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The Flipping Life Magic, wands, and wizards are those important elements to creating fiction novels and stories. Have you ever wondered what it would happen if magic exists in human lives? As J. K. Rowling has published a series book from 1997 to 2005, which it becomes one of the best selling fiction books in history called Harry Potter. When the book came out for the first time, its story had increased an attractive in reading among people, especially the young adults. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s

Euthanasia: The Unethical Life Sentence Euthanasia, also known as physician -assisted suicide, has been a disputed issue for well over a decade. Its staunch supporters and assertive opponents have stood their ground like prize fighters in the final round. Nonetheless, issues such as euthanasia, capital punishment, and abortion are much deeper than emotionally charged arguments and rebuttals on both ends of the spectrum. These issues engulf the value of life; introduce moral dilemmas upon all

Knight to C6, it is how I had started almost every game of chess I had ever played. As my lungs filled with the pungent smell of coffee beans, I released my hand from the small wooden piece, and the game had begun. Sometimes I won and sometimes I lost, but oddly enough, it was never really about who won. You can learn so much about yourself and about life through the game of chess. It is crazy how much knowledge you can pick up about someone just from watching them play one simple game. The

Everyman is a morality play from the 15th century with no known author, and The Seventh Seal is a 1950’s fantasy film about a knight returning from the Crusades. Although the timelines for these two pieces don’t match up, they share a lot of similarities: the most prominent of which being the personification of death into a character. Both pieces feature death as an ever-present entity and solidify the inevitability of death. However, through the characterizations of death within these two pieces

In Ingmar Bergman’s masterful film The Seventh Seal, Death grants knight Antonius Block a reprieve, sending Block on a quest to make a difference and find God in his waning time on Earth. Though Block cannot tangibly prove that God exists, he still believes that He is somewhere out in the world, and that he simply cannot find Him. Much like Jesus Christ from the Gospel According to Matthew, Block wants to do one more good deed in the world while enjoying the little positive moments he has left. And

History happens every minute of the day and there is nothing we can do about it. What happens in the past tends to have a significant effect as to what will develop in the present and the future. This trend has been seen and displayed all throughout time. One perfect example of this is examining the relations between the United States and Russia. The political relationship between the United States and Russia has been an extreme shift throughout the past decades, from the two countries being allies

One of the biggest questions about someone’s personality is if they would make a good leader. A great book regarding this question is Anna of Byzantium, by Tracy Barrett. This book is based on a real girl, Anna Comnena, who lived in royalty in the Byzantine Empire. Anna Comnena was the first-born of Emperor Alexius Comnenus and Empress Irene Ducas. In the book, Anna was the heir to throne of the Byzantine empire and was living happily with her younger sister Maria when her troublemaking brother John

In Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved, she plays with loss. There are instances where the reader witnesses the loss of a character's identity, and the dehumanizing of people from the affects of slavery, which Toni Morrison constructs through symbols and metaphors. One of these symbols that help reinforce this idea is the repetition of the word milk. As the story goes on, there is a correlation between the word and motherhood. Morrison writes about what it was like to be a mother during slavery and post

Games: A real Sport In our culture, there are many ways to entertain such as music, film, book, and of course, game is one of them. But when we indicate games, most of people will think a negative influence instead of looking at all its positive side. Parents always say to their children Playing games is a waste of time and there is no gain from that. However, online games especially competitive games are not that bad and playing games should be encouraged by everyone. Games or E-sport should be

would belong to England. Henry V took the opportunity to finish the war. Henry V wanted to finish the match that Edward III had started. The Hundred Years' War was like a chess match between France and England. After years of fighting, Henry V said checkmate. Consequently, Henry V won the war against the great French empire. One may assume that tactically and strategically Henry V was a “mastermind.” How did Henry V know how to defeat the French army? What prepared him for crucial decision-making? In