Harry McGurk

A Branding and Marketing Lesson from Harry Potter The Harry Potter story is a branding and marketing story too. There are a number of details that contributed to the stupendous success of the Harry Potter brand. Similar to a number of other iconic brands, Harry Potter also was not developed to become a spectacular success. The people behind Harry Potter did not realise that it would become a worldwide phenomenon but they were able to recognize the potential of a good story or in other words a good

provides enough to satisfy every mans need but not every man’s greed - M.K GANDHI “Earth provides enough to satisfy every mans need but not every mans greed.”- is a famous quote Mahatma Gandhi, which elucidates that nature and earth has enough resources to satisfy humans basic requirement but it doesn’t have enough to satisfy everyman’s greed as greed in endless . It is necessary to conserve our resources because in absence of the same the population of the

Mythology is often overlooked in a school’s education system, and not taught very often or at all, despite having a major significance in the world of education; however, it should be offered in American high schools. Mythology can offer students a deeper knowledge of how things were reasoned back before they had the technology to look up the weather, science to explain earthquakes, and other sorts of advancements that we have today. Back then, it was considered truths and everyone accepted them

important because Spiderman is primarily marketed towards a younger audience, thus imparting the male gaze upon young people who may never realize that they are being influenced. Mary Jane is the object of affection of not only Spiderman, but also of Harry Osborn, who becomes the villain Green Goblin. Here, we see Mary Jane as the object of desire for both hero and villain, and is subsequently captured and used to lure the hero into battle, where Spiderman must come to her rescue and save the day. And

Gender Inequality in Children’s Broadcasting The mass media has been stereotyping genders and misleading the minds of children for ages. Children's books present a plethora of ideologies, beliefs, and values from the dominant culture, including gender ideologies. The social constructs that society has invented is being taught to children as they mindlessly watch a television show or read a book, not knowing the propaganda of what they are consuming. The gender inequality in children’s television

executed. The Harry Potter series of books and movies is something that the world knows and loves. Harry Potter is famous over the globe and has the hearts of millions of fans all around the world, not to mention the massive number of fans right here in our country. So, what we have planned to do is bring out the side of this colossally famous series that relates highly to the product that we are trying to bring back- Chocolate. Anyone who is familiar with the book or the movie “Harry Potter and The

In line with this, only 9% of directors of the top 250 domestic grossing films of 2015 were women (Lauzen, 2016). This is an incredibly low statistic if you take into consideration that women account for 50.4% of the entire population. Furthermore, although there have been 88 Academy Award ceremonies since 1929, it was only during the 82nd Academy Awards last 2010 that a woman, Kathryn Bigelow, won an Oscar for Best Director for her movie, The Hurt Locker. To this day, no female director has won

introduces wizards and their powers, witchcraft in their eyes. As Gish states in her article, Hunting Down Harry Potter, “Deuteronomy specifically states that witches and wizards are an abomination unto the Lord that will be driven out.” She goes on to discuss that if the belief system is so strong, they do not want to read Harry Potter where this wizard is portrayed in such a positive light. Harry uses his powers for good, and some are concerned that the wizard who uses those powers for good may make

The concept of fantasy can be defined as ‘the forming of mental images, especially wondrous or strange fancies; imaginative conceptualizing’ (Dictionary.com). At one time or another we have all fantasized about different things. However, have any of us ever attempted to incorporate those fantasies into the real world? The following paper will attempt to analyse how the narratives Mickybo and me and The Butcher Boy combine elements of imagination/fantasy and reality. It will discuss how the of mixing

In the book Harry Potter and the philosophers stone, Lord Voldemort was presented as a bad guy whose name you are not allowed to say out loud. What if he was so called “tragic hero”? To be convinced by my claim, the first thing a reader needs to know is that this is based on opinions and also evidence such as: Voldemort is not just a bad guy, he is a very clever figure and a huge part of the whole series, which means, you can’t just call him “a bad villain”. I have read an extended essay made by