...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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...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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...“If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t.” (Chuck Palahniuk) fits perfectly with his short story Zombie. Most of us really don’t know what we want out of life. We go to college hoping to land a job that will make us money, yet, sacrifice the passion that makes life meaningful. In the short story Zombie, many characters struggle with the lack of purpose, challenge, or opportunities of life. Out of frustration, they choose to do something drastic to get away from it all. Initially, these choices are satisfying. They become a quick fix to a much bigger problem or “A new reality begins”: a reality that again someone does not have the power to control. At least they don’t think they do. So, they get reckless. They make painful decisions that not only affect their own life, but they bleed into those around them. This imagery of frustration and depression is what Palahniuk uses to create eccentric characters in this bold short story. Chuck Palahniuk, the author of Zombie, along with many...
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...Zombies and Vampires have been part of many legends, but now they are very popular with people and have many stories of their own. Many have seen horror movies, and television shows which we became scared of. The younger generation sees them as ‘awesome ’monsters. They capture our imagination and both are popular amongst adults and teenagers these days. Vampires suck human’s blood, unlike zombies that feed on human flesh. Sure both are incredible creatures that we like, but if a situation were to happen where you can become a vampire or a zombie, who would you be? Vampires and Zombies are creatures that harm humans and show many similarities and differences within them. Vampires are known to drink blood by biting on human’s necks. They have...
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...What do you normally think of when you hear zombies? Blood, action, explosions, graveyards? Well, you'll find plenty of that here, however this book likes to take these scary situations and make them more humorous than scary. A new and interesting take on the zombie genre. This is Zombie Baseball Beatdown, written by "Paolo Bacigalupi" Zombie Baseball Beatdown is about three kids on an average day going over to the baseball field over by the meat packing plant. Suddenly, they see all of the workers storm out of the plant like mad-men. The owner of the meat packing plant tells them to leave immediately. Later, they must return to park a hijacked vehicle in the huge lot so they hopefully won't be noticed....
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...or Vampires, Zombies and Zombie Apocalypse scenarios have captivated millions of individuals for over 50 years. Zombies originated in Haitian Folklore around the 19th century, however it was not until the late 1960s that the Zombie Craze took off. Now forty-seven years after the Zombie Craze began people are still fascinated with the dead rising and taking...
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...Are the zombies that we knew today the same as they were in history? Zombies have been a big part of our media throughout the years. It is the 21st-century and we have a lot of movies, books, TV shows, and they have been a part of the zombie outlook. You may be asking where did the zombies come from, or why do people get so obsessed about the idea of this uncanny creature, and if there will be an apocalypse? Well, those are some very big questions. You see the zombies has not always been what we see them as this new idea of a zombie. The zombie has grown and developed into this grotesque idea. The idea of the zombies came from the Caribbean. A writer named William Buehler Seabrook went to Haiti to ask the people about their dead coming to...
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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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...the Living Dead zombie movie to present day zombie movie, Ruben Fleischer (2009) film, Zombieland, zombie movies have become very popular because people want to experience a zombie apocalypse. The success of this film delivers entertainment, interests, and desires for the people that are big fans of zombies with survival guidelines throughout the movie on how to survive a zombie apocalypse. Balaji, Murali. Thinking Dead: What the Zombie Apocalypse Means. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2013. Print. This book discusses how over time zombies have become popular to American culture. Zombies became so popular that it “has a way of seizing upon our anxieties and apprehensions and delivering content that reflects these fears while still entertaining us” (17). Present day America calls the entertainment of a film, adrenaline. In this case “the time is ripe for the rebirth of zombie culture” (17), to deliver the adrenaline to all audience, especially the younger generation. The facts from this book will be useful to my essay since it describes the adrenaline they deliver to the audience to be entertained and who they target their entertainment on, the younger generation. Boluk, Stephanie and Lenz, Wylie. “Generation Zombie. Essays on the Living Dead in Modern Culture.” Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc. 2011. Print. The thesis of this book discusses how today’s generation is preparing for a real life zombie apocalypse. By observing how people prepare for zombie...
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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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...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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