...the Popularity of Zombieland Thesis: The major historical changes in America today have made the time right for Zombieland to be produced by the development of video games, clothing lines, make-up designs, and adrenaline rush in horror films in our generation. From George Romero’s (1968) film, Night of the Living Dead zombie movie to present day zombie movie, Ruben Fleischer (2009) film, Zombieland, zombie movies have become very popular because people want to experience a zombie apocalypse. The success of this film delivers entertainment, interests, and desires for the people that are big fans of zombies with survival guidelines throughout the movie on how to survive a zombie apocalypse. Balaji, Murali. Thinking Dead: What the Zombie Apocalypse Means. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2013. Print. This book discusses how over time zombies have become popular to American culture. Zombies became so popular that it “has a way of seizing upon our anxieties and apprehensions and delivering content that reflects these fears while still entertaining us” (17). Present day America calls the entertainment of a film, adrenaline. In this case “the time is ripe for the rebirth of zombie culture” (17), to deliver the adrenaline to all audience, especially the younger generation. The facts from this book will be useful to my essay since it describes the adrenaline they deliver to the audience to be entertained and who they target their entertainment on, the younger generation. Boluk, Stephanie...
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...international relations and the theories they use to understand the world. If the dead begin to rise from the grave and attack the living, what thinking would -- or should -- guide the human response? How would all those theories hold up under the pressure of a zombie assault? When should humans decide that hiding and hoarding is the right idea? Serious readers might dismiss these questions as fanciful, but concern about flesh-eating ghouls is manifestly evident in today's popular culture. Whether one looks at films, video games, or books, the genre is clearly on the rise. According to conservative estimates, more than a third of all zombie films ever made were released in the past decade. Zombies are clearly a global phenomenon: Beyond the United States, there have been Australian, British, Chinese, Czech, German, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mexican, and Norwegian zombie flicks. Zombie video games, including the Resident Evil and Left 4 Dead franchises, have also proliferated, attracting huge followings globally. And zombies have clawed their way to the top of book best-seller lists in the last decade with literature ranging from how-to survival manuals to reinterpretations of early Victorian fiction. "In the world of traditional horror, nothing is more popular right now than zombies," one book editor gleefully told USA Today last year. "The living dead are here to stay." This zombie boom is -- and should be -- taken seriously. For some international relations thinkers...
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...The Global Post-Apocalypse Response Paper The foreign movie I watched is a French zombie movie called ‘La Horde’. I had actually watched this movie a few times with subtitles and when reading the assignment immediately thought of this film. This one review written by Felix Vasquez Jr mentions how it is not quite the same as other zombie movies due to lack of emphasis on the characters. ““La Horde” is one of the many zombie flicks that just doesn’t understand a good zombie movie has to be about the people in and around it and less about the zombies”. In this movie the zombies take center stage and you cannot get into the story. However it also mentions in this review how all the audience wants to see in a movie like this is gore. “Necks are chomped on, bodies pile up, and the zombies all look menacing as they gather around the high rise prepared to feast on whatever crosses their paths” This movie is based in Paris in 2008 around the exact same time the economy fell and the EU had to bail out fellow countries of the European union to the financial situation. This movie could be in context to what happened during the financial crisis. The characters in this movie done whatever they had to do to survive and to keep their friends alive. It also shows that sometimes you need make unlikely alliances to achieve something and in this case the police had to make an unlikely alliance to stay alive. The plot revolves around a group of policemen who embark on a mission seeking...
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...The role of the American Red Cross would be vital to the well-being of all citizens in the case of a zombie apocalypse. The Red Cross is a disaster relief organization filled with volunteers genuinely concerned with the health and safety of those affected. Our priorities would mainly be transporting the injured and tending to their needs. By following our recommended procedure, we can keep casualties at a minimum. The American Red Cross will help you out in a variety of ways in this zombie outbreak. The American Red Cross takes care of many of the health aspects of the situation. We help with aiding with your basic medical needs such as zombie bites and scratches. We help do this by sending out emergency response vehicles. These emergency response vehicles...
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...became so popular to pop culture in recent years. I will explore the beginnings of vampire lore, as well as the mythology associated with zombies. I will also go into depth on the various literary identities that the two have produced throughout this generation. The essay will continue with a discussion on the most recent and ever so popular vampire films Twilight and “Let me in” and the TV series True Blood and why the latest X and Y generations seems to lack the fear people once had of these blood thirsty creatures. I will also discuss several of the most recent Zombie movies and how they’ve changed over the last two decades. Although zombie literature does not frequent the shelves of libraries and book stores, as do vampire literature. There is a zombie fiction novel written in 2006 called World War Z by Max Brooks, which became an immediate hit and a New York Times bestseller. Brooks had also authored the cult hit “The Zombie Survival Guide”, an exhaustively researched, zombie-themed parody of pop-fiction survival guide. I will also include sources indicating the US Government’s interest in zombie fiction and how the Center for Disease Control (CDC) has made use of this pop culture phenomenon to better inform the public on disaster preparation. In my conclusion, I will argue that the generation Xrs’ fascination with zombies, vampires and all things undead related is part of a search for immortality. In an age of increasing narcissism, identity crisis and denial...
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...AS Media Studies Assignment AS Media Studies Assignment Week 2, Task, page 15 (Genre) Description of Law and order In the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses such as rape, torture, pedophilia and child-abuse are dealt with in New York City, by a special unit of detectives of the police department known as the Special Victims Unit. These crimes are then passed on to the courtroom for prosecution. Description of Law and order In the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses such as rape, torture, pedophilia and child-abuse are dealt with in New York City, by a special unit of detectives of the police department known as the Special Victims Unit. These crimes are then passed on to the courtroom for prosecution. Law and order is a crime-based drama, with a mixture of ‘court-room’ and ‘detective’, TV series, mainly shown on channel five. By reading the description of the show, I immediately realised that this is a show that is based around the world of crime and how the crime is dealt with within the city of New York. It starts from finding who the criminal is and then we follow the story up to the prosecution in the court room. Words such as ‘courtroom, ‘rape’, ‘victim’, ‘detective’ immediately grabs the reader’s attention, giving us the impression of the type of genre this TV series is. The picture that accompanies the description also shows that the genre of this series is crime as the main detective is pulling out her police badge and is what the...
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...mental health condition that is triggered by a traumatic event that was either experienced or even witnessed. This causes complications with adjusting to normal daily behavior due to having flashbacks, nightmares, and severe anxiety, as well as uncontrollable thoughts about the disturbing event. The next line of the chorus, “Zombie, zombie, zombie” is a reference to the campy creatures of horror that are usually associated with mindless violence. The word “zombie” could also associate with a person’s behavior that their responses are wooden, listless, or seemingly automatic. Both of the definitions correlate with how some soldiers are dehumanized from all the violence they encounter and “become zombies.” The next line is a question for the “zombie.” “What’s in your head” is a statement asking what the soldiers were thinking when they decided to go into war. Were they making their own decisions consciously or unconsciously; or were they turned into “zombies” who mindlessly obey what they are told. “In your head/ zombie, zombie, zombie” is repeated again, asking the soldier if they have any human qualities left. The start of the fourth verse is a continuation of the second line of the song. “Another mother’s breakin’” is an allusion of how precious a mother/child relationship is, and also how much immense pain was caused due to the violence of the war. The next line is a change from pain to living without a purpose in life; the “heart is taken over” is part of the autonomic...
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...Oct. 26, 2015 Summary/ Reflection Today I went to and the first place that I was sent to was the Gym. When I first arrived in the gym the children, well the third graders, had already began with their class. I introduced myself to Coach Merritt and explained to him that I was from TCC and I was there to do observations. One of the first things that I noticed walking into the gym was that were two students standing at the front next to Coach Merritt in charge of the warm-ups. They called out the exercises and counted them out for their fellow classmates. They did ten of each of exercise which were: push-ups and sit-ups then they would hold the push up position for seconds, after that they would do jumping jacks and while they were doing those jumping jacks they were spelling out something that I could not catch and did not have the chance to ask what they were spelling out. The students then huddled up in front of Coach Merritt where he would give them the instructions on what they would be doing for the class period. He explained to them that they would not be going outside because it had been raining and it was muddy outside. So next he told the students that they will be playing indoor soccer and gave them the options of how they would choose their teams and those options were girl versus boys, teacher versus teacher (him and his assistant), and then they had the choice of choosing their own teams, which of course is the one that all the classes ended up choosing. They...
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...intellectual have been extremely popular; But why? The first horror movie was made in 1896 and was called Le Manoir du Diable. It was directed by a pioneer of early cinema named Georges Melies. Since then, a countless number of horror movies have been made. Early horror movies were mostly about zombies and supernatural killers. For example, but later horror movies became more about bad things happening to real people. This made horror films even scarier because they were no longer about vampires and zombies; they were about real people that audiences could relate to. When I was a little girl I watched Nightmare on Elm Street. I was swallowed by fear and anticipation. I found myself entertained by quite a few parts of the movie that made me view myself differently for the moment. I wondered how cool it would be to enter a person dream for the mere thrill ride. The fear that I once felt had somehow taken another form, I felt emotionally stronger as I continued to watch the movie I did so with an open mind. Becoming move familiar with the next move of the movie, I was able to prepare myself for what appeared to the naked eye as the unexpected. The entertainment came from the crowd response, their pale faces from fear, their racing hearts from suspense; it was as if I was entertained by their horror, as Freddy was by his victim’s in the movie. After the duration of the movie my point of view had changed about horror movies. I found myself more incline to want to watch them for...
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...Crisis Management Communication Plan There are unquestionably infinite configurations of crisis situations to be prepared for, real or imagined. Unsurprisingly, the surge of zombies in mainstream society has granted credibility to an idea that a zombie apocalypse might manifest. The proliferation associated with this unique theory has encouraged scores of citizens to contemplate, “How do I ready for a zombie apocalypse?” Even though zombies are hype, they effortlessly link within our imagination of disaster and emergency preparedness as seen in the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention advertising maneuver in 2011. The agency trusted it to be an excellent stimulus to get the public to pull together for an emergency. One must be prepared for terrorist/zombie attacks, natural disasters or pandemics. This paper will target the communication plan employed in a health care organization during a crisis management. Moreover, it will include how communication dynamics differ in times of disaster, three solutions to reduce stress during a crisis and three approaches to resolve potential communication challenges. Disasters are the ultimate test of emergency response capability (The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011). A health care organization needs a crisis communications plan to successfully handle unexpected and unstable conditions of extreme danger. No matter what the role is, nurse, physician, emergency preparedness coordinator or facilities manager — everyone...
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...days I mean the last days of civilization not life; itself. What was faced was hell. Everyone went ape shit insane. Everyone was killing and raping each other into oblivion, because we were under attack by creatures that was so beyond our understanding! Geez, there were many names given to these undead. Some called them demons, others called them lost souls. With all these names, I found only one that was truly worthy; Zombies. It was a simple word. At the same time it was the most complicated word to enter any human language. I mean just think about it... You say that word to anyone before the outbreak and what would they think of? They would, think of those horror movies or comic books where, for no reason what so ever, zombies appear all around the globe in an instance. That's not how it happened for us. There were signs for over two months. It's just that no one took the time to put the pieces together. I kind of did. I knew there was something more than what we were told about the riots and outbreaks, but I never even thought of the possibility that zombies were the cause of all our troubles. We were all caught off guard. You know, I never did believe that humanity deserved this. We have done... a great deal of horrible things to our own specie, our brothers and sisters....
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...functions since it is associated with experience. Physicalism cannot simply explain experience because there is a subjective aspect to it, where it depends on personal feelings and an individual’s perspective. As a result, the activities and events that occur in our brain can alter our mental experiences, thus altering our physical experiences. This supports Chalmers’ idea of dualism because mental processes and the external world are separate, however, they naturally interact with one another. To back up his argument, he mentions “philosophical zombies” which are “atom-to atom identical” with conscious human beings, however, they lack consciousness. This triumphs the physicalist perspective because if our consciousness was materialistic, it could simply be removed. However, Chalmers believes that consciousness, thoughts, and information cannot be restricted to the domain of physics and neuroscience since these hypotheses assume that we are all zombies (Chalmers 436). He further entertains this idea by stating that the metaphor of God creating a materialistic world such as atoms and matter, could not possibly be made with consciousness as well. Therefore, it would have to be a separate creation on its own and cannot be reduced to physical processes, such as the brain although consciousness is associated with it. To find a solution to the hard of experiences and consciousness, we must construct an bridge to cross the “explanatory gap” which lies between physical functions and mental experiences...
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...Consciousness and its Place in Nature David J. Chalmers 1 Introduction1 Consciousness fits uneasily into our conception of the natural world. On the most common conception of nature, the natural world is the physical world. But on the most common conception of consciousness, it is not easy to see how it could be part of the physical world. So it seems that to find a place for consciousness within the natural order, we must either revise our conception of consciousness, or revise our conception of nature. In twentieth-century philosophy, this dilemma is posed most acutely in C. D. Broad’s The Mind and its Place in Nature (Broad 1925). The phenomena of mind, for Broad, are the phenomena of consciousness. The central problem is that of locating mind with respect to the physical world. Broad’s exhaustive discussion of the problem culminates in a taxonomy of seventeen different views of the mental-physical relation.2 On Broad’s taxonomy, a view might see the mental as nonexistent (“delusive”), as reducible, as emergent, or as a basic property of a substance (a “differentiating” attribute). The physical might be seen in one of the same four ways. So a fourby-four matrix of views results. (The seventeenth entry arises from Broad’s division of the substance/substance view according to whether one substance or two is involved.) At the end, three views are left standing: those on which mentality is an emergent characteristic of either a physical substance or a neutral substance,...
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...To my dearest family who have waited so patiently for my response, Mère! I have missed you so. And you, too, papa. I desperately miss Susu; I wish I had brought that little furry bundle of joy along with me, but alas, she always was a trouble-making pup. I have much to tell you about this strange world - yes, world, as it seems so alien and different that it is best described as a whole other world! Octobre is such an odd month here. As soon as the first of the month arrives, there are so many ghostly figures upon clothes and even upon pastries. Now it is le 31 Octobre. The costumes! It is only six in the evening yet I have already seen three little girls with fake fabric wings strapped to their backs. Oh, and a princess with her knightly brother. Back home in Lyon, there were only vampires and Grim Reapers dotting the streets. I do not understand why they have such ghastly images of the living dead (what they call "zombies") that are still rotting on bags and shirts when some children will dress like something out of a fairytale!...
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...1 A .It is important for a company to understand the threat environment because company should be able to defend themselves and protect their assets from the threat environment and safe themselves from the attacks. 2 B. Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability 3 C. Compromises on successful attacks breaches are synonyms of incidents. 4 D. incident is a successful attack ie threat plus successful attempt. 5 E. Counter measures are the tools used to stop attacks. 6 F. Synonyms safeguards, protections and controls. 7 G. the goal of the counter measures safeguard protect and control company or firm’s assets. 8 H.The goal of the counter measure is to protect safeguard and control. 9 I. Types of Countermeasures preventive, detective and corrective. This assignment is part 1 of 3 of the Course Project. The assignment is to create the Project Synopsis/Overview Statement. Do note, this is a 'formal' document. It may contain the following: * The name of the Project * The Sponsor/Customer/Vendor/ . . . . (the major Stakeholders who would have benefited from the Project * The Scope of Work, Requirements etc. * Constraints such as Cost, Time, Quality etc. that have been imposed * Criteria to determine the success or failure of the Project * Any other details that are important to introduce the Project * Any other details that are of relevance to help plan and execute the Project * etc Having said that, here is a possible...
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