Harry Potter is a text of mythology with a desire for the young heroes to succeed and conquer all obstacles placed in their way. According to Joseph Campbell the hero journey begins in an ordinary world which is exactly where Harry starts off. Harry is unaware of his magical destiny after being placed with his non magical aunt and uncle following his parent’s death as an infant. Harry gets his first call to adventure when he receives his letter from “no one” inviting him to Hogwarts. The Dursleys interrupt this call by keeping Harry from his letters resulting in the refusal of the call.
Raving Fans Ken Blanchard Culminating Activity Book Report Table of Contents Page 3 – Introduction Page 3 and 4 - Summary of the main points Page 4 and 5 – Concept relating to the main point of the book Page 5 and 6 – Personal reflection Page 7 – Work cited Raving Fans Ken Blanchard’s Raving Fans is a book based upon a revolutionary approach to customer service. The main character, referred to as “The Area Manager” is new to his job and doesn’t know where to start. Fortunately for him, he’s paid a visit to by his Fairy Godmother, known as “Charlie”. Charlie’s purpose is to show The Area Manager the three magic secrets of creating raving fans, the ultimate in customer service. Charlie stresses that just having satisfied customers isn’t good enough anymore, and that the key to a successful business is to create raving fans.
Bilbo Baggins, has a positive outlook on life, but never wants to leave his little village of dwarfs. But plans change; when Gandalf arrives at Bilbo's door, Gandalf asks Bilbo if he would like to attend an adventure with him, and Bilbo quickly excuses himself from the conversation. Bilbo invites Gandalf over for tea one day. When Gandalf is suppose to be over for tea, many other Dwarfs show up, uninvited, but Bilbo never turned them away so he invited them all in to have
* Mr. Jerome is very squirrely about the whole thing and says no way, no how, and don't let the door hit you on the way out. * But he does say some vague things about stories and ghoulish things, without a lot of detail. * Time for plan B: Arthur writes a letter to Mr. Bentley explaining that Eel Marsh House is quite an undertaking and he'll have to be here for several days to sort it all
Taking Back Erebor The Hobbit, the enchanting prelude to The Lord of the Rings series by J.R.R. Tolkien, is about a hobbit, a wizard, and a company of 13 dwarves trying to take back the ancient Dwarven city of Erebor. The hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, was dragged into this adventure by the wizard, Gandalf the Grey. Bilbo often thinks of his hobbit-hole while on this journey, but soon forgets about it when he realizes his goal: to help the dwarves take back Erebor, and claim the gold which is rightfully theirs. In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
In Edward Scissorhands, when Edward gets trapped inside Jim’s house there is a high angle as he is panicking and doesn’t know what to do. High angle also makes him seem alone. When Charlie is introduced in the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Burton al so uses a high angle when he goes to bed. This shows Charlie is small, alone, and poor. Finally, when Edward in Big Fish first met the giant man, there was a high angle shot that made us realize that Edward is puny compared to the giant man.
Here are a few that stood out. In the book, Scrooge’s pajamas are plain white. In the movie, his pajamas are vertically striped. In the beginning of all three versions Scrooge is a horrible, greedy man, and realizes that he was wrong to have so little compassion. In the movie, when he is visited by the ghost of Christmas Future, he runs away from the ghost and shrinks while running into a drain pipe.
Jose Munguia Professor Hartmann English 152-03 1 December 2013 Success of the Wizard of Oz through Television The Wizard of Oz was a spectacular movie. The decade around Oz paved the way for many other amazing movies, which created new genres and set new standards for what a movie should be like. Some of the amazing movies that also came out during 1939 were: Gone with the Wind, Stagecoach, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Of Mice and Men, Love Affair, The Hunchback to Notre Dame, and many other great award winning movies (Films101). Each of these movies have been awarded for their amazing directors, story, actors and visual effects. However, out of all of these movies there has only been one that has been called the most popular movie
Nick is one of these rare people; Nick is possibly the only individual who truly comes to comprehend and appreciate Gatsby in the end. What makes Gatsby so “great” to Nick is not just the luxury of his daily life and the mesmerizing mystery of his wealth, but his actual personality; Nick gradually recognizes that Gatsby, in his inner self, does not care about his wealth, or social standing, or any of the other unimportant belongings that seems to be significant to everyone else in his superficial world. Rather, Gatsby is interested by the most delicate and craziest of feelings, love.
Regan governed with focused self-confidence and he never considered his position to place him above those he led. Most people saw Regan as an honest, authentic, genuine and honorable President, but most importantly he was a great communicator. He showed that best himself in the Farewell Address January 1989. “I won a nickname, "The Great Communicator." But I never thought it was my style or, the words I used that made a difference: it was the content.