Living Dead

There have been many leaders throughout history. People who fought battles, presidents, or something just as small as being head of a building or group. Leaders can be anyone who carries qualities that qualifies them to be successful and allows people to respect them. A leader must be someone who is willing to take on any task that is handed to them, and when they get that task, to work as hard as they can to complete it. There can be more than one leader throughout the world, but when choosing…

Historically and in contemporary society, Halloween represents a night where the barrier between the familiar physical world and the souls of the dead dissolves. Could this be the reason why is Halloween so mystical? The Mystical Origins of Halloween: Halloween is believed to be rooted in the pagan Celtic Samhain rituals. Samhain means summer's end. The Celts followed a lunar calendar, so Samhain signified the end of summer and the end of the lunar year. Celtic villagers wore costumes to…

Throughout literature, sinking cities have become a reoccurring image that have appeared in numerous works. Many authors take advantage of historical cities that have sunken or created new cities of their own to demolish in their works. A large debate is centralized around the setting in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The City in the Sea.” Analysis of the poem has led people to multiple conclusions, most commonly to the city of Babylon. While a great deal of evidence points to the city being based on…

Edgar Wright is a really great director who knows how to make people laugh. He is known for his Comedic Cornetto Trilogy, and the movies I will be talking about are “Shaun of the Dead”, and “Hot Fuzz” are the two of them. The scenes display the kind of style he uses in the films, and by using film techniques it helps show the style by how effective it is. Techniques such as music, sound effects, camera work e.g close ups, mid shots, and characters. Wright uses these techniques to grab people’s…

The stories Star Wars, Hunger Games, and Ender’s Games all compare and contrast the way Luke, Katniss, and Ender go through the Hero’s Journey. One way they contrast is, the Call to Adventure because Luke is invited to go to Alderaan and Katniss is forced through a drawing. On the other hand, Ender is invited to go with the potential of being able to learn to stand up for himself. One way they compare is, they refuse to go away because their families need them there. Ender refuses because he…

Days of the dead and Halloween sound pretty similar considering Halloween and dead kind of match with the spookiness, anyway i'm going to explain some similarities and differences such as how they celebrate it , different foods and just in general how they are different because despite their similarities there more different than you think. One way their different is how they celebrate it in mexico they celebrate Dias de los muertos (Days of the Dead) with a huge celebration with tons…

Straddling the line between fall and winter, plenty and paucity, life and death, Halloween is a time of celebration and superstition. It is thought to have originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off roaming ghosts. In the eighth century, Pope Gregory III designated November 1 as a time to honor all saints and martyrs; the holiday, All Saints’ Day, incorporated some of the traditions of Samhain. The evening before was…

Thanks to the book Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, I can now say I have been blessed to have read the magic that is Orson Scott Card’s writing. As I continued to read my fiction based independent study unit, the book has only become more enveloping due to the flourishing relationship between the reader and the characters, along with the expansion in the books world since the last section. It has gotten to the point where it seems as though every time I flip a page in this section of the book…

Ender Wiggin is the third child of a family of geniuses and is selected by the military force to save Earth In this society, each child wears a monitor so that the heads of the military are able to see and hear exactly what the child hears. Ender and his siblings, Peter and Valentine, all wore this monitor, although both Peter and Valentine were not selected. Ender, however, has the monitor longer than both Peter or Valentine, and this causes Peter to hate Ender, even when the monitor is taken…

Andrew (or Ender) Wiggin is a genius 6 year old who lived in Greensboro, North Carolina with his mom, dad, a big sister named Valentine and a mean big brother named Peter. After getting into a fight with one of his classmates Ender was chosen by a Colonel named, Graff to join a place called,Battle School. Battle School is where 5 or 6 year olds geniuses like Ender train to fight off bug like alien creatures called, Buggers until they graduate which usually take about 10 years. The kids within…