Danny Meyer

Fred Meyers store originally started by a man named Fred G. Meyer and he was a 22 year old that came from Portland, Oregon in 1908. He started a business selling coffee out of his horse-drawn cart from the hard working fielders to the lumber camps. He would watch and listen to his customers, and was planning to start a whole completely different new kind of store. He opened his first store in 1922 in Portland, Oregon at the corner of SW 5th & Yamhill. He placed all the groceries, clothes, and…

Certain aspects of the myth, such as Persephone falling in love with Hades, and the affects Persephone’s being in the underworld has on her mother are being rewritten in new ways and incorporate in popular novels such as the Twilight Saga by Stephanie Meyers. This paper will look at the Twilight Sega and how the myth of Persephone has influenced the overall story. Many times when reading any of these novels or watching a movie one does not realize that it is the same story that has been told for…

Summary: In “(Un)safe Sex: Romancing the Vampire,” professional copywriter Karen Backstein, explores the interest of vampire movies in the 21st century and changes made to keep the genre relevant. Backstein believes society and humankind are evolving and rapidly changing, vampires are also evolving so that they can survive and continue to interest people in popular culture. Modern vampires, Backstein notes, work to control their impulses so as not to harm the ‘heroine’, who is strong,…

Blood sucker, dead, predator: These are all words that can describe a vampire. There have been several vampire stories throughout the years. Each author takes and gives them different characteristics but they usually are universally described as a creature that was once human that somehow has returned from the dead and preys on living humans by drinking their blood to stay alive. Dr. John William Polidori, an English writer and physician, is said to have created the first written vampire story…

supernatural world. The novel ends with the unconventional couple going to school prom together and professing their love for eternity. Stephenie Meyer was not an…

A Parody of Bella The book I read was “Nightlight: A Parody” by The Harvard Lampoon.This is a book similar to the book and the movie “Twilight” and the plot is slightly different because it is a parody. It was about a 17 year-old named Belle which moves to Switchblade, Oregon to live with her dad. She meets a guy in high school named Edwart and falls in love with him. Throughout the story, she gets to know more about Edwart’s family and she finds out that he and his family are vampires, but she…

Bullen, Elizabeth, Kim Toffoletti, and Liz Parsons. “Doing What Your Big Sister Does: Sex, Postfeminism, and the YA Chick Lit Series.” Gender and Education, vol. 23, no. 4, 2011, pp. 497-511. Bullen, Toffoletti, and Parsons’ article explores postfeminism as represented within popular young adult literature. This is significant because young adult books influence their readers at a critical point in their identity development. These novels are another aspect of the media that “…inducts girls into…

Journal 4 What would you do if you believed that your loved one was dead? Would you do something completely out of temerity like Edward in New Moon by Stephenie Meyer? When Edward finds out, or assumes that Bella is dead and he looses his head. He decides he’s going to Volterra, to tell the Volturi of his wrong doings. Alice comes to visit Bella and her visions show Edward exposing himself, so Alice and Bella follow him to Volterra and stop him. I would give this book a B+, because I like…

“Over the last five years, the Twilight franchise has sold one hundred million books, generated nearly $1.8 billion in ticket sales, and engrossed millions of readers" (Petersen 51). For those unfamiliar, Twilight is a fantastical series integrating the realities between mortals and immortals. The protagonist of the series, Bella Swan, falls in love with a vampire at her high school and is the only one who knows his secret. The series continues to test their relationship and love, while Bella…

In 1897, Dracula was portrayed as a representation of Imperialism. He attempted to colonize England in order to become the countries “master”. Dracula imprints fear in humankind. Meanwhile in 2015, numerous contemporary vampire novels present a disparate concept of the blood feeding organisms. The Twilight Trilogy proves how vampires have transitioned over a period of time. The vampire of modern times represents Romanticism. Dracula and the Twilight series are composed of basic fundamental ideas…