...movie is somewhat inconclusive leaving the audience guessing. The central point of the movie, however, is more explicit than it is hidden. The story is primarily about a convicted criminal, James Cole, who is sent on a mission to find useful information for a devastating virus that killed 99% of the whole of human population in the year 1996. The scientists of the year 2035 seem do have a hidden agenda throughout the film as it is unclear why they believe and insist that the deadly virus cannot be stopped but can only be cured. Such sentiments bring out the hidden plot, which unfolds in the nail-biting finale of the movie. At the end of the movie, Cole meets his death in the arms of his lover Dr. Railly. In the last scene, it seems as though the scientists from Cole’s time had set him up to his death. This raises question over the real reason why the scientists sent Cole back to the past. The scientists confess to developing the virus 30 years ago to Cole as well as implicating Mr. Goines, who is Cole’s friend from the past. When Cole closes in on the truth he meets his demise. After Cole’s death, Dr. Peters meets with a scientist from the past in the plane. Railly then poses a question to Peters of whether humanity is doomed or not. This question remains in the minds of the viewers as there is no obvious answer to it. Narrative Structure The structure of most films can be broken down into three major steps. The first step is the initial problem which is the pivot of the plot of...
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...Being raised in the small town of Ripley, Mississippi, I was not exposed to happenings throughout the world for quite some time. I never imagined that anything could upset my perfect utopian world I thought to be true. However, my world turned upside down when I saw the world beneath the facade. Televised news reports of devastation, diseases, poverty, and war made my unworldly, simple-minded character begin to question the state of humanity. Even though the world was not as pleasant as I had dreamt it to be, I am able to find the silver linings in all the imperfect aspects. Hurricane Katrina, the pandemic Ebola outbreak, and the Paris terrorist attack have taught me more about solicitude and aid to others than awareness of catastrophic events....
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...WORLD WAR Z – tackles the rise of a grotesque pandemic which involves an unknown virus that reanimates a deceased human body. These reanimated corpses, in lay terms, are known to modern society as the undead or the “zombies.” The focal point of the allegory centers on Gerry Lane, a former United Nations investigator, who threads through the battle against the pervasive viral infection which might be the end of mankind; wherein our protagonist struggles to find a way to stop this worldly mishap. With general knowledge, we can find some familiar elements related to the infection while some, however, are beyond comprehension. Humans are found out to be the sole host to the virus, although animals are also hounded. Specifically, canines are able to speculate individuals who are not showing signs of contagion despite of infection. One can be infected by means of direct contact with bodily fluids. A zombie’s bite, although by far the most recognizable means of transference is by no means the only one. It is yet unknown if the virus is waterborne or airborne. One who has been contaminated with the virus mutates apace and fully transmogrifies in a mere 12 seconds. The long and short of it draws in another vital character, Dr. Andrew Fassbach, a virologist who confirmed that the plague is indeed a virus, whose origin must be discovered in order to possibly develop any means of cure/vaccine. As Gerry’s odyssey goes, he has formulated a theory which is that the undead do not pursue those...
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...governing powers, and decades of wars. | Prologue It’s the year 2063, fifty years has passed since the epidemic that changed humanity forever. During the fall of 2013, an airborne virus called raptus was spreading rapidly through North Africa’s population. The virus caused no significant symptoms out of the norm other than that of a common cold. Once contracted with raptus, the victim usually died in their sleep after five to seven days. With the latest advancement in international travel through a transport called Hyperloop, capable of transporting any adventurous traveler anywhere in the world in just a few short hours, caused the transmission of the virus seem almost instant. Within the first week, ten percent of the population had deceased; the end of the second, thirty-five percent had perished. By the end of October, a month after the spread of raptus, about three-quarters of humanity had been wiped out. The twenty-five percent of survivors, “the not so lucky few”, carried a rare immunity to the virus. After the passing of the epidemic, there was a worldwide collapse in societies. Governments ceased to exist after the epidemic, so chaos ran ramped amongst the twenty-five percent. Without any governance, people resorted to looting and pillaging. Another five percent of what was left of mankind had laid victims to the violent chaos. Humanity lost its bearings for almost four years until the rise of new powers began to surface in various parts of the globe; North...
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...or aided in the spread of the Ebola virus, such as misuse of equipment and incautiousness. In the book, the most common mistake make when people deal with the virus, either because they were not aware of the virus or they were too focused on something else, is incautiousness. One instance in which this is demonstrated is when Dr. Shem Musoke tried to help Charles Monet, a victim of Marburg, in Nairobi Hospital. Charles Monet was going into the last phase of Marburg and , during his seizure, his...
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...Zombiism Viruses By --- Mortius Amicus: A common form of the virus that causes zombiism. It tends to be harmless and short-lived, hardly affecting the body other than rendering the nervous system temporarily useless (Without any direct damage.) Mortio Occupant: A rare and dangerous form of the virus that causes zombiism. It takes over one's nervous system and modifies the host's body in harmful ways. No cure, nor reason to; the victim's brain and body would be severely damaged and most likely unresolvable. Mortius Amicus The Friendly Zombie Virus Fortunately, the most common form of zombiism is “Friendly Zombiism.” This form still takes over it's host and is related to the rabies virus, however it is short-lived and when it expires the host will not be effected directly by the virus. Most cases end up with the infected returning to their normal state, with the most damage done from walking into objects or tripping over and falling. This is because that when the virus spreads throughout the body, it merely just takes over the conscious part of the brain and only sends weak signals throughout the nervous system to move limbs. The intelligence of the host will drop nearly to that of a vegetable, only making slow and simple movements and the ability to bite and swallow (chewing is beyond the virus) with only the drive to find consumables rich in proteins, fat, and anything that gets close to their mouth. The virus is contagious, and is spread through water and saliva, sneezing...
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...Ebola The 2014 Ebola was the largest epidemic virus in history, causing a colossal damage in the human body prolonging them to death. The notoriously deadly virus cause fearsome symptoms, the most prominent being high fever and massive internal bleeding. Ebola virus kills as many as 90 % of the people it infects. It is one of the viruses that is capable of causing hemorrhagic (bloody) fever. Ebola spreads through direct contact with bodily fluids. A cough from a sick person could infect someone who has been sprayed with saliva. This is why the virus has often been spread through the families and friends of infected persons: in the course of feeding, holding, or otherwise caring for them, family members and friends would come into close contact with such secretions. The Ebola virus infects by entering a host cell and realizing a small piece of RNA. The RNA hijacks the machinery of the cell and uses it to create more copies of the Ebola virus, which turn into another cells. Specialist at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta have also found that the virus is present on patient’s skin after symptoms develop. Underlining how contagious the disease in once symptoms set in. In effect, Symptoms usually begin about eight to 10 days after exposure to the virus, but can appear as late as 21 days after exposure, according to the C.D.C (center for disease control). At first, it seems much like a flu: a headache, fever and aches and pains. Sometimes there...
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...I am legend “I am Legend” is a sci-fi movie based on a brilliant military scientist, Robert Neville, whom becomes the last man on earth. He becomes the last man on earth because of a man-made untreatable virus which turns people into flesh eating zombies. He is immune to the virus and the only one who can save humanity. He spends several years trying to control the virus and also broadcasting radio signals for any other survivors. The Zombies creep around in the shadows, observing the scientist’s every move until he makes a fatal mistake. I liked this movie because the effectiveness and dialogue of it were accurate and I didn’t get lost watching all the scenes. The special effects and background coincided with what was going on throughout the movie and also appeared to be realistic. The performance of the main character, Will Smith, was phenomenal and I also felt as if I was in his shoes. Several aspects during certain scenes made the movie stand out from the thousands of movies I’ve watched. When Neville was driving around New York City with his dog Sam in a 2009 ford mustang GT500, the roar of the engine and the watchful eye of his dog following the deers symbolized modern hunting. After they got out on foot and began chasing the wild animals into the growing forest and the lions appeared out of the fields to take Neville’s priced deer gave me the idea that earth was reverting back into prehistoric times. Finally, when he sacrificed his life after he realized...
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...suggestions inviting the consideration and analysis of the writer; they are not infallible statements of right/wrong, and they should not be used as grading elements. Also, at present, WritePoint cannot detect quotations or block-quotes, so comments in those areas should be ignored. Please see the other helpful writing resources in the Tutorials and Guides section of the Center for Writing Excellence. Thank you for using WritePoint. The Evolution of HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) BIO/101 October 09, 2012 The Evolution of HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is known by mankind as one of the quickest evolving virus to date. One offspring of HIV can make replicas upward of billions of copies in a 24 hour [If used as an adjective, these two words are hyphenated: 24-hour] period, mutating countless time with every copies of its genetic material. In order to [Writing suggestion--the meaning will be the same (and less wordy) by removing "in order"] find a ways to fight HIV, we [Use "we," "us," or "our" to mean...
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...consequences of an action for all of those that could be affected by it. It looks to maximize happiness and minimize suffering. By this view, together as one world, we should look to help those that are suffering from the HIV/AIDS epidemic. By donating time, money, technology, and solutions to those in developing nations, we can not only help those who are suffering from the disease, but we can also help the world. Firstly, we should provide medical help to those already infected with HIV/AIDS, and help them live out the rest of their life as comfortable and pain-free as possible; as this would confirm the utilitarian view of minimizing suffering. Also, as a world we should look at preventing the rapes that often cause the infection of the virus. This would involve much more involvement from each country, as we would be changing the behavior of nations. This could involve sending troops in to modernize the developing areas. However, this is controversial, because often in times of “war” (even if it was a war on HIV/AIDS), there is much sadness and suffering by those sent to fight the “war” and by the families that stay home. This is why, on an individual basis, the utilitarian view perhaps does not fully support invading a country and changing their actions. I think, overall, though, that the utilitarian view supports having already developed countries helping...
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...Lipari is psychologist and expert in social network, sees Facebook a kind like the movie “The Truman Show”. Joanna thinks Facebook is like a world without boundaries. 2. An outline of the positive and negative sides of social networking presented in the three texts: In the first text “What is social networking?”, we hear about how social networks has an effect to make it easier to get new online friends over social networks, examples as Facebook, Skype and Twitter. Now a day, we can have difference friends among the world from Denmark to USA and easy learn each other’s traditions, religion, culture and language. Negatives sites of social networks are, that it is easy for hackers and bad people to get into your computer system and give you virus or malware and destroy your security system. In the second text, “Five clues that you are addicted to Facebook” we hear about how some people nearly has a sickness to check Facebook for social news all time. Facebook leads people from the real world into the network world, because people enjoy more time on Facebook than in real life....
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...LIVING ON A NEW PLANET LIVING ON A NEW PLANET 10/5/14 10/5/14 LIVING ON A NEW PLANET A global pandemic has threatened human existence as we know it. Virologists have determined that the threat cannot be contained and the only solution for the continuation of life, is mass exodus from planet earth. Nations around the globe have united and proposed a solution that would prove to be one of the largest undertakings in human history – colonizing a new planet. Symptoms of the virus consisted of skin rashes, bumps covering the patient and high fever eventually leading to death. The population of earth diminished exponentially over a very short period of time when the virus became airborne and reached around the globe. With no vaccination or cure, the only viable option was to move as many people which showed no signs of infection off planet. The closet habitable planet that would potentially be able to support human life is a planet known as Gliese 581c. It is approximately 20.22 light years away from Earth, 50% larger and has a mass that is 5.5 times larger than Earth. It has a surface temperature which would most definitely support liquid water. The planet is the third from its star, nearly 15 times closer than Earth is to the sun. One year on the planet is equal to 13 Earth days, a far difference from the 365 days per year that we are used to. The climate of Gliese 581c is relatively warm. With its distance...
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...colors and both genders" (Oprah). At the time, in 1992, Fisher shocked people as a wealthy, upper-middle class white women that was HIV-positive. She used herself to show people that even if they thought they were untouchable, they were just as vulnerable as she was. Fisher was not only "safe" from HIV (Fisher, 1992). She went on to account for every additional factor that would stereotypically exempt her from contracting the virus when she said, "because I was not hemophiliac, I was not at risk. Because I was not gay, I was not at risk. Because I did not inject drugs, I was not at risk." The bottom line was, she was "off limits" to its effects, but she got it anyway (Fisher, 1992). This demonstrated to the audience that they were as much at risk as the next person, because AIDS does not discriminate. She identified with the audience's humanity several times, even repetitively asking them, "are you human? Because people with HIV have not entered some alien state of being. They are human." She evoked their sense of responsibility on behalf of their shared humanity with...
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...I Swear You Don’t Have Ebola---Just Small Pox Smallpox is a disease that was reportedly found in humans around ten thousand years ago. Smallpox is said to be one of the most catastrophic and deadly diseases to ever attack humanity because of its fatal and infectious symptoms. The chance of death of a patient with Smallpox was up to 30% in the past. A virus similar to smallpox has been found in animals, leading experts to believe that the disease was passed from humans to animals. Once this similar virus was passed from animals to humans, it mutated into a disease deadly to humans. Smallpox is now said to be gone forever, but at the time that it invaded the human race, it killed billions of people. In order to fully understand Smallpox, one...
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...Name: Professor: Title: Date of Submission: Origin and Spread Ebola Background According to WHO, Ebola which is a serious, acute illness if untreated is very fatal (WHO.Int). Ebola virus disease first appearance was in two simultaneous outbreaks back in 1976. One was in Yambuku in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the other in Nzara, Sudan. The name Ebola sprout from Yambuku neighbors a river known as Ebola River. In 2014, the first case was notified in March which is the most recent and is still a current outbreak in the West of Africa. Ideally, this is the most complex and largest Ebola outbreak since the 1976 first appearance. The numbers of deaths are the highest (WHO.Int). The spread began in Guinea before spreading to the bordering nations including Liberia and Sierra Leone, then to Nigeria through one traveller on air, and to Senegal through on traveller on land. Ebola hemorrhagic fever also the Ebola virus disease or simply Ebola is a disease of primates including humans whose cause is Ebola viruses. Fever, headaches, muscle pain and sore throats are the initial signs and symptoms that develop between two days and three weeks upon contracting the virus. Decreased function of the kidney and liver then follow in addition to rash, diarrhea and vomiting. At this time, it is likely to observe both external and internal bleeding. The risk of death in relation to Ebola is significantly high. Killings between 25% and 90% are recorded of those infected which extends to...
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