Apocalypse

In a matter of seconds, an accidental nuclear explosion in America turned the land of the free into the land of the broken. Billions of people perished, whether it was from the bomb or the aftereffects. The explosion caused fires that raged across the country, slowly roasting the old world into ashes. America was destroyed, but what became of the rest of the world? Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, Australia, and even Antarctica have also felt the effects of the explosion. It caused…

In the cinematic world, films and the ideas behind them are becoming more complex and innovative than ever before. In order to keep up with the demand for new, quality films, the masterminds behind the films have to get creative. A method filmmakers use to conjure these movies is the genre mashup. An excellent example of a genre mashup in the film industry is the movie Zombieland. A genre mashup is a number of different objects from various genres being "mashed" into one and in a sense, breaking…

Finding Love In Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel, The Road, the protagonists, an unnamed man and son, travel a “Barren, silent. godless road during an apocalypse where the world is devoid of hope and civilization. The father and the boy navigate through the “soft ash” (4) with hopes of making it to the South for better living conditions where it will be “warm at last” (147). During their dangerous journey, the man and the boy encounter several experiences, such as worrying about warmth,…

includes the gospels of John and Luke, Acts, Paul’s letters, Apocalypse of John, Jude 1 and 2 John, Wisdom of Solomon, and the Apocalypse of Peter. In the early third century, though, Eusebius came up with a system that referred to three categories of text; recognized, disputed, and spurious. The books that were considered “recognized” included the four Gospels, Acts, Paul’s letters including Hebrews, 1 John, 1 Peter, and at times the Apocalypse of John. To be considered “recognized”, books had…

It isn’t a question that people pretend to know what they are doing a lot of the time. In other words, they “fake it ‘til they make it.” Not only is this a common occurrence in everyday life but it is also a common theme of The Road by Cormac McCarthy. The Father in The Road is the key example of faking it ‘til you make it by giving a false sense of hope to motivate and push his son to keep going, he taught his son to follow in his footsteps, and contradictory to how you would think the story…

submarine with the whole country dying from the growing white fog. Tane and Rebecca are safe down in the submarine but with the cost of Tane’s brother, their family, and all their loved ones dying in the apocalypse. Yes, the main characters are safe, but it leaves me with empty feeling that the apocalypse was never stopped. In spite of the dark ending, the book left me with a little hope. At the end they are able to transmit messages to themselves in the past to try to stop the fog even before…

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…

harshest of worlds, men who take no prisoners and who stop for no one” (2012) which is evident in the character Max. The movie begins with Max, alone in his thoughts, continuously reminded of what looks like people he left behind during the unknown apocalypse. From this, we see that his only motive is to survive by himself; indicating the future will look more or less similar. People will be left alone in the harshest of times that the only way to survive is to look out for oneself with no one’s…

The Chosen One High school is tough enough on its own, but imagine having to defeat supernatural creatures while studying for mid-terms! "In every generation a Slayer is born," is the tagline for the hit television show Buffy, the Vampire Slayer. The show is centered on sixteen-year-old Buffy Summers chosen to slay all the evil supernatural beings of the world. Buffy has touched thousands of televisions across the nation, not to mention the hearts of all the viewer’s tuning in every week to see…

town in which she and her father, Wink live. Environmental disaster was the principal theme of the film. At the school in this destroyed village, Hushpuppy learns about the aurochs that are extinct, but still alive in her imagination as heralds of apocalypse. “Any day now the fabric of the Universe is comin’ unravelled,” she says. The film is set in the region beyond the levees of southern Louisiana, in which uneven porches and sidewalks show the fact that the land is gradually sinking.…