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    Harley Quinn (Arleen Sorkin) was originally created as a character in FOX’s Batman: The Animated Series to be a humorous sidekick for the Joker. In Harley’s origin story, she began as a psychologist at Arkham Asylum who was assigned to treat the Joker. Eventually, Harley became infatuated with her client and willingly gave up her career in order to be the Joker’s partner in crime. As the animated series and future comics progressed, Harley was reduced to an extremely sexualized female villain for

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    and antihero: Harley Quinn transforms herself throughout every issue in an attempt to figure out who she is as a character; in doing so, her portrayal allows for her to appeal to the typical male audience as well as the female audience. Starting in 2013, married couple, Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti, began writing Harley Quinn’s new story, allowing her to be truly independent from the Joker for the first time. Previously, the Joker has always been an option for Harley Quinn, someone she can fall

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    they are crucial to many works of writing, such as fiction. There are many aspects that are needed in order to create a 'great' villain and Harley Quinn has many of them. Her incredible intelligence, relentlessness, and her indefatigable actions against Batman helps create Harley Quinn as one of the greatest villains in the DC universe. Harley Quinn has been portrayed as an extremely manipulative and intelligent woman throughout her appearances in the media. Although she is mostly shown as the Joker’s

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    ACTRESS PROFILE: HARLEY QUINN Harley Quinn is a fictitious comic book character whose real name is Harleen Quinzel. She is an American citizen and a psychiatrist by profession. She graduated from Gotham City University with a Phd in psychiatry. She worked at Arkham Asylum for the criminally insane until her life of crime led her to be an inmate in the very same asylum she worked at. CHILDHOOD Not much is known about Harley Quinn’s childhood but she was an intelligent and model student. She received

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    story begins with Daniel Quinn writing about a day in his life, until he comes upon an absurd advertisement in the personals section of the newspaper: TEACHER seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person. Suspicious, Quinn investigates this advertisement with intentions of exposing fraud. Instead, he discovers Ishmael in Room 105 of a undistinguished office building. Sitting calmly, Ishmael gently nibbled on a slender branch. Appalled, Quinn stumbled towards the chair

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    physiatrist would not be a fan of the pescatarian world. Harleen Quinzel, better known as Harley Quinn, has been around the book world since the 1990s. Yet still very freshly created from an inspiration, Harley Quinn has taken over mainstream media in such little time. Being a villain, many fans of the comic world may think she could possible be hated more than loved. But none-the-less, Harley Quinn has remained a fan and public favorite for some time now. Created in a crazy insane image, to fit

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    In his novel Ishmael, Daniel Quinn discusses the destruction and salvation of the world. By way of a newspaper ad, an unnamed narrator meets a telepathic gorilla, named Ishmael, who had put up the ad to find a pupil with a desire to save the world. Spurred by his benefactor’s obsession with Nazi Germany, Ishmael imparts on the narrator what he knows best: captivity (Quinn 24). Ishmael claims humans of what are considered civilized cultures are captives of a story that in turn keeps the world captive

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    In a remarkable contrast, Harley Quinn was not conceived with so much planning and lofty intentions. Her rise is a recent, completely unprecedented curve ball. She was only meant to be a passing character in Batman: The Animated Series ,a mainstay of 90 's childhood. In a bizarre twist of fate, and the right people knowing each other, Harley Quinn got her origin. The cartoon 's writer, Paul Dini, watched a tape of his college buddy, comedy

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    Ishmael, written by Daniel Quinn has given us an insight on how the world has been treated by man and how it could end. In a time where the world is being destroyed we need to step up and protect the earth from total destruction. The Taker culture believes that the world was created for them so therefore they can do whatever they want to it without any consequences.The idea that man believes he rules the world is not only false but its constantly causing harm to the planet, Quinn uses a lot of metaphors

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    for quite some time, but has just not began to go widely noticed. A philosopher in his own right, Daniel Quinn, speaks of similar topics using his character, Ishmael, to do so. To best describe this scenario, Ishmael had a poster which read, “With man gone, will there be hope for gorilla?” this quote in itself hold little meaning until you take the deeper meaning by using gorilla as nature; Quinn speaks throughout the book of how earth was not created for man, man is just one more short portion of

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