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4 Ways to Pay for Your Long-Term Care It’s no secret, we are living longer. Advances in modern medicine makes it possible for many people to live long into their 80s and even their 90s. If you are fortunate enough to live this long, then it’s important that you have the very best care when it comes to long-term care. The following are a few ways you can pay for your long-term care or your parent’s long-term care while keeping it affordable. Purchase Long-Term Insurance One of the many…

I was a “zombie” for “The Walking Dead” I remember the day I first “discovered” Robert Kirkman’s “The Walking Dead” as if it happened today. I heard about the show through commercials, social media, and from friends, but it never really captured my full interest because it seemed like a generic zombie action movie, and I’ve already seen plenty of those. Anyway, one day, while playing on my PS3, I found myself bored out of my mind because none of my friends were available and I didn’t have…

was created named, “White Zombie”. During 1932, in the new release “White Zombie”, zombie’s appearances were known to be a human form that was made to act like a corpse. Years later in 1968, George A. Romero’s had released the movie, “Night of the living dead”. Since then, the impression of a zombie changed significantly. In this movie zombies were risen from the dead, as flesh eating ghouls destroying humanity. Romero’s…

In lecture this week the theme for the readings are based around Popular Culture. The first reading titles “Our Zombies, Ourselves” by James Parker he explains the role of fictional monsters in the popular imagination. Parker’s essay is an extension of Toro and Hogan’s fascination with vampire myths just in reference to zombies. He picks various films and books that depict the elements of a zombie threw the writers eyes. He also chooses to cite a Canadian punk band which shows another variation…

Despite the popularity of the brand, there have been very few alterations to the concept of zombies. It appears as if the horrific transformation from a regular human to an uncontrollable cannibal has been held in a favorable position within the film and literature industry. However, despite the stable concept, zombies have experienced a major change, as they have risen to a new level of terror and disgust. Modern zombies have evolved into rotting creatures that truly appear as if they have been…

Pencil Me In For The Zombie Apocalypse Legends of the risen dead have come from most of the world’s cultures in order to encourage fear or hope-based obedience. However, countries like England, Germany, and America have begun to use such concepts to entertain the masses through books and movies that depict the life one would experience during and after a zombie apocalypse. The zombies typically seen in movies come in three categories; zombies raised specifically to serve a master, zombies…

Night of the Living Dead” is film about a zombie outbreak in the 60s. First in the film we meet Barbara and her brother Johnny when they are arriving at their father’s grave to pay their respects in wish of their mother. Upon leaving the grave site it is very clear something devastating has happened. Throughout the film different concepts can be examined and related to our everyday lives. Hedonism is the belief that our actions are driven by the desire for pleasure. When analyzing the film we…

Surviving a zombie apocalypse is very terrifying and dangerous. First of all, if you’re going solo then you might have a greater chance of dying. But being alone is also better, when you have a scarce amount of food, then it might be better to be alone. Having more people with you though will decrease the possibility of getting bit or dying. When somebody is bitten by a zombie you are to kill them. Killing them will help you, so when they die they won’t become a zombie and murder you. So anyway,…

Warm Bodies: A Metaphor of Materialism’s Effect On People Warm Bodies by Issac Marion describes a world where humans coexist with zombies. In the novel, people are turning into zombies for unknown reasons. These zombies do not feel anything but hunger and mostly do not aware of the world around them. Issac Marion uses the zombie genre to represent the materialistic world and suggests that materialism is self-destructive because materialists are more likely to be selfish, insensitive and unhappy.…

Warm Bodies, a novel by Isaac Marion, creates a suspenseful and horrific story. The main character, R, is a boy who is a zombie, and he only calls himself R due to a loss of memory, since he is “dead.” He exposes the readers to an interesting assertion, which entails that all of the human civilization has been deemed and demolished through wars. The result of this demolishment led to the rise of a zombie revolution. The zombies live in distinct places, and they are divided into two groups…