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    What makes us alive and what makes the zombies dead or undead? Well it all has to with neuroscience and most importantly the brain. The biggest question is what the requirements of life are? The requirements are the process to maintain homeostasis and the ability to adapt to changes. Do zombies maintain homeostasis for the undead couldn’t cause of the decay wouldn’t be able to because it couldn’t respond to change in the environment and don’t the ability to heal or repair. Unlike the livening dead

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    World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War does a fantastic job of covering many different topics and themes in a favorably concise book. This is easily achieved through the style in which the book is written. By telling the story from multiple perspectives Brooks is able to see what’s happening all over the world simultaneously and truly convey the fact that it is a ‘world’ war as well as cover various topics such as gender, in which men are the dominant sex for battle, religion, which mimics

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    Zombie Apocalypse Yusuf Redzic “Dad!” “Yes, Charles?” “What does ‘zombie apocalypse’ mean?” “It’s just some silly science fiction term.” Jon hears these two’s conversation on his way to Harvard. He knows loads of stuff about biology and biotechnology. So much that has a lab dedicated to it. He knew that indeed a zombie apocalypse can occur, and many people knew that. They probably are just not aware of it. He arrives at his school, and goes through his typical day at school, three periods and

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    Zombies are boring. Despite the amount of creative freedom authors can exhibit in the fiction genre, there is a singular, consistent, specific, and defining depiction of what is known as “the zombie.” The very uttering of this science fiction buzz-word conjures elaborate and imaginative images of decomposing, slack-jawed, mindless creatures hungering for flesh. Their clothes are usually dirty and ragged, their teeth stained yellow and red, the remnants of their last meal on their lips, and a telltale

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    In the modern movie genre, horror movies accounts for very great proportion of the number of followers. Relevantly, the zombie film genre has been developed into a dominant part of mainstream horror, replacing the previous monster such as vampires and werewolves. In Max Brooks’s essay “The Movies That Rose From the Grave”, he offers his opinion that throughout the process of zombie film transformation, it increasingly captivates viewers while gradually generates the modern horror. Brooks’s essay

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    Targets of Satire in The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams satirizes many targets in The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Adams came up with the idea for The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in a drunken haze in Germany while he was lying in a field with the stars spinning over him (Adams, Douglas 12) which explains the style of humor, and the satire in the novel, which does not appear to make sense at first, but eventually does. Adams almost forgot about

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    In Douglas Adams's novel, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect traverse an imperfect galaxy plagued by a lack of individuality. In The Seven Deadly Sins Today, Henry Fairlie ventures that this galactic epidemic correlates to the transmission of immorality throughout the world. Douglas Adams utilizes satire and characterization to demonstrate how the human condition is flawed. Furthermore, Henry Fairlie calls upon the archetypal seven deadly sins to criticize human banality

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    The Media In The Movies

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    Moving on, zombies and the lower class have an interesting future ahead. According to the essay “The Media in the Movies” zombies make their interactions primarily through pop culture and media. Media is becoming the way of life around most of the world. Nearly everything is now digital and accessible via an electronic device. This electronic domination can go both ways for zombies as their initial appeal method of movies may take a hit because less people are heading to movie theaters and are

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    Zombies came from the ground they were real people than they died. So when they die they get this type of chemical reaction and turn into a zombie. Zombies like to walk but if they run that means they are bad people. If you got bit from a Zombie you will turn to a zombie in a couple of min. Informative Writing Besides being able to move after they are dead, zombies do not have superpowers. In fact, zombies actually

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    In a zombie apocalypse, the first thing I would do is find a shelter that can suit my needs and protect me from the weather/attacks/raids/zombies. If you live in a crowded area first hide then in the next few days go to your hideout and if you live in a less crowded area go to your hideout as soon as possible. If you survive the first day then your chances of survival has been greatly enhanced. When the zombies first came the reason why most people died on the first day was because they were in

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