Personal Narrative: The New World

I was incredibly excited. School was starting tomorrow. The first few days were just icebreakers, learning everyone’s names, blah blah blah. Then the real learning began. Of course, teachers started to write our lessons on the board. I started to notice a few changes in what I was seeing. The words they were writing were just...black lines! I didn’t pay much attention to it, I just asked my friends what the board said. As the year went on, it affected me more and more, especially in math. I saw a 2 as a 6, and and an A as an 8.

The object given to me was the heart of a boy who I was fond of for quite some time. We spent the summer nights frolicking through green pastures of open land ready to take on the world like an explorer ready to find a new adventure; now what I look back on to be no more than a barren field filled with patches of weeds poking their heads above ground, hoping to catch even the smallest array of sunlight. I spent most of my summer nights with this boy, let us call him James.

Zombies or cannibalistic humanoids are popular among the horror genre of myths and legends. As a result, they have became dominant in the pop culture with their appearance in numerous iconic films and shows. Within these legends, stories or films, zombies have been depicted in different versions. They can either be quick and cunningly vicious or slow and mindless. Some stories even portray them having a smart efficient society where they utilize a strange sense of teamwork. Although all of these versions have its comparisons, zombies always end up having a relation to the infamous virus that infects

Only this would happen to me I think to myself as I stumble around this dreadful forest. Today I decided to take a nice peaceful walk in the forest listening to the birds chirping a melody and the sun beaming down on me but my klutz of a self just had to get lost. I have been walking around aimlessly for hours now and the sun has gone down so it has gotten quite chilly and dark out. My phone happens to have no service out here, I can not even call my family to let them know where I am, they must be worried sick. To calm myself down I take a deep refreshing breath the air around me, smelling distinctly of pine and mildew

It is the summer of 2018 and there is still an ongoing Syrian war. As of now there are around one million Syrians coming into a new world, joining the Americas. I am kind of excited to possibly bring a new person into my life. However with school starting back up, it might be very difficult to juggle both new and old challenges. The new world being with the Syrian refugees and the old being my normal school life.

Scientifically the way people think about zombies are completely incorrect and unreasonable. The chances for a zombie apocalypse are very slim, but there is a way. By viruses, in a very complicated way, viruses may lead to the cause of humanity’s possible doom. Most viruses use the retrograde axonal transport system for travel throughout the body. Using these nerves, the virus could enter anywhere from a body to the brain, but for this specific virus, it would enter through a nose for easier access to the correct parts of the brain. The virus would have to destroy very specific parts of the brain, without damaging it further to make a person reach a zombie-like state. The frontal lobe, amygdala, ventromedial hypothalamus, would be the main receivers of the attack. Causing the person to obtain an urge to eat flesh, and they would completely forget about their family and friends.

Zombies are organisms in human form that possess extensive damages and abnormalities to the brain due to the exposure in a “zombie virus”. Zombies can be categorized as an infectious disease or sickness that can be transmitted very easily through a bite or through the air that we breathe. Timothy Verstynen a neuroscientist and a professor of psychology defined zombies as a disorder called consciousness deficit hypoactivity disorder or CDHD “which is the loss of rational, voluntary and conscious behavior…inability to coordinate motor or linguistic behavior” (s1). Through the virus, zombies acquire behaviors like “hyper aggression, memory deficits, movement dysfunction, language disruptions, and visual recognition impairments”(S1). These behaviors

“German, can you share with the class on what your opinion about the topic is?" - sentences like this is what shut me down as I went through an adventure called life. Growing up, I have always been a person who was terrified of public speaking. This fear was a giant brick wall in my life, blocking me from opportunities at school and outside of school. Opportunities such as giving my opinion on a specific topic or meeting new people. This brick wall was soon to be destroyed.

As I walked behind a red bricked wall thru a gigantic hole, there was a whole different world. A world of imagination, magic, and creativity, walking into this small little town I notice the smell of brewing butter beer, which made my mouth watered on the other hand while looking thru old chipped painted windows and seeing chocolate frogs, as well as Bertie Botts jelly beans, made my mouth water even more. Moving on, I looked up I saw dark yellow, pink, and blue crooked buildings with windows full of darkness. Shifting myself to a different position I saw a slanted cream color column with a narrow door, above the doorway carved in stone, it said Gringotts Bank at the top

In relation to the environment, my worldview tends to be more ecocentric. I believe in both preservation and conservation, depending on the situation. For example, there is no doubt that, if an alternative is not available, we must use specific resources while still keeping in mind the conservation ethic.

One of my strength is meaning new people. I like to meet people and go to lunch with them. But there are something's that I don't like about meeting new people. One thing is that I can get close to someone. I hate when I get close to someone and they leave. I remember when I moved to Jacksonville, Fla I did not have any friends. I meet a couple of friends two months later. One of the friends that I meet was Thomas. Me and Thomas would go to church together, movies, lunch, shooping and etc. Then about a year later he gat married and move. I miss him, after he left my life changed. I have friends but I don't have a best friend anymore. Am going through the same thing name with Jessika. I gat a new best friends she is moving in August.

Growing up in a country on the other side of the world from my birthplace and extended family has been difficult in many instances. At age five, I was forced to leave everything that I knew behind and move to a completely new world, and in the past twelve years, I’ve only visited Bangladesh once. I’ve had to miss weddings, births, and even funerals. However, this challenge has also resulted in a very deep bond between me and my immediate family members, which I’m profoundly grateful for. They are my only blood relations in the states, and the mere idea of leaving them pains me.

These so called “zombies” are actually an effect of a fungal infection or a parasitic worm.

If zombie movies have taught me anything, it 's that a zombie outbreak can happen at any minute. Who knows how the outbreak will start: maybe the outbreak begins from a fragment of meteorite carrying some disease being hurled onto the earth, a government experiment gone wrong or a hell has ran out of room. No matter how it happens, it’s up to you to prepare and to be ready for when such outbreak occurs.

The idea of zombies can be traced all the way back to 8th century. Voodoo priests used black magic to possess their victims or so they say. They actually applied a deadly poison from a porcupine fish known as