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    Matt Stone and Trey Parker address an audience of young adults in America in their South Park episode “Margaritaville.” Stone and Parker create an informative episode about events that were taking place during the “Great Recession” in America at the time. While being created‚ the audience was aware of increasing unemployment rates and decreasing house values. In “Margaritaville‚” Stone and Parker introduce a character named Stan who is trying to invest his money into a bank‚ but he is immediately

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    Gabriella Montes Stone Butch Blues Leslie Feinberg has done an extraordinary deed in her writing of Stone Butch Blues. She has unlocked her soul to anyone who reads and showed us the fears of being different no matter how slight it may be. At first I was reading it because I was required to for this course‚ but I found myself unable to put the book down. This book is not only an important historical narrative for the gay community‚ it is a captivating novel yet the “plot” doesn’t follow a traditional

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    Analysis of Novel “Harry Potter and the Philosophers’ Stone” by JK.Rowling Background Joanne Kathleen Rowling as known as JK.Rowling is novelist that was born on July 31‚ 1965‚ in Yate‚ England. She became an international literary when she launches her fantasy novel first sequels of “Harry Potter”‚ in 1999 and that novel has 7 sequels. I would like to analyze the first sequels of Harry Potter‚ titled “Harry Potter and the Philosophers stone” because this novel is the one of the best-seller novel

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    Harry Potter & the philosopher’s stone I am going to talk about the Book “Harry Potter & The Philosopher’s stone”. This is the first book in the Harry Potter franchise written by the famous author J.K.Rowling. I choose this book because it looked exciting and easy to read. This book is about a young boy named Harry Potter‚ who lives with his Aunt‚ Uncle and Cousin. He is an orphan and is mistreated by his relatives. The first few chapters are about unusual things that happen to Harry

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    how brave Harry really was for standing up to a bully. Harry Potter is the main character from the Harry Potter series and the Harry Potter Sorcerer’s Stone book‚ a fantasy by J.K. Rowling. Throughout the book‚ Harry is set to join the Gryffindor house against the rivals‚ Slytherin. Harry has to find out who is trying to steal the Sorcerer’s Stone and get the courage to stand up to bullies like the antagonist‚ Malfoy. As I read the book‚ I realized that you will willow away‚ suffering‚ until you

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    Author: J.K. Rowling Published by: Scholastics Inc. Copyright: © 1997 by J.K. Rowling No. of Pages; 309 II. Author’s Background J.K. Rowling was a struggling single mother when she wrote the beginnings of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone on scraps of paper at a local café. But her efforts soon paid off‚ as she received an unprecedented award from the Scottish Arts Council enabling her to finish the book. Since then‚ the debut novel has become an international phenomenon‚ garnering

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    Name- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Author- J.K. Rowling [Main] Characters - Harry Potter‚ Ron Weasley‚ Hermione Granger‚ Albus Dumbledore‚ Severus Snape‚ Minevra McGonigall‚ Draco Malfoy‚ The Dursleys ‚ Rebeus Hagrid‚ [Professor] Qurirell‚ and of course‚ Voldemort. Setting - England‚ during the 1990’s Plot - Harry Potter has to lead a hard life: His parents have died in a car crash when he was still a baby‚ and he is being brought up by his Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia

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    In Harry Potter‚ the Sorcerer’s Stone movie many characters severed as foils to each other. A foil is one character that serves as a contrast to another. First‚ I will talk about Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy. Once Draco introduced himself to Harry‚ Harry knew they would not get along because Draco acted like an entitled wizard and is an uncaring spirit. As the movie progressed‚ Draco continued to develop as a foil he went to the house of Slytherin‚ bullied Harry’s friends‚ and serves as an enemy

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    Eleven years ago‚ wizards rejoiced all over the world. They celebrated because He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named was defeated. In other words‚ Voldemort (the evilest wizard around) killed Harry Potter’s parents‚ but for some strange reason‚ he couldn’t kill little baby Harry. Now Voldemort seems to have disappeared‚ and overnight‚ baby Harry has become a hero – "The Boy Who Lived." Having lost his family and home‚ Harry also has become an orphan. Professor Dumbledore (Headmaster of a magic school) find a

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    and the Sorcerer’s Stone when I was eight years old. It immediately became one of my favorite books. Over the next several years‚ I read the rest of the series many times‚ and I watched the entire series of movies almost as many times. However‚ I’ve never grown tired of re-reading and re-watching the first book and movie. The book‚ titled Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone upon initial release in 1997‚ was re-titled later that same year as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone for its US release

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