Zombie apocalypse

a nerd is a better choice as a zombie-slaying best friend because they are more loyal to their social groups, more humble, and equally knowledgeable to snobs in their areas of passion. In a snob’s world backstabbing happens often. When someone becomes ‘’unworthy’’ or no longer…

The article, Monsters and the Moral Imagination, is informing the audience that monsters show a boarder aspect of the society. The article gives different point of views on monsters and gives a direct explanation on how the acts portray by monsters reminds us about reality. However, the use of monsters can improve our imagination by 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…

future. We felt obsessed with these movies because of our endless curiosity about what the future holds. I for one watch apocalyptic films because each of them involve an interesting prediction of how our world will come to an end. Whether it is a zombie attack that infects everyone or if the water from the ocean wipe out civilization, all were inspired by the tragic terrorist attack that hit New York City. These movies exist because, just as inevitable and tragic the 9/11 attack was, movie…

In Discipline and Punish, Foucault explains how disciplinary power is used to produce subjects who internalize power and as a result, regulate themselves as their own jailors. Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon model is brought up as a prime example of a form of technological power used in the mid- 19th Century to generate this disciplinary power. The model uses a tower which is placed at the center of a circular prison building. From this tower, the wardens and guards are able to view any prisoner at…

The Waking Dead is a television series show based on a post zombie apocalypse scenario. The main character Rick throughout the series is looked at as the leader by his ever changing group of survivors. This group which includes his son and daughter are trying to survive in the zombie apocalypse. They are constantly dealing with trying to protect one another from the zombies and gaining basic necessitates. The group begins to find that true malevolence is with in people and not the walking dead.…

apocalyptic environment if they were forced to turn against each other at every waking moment. No matter what, there will always be a portion of society that will hold on to past Morals taught to them. In “The Apocalypse Market is Booming,” Steve Almond describes how people find apocalypse literature interesting because of the intense violence of humans having to fight each other and morality being completely removed from society. He says, “They allow us to safely fantasize about what might be…

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…

attributed to the connection between fiction and reality. Internally, within the mind, there is a psychological interest in endings and the end of the world. Externally, there is interest regarding historical events and personal religious beliefs. The apocalypse-fiction genre in modern media continues to become increasingly popular because many books and shows, such as George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones, revolve around intercultural and religious beliefs as well as historical events. Many…

this is Cuba’s film, “Juan de los Muertos.” This film is drawing on a very popular narrative of recent years of the zombie apocalypse, and using this narrative to comment on national issues. This film responds intelligently to the desolation and zombie-like state of many Cubans post Special Period through the film by the representation of the governmental response to the zombie outbreak by describing them as political dissonant from America instead of addressing the issue that the island of…

is in a whole different category. Empire is a show with drama, suspense, great music, family problems, money obsession, God complexes, and power hungry musicians. I will explain the greatest aspects of all these shows. The show is about the zombie apocalypse and…