Bram Stoker report
Bram Stoker was born in Dublin, Ireland on November 8th, 1847. His father
was a civil servant in Dublin Castle, and his mother, Charlotte, was a women’s lib
advocate. They had seven children in nine years; the third of which was Bram. The
first seven years of his life he was bedridden with an undiagnosed disease which
may have been anything from rheumatic fever, asthma or a form of nonparalytic
polio. During these first years of his life as he laid in his bed he listened to stories
his mother told him of the cholera epidemic of 1832; people buried alive, and
entire families dying in a matter of days.
At the age of 12 Bram left his home to attend school at Dublin’s Rutland
Square under Reverend William Wood. During these years he made up for his
childhood sickness by becoming involved in athletics and became an endurance
walker.
Following his older brothers lead in 1863, at the age of 17, he entered
Trinity College in Dublin. Only ten years after he took his first steps he was now
six foot two and 175 pounds. He joined several clubs and groups; he became
president of the Philosophical Society, auditor of the Historical Society, he played
soccer, was unbeatable in his walking marathons, and after two years he became
the athletics champion of Trinity. In 1866 Bram took a one year leave of absence
from Trinity to work as a clerk in the Registrar of Petty Sessions at Dublin Castle.
Later in the year he saw the play The Rivals playing the lead, Captain Absolute,
was the British actor Henry Irving, a person who would play a major role in
Bram’s life. He was so impressed by Irving’s performance he wrote:
“What I saw, to my amazement and delight , was a patrician figure as
real as the person of one’s dreams, and endowed with the same poetic
grace. A young soldier, handsome, distinguished, self-dependent;
compact of grace and slumberous energy. A man of quality who stood
out from his surroundings on the stage as a being of another social
world. A figure full of dash and fine irony, and whose ridicule
seemed to bite; buoyant with the joy of life; self-conscious; an
offensive egoist envy in his love-making; of supreme and
unsurpassable insolence, veiled and shrouded in his fine quality of
manner.”
He returned to Trinity after his absence and graduated in 1871 with a degree
in science, he then stayed on...
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In the last year of his life Stoker suffered from a number of illnesses from:
Bright’s Disease (a painful kidney disease), gout, syphilis, and exhaustion. On
April 15th, 1912 Florence Stoker rushed to her husbands bedroom to tell him that
the luxury liner Titanic had sunk the night before. Five days later April 20th, the
day the investigation into the Titanic disaster began, Bram Stoker died at the age
of 64. His death certificate listed three causes of death: Locomotor Ataxy (tertiary
syphilis), Granular Contracted Kidney (Bright’s Disease), and exhaustion.
The story of Dracula has been played out many times over in Hollywood
with the most famous being; Nosferatu (1928), Dracula (1931) starring Bela
Lugosi, Count Dracula (1971) starring Christopher Lee, and Bram Stoker’s
Dracula (1992) starring Gary Oldman. It was first a Broadway stage play in the
late 1920’s. It’s leading actor, Bela Lugosi, would go on to play the original
Dracula and play the part in over 80 other horror movies.
Dracula still remains the one work Bram Stoker is remembered for and
today, over 100 years after it was published, it remains one of the most popular
books of all time.
the University of Michigan and when he was initially denied admission he went to work to
In conclusion, both the psychodynamic and behaviourist perspectives have made significant contributions to modern day psychology. Both perspectives have strengths and weaknesses, and are similar in some ways and different in others. Both perspectives focus on factors that may influence our behaviour. In the case of treating an addiction – specifically internet addiction, the behaviourist perspective is the most effectual, as it looks to discover and address the motivation behind the repetition of the behaviour in question.
...ates. The image the Apology forms of Socrates is man who was not afraid of death. No matter what the consequences may result to be, Socrates was always truthful and not afraid to stand firm in his opinion even if that meant standing alone. He always wanted to seek justice for all and do what was right no matter the situation. Lastly, he was a man that believed that pleasing god was the most important. Even though that this image may or may not be entirely correct, the viewpoint of Plato’s about Socrates shows how a few saw him a positive example, even though most people believed he was corrupt.
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Internet addiction is a growing problem with more and more people. The internet is much more accessible to people now than it was just a few years ago. The internet provides people with entertainment, loads of information, and an escape from everyday life, but like anything else, too much a good thing can be addictive. This paper will cover what internet addiction is, warning signs of internet addiction, problems caused by internet addiction, who develops internet addiction, preventing and treating internet addiction, and safety guidelines for internet users.
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