Personal Narrative: Rick Grimes

It’s a dark and cloudy day at Salome High School. Not a single living being to be seen, why is that? You see it started out as a normal Monday morning; I was grabbing my breakfast from the lunch lady when she sneezed as loud as a horn on my food. I was appalled and walked away; however, everyone else seemed to enjoy the snot filled waffles. I decide to take a nap in the library until the first bell rang, little did I know it wasn’t going to. I awake to a loud thump outside, I ponder the time I spent sleeping. When I opened up the blinds I was shocked to see all the blood on the window. I know exactly what this is, the zombie apocalypse. You see, scientist have been predicting the apocalypse for a few months now and I’ve been preparing. I grabbed

Out of every Phi Theta Kappa member who has contributed to our Honors in Acton project Tim Cooper has undoubtedly worked the most diligently. The premise of our project was to explain why zombies are so prevalent in pop culture and how it could be tied to a post 911 crisis mindset. Tim embraced the topic and worked tirelessly through the entire process. He began by conducting research. Every officer was assigned two articles to submit for Tim’s analysis and after he read through these articles he began organizing committees to plan out a human vs. zombies survival night. Three committees assigned to plan out the rules, mission, and supplies needed for the event.

This week has been one of hardest weeks I have had to endure since the break of Jeffery and I. I have not been able to focus on absolutely anything. My children do not notice that I am going through this pain, at least I don’t think that they have noticed. I am in church praying and hoping that God will make a way for me soon, but as of right now, I am wearing an artificial smile on my face to hind the grief I am subdued to everyday.

Rick and the governor are both natural-born leaders. Their decisiveness, focus, and confidence are all part of what attracts their followers to them. Pre-apocalypse, Rick was a police officer in his home town and showed enough initiative and dedication to get elected as the Sheriff. He faced many illogical decisions daily that caused him to think quickly. The Governor worked in an office, which instilled organization skills into his work and moral ethics. This gained him the confidence to make well thought out strategies for defeating other groups and taking their supplies. These

Rick Grimes exhibits intelligence throughout the series as he leads his group of people after the zombie apocalypse. But his intelligence is at its best when he outmaneuvers the Governor (twice) and Neagan. Rick Grimes proves his courage by going into Atlanta alone even after Morgan informs him that is not a good idea. Also, when he begs Negan to kill him and not his son Carl. Rick Grimes demonstrates that he is a strong and responsible leader when he first makes contact with the group his wife and son are a part of and despite being in a coma when the apocalypse started people immediately looked to Rick to save them and keep them

I can still remember everything from the first day of the outbreak. We were sitting next to each other on the couch, like we did every night. The television was playing something that I wasn’t watching and we were both dozing off to sleep when an emergency broadcast started. The presenter on the screen reported of a virus that had evolved from only infecting insects to infecting humans. She talked about words like ‘apocalypse’ and ‘zombies’ only the host of the virus turns numb and mindless, not much like the zombies from our movies we watch together.

Whether you think about it or not, something is this world could happen that would change your life forever. Therefore, it could be life threatening or maybe just leave you with scars. Whenever someone speaks of a life threatening event like, a zombie apocalypse, people tend to blow it off. Could it really happen? Will an infection spread across the world transforming humans into the living, dead? You will need to be prepared to protect your friends and family; however, you will also need the mind set to not be afraid to leave one behind. You will always have to be ready for the worse situations. The novel, “World War Z,” written by Max Brooks leaves readers with a lot of knowledge about zombies. Although many may not believe in a zombie apocalypse happening, “World War Z,” provides zombie knowledge and many survival tips; however, will those tips help a human survive this horrifying act.

In life, it always helps to feel included or to have something to relate to. Mine just so happened to be a television show. I’d like to think I identify most with the characters from “One Tree Hill”. In this show, it begins while the kids are in still high school, juniors actually. Later in the seasons it continues on with their life outside of school as adults. The choices the characters made throughout the series and the many challenges they faced began to relate to me in different ways. Not so much the trials they faced exactly but with the way the characters handled them in general. As cheesy as it sounds, this is why the show has so much meaning to me now.

It all happened so fast I didn't see it coming,a zombie was in Texas. It all started because a madman made a drug that people injected into their arms thinking it was a flu shot.. He made the medicine and gave it to well know suppliers in massive quantities. The infected could bite others and infect them. The infected spread faster than anyone could have imagined. The infection spread all around the united states. My family and I knew we could hid from the infected in underground bunkers.

The History Channel’s presentation on the history of zombies provided a wealth of information that was both informative and entertaining. The origin of the zombie is far more than a simple fictitious story about shambling ghouls that pose little threat. Everything from the creation of zombies by viruses to the concept of a relentless horde that threatens the destruction of civilization has a basis in historic events (Zombies: A living History, 2011).

Nine years before thier big adventure, young Quentin Jacobson and Margo Roth Speigelman are going to a park to play. They find something very unexpected, a dead body decomposing on the base of a tree. Quentin wants to foreget the whole thing after telling this parents, but Margo wants to know why the man killed himself. Fastforwarding to their senior year in highschool, Margo sneaks over to Quentins (also known as Q), window to ask for his help. He drives her around to get revenge on her cheating boyfriend and her backstabbing friends. They spend all night vandalising houses and sneaking into SeaWorld. He spends the night falling in love. They laugh and Q finally feels like him and Margo really have a chance of becoming friends again. But after their fun night, she doesn't

This little devil like boy was featured in a hilarious comedy that I unfortunately missed out on until I was thirteen years old, because my parents believed it to be too profoundly inappropriate for a young mind like mine. Me being me, I continued watching it anyways. This character has always stood out to me as my favorite. He never behaved how he was supposed to, nor did he seem to love anyone, but that’s what made me like him even more. He’s always making up evil plans to annihilate his mother or ruin others lives. He loves to create new weapons and technology that will help aid in his plan to rule the world. He even has a time machine that he uses to get himself into some unfortunate situations. From completely changing the entire

I decided to do my adaptation of one of the few scenes where Rick is by himself, and turned it into a tale of a deranged voyeur who will unknowingly atone for his own mistakes. I chose to write in third person, because I find it is relatively easier for me to write a story when I don't have to talk from first person perspective. The idea of me causing a person to meet an untimely demise, then being forced to witness the atrocity, and being unable to alter the outcome, strikes fear into my very bones. I honestly can't see myself working with a group in order to survive a zombie apocalypse, because I don't have much patience for other people's shortcomings. Throughout my life, I have found myself in a lot of scenarios where the incompetence of others causes me to shut down and the plans we start to set in motion quickly dissolve. I can have a short fuse when it comes to making mistakes because I am a control freak and a perfectionist; I have a low tolerance for mediocrity, and it affects a lot of my personal relationships. The way that I started out the story actually mirrors a recurring insecurity I have towards being abandoned. The moment where I decide to kill my friend who had become a zombie actually made me choke up a bit because that friend is very dear to me.

In sixth grade I had a science teacher whose name was Mr. Snyder. He had a passion to teach young students the unlimited and extraordinary details of science. He would not only speak to us about the facts and theories of science but he would always demonstrate anything that could be demonstrated. Because he was a visual teacher my learning experience grew and so did my fascination. His interest in science was astounding to me as a sixth grader. He was also very humorous. For example, one day in class we were learning about electricity and how it can transfer through those who are linked by hands. Mr. Snyder made us all hold hands and experience electricity moving through us and have the ends of our hair fly up. Another example of his humor is when we learned about the tongue and how

Cindy was totally devastated when she heard that the airliner her husband,Jeff, was piloting had crashed.The aircraft crashed in between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean in Panama. The isthmus between the two bodies of water made the search mission for her husband seem impossible. Jeff did survive the impact of the crash and the natives witnessed him waltz out of the airliner and onto the land. Once he regained his balance, Jeff made three small fires into the shape of a triangle for rescuing purposes.Since Jeff was a graduate of Outdoor and Environmental Education,he knew how to survive in this remote location. In order to keep his calorie intake up, he ate one kilogram of guava every four hours. He did catch a fish but did not know