All ghosts and vampires are never only ghosts and vampires . There’s a thin line between the ordinary and the monstrous. Vampirism is beyond just vampires. More so‚ selfishness‚ exploitation‚ a refusal to respect the autonomy of other people. Seeing this situation in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ was a connection between the two. The novel opens with Hester‚ the protagonist‚ being led to the scaffold where she is to be publicity shamed for having commited adultery. Hester is forced to
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THE OLD ONES: THE DEMONS IN THE CASTLE presents as a proposed supernatural‚ action series that offers demons‚ swords‚ castles‚ an alleged curse‚ and a rift between worlds. Stories about demons are not new to the industry but they have a faithful following. The goal to kill the demon is well defined and the stakes are very high. It’s about life and death. The tone is consistently dark and ominous. While there are strengths to the storytelling‚ overall‚ the script would benefit from more development
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PHYSICAL INVENTORY OBSERVATION CHECKLIST Name of Company Subsidiary or Division Location or Department Date(s) of Inventory Taking Date(s) of Observation Firm’s Representative(s) Company representative in charge of inventory (or department) The purposes of the physical inventory observation are to determine that (1) the inventory physically exists‚ (2) stated quantities fairly represent the actual quantities on hand at the date of the observation
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Gender Roles in Dracula In a time period where females had narrow gender roles‚ Bram Stoker wrote his novel‚ Dracula. The Victorian culture often suppressed women and their value. Traditional Victorian women were thought of to be pure and virginal. Bram Stoker revealed another side of women that was not often seen. These qualities were like that of the emerging new feministic culture called the “New Woman”. The concept of gender roles in the 1890’s was very conflicted; Dracula challenged traditional
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Media Analysis: American Horror Story American Horror Story is an FX horror-drama television show‚ as well as an anthology series; each season of the show has a different cast and storyline. The show was created by Ryan Murphy (creator of the FOX show Glee) and Brad Falchuk (producer of Nip/Tuck)‚ and premiered on October 5‚ 2011. The first season of the show follows the Harmon family as they settle into their new home in Los Angeles. They are unaware‚ however‚ that the mansion is haunted by its
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In “The Judge’s House” written by Bram Stoker‚ the story takes place at an evil judge’s house that has hanged people‚ and a student named Malcomson is just staying there for a few days despite being warned not to. Strange occurrences begin with rats disturbing Malcomson while he is staying there but particularly a rat with red eyes sticks out to him. The rat with the red eyes would be in a hole behind a painting of the judge that is hung in the house‚ and sit in the same position as the judge in
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Plants Which Produce Oxygen at Night‚ Debunked. Can some plants produce oxygen at night? I hear you ask‚ after all the internet is filled with articles stating that plants suck as snake plant‚ and some types of daisies and others produce oxygen at night. But remember your primary school science classes‚ when you learnt that plants practice a ‘magical’ process called photosynthesis? A plant needs light and water‚ to turn carbon dioxide into carbohydrates‚ and oxygen is the waste product of this
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer first came out as a movie in 1992. The movie is about Buffy Summers‚ a teen girl with the typical “Queen Bee” stereotype. At her Los Angeles high school Buffy is in her senior year she is blonde‚ beautiful‚ dense‚ and a bit of a mean girl. Her favorite thing to do is shop at the mall with her equally dense friends and spends time with her sexiest boyfriend Jeffery. One day‚ Buffy’s life is forever changed when she finds out she comes from an ancient line of women known as
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McKenna Clary Interview with the Vampire In the novel‚ ‘Interview with the Vampire’‚ by Anne Rice‚ it starts with a young man interviewing a vampire‚ and the vampire related him the whole story of his life‚ how he became a vampire‚ his trilling adventures and his complex relationship with both the mortals and the immortals. The story goes back in time to have the reader fully understand the life of Louis Anne Rice did a pretty superior job with the writing and the detailed descriptions. How
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In the Underworld film‚ there are two species who are rivals‚ the vampires and the werewolves or lycans. For centuries a war existed between the two species for political power and over who is more powerful than the other. In the vampire clan‚ they don’t choose or elect their leader. The most powerful and eldest vampires are the ones who rule. This is in a cyclical manner wherein one of the leaders reigns while the other vampire elders sleep or rest. After a few centuries‚ the leader who reigns
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