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    In the movie The Lost Boys, directed by Joel Schumacher, a group demonic teenagers reek havoc on the small town of Santa Carla. In the film, the vampires use their powers to terrorize the town and to lure in other teenagers to feed off of. By flying through the air, the vampires are able to kidnap the citizens of Santa Carla and take them back to their cave. These powers go along with Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s fifth thesis on monsters “The monster polices the borders of the possible” (Cohen 20). The

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    Secret Rule Reasons Rule #2288: Don’t watch, read or listen to anything with vampires in it Reason: It can be inappropriate, violent, or gory Real Reason: Your parents are actually trying to save your lives secret vampire lovers. They may say you can’t watch the vampire movies and read the vampire books because they are inappropriate or violent, or maybe they say they just don’t like the idea you’re in your room thinking about the undead instead of doing homework or socializing with the living

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    MBA 623 | North American Cruise Industry | Table of Contents Executive Summary 2 Cruise Industry Overview 2 Market Overview and Structure 2 Industry and Customer Segments 5 Target Market Analysis 7 Carnival Cruise Lines 7 Target Market Analysis 7 Positioning Strategy 7 Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines 8 Target Market Analysis 8 Positioning Strategy 9 Norwegian Cruise Lines 9 Target Market Analysis 10 Positioning Strategy 10 Disney Cruise Lines 11 Target Market Analysis

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    Negative stereotypical gender roles Barkalow (1991) tells us her story that she was in the first class of West Point, which is Military academy, located north of New York city, and during the first year, she often heard back “Mornin’ bitch” after greeting “Good morning sir” to her upperclassmen (Gardner p.219). Those men did not respect Carol Bark because they must have thought that she was weak and impossible to handle harass environment in being trained because of her female sex. Generally

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    Thesis October 5, 2015 Entering the Stereotypical Gender Ring: Bella Swan’s Passivity vs. Rosalie Hale’s Proactivity For my research project I have decided to choose a character from a popular book series, Twilight which was written by Stephenie Meyer. The forbidden love story between a plain human girl and a gorgeous vampire boy sparked the hearts of millions, but the singular character I’m conducting my research on is Rosalie Hale. While Bella Swan, the main character is passive, Rosalie Hale

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    The Leisure-Cruise Industry February 17, 2011 Business Management Introduction One of the rapid producing leisure industry divisions, the cruise industry faces several challenges. Whereas supply continues to rise at double-digit levels, demand battles to keep speed. Known the demands on communications and the jeopardy of an eroding on-shore practice, less port are in a location to provide accommodation the cruise lines as supply grows. At the similar time, the community sector's inspection

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    Spending eternity with your soul mate sounds like the ultimate dream come true, but what if eternity came with a price? Twilight: Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer is a romantic novel based on the hardships of marriage and family for main characters, Bella Swan and Edward Cullen. Most of the story of Breaking Dawn takes place in Forks, Washington at the Cullen house and in Bella and Edward's new cottage in the woods. There's also a short jump to Isle Esme, just off the coast of Brazil, where Edward

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    To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both a fantasy and a nightmare woven into a reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her connection to werewolf Jacob Black, she has endured a tumultuous year of temptation, loss and strife to reach the ultimate turning point. Her pending choice, to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or pursue a fully human life, has become the thread from which the fate of two completely different

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    Vampires have held an interest for many even before Bram Stoker wrote Dracula. I always found it ironic that in most of these tales women were portrayed as the victims. To my knowledge until Buffy the Vampire Slayer came out there were few if any stories about vampires that had a female heroine. Buffy stood out for me with its characterizations of strong female heroines. Not only the main character, but many of the female supporting characters on the show were strong women. Maybe not like Buffy

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    In vampire literature, there is always a mortal female willing to risk her life to be with a vampire. These females are willing to do anything to be with these immortal creatures for a lifetime of endless love, regardless of the danger. Is mortal love not enough anymore? With vampires, they seduce their prey in order to feed. Vampires intrigue women with love, sex, romance, and most importantly mystery. Vampires are much more desirable then mortal men, even though they can potentially kill you. Their

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