Keelan OverbeyAndrea MacCaffree-WallaceFundamental of English03 March 2015  The Zombies are Alive and Well     The  Harvard essay by Gino Del Guercio,” The Secrets of Haiti’s Living Dead” describing, the adventure and exploration of Wade Davis, a Harvard botanist, on the tiny island using scientific ways and cash to prove the existence of zombies, and the formula used within a voodoo subculture. The Haitian people use a secret commission to govern social deviance by using poison to place people in a state of living dead whereby, a funeral actually takes place for the drugged individual including a proper burial.  Del Guercio describes, how the  graves are then uncovered by the commission and placed with nearby plantation owners to do menial labor for the duration of their lives in an altered state. The Zombies of Haiti serve a societal purpose to keep down crime, and the unusual deviances from the social norms in which, these poor people have developed over 100's  of years. In a general comparison to the zombies of  Haiti and the zombies in the " New Dawn of the Dead" movie. The zombies of the movies are made for strictly entertainment purposes and are changed to fit a mold of the producer and writer. The zombies are far fetched whereby; zombies suddenly appear and change humans into more zombies. On the other hand Del Guercio reveals, through Wade Davis, a real voodoo culture on the Isle of Haiti in which, zombies are made of everyday inhabitants for crimes against society and places fear in the average population to know that any member of your family can be placed in a state of zombification through a drug from the puffer fish. The zombie is sold to the plantations of Haiti where, he moves throughout his day slow and lethargically performing his duties for his new plantation master. In the Harvard article "The Secrets of Haiti's Living Dead" by Gino Del Guercio describes, "Included in the second formula was a dried fish, a species of puffer or blow fish,common to most parts of the world, many of these fish contain a powerful poison,known as tetrodotoxin. One of the most powerful poisons known to man", but the zombies of the "The New Dawn of the Dead" are bitten turning humans into a morphed humans that move very fast, with a huge hunger for human flesh, move in herds and these zombies have tons of energy without any cultural significance for becoming being turned into a lifeless creature. In conclusion, the existence of zombies are alive on the isle of Haiti and in the movies, and have a reason to exist today, whether zombies exist for your entertainment value or an effective form of crime control. The zombies are in used to fool populations in very different ways. The most obvious is to slow down social deviance of a poor and superstitious people in a third world country, and the movies fool us into paying for a third rate movie with a possible end of the world scenario; in the end the comparisons are stark in contrast and material content. The commissions of Haiti should learn proper ways of proper crime control and social deviance,without drugging and enslaving the perpetrators. The movies should be forced to explain how the alpha zombie was made, and the thinking population may be fooled into becoming true believers.