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    I am writing to share with you the work I have completed during the Spring 2015 semester in Mrs. Miller’s Engl 112 Dual Enrollment College Composition II course at Brooke Point High School. Continuing our work from the first semester, this course emphasized research and argumentative writing for both the social sciences and the humanities, and a very challenging multi-genre project on a topic of our choice. Mrs. Miller encouraged us to strengthen our research skills through the use of annotated bibliographies

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    Cichon Ms. Vyse English II Honors 15 March 2016 J. K. Rowling?s Portrayal of Magical Creatures in the Harry Potter Series as Compared to Creatures in Ancient Mythology The world famous book series, Harry Potter, has been an instant success worldwide. This series follows the life of a young boy, Harry Potter, in chronological order from the beginning to the end of his schooling. Harry Potter is schooled at a magical school somewhere in England, which is where the majority of the books take place.

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    name Harry Potter is said more times daily than the average person can count; Harry Potter and his wizarding world has made a huge impact all over the world, including Canada. Over 400 million books of 68 different languages have been sold all over the world, not to mention all 8 films having a spot in the top 50 grossing films of all time. But, we can’t forget, all of this comes back to one woman; Joanne Rowling. Joanne Rowling is a british author best known for writing the Harry Potter series under

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    the wizarding world, but to a boy with a lightning scar on his forehead, the wizarding world is his real home. You hear a student scream that the Gryffindor house has won the game because of the boy.The boy with the scar. The boy who lived. Harry Potter. Who could have made this thrilling fantasy land? I’ll give you a hint. It’s someone with grew up living a happy childhood, had a spark of inspiration, created a website based on this series, and still has things going on in her current life. If you

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    Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Trailer The Harry Potter film series is one of the highest grossing movie franchises of all time. It created a rich universe that is beloved by millions, and a few years ago, the author of Harry Potter announced that there will be a new series of films set several decades prior to the events of Harry Potter. The new film, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, had a lot of expectations to uphold. The purpose of this essay is to provide a rhetorical criticism

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    audience to get fervently attached to the world and characters you create then it is extremely important to make the world in which you base your story seem authentic. One of the best examples of transmedia storytelling done correctly is the Harry Potter saga by J.K. Rowling. Rowling created a detailed fantasy world which she achieved by setting the story in a real life location, England, and also by creating texts within the story which she would later publish as books of their own, such as Fantastic

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    On our everyday, we are surrounded by heroes. A hero is a person who has special abilities in helping others and in thinking about others priorities before their own. Classical heroes are super humans that are brave, that use their abilities to help other, that go on a journey, and in some point of their life they have a revelation about their true identity as a hero. Modern-day heroes are average people, that face challenges and have problems to which people can relate. They don't go on the classical

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    Written Response Most Persuasive Assertion Michel Foucault 's assertion that one’s own "author-function" can exceed their own work is a claim in which can be backed by an array of existing and deceased author 's. An agreeable claim, even though Foucault attempts to disassemble it later on in the essay. Foucault initially states, "One might say that it is not true that the author of a novel is only the author of his own text; in a sense, he also, provided that he acquires some "importance," governs

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    school. Stephanie brought up this chance to give advice to her younger self to “Just be yourself.” Defining their years as a memorable experience with changing interests in the future like the author’s tastes in books like her interest in the Harry Potter series. Stephanie revealed to the reader, she could have spent time with her friends in the lunch room instead of being lonely on multiple occasions. In “Just Be Yourself,” the author reveals to the readers the teen self of the author only joined

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    Snakes and their serpentine kin play important antagonistic roles in the world of Harry Potter. The Basilisk is the monster in Harry’s second annual death-courting in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. A Freudian analysis sees the battle between Harry and the Basilisk as a sublimation of the Oedipal Complex. This has been recognized in books such as Classical Myths and Films in the New Millennium. Jungians also see other archetypes in play around Harry and snakes. However, the Basilisk was

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