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Zombies as a Metaphor for Reality Over the last decade, the popularity of zombie themed movies and TV series has skyrocketed on a large scale. In part it is attributed to the fascination the younger generation has for the violence, drama, and suspense that such thrill films offer, but there is also a much deeper meaning behind the popularity of zombies in popular culture. People are simply obsessed with the idea of an event that culminates humanity’s existence. The zombie…

understand how to survive the end is finding out just what would happen if an enemy country dropped a virus on the US, as well as where it happens and how. In other words, what kind of apocalypse would most likely happen? Since the Night of the Living Dead, it seems like people have been preparing for the apocalypse more and more, especially in the 21st century. People should have an idea of what to do during the apocalypse as they will most likely survive, will be able to rebuild the human…

getting is truthful and honest, but still some of the information may be expanded or pulled way out of proportion that it’s not reasonable anymore. A good example of this is in “The Walking Dead” TV series, where many episodes are focused on the characters who are trying to get to the sanction or the safe zone. When they hear about these places, it seems like heaven, the best place to be where life is back to normal and no one needs to worry. But they hear about it through talk and by word of…

Demise Syndrome, or, Apocalyptic Despair Syndrome, depending what you are talking about. No matter what it was called Roy stated that, “It killed as many people in those early stalemate months as hunger, disease, interhuman violence, or the living dead” (World War Z 159). The had a camp in the Rockies and they were still losing up to a hundred people a day. The main cause was not suicide, it was simply people going to sleep one night and not waking up the next morning. The reason why they were…

In Yeon Sang-ho’s Train to Busan is the most purely entertaining zombie film, finding echoes of George Romero’s and Danny Boyle’s work, but delivering something unique for an era in which kindness to others seems more essential than ever. The titular mass transport vehicle serves as an apt and very literary setting for an exhilarating morality tale that pits humanity’s fragile virtues and delicate principles with a ferocious catastrophe. For decades, movies about the undead have essentially been…

crisis of a zombie apocalypse. Establishing a plan for survival in a zombie apocalypse can vary depending on the person’s primary needs, but it is necessary to be informed of, and also understand the fundamentals. In the circumstance of the walking dead obtaining food and water, gathering weapons, and finding shelter are all crucial to survive. First and foremost, Food is vital for overall health and necessary for providing vigorous energy needed to withstand through a zombie apocalypse. While…

The transformational piece Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead written by Tom Stoppard explores the identities and roles that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern serve in as well as outside the shakespearean world. Stoppard successfully casts Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in a new light, by incorporating scenes in Hamlet and reinterpreting them in the perspective of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern 's roles in Hamlet were solely for plot purposes, their deeper identities…

Shambling mindless corpses trying to feast on the flesh of the living. The idea of the undead has been around for almost as long as people and their culture have. There have been multiple cultural variants of zombies and ideas of how to keep the dead from coming back to haunt the living such as the theory behind the origin of the tombstone was that it was literally a giant rock that cavemen rolled on top of graves to keep the body pinned down if the corpse reanimated. The first modern…

right. But what effect do these teachings have on the boys of Mr. Keating 's class? Well during their off time the boys did some digging on Mr. Keating. They find out that he was also a graduate of Welton and that he was in a club famously called the Dead Poets Society, shocker right? Well, the boys that are mentioned above decide to reform this club. They only meet at night after they have completed all of their classes and read poetry while smoking cigarettes. Some decide to go against their…

millions of other people across generations. Whitman did not know that the words he was writing would still be significant to this day. What he also did not know was that his words would be so significant that “O Me! O Life” would a part of the movie Dead Poets Society which was an instant classic on its own. Both the poem and the movie are significant to this day for the same reason; they inspire us and give us hope. People across the world look for inspiration and hope through works like…