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From their dead eyes to their rotting bodies, the image of the zombie has become an icon in today’s society. Surpassing other horror characters, zombies over the years have become prevalent across a multitude of medias and genres. Although these brain-eating creatures are a work of fiction, author Chuck Klosterman argues that the life of the zombie apocalypse does not stray as far away from today’s society as some would think. Through his essay, My Zombie, Myself, Klosterman discusses the…

The film Beasts of the Southern Wild is a fantasy drama film set in America, which involves two main characters, Wink and Hushpuppy. Hushpuppy is Wink’s daughter and they both overtake many obstacles together. Spirited away is an animation film whose main characters are a family of three: Chihiro and her parents. The family is moving to another Japanese town when they come across a hidden spirit world that seems like an abandoned theme park. The films Beast of the Southern Wild and Spirited Away…

A story about luck, friendship, brotherhood, love, adventure and fate, Slumdog Millionaire is an excellent portrayal of Mark Twain’s famous quote: “Truth is stranger than fiction.” Though the movie is not completely based on a true story, some of the key plots are based on and were inspired from real life events, meaning that these things did and do happen to real people. The movie has marvelously captured human emotions as the protagonist rides up and down his life’s roller coaster. The movie…

V Daisy Amber Flanagan is a dog with a dream. Daisy has caramel color fur, and black marble eyes. Her dream was to go to outer space. She dreamed that she would find a unknown planet. She had an amazing dream but sadly it would never come true. Daisy needed a spaceship. But even if she had a spaceship she couldn't go to space, because she was a dog. Sometimes Daisy wished she was a human. Humans get to do a ton of stuff .(the chocolate is so creamy and smooth but Daisy cant eat it) there's…

In both of the films, I Walked with a Zombie from 1943 and George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead from 1968, race and Vodou play a large factor in creating the elements that compose the zombies of the stories. I Walked with a Zombie addressed the complications of white power by representing slaves working in the sugar industry as nothing more than mindless zombies, being manipulated by the white race to conform to their will. Night of the Living Dead also incorporated a wide range of racially…

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz written by L. Frank Baum, who favored bimetallism greatly focused on the primary matter, that being the Free Silver movement, which caused a great impact to the nation.The Wizard of Oz is an allegory of the political and economic environment of the Populist era because it resembles a story that can be interpreted to reveal a political movement through the characters,setting, and certain items and main ideas that were displayed in the book. In the Wizard of Oz a…

Frequently, popular novels are adapted into motion pictures. A novel that I have recently read that has been made into a motion picture is Warm Bodies. Warm Bodies is a story about a world where a plague divided the planet’s population into two different species, Humans and Zombies. The tale takes place in some city with a zombie named R and a human girl named Julie. One day R saw Julie and had a sudden urge to save her.. Which he did. The story continues from there as these two encounter many…

Zombies The thought of your loved ones coming back from the dead is horrific. Though, people generally see zombies in multiple sources of media such as movies, television shows, and comics every day. The idea of the walking undead corpses was brought on by Haitian folklore from the early 1900’s. The term’s meaning is based off of a fictional undead being created through the animation of a human corpse. Although the idea of “zombies” sounds completely insane and irrational, there are multiple…

The Walking Dead: Era of Zombies Living in a real-life zombie apocalypse where your day-to-day endeavors include facing hordes of the undead, dwindling supplies, and encountering dangerous strangers lurking in the woods can make the most formidable characters cower in fear. This show can utilize the horrors of a post-apocalyptic world and create a group of survivors holding on to their humanity a family that will do anything for one another. This is the world of The Walking Dead. There have been…

Wizard of Oz: Lion’s Courage and Dorothy’s Love All around the world acts of courage and love are shown everyday. Having courage is being able to do something that scares you. Everyday we are faced with an obstacle that might scare us, but we use our courage to overcome it. Love shows how much you care for someone. Every day people show love for each other. Whether it’s a simple “love you” from your parents before school or “have a great day”. In The Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, the…