Taking its origins from a poorly reviewed movie‚ the 1997 TV how by the same creator‚ Joss Whedon‚ brought to the screen a 16-year-old high school student whose destiny was to “stand against the vampires‚ the demons‚ the forces of darkness. She is the slayer” (Whedon‚ 1997). The introduction of Buffy The Vampire Slayer (BTVS)‚ as a character‚ though not a new one‚ was revolutionary. Challenging the preconceptions of traditional horror‚ comedy‚ romance and teen movies‚ Whedon has created a character
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Aidee Rosales Mr. Gonzales March 21‚ 2013 Period 1 Dracula Essay In the novel‚ Dracula by Bram Stoker‚ he developed the writing of his novel by addressing the struggles between a modern society of progress‚ science‚ and technology with superstitions‚ folk beliefs and from the past. Bram stoker became interested in ancient superstitions including one from Cluj in Transylvania‚ Romania. He was a sickly child whose mother used to tell him ghost stories. Throughout the novel‚ two characters addressed
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How does Shadow of the Vampire appropriate the earlier texts of Nosferatu and Dracula and make or create something new? Blood sucking‚ darkness‚ gothic and death; all relate to this mysterious creature‚ the vampire. A film within a film is Shadow of the Vampire and it moulds together the texts Dracula and Nosferatu using post-modernist techniques. This creates for the audience a film that entertainingly doesn’t follow universal themes but focuses on gothic features‚ character transformations and
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Course Reflection In the following paper I will discuss what I have learned during this Professional Communication Practices online course. I will also touch on how I will use the information in the future. What I Have Learned Through the various assignments‚ I have gained a wealth knowledge about proper grammar usage. Prior to taking this course‚ the last grammar lesson that I had was back in Middle School. Working on the weekly grammar assignments allowed me to refresh my memory and also learn
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English 1101 was not like I expected. I came into the class thinking this was going to the hardest class I have ever taken. Turns out that the class was one of the easiest subjects I have taken this semester. There were only a few essays that had to be written which was good and bad thing at the same time. My grade was pleasing considering the fact that I am only a sophomore in high school. The class will be every beneficial in the future; when it is all over I will appreciate taking the course
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Kimberly is a sweet and hardworking student. She is very enthusiastic about reading and love fairytale books. Kimberly struggles with reading from the beginning of the year. The area of phonics specifically had been the hardest part of the reading process for her. The Qualitative Reading Inventory (QRI) was administered on April 18th and helped as a diagnostic tool to make proper decisions and develop further an intervention plan for the student. She was struggling with the word list form the QRI
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How does one come to such a strong belief? A core belief‚ even. You come to such conclusions from moments of impact. A time in your life that hits hard. That leaves you stumbling‚ searching for reprieve. My life‚ for me‚ started one day my freshman year. That day‚ I told myself I wasn’t gonna live this sad life anymore. I decided that I had to get out. Out of highschool‚ out of this town‚ out of this life. It was the first thing I had ever truly done for myself. I remember when it hit me‚ that
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Have you ever heard someone say‚ “I should write a book?” Perhaps you’ve said it yourself. People want to write books for a lot of reasons and I believe everyone has a book in them. Perhaps they think writing a book will lead to becoming famous or they might make a pile of money. Some people may want to write to show peers from high school that they aren’t a big loser after all. I think the main reason most authors write is based upon their past experiences and things they have encountered throughout
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Mayur Barapatre English 3003 Prof. Dale Ireland 05/29/2016 WP3 Development in Writing The English 3003 class has helped me in various ways in improving and shaping my writing skills. Although some of the work were tedious and sometimes frustration at times‚ but overall it was a fun class to be in and was a great learning experience as well. I had to take this class not because I failed to secure an 8 in the WST test but because I had problems mainly due to my poor writing. Throughout the class this
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clear in Dracula and fairly obvious in subsequent vampire stories‚ but a closer reading of less obvious texts will reveal sexual undertones in the acts of violence. This discussion will look at the presence of sexually-natured brutality in Dracula and “Vampires in the Lemon Grove‚” two very different vampire stories‚ the physical act of rape in “The Company of Wolves‚” and the underlying sexual innuendos present in the movie Aliens. One of the dominant themes in Bram Stoker’s Dracula is that
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