Defending Modern Vampires

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Humans have four types of blood A, AB, B, and O. they can either be positive or negative. “Was not until 1901, when the Austrian Karl Landsteiner discovered human blood groups, that blood transfusions became safer.”(Science of Vampires) The differences in human blood “are due to the presence or absence of certain protein molecules called antigens and antibodies.” (Notes) Vampires are monsters that are known for suck out our blood to live. In society we as humans defend want is living and what death is. Vampires do not fit on this line that we have set. Some questions that I will be answering, how as humans we are like vampires? How Cleopatra a normal human by our standard can try and suck the life out of Hans? How Cleopatra is like are modern vampires? What is the different between modern vampires and classical vampires?

First I should tell you what Vampire means and how I defined it. “a preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night.” (dictionary.com) There are two types of vampire one is the old classic vampire and two is the newer modern vampire. Now the defects between the two is that a classic vampire “are repelled by garlic, sunlight, hawthorn plants, wolfbane, wooden stakes, silver, crucifixes, holy water, and sleep in a coffin during the day.” (www.shelfari.com) When I thing of the classic vampire the first that comes in mine is Dracula. The film Count Dracula came out the same time the film Freak did 1931 but the book was written in 1897 by Bram Stoker. The modern vampire “fly without transforming, don't sleep whatsoever, are not repelled by any of the classic repellents (except show their true colours when seen in the sunlight), can become ...

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...o Cleopatra was, and many are time will outgrow vampires. We can always look back and learn from both. Vampires show as that monster do not always look like monsters, that some look “normal.” Cleopatra show us that we should care for others, not for their money but because we care. People like Cleopatra will always be there to just to be mean and heatless. If modern vampire were around I really don’t thing that we would know about it. They are become more and more human like. Plus now some of them are falling in love with humans. If a human an vampire had a child I do not know which traits or genes would be pasted down to the child. I still do not know what we would classify the child as. As human we feel the need to classify things this would be no different. This makes me what to ask the question if this were to happen who would dominate, human or vampire’s genes?

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