...to surviving the zombie apocalypse. Initially, shelter must be established. A well concealed building, such as a prison, is an ideal shelter from zombies. It is large enough to accommodate a large body of survivors who are hopefully willing to join the fight against the army of the living dead. Gates, fences, and large open areas surrounding the facility make it easier to locate and fend off any zombies that try to breach the perimeter. The solid structure of the building itself will help further deter intruders. A high outlook post within the shelter will also need to be quartered; from which, a designated “spotter” can survey the surroundings for any posing danger. Additionally and unquestionably, food and water are necessities whether zombies are seeking your flesh or not. In order to maintain proper health and nutrition while fighting the undead, food, water, and any other desired supplies will need to be collected and stored. In the midst of the out breaking chaos sprung from the apocalypse, the necessary supplies can be looted from stores or other sources. A large stock of each item is recommended so that it may last an extended period of time. Acquiring such supplies is a dangerous yet essential task. A thorough plan of execution may come in handy to organize the quantity of each desired supply. Though it may seem unethical and promptly illegal to loot and raid for your needs, survival requires determination. The pure drive to live through the zombie apocalypse must...
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...monetary policy status quo. Yet a few central bank watchers were more surprised by a new idea the central bank seemingly suggested: a negative interest rate. The Fed's closely watched "dot plot" revealed that at least one committee member floated the idea that a fed funds rate below zero might be an appropriate target for the remainder of this year and next. The forecast is widely thought to be the work of Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota, a non-voting member of the committee who is known for his dovish views. In her press conference last week, Fed Chair Janet Yellen made clear that a negative federal funds rate "was not something that we considered very seriously at all today." Read MoreThe Fed has to deal with its own zombie apocalypse However, in an environment where prices are persistently low, negative rates mean that businesses and consumers are essentially paid to borrow money, which could serve as an important stimulative tool in times of crisis. The idea has been floated in the U.K., and tried in the euro zone and Switzerland. Suffice to say, the fact that the concept is being floated in the U.S. is striking to some. After all, the Fed has spent years noting that its benchmark rate is at the "zero lower bound," which forces it to take other actions in order to stimulate the economy, (i.e. purchase bonds) since rates can't be lowered any further. Yet what if that bound is not a bound at all, but a Rubicon waiting to be crossed? From...
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...Aaron English 1 Lemon 1/10/13 Ancillary Charles Klosterman’s “Zombie Life” explains his theory that technology turns you into a zombie, and you only have 2 options, take a stand and fight or sit and get sucked in. Klosterman an American author and essayist which has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, and The Washington Post, and has written books focusing on American popular culture believes that technology is changing our way of enjoying life by depending on a device to do our communicating for us. Klosterman’s idea that technology makes us zombie like is sadly true. If you have experienced textaphrenia-thinking you have heard or felt a new text message vibration when there is no message, then you have fallen in the category that Klosterman is talking about and don’t worry, you aren’t alone. Can you imagine yourself without your phone, or without a computer, what about car? Well just think without any of those things you would think that living life would be boring and dull. You might be right but you could be wrong. Imagine yourself living hundreds of years ago where almost no sign of technology existed, then what would you do? You would do things in person instead of over the phone, you would interact with other humans who exist, and you even might live a happier life due to not having to deal with the downsides of what technology has brought us. But some might disagree and say that technology is good and makes life easier and more practical which...
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...(invisibles), and zanj (angels) inhabit the unseen world"(McAlister). The mythical world that they are indicating is called Ginen. It is described as a 'cosmic Africa'. Followers of Voudou believe that people die in two ways, natural causes like age or sickness and unnatural causes like murder. Unnatural deaths prohibit unity with their ancestors and must linger at its grave eternally to be snatched up by a boko, a powerful Vodou sorcerer to be bottled up and used to control a corpse. The boko aren't necessarily evil, "a hardworking man might prefer to continue working rather than lie waiting in the ground, especially if he is used by the boko to help with healing magic." But shitfy boko could use its magic to purposely kill a man and erect a zombie from it it do its bidding of evil...
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...Zombicide is a cooperative zombie game in which each player takes the role of a survivor in a post-apocalyptic world. Each round in broken into three phases; The movement phase, the zombie phase, and the end phase. The movement phase is where players can use their three default actions to move around the board collecting items, murdering zombies or escaping a grizzly death. During this phase players can also generate sound, a sound is created by actions such as shooting and knocking down doors. The zombie phase begins with everyone receiving a card, these cards determine the zombies that will spawn for the phase. Zombies spawn on spawn slots placed on the map, and can be one of four different types; Walkers, Runners, Fatties and The Abomination....
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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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...The Way It All Ends There I was, in my apartment, panicking, scrambling to get my things together. A backpack full of twinkies and hot pockets. Of course being a 19 year old residing in the suburbs of Detroit, I had a whole room full of guns….with no ammunition. PERFECT! I normally pack a .44 colt with me, but that’s for standard use, not against a horde of zombies. Yeah, I know what you’re thinking, ZOMBIES. I’ve had confrontations with them for 2 years. However these zombies are unlike any I’ve ever seen. These zombies could run….fast. it was almost like they had been given an extra dose of human flesh for their daily meal today. I wasn’t thinking I would ever have to use the other guns I had in my trap door basement. “My god! Where is my ammo?” I said in a very, unusual tone. “I don’t know, so don’t ask me!” I had almost forgotten my girlfriend was in the other room. By that time, she had made her way to my part of the house and was just staring at me. “Jesus Jessica, don’t creep up on me like that. You know I scare easily!” I said in a hyperventilating tone. “Well how was I supposed to know that you forgot about me?” she asked in an angry and upset tone. You see, I was never the one to act quite right in front of girls, let alone in a world full of flesh eating freaks. After that statement was said, we both fell silent for a while. “Im sorry Jess, I didn’t mean to sound mad at you, it just gets frustrating living in this world now.” “Its fine John” she said in...
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...“Empathy is generally defined as the identification with, and understanding of another person’s situation, feelings and motives”. The idea of empathy and sympathy are comparable. There are some essential differences. Sympathy would understand another person, while empathy would interconnect two people. A good author plays on the concept of empathy, originating from the Greeks “Pathos”, which had their hero decease because of a human flaw. This made the audience empathetic towards the protagonist. “What is the What” written by Dave Egger, tried to play on the same emotion of Empathy. Achak at a young age is separated from his family during the Sudanese War when Arab soldiers also known as the murahaleen savagely riad his village, Marial Bai. Fleeing on foot to Ethiopia, with other boys like him, forming “The Lost Boys”. Finally they arrive to another refugee camp in Kakuma, becoming his home. Ultimately Valentino comes to America. The story is told parallel to succeeding hardship in the United States. “What is the What” provides imaginative empathy, playing on human trauma and the ability for altruistic motives, the moral obligation to empathize with remote and disparate people. Eggers’ novel represents African culture and memoirs as a way to converse with an audience. These memoirs and representative of culture to an American audience forces a limited, bias view. Egger channels Valentino rather than embellish him. He tends to use the protagonist as a mouthpiece to provide...
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...George Romero is one of the most creative innovators of the zombie film genre and uses the scary images of zombies feeding on human beings to depict a crumbling American society. The America Romero focuses onfocused on by Romero is one where consumerism and racism have become very rampant creating inequalities (Gagne, 1987). Romero does not explicitly show the inequalities in the movies but he uses symbols to show the societies levels that perpetuate poverty, often the poor African Americans. In his interview with the NY Times, Romero said that his zombie movies are symbols of revolution, a generation consuming another. This paper will discuss the theme of consumerism/consumption as portrayed in the Romero’s films in reference...
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...Zombies and Vampires have been part of many legends, but now they are very popular with people and have many stories of their own. Many have seen horror movies, and television shows which we became scared of. The younger generation sees them as ‘awesome ’monsters. They capture our imagination and both are popular amongst adults and teenagers these days. Vampires suck human’s blood, unlike zombies that feed on human flesh. Sure both are incredible creatures that we like, but if a situation were to happen where you can become a vampire or a zombie, who would you be? Vampires and Zombies are creatures that harm humans and show many similarities and differences within them. Vampires are known to drink blood by biting on human’s necks. They have...
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...The zombie apocalypse had just broken out, and I was astonished that so many people had died on the first day. Apparently half of the world’s population had been killed by a zombie; but the peculiar thing about all these fatalities, is that all the people were standing still when they were killed. Apparently they didn’t even try and make a run for it when they heard the zombies approaching. Every single one of the deaths had been reported that way, and I, as well as others, had no idea what may have caused this phenomenon. Why would people not try and outrun something that was almost certainly trying to kill or mame you? I reached out to my colleague, who had the information first hand from civilians he had interviewed. When I had gathered...
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...Then it goes right into the novel background. It describes the emptiness in the streets of New York. Saying how global landmarks such as the Brooklyn Bridge being in shambles from the zombie outbreak. Then it goes into telling about the story's protagonist, Robert Neville. Mitchell tells us how he lives by himself, just him and his dog, looking to solve the zombie virus. The article also makes fun of the hollywood movie category as well. Kevin Mitchell says...
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...“If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t.” (Chuck Palahniuk) fits perfectly with his short story Zombie. Most of us really don’t know what we want out of life. We go to college hoping to land a job that will make us money, yet, sacrifice the passion that makes life meaningful. In the short story Zombie, many characters struggle with the lack of purpose, challenge, or opportunities of life. Out of frustration, they choose to do something drastic to get away from it all. Initially, these choices are satisfying. They become a quick fix to a much bigger problem or “A new reality begins”: a reality that again someone does not have the power to control. At least they don’t think they do. So, they get reckless. They make painful decisions that not only affect their own life, but they bleed into those around them. This imagery of frustration and depression is what Palahniuk uses to create eccentric characters in this bold short story. Chuck Palahniuk, the author of Zombie, along with many...
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...Being stuck in a mall doesn’t sound so bad does it? But being stuck in a mall with a bunch of people and a deadly virus does. “It was like reading the cast list for a twisted new reality show – Mall Quarantine: Show to you drop … Dead”(Lorentz 7). This is exactly what Lexi and her friends have to live with, every day facing their demise. They have been alienated in their towns mall with a couple hundred others by their own government to quarantine the virus. To further explain this book I am going to predicting, questioning, and connecting. With a very small security force the mall is destined to have teens trying to cause all sorts of havoc and to try to escape. This is exactly what Ryan, Drew, Marco, and Mike are all trying to do when they...
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...Part one: You are the news director of a local television station. The city council has just voted to close city parks 3 days a week to save money. Meanwhile, a major celebrity has died. The park story has greater effect on your viewers, but the celebrity death will get bigger ratings? Which do you make your lead story and why? I would be as misleading as possible in order to gain as many viewers as possible. This is a bending of the ethics that govern journalism. I would make the city parks closing seem like it was my big story. All over the air ways I would claim to have the best coverage and the most accurate reporting and really make everyone believe that it is the big story. I would then proceed to put more coverage and air time on the dead celebrity as that has a bigger news appeal with a much broader audience. Over the course of the news hour I would continue to hint towards the closing of city parks for three days of the week to save on money was the next story. It will of course the be last story we covered as it is very simple but relevant to the community. This all comes down to ratings at this point, issues unless they area about going to war or something of that big nature will continue to get the least amount of air times. The current news media have to compete with online is changing to something of a news oriented variety show that will be borderline educational. More and more people are getting their news from the internet and other sources now more than...
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