The Horror Of The Zombie Apocalypse

In the event of a zombie apocalypse everything in this world would change. Society will not be the same, the norms society once had will be different. Governments would like to establish social control but the environment would be too chaotic to control. A survival mode would be establish by everybody, everybody would be by themselves, and only protect their own. Resources would be the new currency, because paper money would no longer have value, but a resources will.

Some people believe that they are also too skilled to be killed by the undead, people believe they would be able to protect themselves if they were to come into contact with a zombie. The people that do not believe the zombie apocalypse could happen, they should be prepared if it were to happen. People prepare for tornadoes and floods because there might be a natural disaster, so this is not a different any different from one of those natural disasters. The zombie apocalypse may sound extravagant but it may occur just like a tornado or flood. It is best to be over prepared than not

Daniel Drezner book addresses how the world would potentially react should the Zombie Apocalypse start while relating it to international relations. While discussing the anarchical nature of the world, in the realist argument, he addresses the fact that it is not likely that any one state would be able to gain complete control of the world. However, if the entire world is being overtaken by a zombie plague it is not outside the realm of possibility that survivors of various nations would come together and merge with whatever power still existed and divvy out more power to that group or individual. A good old fashioned military takeover would be just the thing to create an uneasy world-wide alliance with other militaristic organizations across the world against the zombie hordes. The military would easily be able to take charge in a global catastrophe of this nature relatively quickly and with little resistance from the common people. They are one of the most disciplined and structured organizations in regards to bureaucracy and other political organizations, and would not hesitate to change the protocols of war against an end-of-the-world type of threat such as a zombie takeover. Also, military tradition and codes of conduct cross borders with significantly more similarities than do political ideologies and governmental structures, which would result in there being a much easier and more unified alliance than could ever be achieved in any other global unification setting.

First, the living vs. the zombies have an overwhelming conflict with the zombies trying to eat the living in all. The living have to find food, water, ammo and shelter to stay alive. On the general’s

Ever since the first zombie movie was created in 1932, there has been a constant rise of zombie appearances in popular media. Like with all monsters, the majority of zombie media aimed to represent a certain aspect throughout the society in question. Whereas vampires represented romanticism and Dracula represented how a certain social group was viewed during a certain time period, zombies in Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead” aimed to create a situation whereby a group of people had to survive a night together, despite their racial tensions between one another. Being the founder of all subsequent zombie films, “Night of the Living Dead” provided a guideline for zombie behavior. As time passed, more and more versions of the zombie came out, whereby zombies stopped being a plot device and turned into the focus of the film itself. The Walking Dead, currently standing as the fourth most popular TV series, took a turn from this progression and decided to imitate Romero’s take on zombies. By including zombies which simply aimed to sustain themselves by consuming the flesh of the “live,” the creators of The Walking Dead caused the remaining survivors to gather together and rely on primitive human instinct to survive. Even though the zombies in this series run rampant, they play a very minimalistic metaphoric role. Instead, by presenting the zombies as a plot device, the characters in this series were able to demonstrate their true prejudiced view on society, ultimately revealing

The terror of death typically consumes people, therefore, they must prepare for anything to happen. Not knowing what to expect can make it difficult to prepare for if the event has yet to happen. People planning to survive the zombie apocalypse must follow the process of gathering weapons, finding the items necessary to survive, and learning to use surrounding items to fight zombies.

The gruesome zombie apocalypse had broken out three days ago, and everyone was in full panic mode as we tried to figure out what to do next.

Death is the scariest part of living. Humanity has always been acutely aware of this horrible inevitability, and as a result of this almost near obsession with mortality certain practices, precautions, and even religions have been developed to ease the weary minds on death. Self- preservation, preparedness and survival motivate almost faction of human interest and behavior but becoming prepared for the conceivable anything and asking all the “what if” questions in the world still might not save humanity when analyzing how many devastating catastrophes can essentially wipe out life on this planet with ease. Not hard to imagine, mass extinction in history has happened at least five times estimated as far back as 440 million years ago at the

Preparation plays one of the most crucial parts in the survival of an apocalypse. First you must make a well structured plan, and organize a group of people that can be trusted. Then assign each person a specific role that is important in the groups survival. The main thing to be considered is the hideout location. Find a place that is away from large cities, such as, the mountains. Zombies prefer areas where there are an abundant amount of people, so it will be safer in dispersed areas. Preparing will insure you have the essential elements to outlast the

After the war against the zombies had been going on for several years, soldiers and other people were better equipped to fight because they better understood the nature of zombies. One of the ways that information spread was through a program called “Radio Free Earth”. A woman who worked for this radio station examines the originally widespread problem of lack of understanding the zombie virus when she states, “Ignorance was the enemy. Lies and superstition, misinformation, disinformation. Sometimes, no information at all. Ignorance killed billions of people. Ignorance caused the Zombie War” (Brooks 194). At the beginning of the novel, especially at the battle at Yonkers, this ignorance took a toll on the people who were fighting. One of the soldiers from this battle comments, "Why didn't they put us on the roofs? ...We could have seen the whole valley, and we would have been completely safe from attack" (Brooks 93-94). The lack of understanding of how to fight and kill the zombies not only cost the lives of members of the army men and women who were fighting that day, but also led to an increase in the number of zombies. Another example of the lack of preparedness of the general public comes from the story of a girl whose family headed north to escape the zombies. She discusses all of the "supplies" that people packed for this journey that would end up having very little or no functional use (Brooks 123). A parallel can be drawn to packing for college. There are a multitude of extensive college packing lists that can be found online, but in reality all of the items on these lists that students think that they will need might not really be necessary. Dorm rooms are not that big, and sometimes the packing lists are created from the perspective of the people who are trying to sell you these supplies, so they add items

War. We are always at war, with ourselves, others, with life ,and with death. We are constantly fighting to come out of these wars as victors, but something is always lost. While fighting to survive, and fighting to keep loved ones safe, innocence is thrust into the backseat. Morals, laws, and order is all lost when our brains and bodies kick into survival mode. When fighting zombies there is no chance to second guess or take a break to question one's actions, because it's a life or death situation. So in this war with zombies, we fight for survival, family, and pray our innocence stays intact. The loss of innocence is inevitable in a zombie apocalypse, because when we are fighting to survive, there is no way to save or maintain our innocence.

(QUAD CITIES – 7, November, 2016) Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse is something that everyone should know how to do and Joe Zombie explains just that in his Ded talk at the I-Wireless Center.

A moral compass is difficult enough to navigate in our current society, but after the apocalypse having a clear conscious would be even more difficult. With the added complication of zombies, it would be impossible. While zombies are fictional they pose interesting moral dilemmas, to kill them or not to kill them, both choices pose moral caveats. If you were to kill them you face the dilemma of whether or not zombies have the capacity to be saved, if you let them survive you must accept the guilt that accompanies the decision, as the zombie could go on to injure others in the future.

The topic of the undead coming back to life to feast on the living has been around since the first zombie movie White Zombies in 1932; however, just in the past few decades has the threat of a zombie apocalypse enter the realm of international politics. The threat of a zombie apocalypse is a very serious concern of the international communities. Many political scientists are not sure how the world leaders would be able to work together if this issue were ever to arise in the world today. In the book “Theories of International Politics and Zombies”, Drezner uses the threat of a zombie apocalypse to show how the different theories of international politics would eliminate the threat; however, are the living dead a real international concern or are they just a brilliant metaphor for something much greater that could happen to the world.

There’s plenty of zombie movies, games, and other forms of entertainment out there. Few have excelled as well as The Walking Dead, which began as a comic book series and has since spawned a successful television show and later even a video game series. The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct is another attempt at that final category, this time basing it off two of the show’s most popular characters. Instead of focusing on what makes The Walking Dead truly exceptional, namely the focus on the conflict among the survivors, Survival Instinct instead focuses more on the action, thus creating a fairly generic first person action game with zombies.