In his essay "The Lovely Stones‚" Christopher Hitchens elucidates the tumultuous history of the Parthenon‚ emphasizing its enduring significance amidst centuries of abuse and plunder. Hitchens quotes the esteemed classicist A. W. Lawrence‚ who lauds the Parthenon as "the one building in the world which may be assessed as absolutely right‚" highlighting its unparalleled architectural and aesthetic perfection. However‚ despite its intrinsic beauty‚ the Parthenon has suffered egregious acts of desecration
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In the “Your a Wizard Harry “ scene from the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone‚ Harry clearly make it an open pane that he wants change in his life. He does this because he is really lonely. One can see this because at the beginning of the scene‚ Harry is in his room on his birthday with a picture of a cake and he says “Make a wish Harry.” Because he is alone on his birthday‚ anyone can see he is lonely and therefore probably wants a change in environment. This also shows it is an open
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example‚ in Twelfth Night). Additionally‚ Shakespeare’s fools amuse with their convoluted logic and witty plays on words. In As You Like It‚ Touchstone‚ although he delights with his wit‚ serves a somewhat different purpose. A "touchstone" was a stone that was used to determine if metals were precious. Rubbed against a touchstone‚ gold and silver would leave a distinguishable mark. ’’Touchstone’’ has come to signify anything that tests and reveals virtue or worth. This is the purpose Touchstone
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portrays a society under a harsh totalitarian regime. The protagonist Winston is an unlikely hero because of his fatalistic nature and the subtlety of his rebellion. He risks exposing himself by daring to act on his own sense of individuality. The paradox of hope´s presence in a dystopia highlights the little optimism in the novel. Hope is generated by characters who are able to recognize the wrong in society that others seem oblivious to‚ and resist‚ even if that resistance does not go beyond mentally
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In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone‚ Harry Potter is the hero of the story. I believe that this movie follows Joseph Campbell’s model about the pattern of a hero’s journey. Campbell wrote that there were three stages in every hero’s mythological voyage. For the following five paragraphs‚ I compared the first stage‚ Departure‚ with the beginning of the movie. The hero is called to adventure when Hagrid brings Harry to Dumbledore. This makes sense to me since when Dumbledore places Harry on
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blindness is the space around you‚ the place where you are‚ and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all."(Kingslover) This is a quote that can relate the characters in The Stone Angel and King Lear. In the tragedy King Lear‚ written by William Shakespeare and in the novel The Stone Angel‚ written by Margaret Laurence‚ the term blindness has an entirely different meaning. It is not a physical flaw‚ but the inability of the characters to use their thoughts and emotions to see
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In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone‚ by J.K. Rowling‚ the main theme is the idea of good vs. evil. Harry Potter is a wizard that lives with a muggle(human) family. When he was a baby‚ Voldemort‚ the most powerful dark wizard‚ killed both his parents and tried to kill him‚ but instead of dieing‚ Harry was a left with a lightning bolt scar and the memory of his dead parents. He was left at the doorstep of his muggle aunt and uncle who highly dislike him and his wizard powers. When he was sent
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their own decisions and forge their own path‚ but it is one’s path which defines their character. Decisions explain one’s motivation and determination to act on those decisions which by definition means character. In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone‚ by J.K. Rowling‚ characters as Neville‚ Hermione‚ Professor Quirrell and Harry Potter defend the idea that people’s choices define their character. At the beginning of the story it is seen how badly Harry Potter is treated by the Dursley. He is forced
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Harry Potter and the Philospher’s Stone Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy. He lives with his Uncle Vernon‚ Aunt Petunia and cousin Dudley‚ who are mean to him and make him sleep in a cupboard under the stairs. (Dudley‚ however‚ has two bedrooms‚ one to sleep in and one for all his toys and games.) Then Harry starts receiving mysterious letters and his life is changed forever. He is whisked away by a beetle-eyed giant of a man and enrolled at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
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Ursula Hegi’s novel‚ Stones From The River‚ exposes the reader of the persecutions of religious beliefs‚ a gossiping dwarf‚ and the people of Burgdorf‚ a small German town in the time of the Nazi Holocaust. The novel is set in World War I and continues through World War II. The Second World War is brought on by the hunger of power it is known as the otherness war. “In the Third Reich otherness is a crime.”(Chadwick 2) Hitler‚ a Nazi leader‚ wants to gain control of Germany and
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