The Twilight Saga: New Moon

by Anne Rice changed the whole concept of vampires. Vampire Chronicles featured vampires who are romantic and are the opposite of how they were first introduced (Laming, n.d.). In the year 2005, Stephenie Meyer published the phenomenal Twilight, the first book to the epic series that gave birth to billions of vampire-addicted teens and tweens in the 21st century. It all started when Meyer dreamt of a scene in 2003 wherein a handsome young vampire was talking to an ordinary human

Tinder helps people meet new people, but on the other hand many use Tinder to hook up. A myth that portray is Myth # 4 (if a partner is truly meant for you, sex is easy and wonderful). Tinder gives people the choice to like or not to like someone. People have the choice to pick

early, such as Sleeping Beauty, but is still existent in modern literature, especially aimed at young adults. In fantasy novels such as The Twilight Saga by Stephanie Meyer (2005-2008), Bella Swan, the protagonist, is portrayed as this damsel in distress, needing Edward to save her from herself. This is most prominent in the second instalment of the saga, New Moon (Meyer, 2006). When Edward leaves Bella in a bid to save her, as “[Edward is] no good for [Bella]” (p.61), she enters a state of numbness

require the process of constant trial and error. Yet in the world of fiction and literature, this has not been the case. Two immensely well known, famous and loved novel from their respective generations, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and the Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer, has been set as the representative case of the regression in the portrayal of female empowerment over time. The book Jane Eyre was published in 1847 as

Introduction: How’d He Do That? How do memory, symbol, and pattern affect the reading of literature? How does the recognition of patterns make it easier to read complicated literature? Discuss a time when your appreciation of a literary work was enhanced by understanding symbol or pattern. Mastering literature is an art that can only be perfected with lots of practice and understanding memory, symbol, and pattern; this only enhances the reading and provokes the reader to analyze the text in a more

you’re reading with certain aspects of many different literary works you’ve read along the way. Not only does this bring depth into the work for your better understanding of the “big idea” but also makes it a more enjoyable read. “Whenever I read a new work, I spin the mental Rolodex looking for correspondences and corollaries—where have I seen his

shows the real reason for faillure. Most projects focus on producing a rocket (only focus on delivery). Successful projects however look further: why do we create a rocket? Because we want to go to the moon. If NASA would have only focussed on delivering rockets, they would never have reached the moon and probably had produced a great number of disasters while delivering or using those rockets. A Business Case focus, rather than only a delivery focus! (By the way & off topic: this delivery