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Harker and described
GameSpy's Carla Harker described the graphics as "... dated by about seven years " and the game as a " technological pariah ", despite calling it one of the best role-playing games released in the past year.
Carla Harker described the sound as " Almost non-existent " and Eric Arevalo found that there weren't enough sound effects.
The two dark-haired women, however, are described by Jonathan Harker to have " high aquiline noses, like the Count's ".

Harker and folk
The following night, when Harker asks Dracula about the lights, the Count makes reference to a common folk belief about the phenomenon by saying that they mark where treasure is buried.
This changed in the 1970s, when David Harker, a Cambridge post-graduate specializing in English literature, initiated a sustained attack on the motivations and methods of the first folk revival, singling out Cecil Sharp and accusing him of having manipulated his research for ideological reasons.
Dave Harker's criticisms of Sharp reflected a framework that tends to view any and all folk song collecting, scholarship, and attempts at revival as forms of appropriation and exploitation by the bourgeoisie of the working class, whose tastes Harker considers intrinsically at odds with what he terms the " official culture " of the schools.
" Harker sustains that all of what is termed " folk song " in fact originated from broadsides and further maintained it was absurd to claim that late-nineteenth century England possessed a rural culture.

Harker and by
In the aftermath of the events of the novel Dracula, a now disgraced and divorced Mina Harker ( née Murray ) is recruited by Campion Bond on behalf of British Intelligence and asked to assemble a league of other extraordinary individuals to protect the interests of the Empire.
Harker in turn was quickly replaced by David Petrie, an SIS man, with Harker as his deputy.
Constructed by the Union Army in the summer of 1862 and expanded in 1864, using soldiers and freed slaves, Fort Harker was built on a broad hill a quarter-mile east of the town of Stevenson.
Ft. Harker was an earthen redoubt, square, with walls that were high, surrounded by an dry moat.
To the east and southeast, the reservation is bounded by Harker Heights, Nolanville, Belton, and Morgan's Point Resort.
* In the 1994 film, The Madness of King George, Maria is portrayed by Caroline Harker
By this time Harker and James had left the band, to be replaced by Joe Margetts and Bruce Renshaw.
After an abortive meeting with northern Plains Indians in September, the commission gathered at Fort Leavenworth ( Kansas ) in early October and traveled from there by rail to Fort Harker.
Ultraviolet is a 1998 United Kingdom television series written and directed by Joe Ahearne and starring Jack Davenport, Susannah Harker, Idris Elba and Philip Quast.
An expert on printed broadsides, Harker argues against the very existence of an oral tradition: " It is hardly an exaggeration to say that the English folk-song was invented by Cecil Sharp.
In 1972, when the editors of Folk Music Journal first accepted an article by Harker criticising Sharp and his methods, one member of the journal's board, Pat Shaw, expressed skepticism of Harker's statistics and only agreed to publish it on condition that someone would write an accompanying rebuttal.
" Harker ’ s work had, indeed, become an orthodoxy and was being quoted by a number of prominent left-wing historians.
The writings of Harker, however, and by extension of Harker's followers in the US ( such as David E. Whisnant, Benjamin Filene, and Robert Christgau, who have backgrounds in political science, American Studies, and journalism, not ethnography ) have now themselves in turn come under scrutiny as overly harsh, exaggerated, distorted, and unjust.
* 6 – 8 years: Dimanche Diller by Henrietta Branford, illustrated by Lesley Harker ( Young Lions )
He also changes his ideas to accommodate Mina Harker by quickly eating all flies and stating that it was an old habit.
However, when confronted by Mina Harker, the object of Dracula's obsession, Renfield suffers an attack of conscience and begs her to flee from his master's grasp.
Tod Browning's 1931 film, for example, conflates the character with that of Jonathan Harker, making Renfield ( played by Dwight Frye ) the real estate agent who is sent to Transylvania and falls under Dracula's ( Bela Lugosi ) power.
Freed sometime later, Harker again is confronted by the desperate woman.
* Kay Harker, character from the book The Box of Delights by John Masefield.

Harker and Cecil
The Demography of Cecil Sharp ’ s Somerset Folk Singers " in Historical Journal: 43 ( 2000 ): 3: 751-75, and " Cecil Sharp in Somerset: Some Reflections on the Work of David Harker " in Folklore 113 ( 2002 ): 11-34 ), were a devastating deconstruction of Dave Harker ’ s " orthodoxy ", charging Harker with having misrepresenting the data and distorted statistics for ideological reasons.

Harker and Sharp
In 1993 Georgina Boyes produced her book The Imagined Village-Culture, ideology and the English Folk Revival, which, following Harker, was also highly critical of Sharp.
In his defense of Sharp, C. J. Bearman took scholars to task for their speedy and uncritical acceptance of Harker's views: To his credit, Harker has never concealed his political allegiances – he is or was a Trotskyite adherent of the Socialist Workers ' Party ( Harker 1985, 256-8 ) – but at the same time, it must be maintained that his is an extreme political position.
And yet, strange as it may now seem, I still held to some of Dave Harker ’ s views concerning Sharp ’ s English collecting and prose writing.
) have all attacked Sharp, taking Dave Harker as their starting point.
Perhaps it is time to follow up Dave Harker ’ s own comment, given above, about Sharp, but now seemingly more applicable to himself -- it ’ s the one made in 1972 about the story belonging to history, " and not to the analysis of myth ".
According to Bearman, it was, after all, Harker, and not Sharp, who was creating the myth, and, in the process, jumping to the wrong conclusions.

Harker and be
The film stars Sean Connery, who plays Allan Quatermain, and features Captain Nemo, Mina Harker, Rodney Skinner aka An Invisible Man ( the rights could not be secured to The Invisible Man ), Dr. Jekyll / Edward Hyde, Dorian Gray, and U. S. Secret Service agent Tom Sawyer ( Gray and Sawyer were not in the comics, although a painting of a young man holding a cane with " Dorian Gray " printed under it appears on the cover of Volume I ).
Francis Ford Coppola is making the film for which he will always be remembered — an adaptation of Dracula starring Marlon Brando as Dracula and Martin Sheen as Jonathan Harker.
Kay Harker is aided in his quest by various talking animals, most notably Nibbins the cat, who used to be a witch's cat but has reformed.
Archbishop Mitty High School expanded its student body in 1969 and began sharing classes with Mother Butler Memorial High School ( which is now the Harker School ) and St. Lawrence Girls High School, with consolidation of the three schools to be completed by the fall of 1972.
The job turns out to be a George O ' Hanlon comedy ( the clapboard identifies it as So You Want to Hold Your Wife ), and Joe takes a pie in the face from Jane Harker!
* Rachel van Helsing-a former Vampire Hunter ; raised by Quincy Harker after her parents were killed by vampires ; allowed herself to be destroyed by Wolverine after becoming a vampire
While Dracula learns that America contains such wonders as blood banks, he also proceeds to suffer the general ego-crushing that comes from modern life in the Big Apple as he romantically pursues flaky fashion model Cindy Sondheim, whom he has admired from afar and believes to be the current reincarnation of his true love ( an earlier being named Mina Harker ).
* Demons ( 2009 )-The character of Mina Harker is revealed to be a vampire in the episode " Suckers ".
The sisters are powerful in their own right, but live in fear of Dracula, although the blond vampire can be seen defying him when she demands to feed upon Harker.

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