Artist Statement In general, we chose zombies as the monster we wanted to write about. We chose short story as the medium and used it to demonstrate our ideas.
Our project took a critical view of social and political issues. As Eric Boyer said in his article “Zombies All! The Janus-Faced Zombie of the Twenty-first Century,” the zombie plays the role of a lens through which to see the world in a unique way and the zombie can help make sense of the rhetoric surrounding, and responses to the “war on terror” (Boyer 1139). In our work, we chose zombies as the medium to show our concerns. We gave a different insight into illustrating our concerns about people’s reaction towards alienated society. Moreover, we focused on the negative aspects of
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In fact, when we proceeded with our work, we found that the most important social issue generated by alienated society is the public hypercorrection. Even though it is rude to become protective and hostile to alienated groups, the avoidance of forms of expression that are perceived to marginalized or insult people who are socially alienated generates more problems (Wikipedia “Political correctness”). The European migrant crisis or European refugee crisis began in 2015. An increasing number of refugees traveled to EU, across the Mediterranean Sea or through Southeast Europe. Despite the fact that people fear of their swarming, in order to be humanistic and politically correct, the government gave permission to the refugees. As a result, the chaos was tragic (Wikipedia “European migrant crisis”). It is absolutely true that we need to be humanistic. However, people need to take more into account rather than only considering the benefits of a certain group. Thoroughly referring to one doctrine will attend to one thing and lose another. people cannot put politics in the first position but pay no attention to others. In our short story, we developed the story based on the unique point that zombies don’t bite people. Some politicians think that it is not fair to kill them because we do not have the right to decide innocent’s people’s death. They are still conscious so that we need to try our best to protect them. Nevertheless, the politicians ignore the potential thread of their action and pay no attention to the benefits of public. Political correctness is a serious problem and usually hard to recognize. We put some plots in our story in order to make people infer some related social
Component 4: ‘Comparing Zombies with Zombies’ Zombies Representation in Fido In Fido, the zombie is represented as a satisfying old school due to the way they carry themselves. They depict themselves to be shambling and have an uncertain walk. Their limbs are slowed by the attack of thoroughness mortise. They are attacked by hunger that can only be fully satisfied by consuming human flesh.
In a notable portion from Posey’s article he wrote that “[p]ublic intellectuals such as Noam Chomsky, Chris Hedges, Paul Krugman, and others have used the zombie as a metaphor for everything from our dysfunctional financial system to our alienating political institutions.” This sentence is taken nearly word-for-word and used in Sabrina Student’s introduction without giving credit to the original author—an example of direct, deliberate
In the article “My Zombie, Myself: Why Modern Life Feels Rather Undead,” Chuck Klosterman offers profound commentary on why zombies are so popular. One reason Klosterman’s argument is
Storytelling can be described as a powerful tool, with the ability to reach many different individuals and affect their perspectives through the messages they are conveying. Narratives in a similar sense can have perverse effects on human consciousness, leaving impacts of how we think, feel, imagine, remember and relate. Mitchell states that popular fiction is important to society as it contains many important messages that can be disguised as social transformation or ideological revisioning due to the large and diverse audience that it is able to reach (Mitchell, 2012). The focus will be to examine four different popular fiction narratives from this term and the important messages within them that aid or encourage some aspect of social transformation.
Formalist Plot You know what they say; you are what you eat! What kind of food you eat and prepare shows a little bit of who you are and in literature it can sometimes be used to convey meaning. In many ways the heart shaped cookies that one makes in february can represent their love for somebody in a way that words can’t. Sometimes we have to recognize that the smallest actions we make can tell a lot about our lives and our stories.
The article fails to show the other side of the story; the story of of the Zombies. Why the young generation has taken up such step, what goes on their minds and what do they expect? These questions need to be answered and so can an unbiased opinion be generated. Moreover, there is not enough text that is put forward in the article. No empirical evidence, no factual figures, no research work or psychological study has been done on the zombies.
When one compares two monsters such as a zombie and a vampire it is easy to see the differences between them. Zombies and vampires have more differences than they do similarities. With one being a walking corpse only seeking the consumption of flesh, and the other being a blood sucking un-dead creature with some human qualities. These monsters also represent specific fears that people have, and in return make the people of today so much more drawn to these movies. People like things they can relate to, and people can easily relate to a zombie.
People are unconscious of businesses that brain wash with propaganda to exploit consumers into buying merchandise (Bishop 2010: 248). Thus on a purely metonymical level, the zombies represent the existing horrors of a society brainwashed by the capitalistic need to
In the article, “Zombie Studies Gain Ground on College Campuses,” reporter for the Wall Street Journal Erica E. Phillips writes about the growing popularity of the zombie sensation in academia. Her article was very informative about how zombies are being incorporated in college classes. It was a very well put article and included facts from not only the author herself, but from cited sources. I agree with the author in saying that zombies should be studied on college campuses. I say this because not only do zombies have a huge influence in pop culture nowadays, zombies can also be used in almost every field in academics and having the knowledge from studying zombies can be applied in real life situations.
Through many decades and years, folklore has been shaping up culture and pretty much said differently over time. Vampires and zombies were the main source of how folklore changed over time, whether it was by stories, the media or how you saw yourself in them everyone had there own aspects of each monster. “ John William Polidori stitched together folklore personal resentment and erotic anxieties into the vampyre, a story that is the basis for vampires as they are understood today” (292). That is how the famous story of vampires started. For zombies in the other hand “ His origins, we learn – we who dabble in the recklessly expanding field of zombie studies – are in Caribbean folk nightmare” (299).
Each response is influenced by individual race, gender, and ethnicity. Despite immigration’s necessity to this, Jacob G. Hornberger’s “Keep the Borders Open” in which he argues the case of keeping borders always open “for people traveling inside the United States but also for people traveling or moving to the United States” is not correct (Hornberger, Jacob G. 1). Having open borders prohibits unity and dissolves individual identity; it also breeds anarchy within a nation. There must be order within a country and allowing everyone into an area strains resources, while no security creates chaos and mass terror. With open borders and thus overpopulation, a country will be unable to uphold its beliefs and will fall to disparities within social class, old prejudices, and government corruption.
Thesis statement Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants fleeing war or seeking new lives have flooded into Europe. Many countries are struggling to cope with the crisis. According the news from CNN:”Austria, Germany near tipping point”
Ozog suggests that the media we consume is correlated to "what we believe, fear, and love" (2), and the rise in demand for zombies is connected to our cultures fears and anxieties. To support this, I will discuss the characteristics we fear about zombies, starting with Platt 's idea that zombies represent "the anxieties associated with nuclear radiation and the possibility of an apocalyptic future." (552). In today 's society, we live in a world where we are constantly fearing the potential of a terrorist attack, another world war that will cause many deaths, or even the next big pandemic. Like Birch-Bayley states, zombies act as the standard for western culture 's "crisis mentality" (1137) to express these anxieties.
It is 6:00 in the morning and overhearing that zombies are conquering the world. Immediately, it is time to pack and get ready for the zombie apocalypse. In order to make it, their is some common that will be needed to beat these disgusting creatures. A zombie apocalypse could happen anywhere; in the city, suburban area, or in the country. Sadly, zombies only onto human flesh and nothing else.
Some countries are open and actively working to promote well-being through charity and acts to achieve justice. In opposition some countries are not willing to take on the responsibilities of letting displaced people into their borders. After seeing the lifestyle displaced people face each day the film encouraged me to do what I can to spread awareness about the unsteady world refugees face. I know that I would have a difficult time living like a displaced person and I cannot begin to image the fear, sadness, and struggles each day brings. Although, as an individual I do not feel I can achieve much impact, I do believe that sharing the messages presented in the film will bring greater understanding to others and from there a stronger force can be achieved.