December‚ 2012 Harry Potter The Harry Potter novels have been known to captivate children and young adults with their intriguing fictional stories. These novels have encouraged many children to show an interest in reading. Even though the Harry Potter books have aided in the rise of kids interest in reading‚ “the Potter books topped the 1999 top-ten list of protested books complied annually by American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom with 472 complaints about the books focus on
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Harry Potter Fans Community and Value CreationIntroduction Harry Potter has enjoyed immense popularity over the last thirteen years. Nearly all peopleare aware of the wizard boy’s name--- Harry Potter‚ even those who have not ever read the books or watch the films. Harry Potter has grown into a powerful brand quickly‚ which provides consumers with functional‚ social and experiential values that they can ‘experienceit‚ relate to it‚ rely upon it and talk about it’ (Gunelius‚ 2008). To date‚ there
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Book Banning has existed in America since colonial times‚ when legislatures and royal governors enacted laws against blasphemy and seditious libel. Legislatures in the early American republic passed laws against obscenity. Though freedom of the press has grown significantly over the course of the twentieth century‚ book banning and related forms of censorship have persisted due to cyclical concerns about affronts to cultural‚ political‚ moral‚ and religious belief. Drugs‚ sex‚ and profanity are
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Harry Potter The title of the book: The title of the book is "Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone". The author of the book: The author of the book is J.K. Rowling. The hero of the story + explanation: The hero of the story is Harry Potter‚ without any doubt. He is the hero because‚ first of all‚ the whole book is about his life. The book follows Harry Potter’s most important turn of his life: After he lived for 10 long‚ long years with relatives who didn’t treat him well‚ he
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The Harry Potter books are an extremely popular series of fantasy novels by British writer J. K. Rowling. The books depict a world of witches and wizards‚ the protagonist being the eponymous young wizard Harry Potter. Since the release of the first novel‚ Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (retitled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in the United States) in 1997‚ the books have gained immense popularity and commercial success worldwide‚ spawning films‚ video games‚ and a wealth of other
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Writing 325 Cindy Wu Instructor: Lolita Hernandez The Popularization of Harry Potter Series The Harry Potter series‚ which is written by JK Rowling‚ is a miracle of literary history that it is well known in countries with various cultural backgrounds all over the world. It has been translated into seventy languages and sold over four hundred million copies in two hundred countries. The success of the Harry Potter series results in a success of its industry‚ including films‚ video games‚
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Book report Harry Potter In this book report I will talk about a book that is very popular: Harry Potter. There are four books‚ the author is supposed to write two more books. Today‚ I will talk about the first book: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s stone. Harry Potter is a boy of 11 years old. His parents were killed when he was a baby and he was confided to his uncle and is family: The Dursley. He lived there for approximately 10 years‚ his bedroom was under the stairs. It looked more
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an individual as a hero‚ and clearly‚ the lines between being a hero and simply being human can become quite blurry. Such is the case for the characters in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series. Many people are quick to name Harry as the one and only hero of the novels‚ but I argue otherwise. It seems impossible to say that Harry is not a hero at all‚ but is he the only hero? According to Margery Hourihan a hero is someone who “overcomes [his] opponents because he is strong‚ brave‚ resourceful‚ rational
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Avada Kedavra”‚ Harry Potter! Many readers and literary scholars believe that the British author J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter‚ a series of seven fantasy novels‚ is the most entertaining work of American history. However‚ this work is also one of the most controversial pieces of literature in American history. The Harry Potter series is a quite popular series among the several pieces of literature that have been banned and challenged in different parts of the world. Many parents and school
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started with Harry‚ and then all these characters and situations came flooding into my head.” In December of that year‚ Rowling ’s mother died‚ after ten years struggling with illness. Rowling was writing Harry Potter at the moment her mother died. She had never told her mother about Harry Potter. Rowling said that the death heavily affected her writing. She introduced much more details about Harry ’s loss in the first book‚ because she knew about how it felt. Harry Potter: Harry Potter is a series
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