that will never get old. That teaches important lessons to kids and adults on important topics in peoples lifes. By looking at Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone you can see that J.K Rowling includes the themes of friendship and loss due to the influential people she has encountered in her life. J.K Rowling was born on July 31, 1965 at Yate General Hospital in England. She was raised by her two parents…

The infamous character of Professor Snape is one of great complexity and depth. It is his cold and ruthless demeanor that has readers origionally seething with hatred for his warped personality. His mistreatment of the main hero, Harry, further irks the readers until it is revealed later in the series as to what the underlying motives and agenda was. In the series Snape is an exceptionally skillful wizard with a dark past who is the potions master at Hogwarts school. For the majority of the…

worldview is and how it is formed. I will be explaining my personal worldview as a Christian and how I began to see the world as I do now. I will then be explaining a different worldview from a very popular movie called Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the first movie in the Harry Potter series. Since this is the first film of the Harry Potter series, we learn why Harry is the way he is—which is due to his parents being wizards. He learns more about his parents and life as a wizard in a…

I believe that the symbolism of the fence in “Araby” stands for the division that the boy faces in the aspect of reality vs. illusion. In Araby, the boy cannot obtain the affection of Mangan’s sister, therefore, the fence can symbolize this idea that “what the boy dreams” of versus “what is actually occurring” cannot and will not happen due to the unobtainable status and obstacles that are in his way. In other words, the fence seemingly symbolizes the unobtainable status and his disillusion with…

To be brutally honest I have never been a fan of Harry Potter. I was too scared to watch the movies, the gruesome images of dragons and snakes and especially Voldemort was much too scary for me as a child. The only movie I had watched before this course was “Deathly Hollows part 2” with my friends when it came out in theaters about 4 years ago. I never wanted to read the books because as I kid I hated reading, mainly because I’m a very slow reader and it would take me forever to finish a book…

Disappearing” J. K. Rowling’s book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, (a.k.a) Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, is the first book of the Harry Potter series, which is the series that whisks people away to the magical world of wizards, witches, spells, and flying brooms. After people discover this “Best Selling” series of books, people want a movie made about Harry Potter. When Chris Columbus’ film on Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone comes out, people fall back in love with the…

Cayden Brinton Comp. 1 Edwards 30 October 2017 Mandela Effect Debuted in 1962, millions of people grew up reading the well-known children’s book series, The Berenstain Bears. Being sold in more than 23 languages, the well loved stories were the common childhood memory of millions. The book expanded to become a tv series. With its popularity, it would only be natural that the name would be remembered. However, many fans remembered it as The Berenstein Bear with an “e” (Does This Picture Look a…