The Vampire Diaries

violence and sexual deviance, using the vampire as the abject or other that, ultimately, reflects the self. The society depicted in Dead Until Dark finds itself in crisis due to the revelation that vampires exist and want to become a visible part of the community. However, vampires must deal with abjection as they enter society: “We had all the other minorities in our little town-why not the newest,” Sookie Stackhouse, the novel’s protagonist, thinks, locating the vampire as the other. The…

The Motorcycle Diaries versus End of Watch In this essay, we will be comparing the similarities and differences in two films: The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) by Director Walter Salles, and End of Watch (2012) by director David Ayer. The genres of the two films are similar yet different. The Motorcycle Diaries is a biographical drama about the journey and written memoir of Ernesto Guevara. In the movie Guevara (Gael Garcia Bernal) travels through Latin America with his friend Alberto Granado…

Discovery involves complex paths, decisions, choices, and varying points of view; though the actual discovery is important, the path that is taken, the journey to make a discovery is what forms the impact and importance. In his diary, Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara remarks on how much he had changed over the course of his trip without even realising it. While reflecting he notes what changed him in the journey and encourages the audience to notice the changes as well. The War of the Worlds, illustrates…

The Ultimate Goal From childhood some of us are taught a particularly disturbing philosophy, to be physically attractive equals success or happiness. To be the “skinny one”, to be appealing, and if we achieve this, everything else in life will just follow. I would be lying if I said that scared little girl inside my heart didn’t still believe this to be true to some extent, but with age came wisdom but we’ll get to this a little later. Seeing all the “pretty” people on tv, movies, ads, even in…

the Turner Diaries. This book goes into specific “details about the overthrow of the U.S. Government by a group of racist, anti-Semitic militiamen” Some of his comrades remember him talking to himself about the government (Velez). They say he became obsessed with this book. The crime scene investigators found a single passage in the getaway car. In this passage, “the narrator explains that the bombing was necessary to wake up America” (Cole). There was a conspiracy that the Turner Diaries was…

The Motorcycle Diaries is a 2004 biography film that follows the life of communist revolutionary leader Ernesto “Che” Guevara in his early twenties, specifically his 1952 journey traveling across South America on a motorcycle with his best friend Alberto Granado. Both the book & film is a favorite of mine because it has inspired me to pursue my dreams of seeing the world and by doing so; my views on life have evolved as well. I believe that The Motorcycle Diaries conveys a message that everyone…

When an individual’s assumptions are challenged by significant discoveries, their lives are often transformed. This perspective is represented throughout Ernesto Che Guevara’s eclectic memoir, The Motorcycle Diaries, which details his arguably metamorphic journey through Latin America in the early 1950s and the diverse discoveries he makes, which are personal and political in their nature. Guevara’s varied and confronting encounters throughout his travels challenge his preconceived views of…

Benefits of Technology Do you consider modern technology advances a positive direction for us to tread or a negative ideal towards a world with less interpersonal communication? Many would argue these advances have more pros than cons. Such as, Kris Axtman, a staff writer at The Christian Science Monitor, in “’r u online?’: The Evolving Lexicon of Wired Teens”, where he discussed how technology is effecting our youth’s communication (247-49). “Note to Selfie”, by American journalist John…

Kat Graham once said, “There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even sexier.” Women have to fight for what they want to be in life. Many people call the life that we live in “a man world,” however it is not just a man world it is also a women world too. Many thing can be blames for the image that makes people believe that women should live up to. There are also…

The television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer can claim many achievements. Most importantly, it’s a show that showcases that women can be everything that men are, and sometimes more. It cherishes long lasting relationships between a cohort of friends. It also paved the way for teen-centered fantasy and horror entertainment, like Twilight and The Vampire Diaries. However, one thing Buffy can’t mark as an achievement is the way it deals with race. The show could be a product of its time, but from…