Living Dead

Dead Until Dark Today I will be doing my book chat on Dead Until Dark authored by Charlaine Harris. Dead Until Dark is the first book to The Southern Vampire Mysteries series. As the rest of the series, this book is narrated by Sookie Stackhouse, a fictional character living in a fictional life. Sookie is a 25 year old waitress at Merlotte’s Bar, living with her grandmother Adele and her older brother Jason in a small fictional town in Louisiana, Bon Temps. In this imaginary world, vampires and…

Robin Williams’s most remembered leading roles was performing as Mr. Keating in the film, Dead Poets Society. The movie takes place at the all-male boarding school, Welton Academy, in 1959. It follows a group of high schoolers that learn an important lesson from their English teacher, Mr. Keating, to follow their own path and go against what is normal. They were inspired by Mr. Keating to recreate the Dead Poets Society Club and recite poetry. One of Mr. Keating’s speeches to his students takes…

Dead Poets Society is a 1989 film about a literature teacher named Mr. Keating who changes the lives of his students at Welton Academy. He tells them, "Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary." This one line sets up the central theme for the entire movie: carpe diem. The film focuses on the idea of taking control of your own life and living each day to its fullest. All of the main characters in the movie express the theme of carpe diem, but a few of the characters…

The Dead Sea Scrolls are a well-known archaeological finding of manuscripts that recorded biblical documents and religious history, copied in the second century. The scrolls were discovered in the years 1947-1956, at Khirbet Qumran, a large area of the Dead Sea’s northwestern shore. These scrolls were retrieved from eleven different caves and are classified in three categories: Jewish literature (400 manuscripts), biblical books (200, manuscripts) and Sectarian compositions (200 manuscripts).…

DEAD POETS SOCİETY Dead Poets Society investigates the contention between realism and romanticism as these differentiating standards are introduced to the understudies at an all young men private academy. Welton Academy is established on convention and perfection and is set on giving strict organized lessons recommended by the realist, hostile to youth administration. With the unfolding of each new semester, many parents relinquish their children, leaving them in the attempted hands of Welton…

Masada.” Historically, this dig brings additional confirmation of Yadin’s life-goals in a country he loved and served and one of the national sites of great national importance was Masada. Price writes, “Masada was a mountain fortress next to the Dead Sea built by Herod the Great as a last refuge for troubled times.” Price continues as he writes, “it included northern and Southern Palaces, a swimming pool, a richly decorated reception hall, a Roman-style bathhouse, ritual baths, and a…

The theme for the movie Dead Poets Society is to seize the day and take chances. Throughout the movie, Mr. Keating explains to the students about the latin word carpe diem, and to not miss out on opportunities. When Mr. Keating first introduces himself he also introduces the quote ‘carpe diem’ and explains how you should seize the day because soon it could all be gone. The students such as Charlie, Neil, Todd and Knox all tried to adjust their life to include this quote in their decision making.…

The Dead Sea Scrolls: Real or Fake? Would you read a counterfeit bible? “A few of these fragments have been proven real, and a few have been proven fake,” Lawerence Schiffman, professor of Hebrew Judaic Studies. Many people believe when the Dead Sea Scrolls were first discovered they were forged. The Dead Sea Scrolls include fragments from every book of the Old Testament, but many people say some of the Dead Sea Scrolls could be unreal. Specifically, this ancient collection of text, The Dead…

MOVIE REVIEW Dead Poet’s Society The film Dead Poets Society is a film that explores the idea of "Carpe Diem" (seize the day) from the perspective of few young men at an all boys boarding school. Their teacher Mr. Keating (their poetry professor) played an important role throughout and helps them stretching their minds, and exercising their right to defiant acts of love for life and poetry, and the false opinions of the society. The movie throughout takes us on a roller coaster that leaves the…

Dead Until Dark “I’d been waiting for the vampire for years when he walked into the bar. Ever since vampires came out of the coffin two years ago, I’d hoped one would come to Bon Temps. We had all the other minorities in our little town, why not the newest, the legally recognized undead?” Dead Until Dark is a thrill intriguing book, that grasps your attention, and you cannot put the book down. Sookie Stackhouse, born and raised in Bon Temps, Louisiana. She’s a small town girl, with very few…