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    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ---------Scene 1: In a cage. ---------LOCATION: Little Whinging‚ Surrey – night ---------LOCATION: No. Four Privet Drive – Harry’s room - night HARRY: I can’t let you out‚ Hedwig. I’m not allowed to use magic outside of school. Besides‚ if Uncle VernonUNCLE VERNON: Harry Potter! HARRY: Now you’ve done it. AUNT PETUNIA: He’s in there. Vernon... UNCLE VERNON: I’m warning you‚ if you can’t control that bloody bird it’ll have to go. HARRY: But she’s bored

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    ability and skill in sports (Granderson‚ 2012). Role of Sports in Popular Culture Gender equality in sports is heavily influence by cultural and structural ideologies. In the past 40 years women are more accepted in the male-dominated world of sports. Although it is quite apparent that men are still very threatened by the thought of gender equality in sport‚ but in general as well. Restructuring ideologies on gender in culture and social habitat at a very young age is critical in the race to diminishing

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    opposite. One’s view in Alfonso Cuaron’s adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban can be different in many ways.The audience can judge one’s film quicker than actually analyzing the director’s true purpose on why they did the changes they did. In this essay‚ the audience will learn why Mr. Cuaron made the changes he made. As well as‚ the similarities and differences on J.K. Rowling’s and Mr. Cuaron’s Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and how their main messages overall

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    1 J. Edgar Pop Culture Element J. Edgar Richard Miranda Leadership Development - AEC 3414‚ Section 0482 Professor Stedman June 11‚ 2012 2 J. Edgar J. Edgar In 2011‚ Clint Eastwood directed a brilliant ensemble of actors‚ including Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead role‚ in a biopic film titled J. Edgar about the life of one of American history’s more curious leaders: J. Edgar Hoover. The film is made fascinating by Eastwood’s courageous spotlight on not only Hoover’s strengths

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    Singh Period 4 11/17/10 Folk VS Pop Culture Outline Preliminary Questions 1 Some differences between pop and folk culture include fashion and clothes. For example‚ in pop culture‚ new fashions change constantly and are influenced by the media and celebrities whereas in folk culture‚ clothing styles are passed down by generation to generation. Another difference is the way they are diffused; Pop culture is spread by hierarchal diffusion whilst in folk culture‚ they hinder new and mainstream

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    Harry Potter has to spend a miserble summer with his only remaining family‚ the Dursleys. During a dinner party hosted by his uncle and aunt‚ Harry is visited by Dobby‚ a house-elf. Dobby warns Harry not to return to Hogwarts‚ the magical school for wizards that Harry attended last year with his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley. Harry politley ignores the warning‚ and when Dobby causes havoc in the kitchen‚ the Dursleys think it was Harry. The Dursleys angrily lock Harry in his room for the

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    Adolescence Explored Through the Harry Potter Saga Part I: The process of one’s individual growth is demonstrated through various types of actions‚ the most common one being – decision making. Whilst the Harry Potter saga is often seen as mystically farfetched and fantasy-like‚ careful thought has been put in the character analysis followed by the complexity of personal relations. Ergo‚ when I had decided to examine the movies‚ two movies in particular came to mind – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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    Frege’s Puzzle about Identity (Lycan‚ 2000: 14): Consider the following sentence: S3: “The writer of the Harry Potter series is J.K.Rowling.” According to R.T‚ meaning is equal to reference. Therefore words that have the same referent must have the same meaning. Meaning that S3 is a trivial necessary truth (Lycan‚ 2000: 14)‚ like (*) “The writer of the Harry Potter series is the writer of the Harry Potter series. But S3 is neither trivial (true in virtue of concepts) nor is it necessary (couldn’t be otherwise)

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    (Tolkien 1). Although this was written decades ago‚ this quote laid the foundation for a novel that inspired a vast amount of ideas and works of literature later remodeled and revised to develop new versions of tales previously told. From the dystopian novel The Hunger Games‚ to the mythological tale Percy Jackson‚ authors have derived their own work from literary works preceding their own. In Harry Potter‚ many of the characters and their roles are influenced by those seen in the Hobbit including:

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    Most people do not even know rape culture exists‚ but it is alive and strangling society tighter by the second. Rape culture is an environment where rape is prevalent and where sexual violence is normalized and excused in the media and pop culture. It is perpetuated through the use of misogynistic language‚ victim blaming‚ objectifying women’s bodies‚ and the glamorization of sexual violence. Rape culture creates a society that disregards people’s‚ most often women’s‚ rights and safety (SCSU). Some

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