I read my first Harry Potter book when I was 7 years old. The first two movies had been released at that point and everyone was encouraging me to read the books that had inspired them. At the school book fair‚ my dad bought me Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – I wanted to start with that one because that was the movie I liked best. By the end of the third grade‚ I had finished the first five books and I was a bona fide Potterhead. Children are very impressionable; Alfons Heck once described
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Entry 1: I have received this book from by brother‚ Ruben. He gave it to me when I was trapped in the cistern when my brothers were away working. Ruben told me to write in it so people will know what happened to me. He told be he swiped it from my father’s blank books he was planning on writing in. I guess I should start from the beginning…. It all started with my father‚ Jacob‚ who gave me a fancy coat. My brothers interpreted this as he loved me more than them and they distanced themselves from
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paper Harry Potter When I was young‚ I went to school waiting all day to get back to my Super Nintendo and play Ken Griffey Jr baseball. I grew up in a world of technology and awesome gadgets and toys that left me no time to even think about reading. When I was in the 4th grade a book came out that changed my generations view on reading; this book made it cool and fun for kids to read. This book was Harry Potter and twelve years later it is more popular than ever before. Harry Potter is the
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first day on the battlefield it’s September 16 1916. Yesterday was the first day that the British and French used their tanks they are slow but can take somewhat of a beating and do some major damage to the germans. Well i could not finish yesterday’s entry we had to take cover because the germans started to bombard us with artillery fire and we lost about 30 people in about two minutes and we found their body covered in rats this morning. So today we are going to use the tanks and artillery and fire
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Harry Potter is a well-known fantasy-fiction series written by J.K Rowling. It revolves around the protagonist‚ Harry Potter‚ the boy who lived. Harry has many physical and physiological wounds he obtains throughout his life‚ the most explicit being his scar given to him by Voldemort. A physiological wound he has is losing his parents‚ making him an orphan at a very young age‚ and his only memory of them is his mom screaming to Voldemort to stay away from Harry. Losing Sirius also leaves a mark on
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Whoever reads Harry Potter or Lord of The Ring should also discover the other one too. Both are the same basic “hero’s journey” archetype with two great main character which I really love: Harry Potter and Frodo Baggins. There are certain similarities between them which interested me a lot. Like Frodo‚ Harry is an English orphan; and both of them discover their destinies as reluctant heroes after a birthday: Harry after his own while Frodo after Bilbo’s 111th birthday party. Since then‚ Harry entered a
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Entry #1 The date was June 14‚ 2034. I was flying to London‚ England with my private jet. It was a beautiful day. The clouds were puffy and white‚ the sun was shining‚ and there was no wind. Then all of a sudden‚ there was a lot of turbulence. The plane was going crazy going left‚ then right‚ then back to the left. My pilot told me to not panic and that everything is going to be fine‚ but I was having cold feet. The turbulence became so wild‚ the pilot announced that the plane will have to land
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Translation Commentary 2nd Assignment Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince MA Audiovisual Translation 2012/2013 Diana Alves Costa Table of contents Source Text transcription………………………….. | 3 | Target Text transcription………………………… | 5 | Introduction……………………………………….. | 7 | Skopos........................................................................ | 8 | Proper Names……………………………………. | 9 | Lexical Gaps…………………………………….. | 10 | Form of Address………………………………… | 11 | Invented
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Essay Draft- Discuss how the novel Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone by J.K. Rowling teaches us important moral and social lessons. Novels aren’t just a source of entertainment‚ they also contain important social and moral lessons. This can be seen in the novel Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone by J.K Rowling through the journey of Harry Potter and his friends in their first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. During this time they have to work together to defeat Voldemort
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In J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone‚ the protagonist‚ Harry‚ is today’s modern hero. The film of Harry Potter is the common tale of good vs. evil‚ with the good and evil in the story being completely obvious. Voldemort‚ Harry’s adversary‚ intends to kill Harry because‚ as their prophecy‚ another element of mythology‚ foretold‚ "neither can live while the other survives." However‚ when good meets evil (Harry meets Voldemort) in the novel‚ good prevails both times; which is a very
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