But despite its terrifying name and appearance‚ it’s not a vampire. It doesn’t suck blood. It doesn’t have a “blood funnel” vampire squids eat mostly "marine snow" -- a mixture of dead bodies‚ poop‚ and snot. The dead bodies are the remains of microscopic algae and animals that live in the waters farther up in the ocean‚ but sink down into the depths after they die. The poop consists of fecal pellets from small‚ shrimp-like animals such as copepods or krill. The snot is mostly debris from gelatinous
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The Vampire Era Vampires today seem to be a very popular trend amongst Western society‚ such as Twilight‚ Buffy the Vampire Slayer‚ True Blood‚ and The Vampire Diaries. A common trend that can be seen through these vampire movies are the roles of femininity and masculinity. What defines masculinity and femininity? Both femininity and masculinity can have various interpretations‚ but “masculine characteristics are used to identify persons as males‚ while feminine ones are used as signifiers for
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devices. The article ‘Sun Vampires’ appeared in The Big Issue in May 1997. The Big Issue is aimed at a wide audience‚ including the younger generation‚ and is an effective way to reach the youth through a magazine‚ including young adults using tanning beds. The Big Issue is sold by the homeless on the street and can usually be found in any town centre or city. The heading of the article I am analysing is ‘Sun Vampires’ and this in turn contradicts itself as vampires are associated with darkness
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Katelyn Poniatowski Professor Kanicki English 212 18 November 2013 Dracula Film and Movie Comparison Most anyone will say that a book is always better than a movie. This is simply due to the fact that it is impossible to fit every detail that a book can hold into a two-hour long movie. I was beyond surprised to discover that this was not the case when comparing Bram Stoker’s Dracula novel and Bram Stoker’s Dracula the movie. I found myself preferring the movie rendition. There were many
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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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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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inquisition‚ the Crusades‚ and the most severe and devastating of them all‚ the Holocaust. Even though during the Victorian age‚ the Jews were not actively persecuted‚ antisemitism can still be seen in the works of literature‚ like Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Dracula stereotypical Jewish appearance is meant to symbolize the Victorian distrust
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Vampire stories have been popular for years. One such vampire is Dracula of Bram Stoker’s novel. Dracula drives the plot in many ways‚ but he is not always the nice guy. Not everyone like him; in fact most are scared of him. Dracula is dynamic‚ but the antagonist for several reasons. Dracula is evil‚ scares everyone‚ and he kills a lot of people. Dracula is a vampire. He is described as tall‚ old‚ cleanly shaven‚ thin nose‚ pointy ears‚ and sharp white teeth. He cannot be seen in mirrors‚ he refuses
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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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is a term used to depict fictitious work that has incorporated a lot of horror scenes as well as elements of the unreal world‚ exploring the conflict between good and evil and dealing with the supernatural in some sort of way. The episodic novel Dracula written by Bram Stoker in 1897 and the movie Blade by Stephen Norrington created in 1998 bring to the fore many conventions relating to the Gothic Horror genre despite their vastly different contexts. Gothic elements of imprisonment‚ eccentricity
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