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    With the traditional tale of zombies going further back than most alive can remember, let’s hope you have entered the realm of the undead at least once in your life. Whether just randomly stumbling upon the topic in your favorite magazine or being a hardcore dedicated zombie fan, most people past the age of eight years old will more than likely know what a zombie is. How can the details of these intense creatures not be planted in your minds? Rotten flesh, amputated limbs, exposed organs, and…

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    Zombie and Intellectuals All humans are either zombies or intellectuals. No in-betweens. The zombies are the malleable people that are shaped by their environment. Intellectuals are the self-willed people that are very uneasily swayed. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury incorporates both types of individuals to pass on a message everyone can learn from. The characters in Fahrenheit 451 can be divided into two categories–zombies and intellectuals –that teach readers that intellectuals need to help…

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    The article “The Secrets of Haiti’s Living Dead” by Gino Del Guercio is an attempt to explain the phenomenon of zombies appearing in Haiti. Guercio begins his article by describing one case of the suspected zombies where a woman named Angelina Narcisse was approached by her brother, Clairvius, who was thought to be dead for eighteen years, and how he used childhood memories to prove that he was actually her brother. Guercio then continues the account with Clairvius giving a detailed account of…

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    Sympathy For Living, From The Dead To our knowledge the modern zombie has no consciousness, it’s somewhere in between alive and dead, walking around with a need to feed on human flesh with no parallel to the person the body used to belong to. Mike Carey’s zombie is much different, Nick is essentially still conscious but no longer eats, breaths or sleeps and his existence is basically meaningless. The story revels how this man, a stockbroker with no sense of community or companionship finds…

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    Zombies in today’s society are recognized as slow, dead, flesh eating creatures that take over the world, such as in The Walking Dead. When zombies come to mind, people think of apocalypse, destruction, and end of the world or humanity. Overtime, the concept of zombies is changing, so is people’s concept of technology. Technology is controlling people’s lives, just like zombies might take over the world someday. For example, when a group of people go out for dinner, they do not socialize with…

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    until I had told him to. I then yanked the machete from my backpack and began to swing, all of a sudden I was down on the ground screaming. I heard gunshots and saw zombies falling one by one, who was this shooting? I got up after all the zombies were “dead”, because they cannot be any deader than they already were, and looked around for the shooter. I did not see anyone with a gun, until I noticed Steven standing in the doorway of the store with a machine gun. He was shaking when I ran up to…

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    Zombie argument against physicalism Within the academic realm of philosophy, it is understood that zombies are more or less, imaginary creatures, and their main purpose is to shed light on many problems that philosophy aims to investigate. Needless to say, these unsolved issues are primarily related to consciousness, as well as its relation to our physical world. Compared with those in magic or movies, zombies are just like humans in every material aspect but without conscious experiments.…

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    the mutants as they swarm toward you. Train your merc into the perfect dark operation contract executioner to win some speedy money. These strolling dead have changed from stalwart subjects into bloated, bloodied sacks of flesh while the city regresses into a shocking no man's land. Utilize whatever you can to survive: your little gun, your dead beau's samurai…

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    World War Z: Zombie Virus

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    selection move the human race further with less consequences in the future. The solution of the zombie virus is to allow natural selection to take its course and allow those who are less dependent on society to live and flourish through the chaos. Living through natural selection will require several conditions to be met for a human to survive. First, those who are physically fit will be able to out pace and keep themselves…

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    You might think that fictional superheroes are the only heroes at all, but they are not the only heroes, hundreds of other people are being heroes every day when it's from stopping a bully from bullying a kid to someone saving another person from a fire. there are heroes that you meet every day. There are soldiers that fight for our freedoms, and police officer that protect you in everyday life. An example of a hero is Dennis Soules, Dennis Soules was an addiction counselor visiting a…

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