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    The Walking Dead: Zombies Among Us “People can try and set you in the right direction, but they can’t show you the way”, said Morgan, one of “The Walking Dead’s” most morally torn characters of all time (Negrete). The statement embodies the mental battle that each character must conquer regularly as they are trying to survive in a world that offers nothing but hard decisions. The constant fight between good and evil is what has kept the fans of the series coming back in droves for the last seven…

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    Zombie Survival Guide

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    even in this extreme parody of a zombie survival guide. Also he shows us in this book many ways and techniques to survive in the real challenges in the world. Works cited Brooks, Max The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead, Three Rivers Press , 2003. Brown, Paul B. “How to Plan Your Life, When You Can't Plan Your Life”, Forbes, Forbes Media, 13 Jan…

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    “The Walking Dead” is a television series that started from a comic book series. The comic book series was well written and became a famous work. This show has won television series awards, such as the “People’s Choice Award for Best Cable Television Series” If a person had a strong stomach, and were looking for a new show to watch then “The Walking Dead” would be the right show for them. “The Walking Dead” is viewed to be nauseously gross or unrealistic, but since it has an excellent story line…

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    Imagine, you are creeping through the fog of the apocalypse; you are in the perfect position for a silent attack, and your gun jams. You try to fix the jam as the zombie slowly turns around and chomps on your jugular vein. This is why it’s important to have a reliable weapon in the zombie apocalypse. All good zombie apocalypse guns should have certain characteristics in order to be considered a viable option. All good zombie apocalypse weapons are durable. The AK-47 is an extremely durable…

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    World War Z Essay On Fear

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    the upper hand. However, when one side happens to be the living dead, conveniently incapable of feeling any emotions, the entire game changes. Trying to “out-scare” the other side loses its effect. General Travis D’Ambrosia makes comments on the fact that a state of “total war” is impossible for humans. Not everyone can be in war mode one hundred percent of the time. Humanity had never experienced anything like the army of the living dead. The undead were always in a state of total war (Brooks,…

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    Elizabeth Braddon and “The Dead” by James Joyce are both short stories that show strong examples of a “haunting”. A haunting is something or someone from a past time that reoccurs in appearance or in thought, usually bad or regrettable. Although both stories represent a haunting throughout the story, each author efficiently portrays two separate types of a haunting: one being a ghost, and one being a past. Braddon’s short story “Eveline’s Visitant” tells a tale of a young man in France named…

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    James Joyce Family

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    His father, John Joyce was a man of popularity and great income when James was born. However, to support a growing family, he had to mortgage much property in his business matters and his career declined as his alcohol consumption increased. John’s state of employment exemplified…

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    Throughout his short story “A Little Cloud,” James Joyce considers the ramifications of remaining sedentary in Dublin through his characters Little Chandler and Ignatius Gallaher. That Little Chandler and Gallaher seem so antithetical, despite their proximity and similar upbringings, invites the reader to question whether Joyce intends to insinuate that success is only possible outside of Dublin, and that ambition and Celtic nationalism are incongruous. Having left Ireland at twenty years old,…

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    “Grace” dives headfirst into this issue from the standpoint of the average Dublin man. The protagonist, Mr. Kernan, identifies as Catholics, but embodies the conflict of Dublin’s religious climate. As sustaining a injury from a drunken fall, Mr. Kernan’s friends stop by and conspire to pressure him into attending an upcoming retreat…

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    To best understand this, one must examine the text and Gabriel’s actions within it. Throughout “The Dead,” Gabriel works to live an admirable and generous life for those around him, striving to be personable, respected, and refined. However, occasionally, light shines through the cracks in his character. In his first interaction with Lily, when he asks her about possible wedding plans, she replies “with great bitterness.” Gabriel is caught off guard; his first response is to “reaffirm the…

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