“Females are strong as hell! Females are strong as hell!” A motto that has stayed true for generations, but has recently found it’s home in the Women’s Day Parade last month on March 8th. Female reign and empowerment is no stranger to our history, but let’s take a look back before today’s modern era. Before powerful figures like Joan of Arc, Elizabeth I, and Mother Teresa. Let’s take a look at when even the mention of females standing up for themselves or pursuing “masculine” interest denounced powerful, hardworking women to the scum of the Earth.
Think of the most powerful woman you know. Why is she powerful? Is she physically strong? Caring and generous? Let’s turn the tables. Is she manipulative? Is she sensual? Is she evil? The tale of …show more content…
Remember the Twilight craze of 2009-2010? In the years of 2008 to 2010, vampires began to gain some traction. In August 2010, one and half months after The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, searching for vampires on Google hit it’s peak (Trends).Twilight jump-started the careers of Stephanie Meyer, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and even the pop-punk group Paramore.
Stories of vampires began far before Dracula and Twilight. It’s origins were from Slavic folklore, and the first written accounts of the word began in the 11th century.The origin of vampires is actually kind of silly looking at it now. During the process of decomposition, gases would rise up and swell the body, as well as trickling blood running from the mouth would make a corpse look like it had recently just been alive and feeding (ted-ed).
You could say that the first big surge that pushed the vampire movement forward was after Bram Stroker published Dracula in 1897,although there have been multiple books about vampires written before it, If you were to base the history of vampires off of the legend of Dracula, you could piece together that the main human feature within Dracula is the theme of foreigner and modernity, which are huge concepts that are rather prevalent in our modern life. The foreign newness of Dracula scared people, the same as a new kid coming to school and intimidating
Think of the most powerful woman you know. Why is she powerful? Is she physically strong? Caring and generous? Let’s turn the tables. Is she manipulative? Is she sensual? Is she evil? The tale of …show more content…
Remember the Twilight craze of 2009-2010? In the years of 2008 to 2010, vampires began to gain some traction. In August 2010, one and half months after The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, searching for vampires on Google hit it’s peak (Trends).Twilight jump-started the careers of Stephanie Meyer, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and even the pop-punk group Paramore.
Stories of vampires began far before Dracula and Twilight. It’s origins were from Slavic folklore, and the first written accounts of the word began in the 11th century.The origin of vampires is actually kind of silly looking at it now. During the process of decomposition, gases would rise up and swell the body, as well as trickling blood running from the mouth would make a corpse look like it had recently just been alive and feeding (ted-ed).
You could say that the first big surge that pushed the vampire movement forward was after Bram Stroker published Dracula in 1897,although there have been multiple books about vampires written before it, If you were to base the history of vampires off of the legend of Dracula, you could piece together that the main human feature within Dracula is the theme of foreigner and modernity, which are huge concepts that are rather prevalent in our modern life. The foreign newness of Dracula scared people, the same as a new kid coming to school and intimidating