2/20/2012 (my birthday is tomorrow!)- Icons:
While looking through these lists of icons, I found a plethora of interesting people, but in the end, I had to go with Harry Potter. Harry is, and probably always be an icon of magic and fantasy. He is also a sort of icon of getting kids to at least read something.
Since the books started gaining popularity, when you think of magic, one of the first things that comes to mind is Harry Potter. The popularity has inspired many things, such as getting kids to read, but possibly the most inspirational result of this series popularity was the creation of the Harry Potter Alliance, which seeks to fight things such as discrimination, genocide, and poverty.
Monday, March 12, 2012
Iconic Films- Harry Potter
When talking about Harry Potter, one might wonder how this series represents our lives and times. As much as some, if not most of us, might wish otherwise, magic isn't real, however there are many elements of Hogwarts and the Harry Potter world are very much relatable to our lives.
One way that Harry Potter is relatable to students is the bullying that occurs in both worlds. In the series, Hermione is made fun of both for being a know-it-all and because both of her parents are muggles, which makes her what characters such as Draco Malfoy call her "mud-blood." Another reason that the Harry Potter world is relatable to our own is that there our teachers in the series, as well as in real life, that we can't stand or that seem to be out to get us. Examples in Harry Potter are Severus Snape and Delores Umbridge who went as far as saying in the fifth film in the series The Order of the Pheonix "I really hate children."
A Nov. 11, 2001 New York Times article by Marcelle Clements titled "Film- Wizardry Practiced on a Wizard" stated that 60% of American children between the ages of 6 and 17 had read at least one of the then four books in the series.
Link to article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/movies/film-wizardry-practiced-on-a-wizard.html
Citation:
Clements, Marcelle. "Film; Wizardry Practiced on a Wizard." The New York Times Nov 11 2001.
One way that Harry Potter is relatable to students is the bullying that occurs in both worlds. In the series, Hermione is made fun of both for being a know-it-all and because both of her parents are muggles, which makes her what characters such as Draco Malfoy call her "mud-blood." Another reason that the Harry Potter world is relatable to our own is that there our teachers in the series, as well as in real life, that we can't stand or that seem to be out to get us. Examples in Harry Potter are Severus Snape and Delores Umbridge who went as far as saying in the fifth film in the series The Order of the Pheonix "I really hate children."
A Nov. 11, 2001 New York Times article by Marcelle Clements titled "Film- Wizardry Practiced on a Wizard" stated that 60% of American children between the ages of 6 and 17 had read at least one of the then four books in the series.
Link to article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/movies/film-wizardry-practiced-on-a-wizard.html
Citation:
Clements, Marcelle. "Film; Wizardry Practiced on a Wizard." The New York Times Nov 11 2001.
Weekly Research #3
Link to article: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/e/eurovision_song_contest/index.html?scp=2&sq=eurovision%20song%20contest&st=cse
Citation:
"Eurovision Song Contest." The New York Times 16 May 2011.
Response: I'm probably one of only a handful of Americans that even know what this event is, but I love the Eurovision Song Contest, even if I don't always agree with the winning country. Take last year for example, I have no idea how Azerbaijan actually managed to win when there were so many better entries. Oh well, maybe this year a country will win that actually has a really good performance. However, I don't really think that'll be too difficult since there are a plethora of great songs this year. There are only two songs so far that I really don't like, which are Albania's song "Suus" by Rona Nishliu, and Russia's song "Party of Everybody" by Buranovskiye Babushki. Right now my favorite two counrties are Iceland with "Mundu Eftir Mir" and Sweden with "Euphoria."
Citation:
"Eurovision Song Contest." The New York Times 16 May 2011.
Response: I'm probably one of only a handful of Americans that even know what this event is, but I love the Eurovision Song Contest, even if I don't always agree with the winning country. Take last year for example, I have no idea how Azerbaijan actually managed to win when there were so many better entries. Oh well, maybe this year a country will win that actually has a really good performance. However, I don't really think that'll be too difficult since there are a plethora of great songs this year. There are only two songs so far that I really don't like, which are Albania's song "Suus" by Rona Nishliu, and Russia's song "Party of Everybody" by Buranovskiye Babushki. Right now my favorite two counrties are Iceland with "Mundu Eftir Mir" and Sweden with "Euphoria."
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