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The document discusses relationships between popular movies and education by analyzing scenes from the Harry Potter film series. It describes how the first Harry Potter movie portrays an exciting exposition of the magical world that Harry discovers. Throughout the series, Harry, Ron, and Hermione frequently get into trouble at their school, Hogwarts. In the fifth movie, a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Dolores Umbridge, refuses to teach practical defensive spells, focusing only on theoretical textbook lessons. This parallels problematic approaches to education that were common at other real schools during times of social issues like slavery.
Essay 4
- 1. Belicia Castillo <br />Mrs. Turley <br />English 110<br />Due date.<br />Relationship Between Popular Movies and Education<br />It¡¯s another day in school and you¡¯re trying so hard to pay attention and keep up with then notes. While doing so you start to think, ¡®There¡¯s no way school can get more boring, why can¡¯t it be as funn as it is in movies?¡¯ Movies do seem to portray American education more exciting and fun than it actually is, but is that all they really do, or is there more to them thatn we¡¯re seeing? In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer¡¯s Stone, the exposition the world of magic that harry himself didn¡¯t know about until his eleventh birthday. In this first movie of the series everything is new and exciting, like when we started junior high. Fresh minds eager to learn and too innocent to understand that it will only get harder, but not too old to cause trouble. Not only throughout the first movie, but the entire series Harry Potter and his friends, Ron and Hermione always find a way to cause trouble in the school. <br />From the beginning Harry, Ron, and Hermione grow and become their own person, but it¡¯s not until the fifth movie, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, that the flame ignites. It started out as normal as it gets at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, with all the students and staff starting out the beginning of term by eating in the Great Hall. Much like in actual schools, we all gather at the beginning of term and see our friends, and to see what new students or teachers we have. Unfortunately for the students at Hogwarts, once again, they have a new Defense against the dark arts teacher, and her name is Professor Dolores Umbridge. Professor Umbridge was sent to Hogwarts from the Ministry of Magic because, ¡°Wizards much older and cleverer than you have our new program of study. You will be learning about defensive spells in a secure and risk free way.¡± (Rowling ). Usually during Defense Against the Dark Arts is hands on practice, the students would get to actually learn how to do something rather than look and study a book, which exactly what Umbridge is doing. She refuses to teach her students any defensive spells or any practical knowledge that would come in useful in the future. ( )<br />Of course, this wasn¡¯t a problem, or seen as a threat in the previous years the Ministry doesn¡¯t want students to rebel or use any practical magic, keeping it strictly textbook content. In one particular textbook is Muggle Studies, muggles are ¡°Non-magic folk¡± () and how bad they are, that they¡¯re dirty and filthy and how their blood shouldn¡¯t be mixed with that of pure blood wizards, very similar to that time in America, slavery. Children, teenagers, even adults learn from example. Slavery dates back to 1615, when the first African slaves where brought to America to Virginia.(History of Slaves in America)<br /> <br />