Achievement Standard 1.10 Title: Vampire Diaries Author: L.J Smith Text type: Novel I thoroughly enjoyed the novel ‘Vampire Diaries’ written by L.J Smith. The story centers on Elena Gilbert‚ a young high school girl who finds herself eventually torn between two vampire brothers‚ Stefan and Damon Salvatore I admire the character Damon. From the start he proves to have a very flippant personality‚ taunting his younger brother with his desire to be human and his love for Elena. To many he
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Rogerian Argument Zombies have taken over. They dominate television shows‚ movies and anything else related to pop culture and have become increasingly more popular as the years progress. Whether it’s a mob of zombies sucking the brains out of a helpless victim on the big screen or zombies terrorizing families on television shows‚ it is hard to ignore the gory entourage. Fans of zombie lore generally fall into two categories: those who are attracted to the popularity of zombies and see them as purely
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a difficult media to classify into one genre. An obvious classification of the programme¡¦s genre would be horror; but this isn¡¦t entirely true‚ because the show has more concepts and themes that a horror movie would‚ and deals with more issues as well. The show uses elements contained in the more fantasy-orientated horror movies (such as Dracula): these include mythological beings such as vampires‚ demons and zombies; things that aren¡¦t always contained in horror movies
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Living Dead in 1968‚ zombies have become a household-monster so to speak‚ terrorizing the thoughts of man woman and child alike and earning a significant place amongst canonic monsters of our culture such as vampires‚ werewolves‚ ghouls and demons. The reason why the concept of a reanimated corpse delivers such a potent scare to the human psyche is because it is the most similar monster to us. Zombies do not possess the mind control powers or debonair sophistication of the vampire‚ nor do they wield
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Zombies in Movies : Humans in Reality Corpse‚ Rotten meat‚ intestines etc. These things are disgusting and cause irritation‚ yet they are the important elements which made the blockbuster movies nowadays. Resident Evil‚ the Walking Dead are significant representative in the zombie movies category. Even with horrifying scenes of ripping people to shreds‚ millions of fans all over the world will go to cinemas to watch it. In US‚ they even have a term zombie economy‚ making $5.74 billion for the
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most of their skin and become “bonies” (yes‚ it’s hard not to call them “boners” or “bronies”). Bonies oddly get far more aggressive and gain increased‚ 28 Days Later-esque speed when they hit this stage At the beginning R noted how it takes [zombies] forever to get anywhere‚ but that seemed to change a bit One common zombie-ism that does remain in Levine’s film is the ability of walkers to retain some of their former human skills: janitors keep sweeping floors; TSA agents keep scanning passengers
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Here is the tale of the first vampire. Ambrogio was a young adventurer. Born and raised in Italy‚ he had always longed to travel to Greece to have his fortune told by the Oracle of Delphi. When he was an adult‚ he got on a boat and sailed to the western edge of Greece‚ near Astakos. He traveled east until he eventually reached the city of Delphi. Delphi was home to a great temple of Apollo‚ the sun god. It was also the home of the Pythia‚ better known as the Oracles. The Pythia would sit in a chamber
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First of all‚ let it be known that I am not typically a “zombie” person. That’s right--I do not watch that genre. In fact‚ I tend to avoid it. So why on earth would I be promoting a project about zombies? Well‚ as with everything‚ I approach everything with an open mind‚ and because of my zeal for promoting indie films (and my connection with Kyle Hester)‚ I noticed this project called “Zombie With a Shotgun.” As I investigated this project in greater detail‚ I discovered that this was not a customary
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associated with vampires. Well‚ modern day vampires‚ who are completely different from the traditional vampires who slept in coffins and could not walk in the sunlight. The way the modern day vampire is depicted in media has taken a huge bite out of society. Vampire culture in media has been on the steady rise‚ as if society had actually been compelled; a skill vampires of the television drama The Vampire Diaries are given that allows them to make humans obedient to their command. The Vampire Diaries centers
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(Franiuk and Scherr 19). The female characters in The Vampire Diaries are magically enamored to the vampires‚ due to their stereotypical masculine portrayal. The beginning of the human/vampire relationship is connected to masculine depictions by the male vampires. Stefan‚ for example‚ demonstrates his skills on the football pitch before Elena and he get together (20). Elena is a down to earth girl with brunette hair and although she is popular at school and has some admirer‚ she does not present
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