Grateful Dead

he Remaining series has always been a favorite of mine whenever I ponder back to books that I have really enjoyed. First off, I’ve always like thinking of the scenarios of there being one day a zombie apocalypse and being forced to survive by yourself or even with others as you take on the threat of the infected or even other survivors who are as bad as the zombies are. In The Remaining Allegiance it is based on the fact that teamwork and cooperation is the key to surviving or overcoming a large…

Ender’s Game is a 1985 military sci-fi novel written by Orson Scott Card, and like other novels, is accommodated by various themes and motifs. In this essay, I will cover one of the motifs that have been sited in the novel—games. In the novel, there are five games in total (excluding the one in the novel’s title): the Mind Game (also known as the Fantasy Game, or the Giant’s Drink), the Game and Battle Room, the simulator in Eros, and the game of “Astronauts and Buggers” that Peter and Ender…

Halloween and Day of the Dead have many things in common and I believe that the two holidays are more similar than different. The two holidays are alike in the ways that in both you have to dress up in costumes, they both have the colors orange and black as the main colors in the holiday celebrations, and that they eat sweets and candy during this holiday. The Day of the Dead and Halloween are similar in the fact that in both holidays people dress up in costumes. In Day or the Dead they dress…

Ender’s Game relation to modern day Far too often, human beings perform nefarious actions based on a prejudice that is either false or simply irrelevant. Orson Scott Card’s science fiction novel Ender’s Game is based off of preconceptions humans had on a foreign species known as “Buggers”. The main character Ender is assigned the task of working with other gifted children, like himself, to perform a complete genocide on this unfamiliar species. Ender learns much about the buggers and himself…

The book “Ender’s Game” has been a classic for a long time. It has a lot of action going on in the plot, but there is a deeper meaning. The primary theme of this book is to have compassion towards others, no matter how you feel about them. The book “Ender’s Game” starts with Ender having a normal life on earth, but then he gets his monitor, a device which allows government officials to see and hear what he does, removed. After that he was approached by Colonel Graff and went out to the battle…

Day of the dead, everyone begins preparing for the return of dead relatives of friends that have passed away. Families visit cemeteries to have a picnic and clean and decorate the graves of their loved ones. Graves and tombs are decorated with a gold colored flower found exclusively in Mexico and also with candles. The petals of the goldish flower are symbols of a trail to be used by the dead to come back into the world of the living. It’s said that their scent and color draw the dead and guide…

“There is no teacher but the enemy.” Mazer Rackham, a character in Orson Scott Card’s novel, Ender’s Game, teaches this lesson to the main character of the story, Andrew (Ender) Wiggin. His statement has a prominent significance to the theme of the novel and it can be applied to several vexatious situations throughout Ender’s life. In Ender’s Game, Ender has several adversaries that he learns from, and each one teaches him something new. One of these enemies was his own brother, Peter Wiggin.…

death is cherish in Los Dias de los Muertos, which is Spanish for the day of the dead, can be seen through the practices of festivities that are done. One portion of the festivities that are done within the day of the dead is the fact that many forms of foods and sweets are created for the celebration. The origins of the day…

One boy is a prodigy and the only one who is capable of saving the earth from war (Ender from Ender's game) Whereas, the other boy lost all his powers, thus being deported to a powerless colony, Is the reason behind a problem that can endanger the earth and all living beings but is the only one who can fix it (Taemon from Freakling). Both of the boys are heroes in the end although their stories seem different.. After reading Freakling by Lana Krumwiede and watching the film production of Ender’s…

de los Muertos, also known as “The Day of the Dead” is a Mexican holiday in which family and friends gather together to remember the lives of their loved ones who have passed away. They also use this holiday to help support the spiritual journey their loved ones are taking. Many people from all religious and ethnic backgrounds celebrate Dia de los Muertos. It has its roots in pre-columbian cultures and beliefs (Day_of_the_Dead). The Day of the Dead usually begins on Wednesday, October 31 and…