Apocalypse

pieces, some of his most well-known work today are his sixteen great designs for the Apocalypse, 1498 all of which he engraved himself. Each is a different scene from the book of revelations, and was published simultaneously in Latin and German. During the time of the books rise to fame most of Europe was worried about the impending last judgement which was said to be in the year 1500. A few years after the Apocalypse failed to occur, Durer began working on another famous piece called Life of…

The United States has been embroiled in a longstanding war for the past decade. Declaring a war against terrorism, President George W. Bush began a crusade to make the world safe. His goal was to eradicate the threat of terrorism from the world. The United States began their crusade with the hunting of Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and Osama Bin Laden. After many years we finally killed the mad man behind the attacks of September Eleventh. Today there is a new organization on the world stage; the…

the story of a young Katniss Everdeen and her quest to save her sister and herself in their post-apocalyptic country of Panem. The apocalypse that creates Panem is described through a list of natural disasters: drought, storms, fires, and seas that engulfed the lands. Through the destruction, Panem was formed and a new country was brought to life . This apocalypse took place on, “what was once called North America” (Collins 20). The familiarity of the location makes the story more interesting…

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 end. It was ten o'clock pm so I told them I would talk to them in school about it and I went to bed. When I woke up I got dressed and went to meet up with my friend Dillon.…

of those who died due to their faith, Earthquakes, a blackened sun and a bloody moon (King James Version, Revelations 6). As implied by their name, these four horsemen represent what the Judgement day will bring to the world. This vision of the apocalypse was found within a scroll and is written in the Bible, serving to warn people that this day will come with all these events. To the Christian monks who wrote this riddle, writing is an important tool to warn others of what is to come, and urge…

of the book, the importance of the narrator’s description of himself changes when he starts to refer to only himself using we or us. While The Sympathizer provides a very good example of this theme, it has been important in at least some aspects Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, District…

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…

A zombie is “a person or reanimated corpse that has been turned into a creature capable of movement but not of rational thought, which feeds on human flesh.” (Oxford) In the event of a zombie outbreak or apocalypse it would be quite difficult for a person to survive, even for a very short period of time. A person would need to take a large number of variables into consideration in order to survive. He or she would need to have a fair amount of equipment, food, shelter, weaponry, and various bits…

The survival of any human is the ability to identify problems and find cures. This ability was not readily used in the Middle Ages, when the Black Death hit all over the world. Envision millions of people dying right in front of your eyes. Death is everywhere, bodies are thrown into ditches, and people are burned in massive groups. No one knew the cause of the disease or how it spread. They only knew the Black Death was among them and vicious. The Black Death was a pandemic that killed about…

and Trethewey in Native Guard both struggle with the ambiguity of legacy after death, searching for a purpose in mortality and for a way to entwine one’s existence with the rest of history to create progress. However, McCarthy, writing about the apocalypse in The Road, does not specifically focus on the mortality of humans, but the mortality of morality itself, the slow death of the goodness of people. Each author deals with the concept of legacy after death--McCarthy with a father’s noble…