Apocalypse Now

whole time. “All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one’s heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. So he whispered to the sleeping boy. I have you” (McCarthy 54). McCarthy’s wasteland of the post apocalypse indicates his son is without a doubt the reason to stay alive. The father says all of that because he already has a sense that the son is special and worthy of something. The father has already lost hope in life and he doesn’t want his son to…

the Revolutionary War (Hendricks 1). Now he gallops around around on his horse, in a town looking for his missing head or for someone else’s as a replacement. It is said to happen every night in this town called Sleepy Hollow (Hendricks 1). Ichabod Crane, is the main character in the story, “Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, he was a teacher who was coming to the town, and he is portrayed as an…

clean that up fast before someone becomes a zombie," My mother spoke now "Tom stop trying to scare our kid,''. "Hey it could happen, you never know," he said. My mother just shook her head in disbelief. Then I got a glass of soda and went to my room to continue playing video games. I plugged my headset into my controller and started to talk to my friends. I asked them all "What would they do if a zombie apocalypse broke out," They all just told me they would try to live until the…

zombies have an uncanny relation to the fears of the white-collars. The lack of guarantee these people have that their skills they worked so hard to achieve, and put a lot of money towards, will amount to anything useful to the economy. “The zombie apocalypse is a white-collar nightmare: a world with no need for skills we have developed.” (Bosch) Her reasoning for this is that in the zombie apocalyptic world there is no use for jobs as lawyers, journalists, or investment-bankers. Instead the…

around since the beginning of time, the Roman Empire, the British Empire and many more. It was not a good thing but it happened. The British Empire is most notorious colonization must be the colonization of America, which found the country we have now. As glory as we can say about the Revolutionary War and the Independence of our country from the grips of a tyrant, do not forget because of this that thousands of Native Americans lost their homes and people just because we decided they were not…

spirit and caused its organs to rot (Decameron Web, Treatise of the Paris Consilium). Some Christian medieval citizens believed the plague was part of the Book of Revelation which included foretold of four signs of the Apocalypse including pestilence, war, famine, and death. The Apocalypse meant that Christ’s return would be soon. Some Christians thought God was punishing them and turned to a group known as flagellants, who whipped and scourged themselves as penance of their society’s sins…

some of their autonomy from the plague, which has already taken so much from them. Despite the comfort that the past provides for each character, it is essential to his or her survival to focus on the present and the zombie-infested world that exists now. Therefore, Whitehead’s depiction of New York City as a decaying and dying organism along with his description of Mark Spitz’s behavior (both during his PASD episodes and his battles with the skels) demonstrate the many flaws in the living…

Robopocalypse by Daniel Wilson, a fictional story of an apocalypse fostered by robotic intelligence is unveiled, along with the disastrous domino effect caused by their technological brilliance. Throughout each chapter, Wilson manages to clearly exploit the issues that encompass the constant battle of technology versus human nature. Each chapter contains a divergent collection of characters that specifically detail events from the apocalypse, all deriving from a broad pool of ethnic backgrounds.…

strange apathy concerning the process of radiation, contamination, and destruction, which I for one find haunting and depressing” (414). Basically, she is saying that old sci-fi films reflect the surprising lack of caring that people show toward the apocalypse. While Sontag is probably wrong when she claims that people do not care at all about impending doom, she is right that individuals do not show the necessary level of concern that they should have when it comes to the future of mankind. Any…

You could have had everything, dear William. Taking my side as the right hand of the apocalypse, with all the spoils of destroying a world thrown to your feet. Instead, you charge my dark palace-prison. You challenge prophecy, my written success, with a girl, a Slayer at that, and for what? An early end to eternity? I've waited too long for…