Living Dead

Nietzsche and “God is Dead” I. Introduction “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.” (The Gay Science 120) When first being introduced to Nietzsche, a person may infer that his idea, the “death of God”, is literal. The phrase does not mean there was an actual God who existed at one point and then died in a literal sense. When Nietzsche said this, he was implying that God died in modern society, the values of religion lost their dominance, and religion no longer fulfills the role…

The concept of the hero’s journey was developed by Joseph Campbell. The journey is made up of a series of stages the hero has to endure and complete. Ender’s Game, a science fiction novel by Scott Orson Card, is about an alien species called the buggers attacking Earth twice and almost destroying the human species. To make certain that the incident would never happen again the world government has started to breed military geniuses and train them in the arts of war. The early training takes the…

Television show The Walking Dead returns to scare up the competition and the rating just in time for Halloween. The award-winning show closed its sixth season as the number #1 show on television four years running. Season Six averaged 18 Million viewers, in addition, the 90-Minute Season sixth finale 18.4 million had viewers (according to Nielsen television tracking). Consequently fans can't get enough of The Walking Dead, according to Diamond Comics Distributor, Inc, THE WALKING DEAD VOLUME 26…

Many people have different personalities, but Ender and Ellie have some very different qualities but a few similar ones. Ender's Game is about kids who are very smart who get taken up to a place called battle school ams they get trained to fight and alien race which humans call “Buggers”. Night is a true story about a boy who is in the middle of World War 2 as a jew and gets taken to Auschwitz to work until The Allies free them. Ender and Ellie are very different personality wise, some can be…

differences and similarities between Day of the Dead and Halloween. A few are costumes, death, and food; within those similarities are most of the differences. One of the first thing are the costumes. During the day of the dead people dress up as skeletons, one of the famous skeleton’s name is La Catrina. She represents that no amount of money can keep you from death. While most of the skeleton costumes have meanings during the Day of the Dead, during halloween when people dress up it’s just…

The first chapter of Ender’s Game commences with two unknown individuals indulged in an enigmatic discussion, surrounding a boy and his two siblings. During the conversation between the unknown characters, they decide that the boy also known as Ender is the chosen one, the one they need to save the world from buggers. As the first chapter progresses, it informs the reader that Ender is a six-year-old boy with a monitor or device, that allows authorities to perceive the world as Ender does…

about, or where it came from,or what's the meaning behind it? Well I’ve wondered that and I did a little research to find out. This holiday in the ancient festival of Samhain. They believed this was the time of the year where ghosts would come from the dead and they would appease them with treats. That’s how we got the candy into the halloween. This holiday was first only celebrated in Great britain, while, ireland, and part of…

Día de los Muertos or Day of the Dead is a traditional Hispanic holiday that is celebrated in Mexico during that last days of October and the first days of November. This holiday stems from many different traditional Aztec rituals that have been carried on throughout history. It is a celebration of life and death, and is spent in remembrance of those who have passed. People prepare all different kinds of foods to celebrate and honor all the people that they have lost. They believe that on…

The Mexican holiday of Dia de los Muertos (or Day of the Dead) and the American holiday of Halloween are two different holidays that often confuse people to be the same thing. One of the many differences is that Day of the Dead and Halloween are celebrated for two different periods of time. Another difference is that Halloween and Day of the Dead are celebrated for two totally different reasons. One final difference is that the two holidays use of skeletons are very different. So, despite the…

“God is dead,” claimed Friedrich Nietzsche. Such bold statements defined Nietzsche’s nonconformity and his critical attitude towards the public and Christianity in the late 1800’s. A nonconformist is one who does not comply with society's standards and opinions as a whole. Nietzsche fit this role of nonconformity perfectly, he disagreed with common opinions, criticized mainstream religion, and argued with modern philosophy. Friedrich Nietzsche was born in 1844 in Röcken, Germany. Nietzsche had…