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    2009-100 2 December 2011 Summary Applications Paper: Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles I have enjoyed many vampire movies over the years‚ long before they became the popular pop-culture genre they have become due to the success of The Twilight Saga films. One movie I have enjoyed viewing many times since its debut in 1994 is Interview with the Vampire. This film is an adaptation of the book Interview with the Vampire written by Anne Rice in 1973 and published in 1976. The movie was directed

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    sun vampires

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    They’re desperate for a sun fix. They spend hours incarcerated in hi-tech coffins. Cayte Williams meets the “tanorexics” You’re lying in a big plastic cocoon. Weird blue light beats down at you through hi-tech glass and there’s a strange humming noise. You’re naked and sweating profusely. Have you been abducted by aliens for experimental tests? No‚ you’re lying on a sunbed and if you’re doing it more than once a week then you could be seriously addicted. The Imperial Cancer Research Fund

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    such monster is the vampire. The vampire has been portrayed for centuries as a blood-sucking‚ soulless and ruthless killer. A vampire has no other desire than to obtain it’s most base desires. This being human blood. A vampire feeds on human blood and is shown through art and film to be an intimate and almost sexual activity. This is what makes vampires the perfect monstrous representation of the id within each human being. So‚ what is it when we make something that

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    The gothic horror genre attempts to make the reader/viewer feel a sense of dread‚ fear‚ terror‚ disgust or horror. ‘Frankenstein’ by Mary Shelley and ‘Interview with the vampire’ by Neil Jordan both explore the elements which compliment the Gothic Horror Genre. Major elements that are constant throughout the two texts are the constant search for knowledge which can be dangerous if in the wrong hands which can lead to supernatural or inexplicable events‚ omens or visions occurring‚ Humanity and the

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    2011 Porphyria: The Vampire Disease Porphyrias are a hereditary group of disorders in which heme is not properly made. There are many different forms of this disorder‚ with porphyria cutanea tarda being the most common type. Remember what happens to Edward Cullen from the Twilight series when he gets out in the sun? Yea‚ me neither. But in classic movies and early folklore‚ vampires were commonly depicted as having purplish‚ ruddy colored bloated skin. Fictional vampires are also known to fear

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    complicated. Werewolves. Tall tales. Experience? Marie de France speaks of the curse of the werewolf as an actual problem‚ as stories‚ stories that has been passed on and believed. Is belief all there is to the curse’s existence‚ nothing else? Marie de France informs us she would be remiss to omit the lay of Bisclavret‚ a werewolf from the old days of Brittany. Marie introduces Bisclavret as a noble man‚ a loving husband‚ and a mysterious person who disappears for three days every week. Werewolves are defined

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    “Hush “is an episode from Buffy the vampire slayer series is it forty-four minutes and twenty-eight seconds long. In this episode that cast of Buffy the vampire slayer lose their voices by monsters that need to steal human hearts without the victim screaming .After the monsters steal the human voices they keep them in a small box because humans voices are their weaknesses‚ after the voices are sealed they start attacking. The whole towns panics because they lose their voice and have to express themselves

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    INTRODUCTION Vampires; do they exist ? Can there be actual vampires roaming around on the streets‚ ready to make anyone and everyone who comes in sight a vampire ? A vampire is a reanimated corpse that is believed to rise from the grave at night to suck the blood of sleeping people‚ usually causing their death. Vampires are dependent on freshblood and a nocturnal lifestyle; extreme longetivity is linked with the ability to remain inactive for extended periods without harm. Belief in vampires has existed

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    Shadow of the vampire essay Both Stoker’s Dracula and Mernau’s Nosferatu have been used to create a new text‚ with its own concerns‚ the new text being shadow of the vampire‚ and its concerns being that it needs to appeal to a postmodern audience. Shadow of the vampire is a new text representing new elements that resonate with a contemporary‚ post modern audience. Various elements of the gothic mode for example vampirism‚ immortality‚ sexuality‚ and the shadow motif have been appropriated‚ also

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    The Kensington Runestone Introduction The Kensington runestone is one of Minnesota’s greatest mysteries. Found in 1898‚ it is also one of their oldest unsolved mysteries.The Kensington Runestone: Incarnate or Counterfeit? The Kensington Runestone: Incarnate or Counterfeit? In 1898‚ The famous Kensington Runestone was found entangled in the roots of an aspen tree by the farmer Olof Öhman in Kensington‚ Minnesota. Many scientists came to investigate the Runestone in about 1910‚ and most confirmed

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