The Dead Kennedys were one of the United States’s most influential hardcore punk bands, and were composed of Jello Biafra (Eric Reed Boucher) on vocals, East Bay Ray (Raymond Pepperell) on guitar, Klaus Flouride (Geoffrey Lyall) on bass, Ted (Bruce Slesinge) on drums, and finally 6025 (Carlos Cadona) on rhythm guitar. Not only were they influential in their style, but they caused stirs by the extreme and controversial nature of their political statements. The band formed in San Francisco in…
Day of the dead, everyone begins preparing for the return of dead relatives of friends that have passed away. Families visit cemeteries to have a picnic and clean and decorate the graves of their loved ones. Graves and tombs are decorated with a gold colored flower found exclusively in Mexico and also with candles. The petals of the goldish flower are symbols of a trail to be used by the dead to come back into the world of the living. It’s said that their scent and color draw the dead and guide…
Death Rituals and Day of the Dead in Modern Mexico Día de Los Muertos, or Day of the Dead is a popular Hispanic holiday that is often associated with Mexico. Participants of this holiday celebrate it for more than two days, they are known for their particular decorations on tombstones, festive parties, and sugar skulls. Day of the Dead started off as a couple of Catholic holidays, but has then become something that makes the holiday specially engrained into the Mexican Culture. From where the…
Day of the Dead is a holiday that is celebrated by many different races such as Mexicans, Catholics, Italians, South Americans, Philippines, and Colombians. Catholics call this holiday “All Soul’s & All Saint’s Day” and Mexicans call it “Dia de los Muertos.” The reason why this holiday is celebrated is because they spend a lot of money on their self-sufficient, rural based, local families, and families that have been deceased for a period of time. Most people that celebrate this holiday…
The Walking Dead: Era of Zombies Living in a real-life zombie apocalypse where your day-to-day endeavors include facing hordes of the undead, dwindling supplies, and encountering dangerous strangers lurking in the woods can make the most formidable characters cower in fear. This show can utilize the horrors of a post-apocalyptic world and create a group of survivors holding on to their humanity a family that will do anything for one another. This is the world of The Walking Dead. There have been…
Zombies in today’s society are recognized as slow, dead, flesh eating creatures that take over the world, such as in The Walking Dead. When zombies come to mind, people think of apocalypse, destruction, and end of the world or humanity. Overtime, the concept of zombies is changing, so is people’s concept of technology. Technology is controlling people’s lives, just like zombies might take over the world someday. For example, when a group of people go out for dinner, they do not socialize with…
The Walking Dead Television series with post-apocalyptic them are getting a lot of attention from both adult and young-adult viewers. The Walking Dead, developed by Frank Darabont, is one of popular series with this theme these days. Since the first episode, the show gained millions of viewers from all around the world. The show is about the survival of a group of people lead by a sheriff named Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) in a world filled with zombies or what they call as “walkers”. Although…
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…
Jarmusch envisioned his take on the Western when he directed Dead Man. The film is about an ordinary accountant William Blake, played by Johnny Depp, who is traveling to the town of Machine to start a new life. When Blake finds that there is no job for him, a set of unfortunate circumstances forces him into becoming a wanted man. Along with an American Indian guide, played by Gary Farmer, Blake forges a journey that leaves behind a trail of dead men in his path in order for him to transcend into…
survive? This is what The Walking Dead is all about. The Walking Dead is an American horror drama television series created by Frank Darabont, in view of the comic book arrangement of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard (Hill). Andrew Lincoln plays the show's lead character, sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes,who awakes from a coma to go up against a…