Lincoln and His Generals by T. Harry Williams Harry T. Williams was born on May 19, 1909. When in college, he was encouraged by a professor to study history. This professor's main interest was the Civil War era and had a great effect on Williams. He attended Platteville State Teachers College (later Wisconsin State University at Platteville) where he received a B.Ed in 1931. Williams continued education into graduate school was mainly due to the lack of work during the Great Depression. He went
In film music, composers use compositional techniques to control, manipulate and alter the objectives and foundation of a story, improving the development of characters, emotions or initiating subtext in film. The job of creating music for film has taken different forms, but as film production and technology changes and improves, the process of scoring music for films has been taken to a high standard of work, involving a strenuous and careful process to provide the film 's objectives to reach their
Harry Potter: Good or Evil? Throughout adolescents, a child is taught to use his or her imagination. A child is read stories of a talking cat or a silly old bear while still young and naïve. The child is read such stories to encourage use of his or her creativity. The ideas of such characters are for pure amusement and are obviously fictional. Unfortunately, today there are issues of censorship that stifle a person’s creativity. The most recent book being criticized by censors is J.K. Rowling’s
Fish by Stephen Lundin, Harry Paul, and John Christensen In Fish written by Stephen Lundin, Harry Paul, and John Christensen we find a woman who moved to Seattle from Southern California with her husband her two children. This woman Mary Jane Ramirez had everything going for her she was a happy person who had a happy life her family their relationship couldn't get any better. They both had good jobs, jobs that they enjoyed. Then one day, twelve months after they had moved to Seattle Dan her husband
In 1952, Harry Elmer Barnes wrote a timely article, "How 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' Trends Threaten American Peace, Freedom, and Prosperity" as the final chapter of the classic revisionist anthology, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace. Barnes analyzed George Orwell's classic novel as a work of prophecy and sounded the alarm to reverse the "1984" trends prevalent in the America of his day. Barnes argued that propagandists and "court historians" were fashioning a present, based on a falsified and inaccurate
of Kilimanjaro”, the author Ernest Hemingway has basically two main characters, Harry and his wife, Helen. Throughout the story Harry has an infected leg, which seems to be seriously bothering him, it is actually rotting away. The author writes about Harry’s time on the mountain with his wife just waiting for his death. In his story, Ernest Hemingway shows a great deal reality and emotion through his main character Harry, in the books themes, and its symbols. The author’s story is about Harry’s spiritual
The Family Reunion T.S. Elliott's "The Family Reunion" is a play about the return to home, and the looking back at ghosts of the past. The play starts with Harry returning to his boyhood home for his mother's birthday. The plot centers around Harry's return, the mystery surrounding his wife's death, and his family's desire to have Harry take over the role as head of the household. It's an anticipated return, one that they all have been waiting for. There are concurrent plots threading through
Lacanian Psychoanalytic Criticism in Harry Potter The inhabitants of a faraway country known for its ivory towers and for its export of literary monographs were forever quarreling over who might best represent them. One day two tiny factions decided to join forces: the adherents of the Princess Childlit and the followers of Prince Psychian, the great-great-grandson of Empress Psyche. Both groups had for a long time felt themselves unduly spurned… by the powerful Board of Canonizers who had
Steppenwolf : The Disintegration of Harry Haller as it Relates to Music Among the many themes present in Hermann Hesse's 1927 novel Steppenwolf, two stand out as basic threads around which the story is constructed: the isolated nature of the artist and the duality of existence (Benét 471). Harry Haller, the protagonist of the novel, is portrayed as an outsider to society and to modern life; he must struggle with his own outmoded ideals and bestiality to embrace humanity and reality
go hand-in-hand when it comes to the Harry Potter series written by J.K. Rowling. The books were adapted into films starting in 2001. The first film, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, was directed by Chris Columbus. The story of Harry Potter is magical as is however; the movie needed a little extra magic. This extra magic needed to be added through music. Director Chris Columbus chose John Williams to compose the music for a promotional reel (John Williams). After Columbus heard the song for
stereotypical image and traits of the male characters. I plan to use this article to help analyze the female characters in Harry Potter and better understand their roles as weak and feminine characters through their actions and appearances. However, this will not be one of my main sources because it focuses on several texts, rather than The book focuses particularly on Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and how the female characters are represented in the story. The novel begins by examining
but as soon as the name Harry Houdini or the Great Houdini are spoken, we automatically think of a genuine magician. But what really made him popular was his effort to improve magic tricks, and the persuasion of doing something no one has done before. Harry Houdini’s birth name was Ehrich Weisz. He was interested in magic from a young age, and has been dedicated to it ever since then. “On October 28, 1883...Ehrich made his first performance on stage,”(“The Great Harry Houdini”). Shockingly enough
In her article, “A Story of the Exceptional: Fate and Free Will in the Harry Potter Series”, she addresses Friedrich Nietzche’s fate and free will philosophy, and using the Harry Potter books, she argues that Rowling allows her characters free will, with a fair amount of fate and shows us how the two forces can work in balance. I was fascinated with this article. I have to admit that I am not that familiar with the Harry Potter series, as strange as that might sound with millions of other people
making. Her devotion to the letter of the law is impressive but a bit cold, and we constantly feel that she could never become a warm and wise figure like Dumbledore. Rowling named her after a notoriously bad nineteenth-century Scottish poet named William McGonagall who was nevertheless highly confident of his own talents. Minerva McGonagall was an extremely talented and powerful witch with a variety of magical abilities. For example during the Battle of Hogwarts, her abilities enabled her to fend
Harry Potter and Macbeth: two stories that have both made an incredible impact on the world. Ever since the books were published, the Harry Potter series has become quite the phenomenon. From selling out in stores worldwide, to making millions of dollars off the movies, the universe is no stranger to the wizarding world of Harry Potter. For Macbeth, the fame is just as strong. While Shakespeare wrote many amazing plays, Macbeth is one that has stood among one of the best. There have been movies,
discusses how in the Harry Potter world they abuse magic and in the real world we abuse the technology that we now have. They also discuss the ethical judgments that J.K. Rowling’s characters make and how the real people make towards applied science of technology. In the Harry Potter world they have rules of who can use magic where, when, and what age. Anyone who using magic by a wizard or witch who is under the age seventeen outside of school will be expelled from Hogwarts. Harry does go through this
living beings.’ (Bennett & Royle, 2004, p.61). In this essay I am focussing on two modern children’s series as case studies, as I feel these books epitomises the underdog as the hero in children’s fiction. The first collection I am referring to is the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. This is one of the most successful children’s book of all time, and has been the focus of many studies as a result. The second series I am focussing on is the Secret Series by Pseudonymous Bosch. This series is written
time even as movies advanced to have speaking music was continued to be used as a part of movies carrying from the 1930’s to today. Today I will be addressing two different scores of music from award-winning films of today, ‘Hedwig’s theme’ from ‘Harry Potter Series’ and ‘Raiders March’ from ‘Indiana Jones’. Raiders March Raiders March has been broken down into a three-part ABA form, the A and B sections using different but related melodic ideas with the famous melody that begins the march already
J.k Rowling is considered one of the best writers of our time and has inspired hundreds of millions of fans throughout the world. J.K Rowling has been recognized for her famous series Harry Potter which has been adored by countless people and tells a boy’s story of magic who she has lived with for many years. J.K Rowling has been called the first author ever to make a large amount of money out of books estimating to over $1 billion dollars. Even though J.K Rowling is now a known celebrity, many do
Harry Potter A young, scrawny boy who wears horn-rimmed glasses and has a scar on his forehead has catapulted into the hearts of millions of readers, young and old alike. This same boy has generated nationwide controversy over censorship versus freedom of speech. In particular, the community of Zeeland, Michigan has banned reading aloud from Harry Potter and required written parental permission to check the book out from the school library. Although the Zeeland community as well as other segments