...to surviving the zombie apocalypse. Initially, shelter must be established. A well concealed building, such as a prison, is an ideal shelter from zombies. It is large enough to accommodate a large body of survivors who are hopefully willing to join the fight against the army of the living dead. Gates, fences, and large open areas surrounding the facility make it easier to locate and fend off any zombies that try to breach the perimeter. The solid structure of the building itself will help further deter intruders. A high outlook post within the shelter will also need to be quartered; from which, a designated “spotter” can survey the surroundings for any posing danger. Additionally and unquestionably, food and water are necessities whether zombies are seeking your flesh or not. In order to maintain proper health and nutrition while fighting the undead, food, water, and any other desired supplies will need to be collected and stored. In the midst of the out breaking chaos sprung from the apocalypse, the necessary supplies can be looted from stores or other sources. A large stock of each item is recommended so that it may last an extended period of time. Acquiring such supplies is a dangerous yet essential task. A thorough plan of execution may come in handy to organize the quantity of each desired supply. Though it may seem unethical and promptly illegal to loot and raid for your needs, survival requires determination. The pure drive to live through the zombie apocalypse must...
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...monetary policy status quo. Yet a few central bank watchers were more surprised by a new idea the central bank seemingly suggested: a negative interest rate. The Fed's closely watched "dot plot" revealed that at least one committee member floated the idea that a fed funds rate below zero might be an appropriate target for the remainder of this year and next. The forecast is widely thought to be the work of Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota, a non-voting member of the committee who is known for his dovish views. In her press conference last week, Fed Chair Janet Yellen made clear that a negative federal funds rate "was not something that we considered very seriously at all today." Read MoreThe Fed has to deal with its own zombie apocalypse However, in an environment where prices are persistently low, negative rates mean that businesses and consumers are essentially paid to borrow money, which could serve as an important stimulative tool in times of crisis. The idea has been floated in the U.K., and tried in the euro zone and Switzerland. Suffice to say, the fact that the concept is being floated in the U.S. is striking to some. After all, the Fed has spent years noting that its benchmark rate is at the "zero lower bound," which forces it to take other actions in order to stimulate the economy, (i.e. purchase bonds) since rates can't be lowered any further. Yet what if that bound is not a bound at all, but a Rubicon waiting to be crossed? From...
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...Aaron English 1 Lemon 1/10/13 Ancillary Charles Klosterman’s “Zombie Life” explains his theory that technology turns you into a zombie, and you only have 2 options, take a stand and fight or sit and get sucked in. Klosterman an American author and essayist which has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, and The Washington Post, and has written books focusing on American popular culture believes that technology is changing our way of enjoying life by depending on a device to do our communicating for us. Klosterman’s idea that technology makes us zombie like is sadly true. If you have experienced textaphrenia-thinking you have heard or felt a new text message vibration when there is no message, then you have fallen in the category that Klosterman is talking about and don’t worry, you aren’t alone. Can you imagine yourself without your phone, or without a computer, what about car? Well just think without any of those things you would think that living life would be boring and dull. You might be right but you could be wrong. Imagine yourself living hundreds of years ago where almost no sign of technology existed, then what would you do? You would do things in person instead of over the phone, you would interact with other humans who exist, and you even might live a happier life due to not having to deal with the downsides of what technology has brought us. But some might disagree and say that technology is good and makes life easier and more practical which...
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...(invisibles), and zanj (angels) inhabit the unseen world"(McAlister). The mythical world that they are indicating is called Ginen. It is described as a 'cosmic Africa'. Followers of Voudou believe that people die in two ways, natural causes like age or sickness and unnatural causes like murder. Unnatural deaths prohibit unity with their ancestors and must linger at its grave eternally to be snatched up by a boko, a powerful Vodou sorcerer to be bottled up and used to control a corpse. The boko aren't necessarily evil, "a hardworking man might prefer to continue working rather than lie waiting in the ground, especially if he is used by the boko to help with healing magic." But shitfy boko could use its magic to purposely kill a man and erect a zombie from it it do its bidding of evil...
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...Zombicide is a cooperative zombie game in which each player takes the role of a survivor in a post-apocalyptic world. Each round in broken into three phases; The movement phase, the zombie phase, and the end phase. The movement phase is where players can use their three default actions to move around the board collecting items, murdering zombies or escaping a grizzly death. During this phase players can also generate sound, a sound is created by actions such as shooting and knocking down doors. The zombie phase begins with everyone receiving a card, these cards determine the zombies that will spawn for the phase. Zombies spawn on spawn slots placed on the map, and can be one of four different types; Walkers, Runners, Fatties and The Abomination....
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...Part one: You are the news director of a local television station. The city council has just voted to close city parks 3 days a week to save money. Meanwhile, a major celebrity has died. The park story has greater effect on your viewers, but the celebrity death will get bigger ratings? Which do you make your lead story and why? I would be as misleading as possible in order to gain as many viewers as possible. This is a bending of the ethics that govern journalism. I would make the city parks closing seem like it was my big story. All over the air ways I would claim to have the best coverage and the most accurate reporting and really make everyone believe that it is the big story. I would then proceed to put more coverage and air time on the dead celebrity as that has a bigger news appeal with a much broader audience. Over the course of the news hour I would continue to hint towards the closing of city parks for three days of the week to save on money was the next story. It will of course the be last story we covered as it is very simple but relevant to the community. This all comes down to ratings at this point, issues unless they area about going to war or something of that big nature will continue to get the least amount of air times. The current news media have to compete with online is changing to something of a news oriented variety show that will be borderline educational. More and more people are getting their news from the internet and other sources now more than...
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...ENGL 1301 Zombie Apocalypse: It takes a thief Are you prepared for a Zombie Apocalypse? Throughout the years, movies, television shows, and other miscellaneous things have heightened a large number of people’s suspicion about the possibility of disease-ridden humans taking over the world. In reality, that atrocity is not very far-fetched. First of all, what does the word zombie mean? There are several possible etymologies of the word zombie. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the word entered English circa 1871; it's derived from the Louisiana Creole or Haitian Creole zonbi, which in turn is of Bantu origin. A zonbi is a person who is believed to have died and been brought back to life without speech or free will. One possible origin is nzambi, the Kongo word meaning "spirit of a dead person." Another is jumbie, the West Indian term for "ghost.” With so many vaccines and medicines being mass produced without the sufficient steps taken to test the results, the chance of humans contracting unimaginable side effects is a rational possibility. All it takes is a host. “A reservoir host, or simply a reservoir, refers to a living (human, animal, insect, or plant) or non-living (soil, water) entity where a disease-causing organism can normally live and multiply. A host in which a parasite resides to sexual maturity is called a primary host, and a host in which a parasite spends only part of its life cycle or does not reach sexual maturity is called an intermediate...
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...Mainly, the movie warm body seems to suggest a love story between a zombie and human, however, it represents plenty Christian images that are related to the Bible. The most stand out images are the zombie boy fall in love with the girl Julie when she was shooting zombies head(Levine, 2013). The Bible contains the similar idea that sinners will fall into the glory of God shortly. These two ideas are closely related to each other. The explanation is given below. The zombies are the sinners in the movie who represent evil. In the movie, the zombie boy in an airport with other zombies. Obesely, zombies eat humans, especially humans’ brain, which is the best part for them. Once he and his zombie friends go out to hunt some food. At the same time, Julie went into the zombie area to kill some zombies. The zombie boy, R, and his friends smell humans, therefore, they start a flight. It supposed to be either R eats Julie or Julia shoot R. Nevertheless, a dramatic moment happens, when Julie is shooting zombies, R fall in love with her (Levine, 2013)....
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...Zombie Apocalypse In order to keep myself safe in an event of a zombie apocalypse I need to go to my house and then find a safer shelter. In order to do this I first need to find a safe way out of the school. The next step in this plan would to find a vehicle and drive to my house in Lamedeer. Once I get there I need to pick up my family and make sure they're safe. The following action if needed that I will take is to find a safer shelter. The way I am going to get out of the school is to hide in a safe place in the school. Once I do that I then need to call my family to see if they can come pick me up. If they can’t then I’m going to have to find someone's keys and borrow their car. I would then have to find the car of the keys I have taken...
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...Zombies are coming to your town! Panic is among you, but you won’t need a thing, other than what’s on my zombie survival guide. Preparing for a zombie apocalypse is like preparing for school. You need to do your homework, if you don't you could face potential doom. Just like if you don't know enough about zombies, you're bound to get your brains eaten. Also, if you don't prepare at all, you'll be out of luck If you leave that essay at home that's due today for school, or leave your machete behind during this state of emergeny, you'll be left in the dust. And, if you haven't prepared at all and you get to school or the battlefield, there's no turning back to prepare once the bell rings. Using The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks, I will be guiding you on how to take advantage of a zombie’s biology, what transportation to use, and where to take shelter during the apocalypse I will be taking advantage of a zombie’s lack of...
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...In 1968, horror movies as we know them was forever changed with the making of George Romero introduced us all to the concept of zombies as a whole giving future generations a basic story and zombie mannerisms to base future films around.. Romero himself would actually create the first real horror sequel with Dawn of the Dead in 1978. But it wasn’t the only direct sequel to the original 1968 movie. , both Romero and fellow co-writer, John Russo shared the filming rights with each other and created their own franchises with Russo’s coming almost fifteen years after the original- The Return of the Living Dead. While the Living Dead series does not have the popularity or acclaim than the Romero series, but The Living Dead series deserves...
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...Zombies have become a significant part of pop culture. They are a popular choice of bad guys in movies and television series. Hollywood has depicted these creatures as flesh-eating villains that raise fear among the people. Most people do not realize that this description of zombies is inaccurate and rather an extreme exaggeration of their origin. The roots of the zombie come from the Vodou religion and Afro-Haitian culture. The practice of the Vodou religion originates in Africa. The name comes from Vodun, the God of the Yoruba people, who occupied the African kingdom of Dahomey in the 18th and 19th centuries. Vodou spread west in the early 19th century, when African slaves were forcefully shipped to Haiti and other islands of the West Indies. When the slaves arrived, they were baptized into Roman Catholicism, but it was difficult to maintain their faith due to the lack of Christian infrastructure at the time. The slaves reverted to their roots and secretly practiced Vodou while still attending mass. The Roman Catholic influence still remains present today and it is not uncommon for a person who practices Vodou to worship the Christian God. The Vodou religion has managed to gain a bad reputation through inaccurate publications and various media sources. These sources portray it as an evil religion that engages in human sacrifice, cannibalism, and torture. However, these descriptions are actually false. Vodou is considered a cult religion, which simply refers...
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...these poor people have developed over 100's of years. In a general comparison to the zombies of Haiti and the zombies in the " New Dawn of the Dead" movie. The zombies of the movies are made for strictly entertainment purposes and are changed to fit a mold of the producer and writer. The zombies are far fetched whereby; zombies suddenly appear and change humans into more zombies. On the other hand Del Guercio reveals, through Wade Davis, a real voodoo culture on the Isle of Haiti in which, zombies are made of everyday inhabitants for crimes against society and places fear in the average population to know that any member of your family can be placed in a state of zombification through a drug from the puffer fish. The zombie is sold to the plantations of Haiti where, he moves throughout his day slow and lethargically performing his duties for his new plantation master. In the...
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...But the gems reveal themselves rather quickly as demonstrated by the meteoric rise of “The Walking Dead”. The creators of the franchise jumpstarted a dying genre, that of the Zombie Apocalypse. So much so that spinoffs are in production, and imitators abound. All trying to cash in on the mindless consumption of the horrid, as if we ourselves had become the mindless horde. Somewhere within each us the idea of watching a person actually devoured by another is fascinating, the repulsion one might expect; affected. The revulsion feigned, we just can’t get enough. Much is a byproduct of the desire to be a survivor, a warrior. Fearsome and self-sufficient, something our society discourages. The martial values being firmly placed in the purview of the military and the...
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...Do I believe in zombies? The answer is yes. There is no proof that an actual apocalypse can happen, but there is a certain disease that makes people suspiciously zombie-like. This disease is called mad cow disease. There have always been a number of diseases and disorders that can turn a person violent, but they were also never contagious, until humans discovered mad cow disease. When a person becomes infected there are several symptoms that sound suspiciously zombie-like. Some of the symptoms related to mad cow disease include, muscle twitches, delirium, changes in how the infected person walks. If mad cow disease were to get out of control and turned our delirium into rage, and could be transmitted by blood, then humans could be just a bite away from a zombie apocalypse. Mad cow disease is a prion that affects cows. When someone ingests the infected meat they have a chance of getting the disease. It affects the...
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