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From their dead eyes to their rotting bodies, the image of the zombie has become an icon in today’s society. Surpassing other horror characters, zombies over the years have become prevalent across a multitude of medias and genres. Although these brain-eating creatures are a work of fiction, author Chuck Klosterman argues that the life of the zombie apocalypse does not stray as far away from today’s society as some would think. Through his essay, My Zombie, Myself, Klosterman discusses the…

In both of the films, I Walked with a Zombie from 1943 and George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead from 1968, race and Vodou play a large factor in creating the elements that compose the zombies of the stories. I Walked with a Zombie addressed the complications of white power by representing slaves working in the sugar industry as nothing more than mindless zombies, being manipulated by the white race to conform to their will. Night of the Living Dead also incorporated a wide range of racially…

that we will be consumed,” (Klosterman, 13), consumed by the constant stream of information and tedious tasks of modern life. Killing zombies just teaches us that we are capable of fighting off that consumption. He quotes Max Brook’s “The Zombie Survival Guide” and its description of the Zombie brain as a parallel between how it functions and how we function in our daily lives. What Klosterman fails to mention is how Max Brooks specifically describes the zombie brain. It isn’t just that these…

The core myth of this genre is we all live our lives like zombies, so used to our routine. Shaun of the Dead definitely remythologize the core myth, play with it a whole lot and satisfied every aspect of that point they were trying to make. We are so used to our daily life routines, that a lot of times we don’t noticed or realized what’s going on around us and Shaun of the Dead used the zombies as a metaphor of us. We are like the zombies walking around and going through life and content with…

The Implications of Zombie Apocalypse Preparation and Survival What Happens Inside of a Zombie’s Brain? The virus attacks and devours the brain’s frontal lobes, responsible for problem solving, so they cannot make complex decisions. Zombie’s cerebellums become impaired, which explains why they cannot walk so well, either. These beings also have an unexplained predilection for human flesh. (E. Landau, 2011) Zombies Can Be Helpful Although zombies are defined as an undead being created through the…

Zombies The thought of your loved ones coming back from the dead is horrific. Though, people generally see zombies in multiple sources of media such as movies, television shows, and comics every day. The idea of the walking undead corpses was brought on by Haitian folklore from the early 1900’s. The term’s meaning is based off of a fictional undead being created through the animation of a human corpse. Although the idea of “zombies” sounds completely insane and irrational, there are multiple…

action fans. Every viewer can find a bit of themselves in at least one character, or at least who they hope they would mimic given similar circumstances. At the end of the day though, with or without zombies, everyone is fighting for the same thing: survival. Individuals are driven to provide for their families, to find shelter, food and protection. It is how a person decides to get these things that makes them who they are. Willing to steal or cheat now to get ahead? If the answer is yes then…

Voodoo zombies are a very interesting type of zombie it’s not your typical flesh eating zombie. Voodoo zombies are a person who has died and, has risen from the grave and is doomed to spend the rest of eternity as a slave of the living. These zombies suffer zombie powder the tool used for zombification the toxin temporarily paralyzes the human nervous system, creating a state of extreme hibernation with the vital organs functioning at minimal levels. Voodoo zombies show emotion suffering from…

Zombie Proof Building: The Wellness Center The zombie apocalypse may seem very frightening to some people. In fact, most may find it convenient to run away all the time, and when it comes to fighting zombies, just do so in order to survive. But what happens when it is not possible to run away or fight? When survivors of a class two zombie outbreak find them themselves in a difficult situation where the amount of zombies is too large to fight, or when there is no way of being able to run away…

Have you seen movies like, Dawn of The Dead (2004 film), and 28 Days Later? Or played video games like Resident Evil, causing you to witness average people manifest into flesh eating zombies. Did you ever wonder, “Could something like this really happen?” while watching these events unfold right in front of you. Well, let me be the first to say that I have. In fact, after watching Dawn of The Dead, for the first time as a fifth grader, I was afraid to go to sleep. Thinking I might wake up and…