Night of the Living Dead

The Warm Bodies movie best fits a family/teen oriented type of movie. The movie is well directed by Jonathan Levine. The movie has various genres of comedy, romance, horror, etc. Warm Bodies could possibly be a twist of another “Romeo & Juliet” love story, except in a zombie version. In the movie, “Warm Bodies” is set in a strange zombie invaded world, where numerous of zombies roam around an abandoned airport. I guess that’s where they all practically live in. Though, there is just something…

The films Double Indemnity, directed by Billy Wilder, and The Night of the Living Dead, directed by George Romero, both feature female characters in subordinate roles to their male counterparts. Double Indemnity features Walter Neff underestimating his lover Phyllis’s power and continually patronizing her, calling her “baby” almost exclusively. The Night of the Living Dead features Helen, who is constantly put down by her husband who never values her opinion. Both films use elements of…

Halloween, without Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Sylvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus”, and George A. Romero’s Night Of The Living Dead, the holiday as we…

Dead Until Dark Dead Until Dark, a fantasy, mystery novel by Charlaine Harris, looks at changes in the structure of society as a point of crisis to explore identities of violence and sexual deviance, using the vampire as the abject or other that, ultimately, reflects the self. The society depicted in Dead Until Dark finds itself in crisis due to the revelation that vampires exist and want to become a visible part of the community. However, vampires must deal with abjection as they enter society:…

The characters in “The Dead” are not actually living at all, as one can see in the narrator’s descriptions of the events and traditions that are continuously brought up, and in how those and the characters are predictably and monotonously described. The first example of monotony is the mention of the dance, “It was always a great affair, the Misses Morkan’s annual dance,” (21). The description of the dance indicates that it has been going on for “Years and years” for “as long as anyone could…

This essay will compare similarities of the works by Lil wayne in “God Bless Amerika” George Romero 's “Night of the Living Dead” and Ralph Ellison 's “A Party Down at the Square” . In order to discover the similarities between People of Color struggles, in particular those of Blacks in America in each respective time frame. Lil Wayne speaks of fear, racism, and discrimination in “God Bless Amerika” he explains to the listener that racism is alive and painful giving the audience a bleak look at…

teaching us about survival and preparing us for disasters and global issues. Monsters can be good or bad as shown in different fictional stories. For example, these stories of Frankenstein and World War Z, display multiple warnings about our standard of living and high expectations in this current era of globalization. “Would I board up the windows to keep the zombies out or seek the open water? Would I go down…

“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.” This is what Elie Wiesel about his experience in the German concentration camp for the Jews. This place was called Auschwitz, it was created for the…

life for all living creatures to die. Gods breathed life into living creatures as well as giving them an inevitable end to life. Death for humans is like a destiny that they cannot escape from; Gilgamesh must accept this fate. However, despite Utanapishtim’s…

that the discourse community used to address on another whenever communicating. There were active members on Tumblr that had a very interactive online community were the fans would write, share, and exchange feedback about The Walking Dead. Studying The Walking Dead I cultivated a way to connect to the fandom community through literacy. When I started this class, I thought literacy was simple just reading and writing. However, this ethnography research on my fandom taught me that literacy events…