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The Walking Dead: The walking dead was about a guy named rick Grimes who took a bullet for his p;partner which lead him in a coma, he then woke up from the hospital to realize there was a zombie apocalypse. Rick is on the search to finding his wife and son Carl. he then finds them at a camp in Atlanta with others. Its now ricks job to keep these people and his family protected from the undead.

Chapters 1-3: The introduction introduced the interview who was going  to write a report on the "Zombie War" but then ends up writing a book, with interviews of those people who survived the zombie war. Warnings was about the beginning of the zombie war starting with the first outbreak in China. The Chapter blame was about the anti rabies drug and how it was suppose to protect the people from getting infected. This caused problems because they didn't take the zombie war as serious as they should have.

The Great Panic: This chapter was about how people began to realize how serious the was was going to be. Many people were in denial about the situation. A part that  stuck out to me was when the people were trying to swim to safety and there were zombies coming from out the water and pulling them down.

Turning The Tide: This chapter was about a guy named Paul Redker many people looked up to him as a savior to come help and figure out plans to help there situation. ?But a lot of people called him dispassionate because he wanted everyone to lose all emotional ties and to shed their humanity. He wrote papers on solutions to the zombie war and then the government noticed him asked him for his help He even had plans for who should live an die to save resources.

Home front: I really enjoyed this chapter. People who were higher up in their class such as bosses or managers or actors were labelled as unskilled workers and had the hard labor; they were too happy about it. But then you have those who worked as simple employees such as a janitor were labelled as skilled.It was crazy that they were believing that the zombies were a call from God and instead of trying to save themselves they sided with the zombies.

Around The World:This chapter involves with the cultural and other differences around the world and how that affected them.Countries such as Cuba grew and Japan was destroyed and North Korea somehow just vanished. South Korea was actually in luck with the was because of their areas with mountains and their good defense with the zombies. One man stated in a interview that his county was starting to vanish and then everyone disappeared.

Goodbyes: his chapter was basically everyone goodbye. I really liked the part with the man man from Tel Aviv he stated that the holocaust has no survivors but those who did were extremely traumatized and that their soul, spirit and who they were suppose to  be was gone forever. and he said he wanted to think that that wasn't true but if it is no one survived the zombie war. He basically compared the two.

Home Front USA

Home front USA is obviously all about what's happening here in the United States during the apocalypse. We decided to build a sort of barrier to keep the zombies from reaching us. While this works for a while we begin to realize how hard it is to produce the most simple things nowadays. I think I would be so stressed out trying to get a hold of the most basic necessities. I think people really take granted for all the things we have right at our finger tips. Also, in this chapter we see the President and Vice President decide to start governing more laws. For instance, they want to start putting away every criminal. I think that's so worthless, they could be out killing or putting their life on the line to make up for what they have done wrong. There were such bigger problems in the world than just who was breaking the law.

Late blog

This chapter talks about different culture such as Japan, China, and Korea. the way they put their first name last and last name firse first break happen in the remote village of New Dachang. on the quite night at the hospital when they received an emergency call page , Dr. Kwang decide to go help the people and missing his way so many times he finally got to the village where he realized the seriousness of the situation of people he came to help. they were laid on cots in a cold and it was locked from outside and no one care about others. their was a young boy who was cold with grey skin with a very high temperature and wild eyes.this boy has no blood in his vein, all brown liquid.



Chapter 3
This chapter talks about Stanley MacDonald that was once a trope-notch soldier and also one of the third battalion of princess Patricia's Canadian light infantry. Stanley and his team have being deloped to Kyrgyzstan to stopped the local opium dealers. they found the cave as expected lots of blood everywhere with no body except the mules. Stanley discovered an arm sticking out of a collapsed limestone that was still  moving and when he tried to reach for it,the arm jumped down on him but he tried to pulled the top zombie free from the rubble.



Chapter 4
The Interviewer's talk about Fernando Oliveira as he find himself Brazil. Herr Muller that needed a heart surgery and that he never awake from the anesthesia and when the symptoms of the zombie infection appeared no one recognized zomblification when they saw it. Dr. Silvia believed it was due to the reaction of medication given to Herr Muller or due to his her or overweight. the most scary thing was Muller reaction when he came out of coma.


Last chapter 5
In the finally world war Z, People that were interviewed talk about their story and everything that went wrong during the Zombie Apocalypse. one of the guy that was interviewed Sean, he said in his interview that killing is nothing to him which I think is scary but @t the end people are trying to get back on track and live a better lives but to me it like when the soldier came back and they are trying to live a regular live which is kind of hard on them because of the society they came from before coming back home.

Around the world

This chapter, the part about China really struck out to me. It's a kind of contradicting part because here you see having a bigger army gives you a bigger and higher chance of being attacked by zombies. That seems really unfortunate! I feel like if you are bigger you would have higher chances of surviving. Anyways, they decide to make this super advanced submarine, but it took like three months on top of having to continuously get supplies and help their people. I don't know if that sounded like the best idea. I almost feel like it was too consuming and they should have chosen something else to try and help themselves. Once they got all of their families on board they routinely went deep down under. The submarine became everyone's entire world. I think it would be so crazy to be trapped down below for so long. They had no idea what was going on back at land. No idea of what countries had now been infected or anything. One of the lieutenants started going crazy and painting all these pictures of zombie filled skylines and the commander realized it was a result of being isolated for so long. NOT GOOD. Then they started noticing a bunch of other ships down under, but they knew they couldn't help because they couldn't risk infection. they had no idea about the people on the other ships. They started running short on medicine and food which is kind of where I would totally be over being in submarine, but they finally found a great island for the people to live on. It ended badly though and in the end Captain Chen died. I think this part was interesting because you just keep seeing everyone's different ways to get away from the zombies and even when being in a submarine sounded like this great idea it never really worked out in the end. I think that's the problem is that no one's solution really worked. It was like inevitable to get away from the zombies. regardless of your resources and stuff.

3 Late Blogs

So I went back and reread volume 1 of The Walking Dead which was definitely worth revisiting. While there are a lot of very tense zombie moments, particularly when Rick and Glenn go into Atlanta to get more guns, the real focus of this first issue is on human relationships and how everybody in the camp has to support each other to survive. We see the value of support and companionship in many ways. Multiple times in the comic, one character saves another from a zombie attack demonstrating the importance of teamwork. Rick and his family are spotlighted and even though he and his wife disagree about whether Carl should have a gun, plus that nasty business with Shane, you see how much they care about each other and how essential that is. There is a sweet moment where the whole camp sits around the fire and shares their backstories. They are all united by losing loved ones which reinforces their need to stick together. Those who lost families find new ones in the community. All except Jim, who gets bitten, and Shane who goes crazy and tries to kill Rick before Carl saves him.

Moving on, the first three chapters of World War Z, up through "Blame" show how poorly people respond to the warning signs of what ends up being a global catastrophe. People in this chapter are skeptical of the scope of the problem or even disbelieving that a problem actually exists. Nobody, save Israel, attempts to solve the problem or offer strategies, everyone is thinking far too narrowly and in these chapters we see how people allow the infection to spread because they can't be bothered to try and stop it. One particular example of this is the doctor in the Amazon Rain Forrest chapter. The doctor in this chapter had no idea what was going on as it was just the beginning but he explains how the people that were infected were just quietly covered up and nobody investigated what had happened. On top of that he explains how he got his organs from the black market, which was extremely unregulated and if the people who were working within it knew about the infection, they didn't do anything about it so that the operation could continue. The doctor who is narrating seems like he did care somewhat but even he at the end of the chapter, reflects that he didn't tell anyone or take further action because he was more concerned with rebuilding his reputation.

The next section, The Great Panic, is one of the most chaotic parts of the book because in this section the virus has gone global and is causing major havoc but at this point in the story nobody has any idea what to do about it, they're just panicking. People are trying to protect themselves or escape, despite the fact that there wasn't any place to escape to in most cases. One of the most bizarre and interesting stories from this part of the book is the one about all of the celebrities who shacked up in a house together on Long Island and broadcast the whole experience. It really shows how poorly those people were thinking, sort of treating the whole thing as a game or spectacle because they had resources and fame. They thought that they could just hire a few people to protect them from the zombies and go on living their lives as celebrities. They never even considered the possibility of a threat from other living humans who didn't have all that they did and were scared and probably bitter at how cavalier the celebrities were being. People just had no idea how big this thing was yet.

Unit IV

For my project i will be making a tumblr page. I will be showing the how music can have a positive and negative influence on children. i will be adding visuals of my essay by using music videos and interviews. I will be talking about how parents can help prevent music from being a issue and different point of views from different artist and directors.

Unit IV

For my Unit 4 project, I am going to make a video. I'm going to make my video kind of like one of the ASPCA commercials. My plan is to use this to show how bad natural disasters can be and what people can do to help. I chose a video because this project is supposed to be aimed at younger, college students. This makes sense to me because this generation is constantly on some sort of technology and many watch videos. I'm going to make the video emotional like the ASPCA commercials because it gets into a different part of people and I think it will be very effective.

Unit IV Research Proposal

I will be working on this final assignment with Shoshana Bellman. We plan on chronicling the experiences of a person living in the zombie apocalypse. We will do this by having our character relate their encounters on a blog. Through the character's eyes, our college aged audience will learn about the scientific parts of the zombie and the psychological effects that happen to people in the zombie apocalypse. I was interested in doing this project because I felt that in our modern day world, many events have been documented on social media. I was particularly inspired by the story of a Palestinian teenager who records the Gaza War by tweeting live airstrikes and shelling attacks from the Israelis; I thought, why not do the same for a fictional zombie apocalypse? I felt that it would be more "real" if it was just a regular person reporting what they experienced rather than a professional journalist. Originally, we were going to use twitter but realized that the limit of 140 characters per tweet would not be enough to express the events that our character would encounter. Ultimately we settled on using a wordpress blog turning our project into something like an online diary. Our goal is to combine both of our topics, mine being the psychological aspect of the zombie apocalypse and Shoshana's being the more scientific aspect for this final project. I hope this project will provide more insight to our topics for our classmates and that they may learn something.

Research Proposal

For my final project I plan on making an educational lyrical description page. I plan on using various songs, videos, and even cyphers to depict and explain what the artists mean in their lyrics. The best way for me to use all of these ideas and put them together in one final project is a Facebook page. My college age audience will learn about various types of raps songs they’ve heard for years and what each of those songs are actually talking about. They will learn about the reason some of this songs were created in the first place. They will also learn, a little if not a lot, about the artists’ past life and possibly moments leading up to the song.  I was interested in doing this project just because of how much passion I have the genre of rap music. It hurts me all the time knowing that the music I love, comes off to someone else as frightening and violent. It never makes me feel like that. I want to show other people how I feel and what the lyrics are trying to teach the people that listen to them. Also my dream is to work with music as a career. That is what also inspired my inspiration in creating this page. I just don’t want what I loved to be viewed and labeled as something horrific. I feel like people that view my page will be as interested in it as I am. Hopefully after they’ve viewed it, they might see the same things I do.

Good-Byes

The last chapter reminded me of those movies based on real life where they explain what actually happened, kind of like the ending of Pain & Gain. It kind of reflected to how people learned from this and see everything in a new way and shows everything is becoming normal again, people are mothering, doctors are doing their jobs, humanity is back to where it was before. The part that stood out to me was in Burlington, Vermont. It talked about how "The Whacko" declared victory on the zombie war prematurely as he tried to compare himself closely and do a better job than Winston Churchill. "The Whacko" was greatly criticized because he prevented the eradication of all zombies on American soil and later asked the UN for help.

Unit IV Research Proposal

I will be working on the final project with Zoe Lee. We will be making a blog depicting the experiences of a guy, and a few other people, on their take of the zombie apocalypse. Through those people, our audience will learn about the science of a zombie and what makes one, and the psychological aspect of the zombie apocalypse on a human. I was interested on doing this project because a blog would probably be the easiest way to humanize the research Zoe and I did without a limitation of characters, like Twitter would, or the need of a picture each post, like tumblr and Instagram; and Facebook would be too much of a hassle to make an entire profile for each character that we will be using. Originally, we were going to use Twitter because of how easy it is to use, but with the word limitation being 140 characters, which would not fully show our main character’s problems an day-to-day life, and the fact that we would have to make multiple accounts, and they need a phone number or email to make, we just decided that it would be more practical to make a blog. Our overall goal is to combine both of the basic research from each of our unit 3 essays and convey it in ways of a psychiatrist, Zoe’s essay, and a person from the CDC, my essay. And with the help of two of the main character’s friends adding input, our blog will cover a lot of information and ideas over a period of time.

Research Proposal

My research topic is on why ethanol is the future of alternative fuels. For my final project, I was planning on making a comedic/informative video. It would involve how we currently use 10% ethanol at gas stations around the Midwest. I would also explain how to make ethanol, while doing something completely different. I would also show that driving with ethanol is like riding a bike, low on emissions, produces less energy than fossil fuels and renewable. I could also talk about genetically modified corn as they can alter how fast stuff grows. I can use salmon as an example, scientists have genetically modified some types of salmon and they can grow 2-3 times faster than regular salmon while having the same nutritional benefits. It will be hard to find time to make the video, because I work all the time, but I can always due it late at night since I don't sleep much anyways.

Goodbyes

Overall, the last chapter of the book really left me hanging! It didn't feel as juicy or emotionally impacted as the rest of the book did. You could feel the way the people who had been interviewed had this new perspective on the world after war and they seemed to be kind of over the situation.

I think one part that really stuck out to me was Aboard USS Tracy Bowden. I really like how selfless this person was and last commented "tell it to the whales." While reading the earlier parts of the book that had water scenes in them, I never thought to think of animals that may have went extinct from this war, especially not something as giant as whales. I began to wonder what could actually happen to the life cycle of things in the ocean without whales. Are they a necessity? I think this guy brought up really valid points in his small interview. People probably didn't even realize how they were destroying such wonderful creatures, because they were only worried about saving themselves. I think this small section was probably more important than people realized. The war created total chaos and everything seemed to vanish, even the whales. At the end, the person was saying that there wasn't even a substantial way to start recreating the animals. That would change the make up of the ocean for forever.  I wonder if this person was in any of the water wars and that's why they had this view of the water animals? Did they have any pets or people that they had lost in their lives that he could have talked about instead? I wonder what made him think that the whales, of all things, lost the war.

Unit IV Proposal

 My research topic is on water scarcity issues that we will be faced with in the near future, how they impact food production and farming, and what can be done to prevent them from being as serious. As this topic is global in scope I think I will present these ideas for unit IV as a Prezi  with a world map as the template. I can add slides on the map on relevant countries and river systems to show where certain issues are taking place and provide the audience with a visual perspective of the magnitude of these issues. I have never made a Prezi before but after taking the tutorial and playing with the software I am confident that I can make a clear, informative, and engaging presentation. I am interested in doing a Prezi because it is organized and visually exciting. I can put a lot of information in this type of presentation and then set up a path where I don't have to go through all of it so as not to bore the audience. I can follow the main points of my paper around the map and deliver to the audience a concise yet urgent message abut water related issues.  

Proposal

 My research is about the black market organ trading. I think I am going to turn my paper into a prezi presentation. I really enjoy the set up and the way you can maneuver the different slides. Also, I think going from spot to spot would be a good way to transition my paper into a multimedia product. I could really see this presentation targeting multiple ages groups and types of people. I have worked with prezi before and am aware how to make it do some neat stuff! Engaging an audience is an easy grab when you have good visuals that can go in a and out. I think seeing stuff rather than just hearing about it really helps connect people to your topic. My paper is structured with different ways to minimize the black market, so having different prezi sections that you could use to illustrate each of my proposals will help bring the paper into a new light. I want this to be something that is easy to comprehend even if you are unfamiliar with the black market. Hopefully, I can add some of the really interesting pictures i have found of men all with the same giant wound from losing kidneys. I think seeing people who have actually went through such a horrific thing will make people more self-conscious of what goes on in the world around us. Organ trading is such an undermined topic that I am really passionate about educating people on. I can't wait to make this and really show people the truth behind this subject! It's been a while since I have used prezi so maybe they have added some new features that will enhance my project!  

My Presentation

For my presentation I hope to create my very own version of the DSM-5. I'll try my hardest to create the book, and attempt it to be in good condition. In it, I will explain what exactly phobias are, and eventually get into agoraphobia specifically. I will talk about the difference of agoraphobia and panic disorder and how they are now classified differently in the DSM-5. I plan on giving the definition of these, the symptoms, the causes and the many treatment options they each have. I will go into how family has a large role in the process, and I will explain therapy treatments available. A lot of people don’t know how severe phobias can be and sometimes don’t realize how much they can effect a person. People will also think they have a phobia just because they're scared of a specific thing, but that’s not what classifies you as having a certain phobia. The phobia must be maladaptive, meaning it needs to effect your everyday life and living experience in order for you to be diagnosed with this. I believe this can be at least a little interesting for my college audience because I know quite a few college students who also want to major in Psychology, and this has a lot to do with that. It's interesting. Also, a lot of students nowadays sort of over react on things that they think are wrong with them, so after I finish this I hope to give them better insight on how exactly to know if you have or need help with a specific type of phobia or even any psychological disorder. 

Unit 4: Presentation Outline

Unit 4: Presentation Outline

My idea for this project is to create a Prezi presentation. Using Prezi I will focus on defining what Private Military Contractors are. Most people are completely unaware these contracting companies exist and what exactly their roll is in the U.S. Military. I would like to emphasize on how private contractor corporations have had a major impact involving the present war with the Middle East. In addition, I will focus on the negative aspects of private military contractors. Mainly, I will provide insight on the largest and most controversial example of misconduct private contractor companies have been involved in thus far. I will use a mixture of text, music and videos for my presentation. In doing this, I hope to engage my peers in an informational yet creative way. I also want to embellish patriotism and highlight our great country in a positive manor. I would also like my presentation to have a propaganda type feel and inspire others to look further into the subject. I will achieve this by providing raw truths followed by uplifting pictures or music. The videos I selected for the project are intense, but I believe it will really hit home with my audience. This will hopefully provide the truest insight into private military contractors and their negative roll in the U.S. Military. All my visual aids will depict private contractors in a negative way. This will hopefully emphasize my stance on the topic. I hope by the end of my presentation I will have provided a sufficient insight on private military contractors.    

Total WAR

This chapter was about how different militaries handled the zombies. One part I  hated was how the military would use dogs to help protect them. Sounds nice because dogs are more alert and aware. The dogs were used to sniff out the zombies. BUT then eventually strapped BOMBS onto the dogs. At one point of time he did not care for dogs, but when he heard the cries of the puppies left in the pet store by house he started to feel a soft spot. he wished he could help them but knew he couldn't.

World War Z: Good-byes

In the last chapter of World War Z, interviewees from throughout the book, each with a unique story, share and reflect on their final thoughts of the zombie apocalypse. One of the interviewees talks about how hard it is to fit back into society, similar to the situations that veterans go through after past wars. Another person discusses her inability to understand why they lost such good people while others had survived. The thing that stood out to me the most was the quote “We lost a hell of a lot more than just people when we abandoned them to the dead.”, said by Philip Adler. The quote stood out to me because I viewed it as him implying that the world lost a part of their humanity as well. 

World War Z chapter 9: Good-byes

Chapter 9, good-byes, is about how the world, and life, comes back after the zombies. The one part that stood out to me the most was when Maria was pregnant only to help populate the earth. Of course this is an idea that would be taken into effect, mainly because everybody turned into zombies and the human populous was lacing people, but it's still a weird thing to think about.

Goodbyes

In this final chapter of World War Z people reflect on the crisis that they just went through. People that were interviewed throughout the book share their story and reflect on everything that went down during the Zombie Apocalypse. The part that stuck out to me the most was when the interviewer talks to the guy Sean from Barbados. What made it so weird was Sean to the interviewer that he was addicted to murder, and he didn't find it surprising at all. The chapter ends with people trying to fit back in the norms of society. This is really difficult for them but they plan to get through it and continue on with their regular lives.

World War Z chapter 8: Total War

Chapter 8, Total war, was all about war and what the military and governments did to cope/stop the infection. that part I found interesting was how Travis said that all armies must be "bred, fed, and led". That basically means that all armies must have bred fighters, fed to fight, and led to the fight. Another thing I found interesting was Darnell Hackworth with his farm of K-9 veterans.  I loved how he used dogs to fight the zombies. I cringed with the thought of the dogs being bitten, or eaten, when fighting the zombies, but pretty cool nonetheless. Like how the dogs could smell the virus before it really took affect fascinated me.

Turning the Tide, Homefront USA, Around the world and above, Total War, Good byes

Turning the Tide: Turning the tide takes place in South Africa, Ireland, Ukraine, Canada, and India. In this chapter we are introduced to Redeker and His plan. when It comes to Redeker many find him with no emotion and no compassion as he states there is no way to save everyone. the chapter kind of ends when talking to someone about there experience with the winter and the lack of food. they experienced their camp members and family having to decide to eat people.

Homefront USA: with the title being of course about the USA one can imagine the chapter takes place in exactly that. the chapter moves from state to state starting with New Mexico, Vermont, Washington, California, Tennessee. The chapter starts of with Sinclair and the "DeStRes" plan which included a zone protected by mountains and outside civilizations used as a extra level of protection if the zombies were to reach these zones. then we look at what it takes to make something so small as rootbeer and the limited resources that they are now faced with. we look at how having someone in charge is important as well as a rule system. how the blue collar workers became the most important part of society and the white collar workers became almost useless. we soon learn about quislings and their importance. which are feral people that act like zombies but are not. and then a movie that was used to show a victory for the people against the zombies that was used to rally the people to not give up.

Around the World and Above: this chapter takes place in The Province of Bohemia, the Federated States of Micronesia, South Korea, Japan, Cuba, China, Australia, and Chile. the chapter really concentrated on how the other countries handled the zombie war. For Example, South Korea, used the mountains as defense for a while but like most countries people began disappearing one by one. the other parts of the world used the geographical locations to their best interest in order to survive the zombie war.

Total War: this chapter takes place in Finland, USA, Siberia, Canada. this chapter focus' on the governments ability to regain control and attempt to exterminate the population of zombies. the fact that they had to figure out how to fight the zombies due to their lack of weaknesses.

Good Byes: This chapter took place in The USA, The Russian Empire, Barbados, Canada, China, Japan, Ireland, Israel. This chapter is about how life may be coming to a somewhat start again. things around the world are becoming oddly back to normal as people try to regain control of what life used to be like. the chapter shows the effects the zombie war took and how it will forever change the way humans will continue to live.

Total War

This chapter is about exactly what the title says, war. In this chapter we learn about what different militaries did around the world to stop the infected from spreading anymore. In order for the United States to be successful, they went back to the old age concepts. They use old strategies, weapons, and head on combat to achieve victory over the zombies. At the end of the chapter a guy named Todd Wainio gets interviewed and he talks about other obstacles that were faced other that zombies. They were also booby traps, feral packs, and even adjusting or infected animals. My favorite part of the section was reading about people fleeing to the catacombs in underground Paris. I can't even imagine being in a small confined area like that for so long. There people faced toxic air, more booby traps, and fearful of using their weapons because of the chance of starting a fire. I feel that the people in Paris were on top for having the scariest and shocking job to do.

Total War

This section of the book is where we finally get to see various governments and organizations gain the upper hand and begin to exterminate the zombie population. From the organized, disciplined slaughter in the United States that pushed it's way across the country, to the chaotic Russian system that changed the face of their country, we see the way the war was won on multiple fronts. Total war, as described in the first chapter of this section, is the war the zombies fought: no surrender, no need for resources, no morale issues to exploit. This is the section where people really learn to combat that style of enemy. The most interesting passage for me was the the one about the people who had to clear the zombies from under Paris. The things they went through sound horrific and there were so many added dangers being in tight dark passageways. They had the most terrifying jobs for sure in the Total War section.

Around the World, and Above

This chapter really deals with the cultural and geographic differences around the world and how that affected the responses of people. Some countries, like Cuba, thrived, while Japan was destroyed and North Korea's people seemingly disappeared. There are stories of personal triumph such as Kondo, the "otaku" whose story is pretty remarkable considering he had no practical skills whatsoever, and Sensei Tomonaga, a man who survived on his own in the wild while blind. There are also collective triumphs in the chapter, Radio Free Earth, and Cuba, and the ISS. I thought the most unique and interesting section was the one about the astronauts on the ISS. While there were obviously no zombies there, with government operations down being in space presented it's own set of problems since there was no one to rescue them It's a really interesting point of view because they can see everything going on below and get sort of a big picture of the destruction and mayhem on Earth

World War Z: Total War

The chapter first introduces the comparative advantage that zombies have of not being human and not being limited to resources they need for fighting. After the disaster that happened in Yonkers, the army went back to age old war strategies and weapons to combat the endless sea of zombies. Their victory was said to be the beginning of the end of the zombie apocalypse. In Russia, religion took on a bigger role as priests became the ones to kill the infected in order to shoulder the responsibility and to stop the suicides from sinning. Underwater, zombies are still thriving and recon teams continue to finish off the zombies. In Paris, thousands of people fled to the underground where they encountered uninhabitable conditions such as the toxic air, death traps, and were unable to use their weapons for fear of starting a fire. What stood out to me most was that towards the end of the chapter, the narrator interviews a man named Todd Wainio, who mentions the many enemies and obstacles besides zombies that the military had to face, namely feral animals and humans, booby traps, rebels and more.

Total War

This chapter was all about war, and what different militaries did to stop the infected. The part that stuck out the most to me, was in an interview with a man named Darnell Hackworth, in Ainsworth, Nebraska. He runs a retirement farm for the K-9 corps. Dogs were used in wars to sniff out the dead and protect their partner. Hackworth was very fond of the dogs, and loved them very much. So the part that stuck out most to me was that he said he used to hate dogs, and that at one point, he listened to puppies who were abandoned in a pet store die off slowly one by one. He now wishes he had done something about it and saved the puppies. A part in this chapter that kind of scared me and made me a little upset was just a little fact Hackworth had stated about dogs who had gotten too close to the dead. They strapped an explosive to the dogs harness, so if they didn't think there was any chance to save the dog, they would put them out of their misery and blow them up. Thankfully, he said they didn't do this. Although it may have been better for them to die immediately and feel no pain than to be eaten alive by the dead.

Around the World, and Above

The author made this chapter all about how countries dealt with the Zombie Apocalypse. They all kinda of did their own thing depending on where they were of course. South Korea, with they're mountainous areas, had good defense due to the land they had. They were "lucky" in this situation because a high percentage of their population all had some kind of military training at least once in their lives. The man that's being interviewed though said that this was only the  case for a little while. They thought they had it better until suddenly, everyone began disappearing; the whole country began vanishing, one by one. I believe this happened because their country was so dedicated to military and defense, that they eventually just used up each civilian in war. I'm not sure if that's exactly correct but I found this part interesting.

Ch 9 Goodbyes

We find out in this chapter that the soldier in Russia, Maria, is 4 months pregnant. It is funny because the book points out how she had time to do more than fight Zombies. She now works privately for Russia. She explains the only reason she can tell the interviewer is because they want him to share her story. In Barbados they are on their last drink at the bar when Sean admits he is addicted to murder. The strange part is the interviewer doesn't seem shocked by this, and almost hopes for lingering Zombies so that Sean won't kill out of habit. In China, things are getting back to normal. Children play outside and the sickness they get is a common cold. The interviewer notes Kwang being thankful that the children are carefree post Zombie. Most of these conclusions they have come to the conclusion that the Zombies were a great awakening to the world. It was not a blessing in disguise, but made a defiant impact on the world. An impact that maybe the world needed. 

Ch 8 Total War

This chapter starts in a blimp thousands of feet above Finland, where the control center is located. It makes sense if the Zombies are on the ground then the safest place is the sky. Anyway, the leaders are worried about the "attack the Zombies" situation. He is concerned about sending men to fight against millions of Zombies. His point is totally valid. We then move to Colorado where we hear about US new army, and how it has evolved from "New School" to "Old School." This is smart and more effective than using the expensive "New School" gadgets that didn't work on the Zombies anyway. They used brute force now. I thought it was very cool when the interviewer talks about the Zombies in the catacombs in Paris. I can not imagine the nightmarish things that happened there and it really gives a spooky realistic feel to the reading. The chapter finishes in Colorado where Todd mentions "feral packs," and even goes on to say he got a scar on his face from the claws of a stray cat that apparently had a very tough time adjusting to the new world. He goes on to explain how difficult some civilians were making the army. These people were scared and did not make wise survival decisions and really were in the way. At the end of the chapter people were scraping for a sense of their old life. It talks about a Native American woman getting emotional over a turtle. This was hope to her, and that was something she had not had for a very long time.

Summary on Around the World, and Above

This chapter discusses the different ways each country deals with the outbreak of Zombies. In the old countries (mostly in Europe) they used old castles as defense. It was useful because of the high walls meant to keep intruders out. Meanwhile in North Korea they went MIA. They cut ties with the rest of the world in hopes to save themselves. I’m not sure if that was the best move honestly. There were some countries that were very giving during the Zombie crisis (mostly Cuba) and they shipped goods all over the world to help others. It was the realization of a lot of people that they would have to get good at hunting these Zombies, so they did just that. At the end of the chapter we hear the account of Ernesto Olguin. He is telling the interviewer about the meeting of world leaders in Hawaii. It was a mess of a meeting, but at the end they all agreed that the plan of action for the Zombies would be to attack.

World War Z chapter 7: Around the World, and Above

Chapter 7, Around the World, and Above, was mainly about how each country dealt with their zombie apocalypse. England and those "Old World" countries mainly used castles, although said that most of the castles were not smart about the safety precautions, or smart at all, and they got overrun. And even if they were smart, disease, lack of food, and even fire is what got some of them. In the federal states of Micronesia, they had Radio Free Earth, formally known as Radio Ubunye, which was basically a means to provide its citizens with information of what was happening and how to get through it, like how to purify water or make penicillin. In India, they said that they thought that their religion would save them, by them flocking to the Ganges, but that really turned to their downfall. In South Korea, they talked about how they thought that North Korea seemed the most prepared to what was happening to the world, but then one day, they practically just disappeared. So my thoughts are a whole country suicide. In Japan, it was about how a socially awkward boy named Kondo survived just by researching how zombies were like via fictional thought, and by talking to his online buddies. He eventually had to escape out the window by tying bed sheets together, and it took him 3 whole days to do so, but he was also searching for weapons and things to use. Cuba was probably the most prepared out of everyone. Once they killed all of the zombies on the island, they started to help other countries by shipping goods to them. In China, they started a civil war, which did nobody any good. What I found the most interesting was how Barati said that in most traditional war, they dehumanize the enemy so that they won't feel bad in killing them. But because zombies were literally not human, it was a bit different. Some people thought that the zombies felt emotion, or were intelligent in some way, while others thought that you could even domesticate them. You would think that the zombie's hunger for human flesh would change their thinking, but it really didn't, and that's what I found the weirdest.

World War Z: Around the World, and Above

This chapter talked about how the countries dealt with the zombie apocalypse. In Bohemia and other European countries, they talked about how they lived in castles. It saved their lives, excluding others countries like Holland as they were killed off by pneumonia. In the Federal States of Micronesia, they used something called Radio Ubunye, now as Radio Free Earth. They used it to spread info on how to survive throughout the country. In South Korea, they talked about how North Korea looked to be the most prepared and then everyone, just disappeared. North Korea was practically gone. In Japan, it was about a kid named Kondo, who spent most of his time on a computer. When he first noticed the zombies, he made bed sheet ropes to lower himself to different levels to try and get ground floor. In one room, he found a sword that was owned by a WWII veteran, and then killed zombies that way. In Cuba, they were able to prepare for the apocalypse because of where they were located. Once they killed all zombies they started shipping goods out to help other countries. In China, they started a civil war which was terrible. It also had two more countries. The part that stood out to me was that a kid who was considered an outsider was able to learn about what to do and figure out how to survive by using his knowledge.

Around the world, and Above

This chapter's main focus is on what various countries around the world did to deal and fight the zombie invasion. In European countries castles are being used to fight off zombies, like how they used them to fight off armies back in Old English Times. It seemed that North Korea disappreaed when the invasion came about. They cut off all connections, paths, and railways between them and South Korea off. In Japan teachers and their students are interviewed on how the became such great zombie hunters, dealing with what was going on all over. Cuba shipped out goods to the whole world, and became a manufacturing base country. World leaders even held a conference in Hawaii to try and put an end to this invasion once and for all. My favorite part of the chapter when Semsei Tomonaga Ijiro gets introduced and interviewed. He was a survivor of the atomic bomb and though to be an outcast. Because of this, he decides to leave and ends up hiking to the Hiddaka Mountains. Their he realizes his duty in life is to become a zombie hunter after he kills one from almost ending his life. Did I mention the man is blind but still capable of doing all of this?

Home Front USA

This short chapter was actually one of my favorites. It showed that even though someone may be wealthy and more fortunate, when it comes down to life threatening situations they are the least needed. What interested me in this chapter was, many rich people were upset because the same people that they hired to work under them, are now the people in charge of them and giving the orders. People were labeled F-6 or A-1 to determined their level of importance. F-6 people did jobs that involved little skill because they weren't fit to do bigger jobs. A-1 people were the ones in the Community Self-Sufficiency Program and they had the most skill out of everyone else.

Turning the Tide

This chapter's main focus is what happened after the zombie apocalypse and everybody realized what was actually happening was reality. It basically talked about the what the soldiers and government had in store to keep zombies far away from them. The part that interested me a lot in this chapter is when Redeker composed plan "Orange Eighty-Four" to help decide who would live and who would die. This plan basically caused people to choose who lived based on skills, income, intelligence, and any other traits that could help in the future. The people that were only average were the sacrifices for the zombies. I was so surprised because the people actually went along with the plan. It didn't matter how many died as long ass the few with the better skills lived to form the new world if needed.

World War Z: Around the World, And Above

This chapter talks about how countries around the world dealt with the zombie invasion. In European countries, many people used the castles from medieval times as fortresses to protect themselves against zombies. However safety was not guaranteed, as shown by the outbreak of pneumonia that wiped out the survivors in a castle in Holland. In Asia, North Korea seemed to have just disappeared off the face of the earth, China had started a civil war and in Japan, the narrator interviews a teacher and his student about how they survived against the odds in order to become skilled zombie exterminators. The civil war in China was so bad that even in space, an American astronaut deduced that Chinese astronauts were killed after an argument about which side was the right one. In other countries, Cuba became the center of manufacturing, and shipped out goods to provide for the whole world and at a conference in Honolulu, world leaders made the decision to go on attack mode to take down the zombies once and for all. What struck out to me the most was the fact that not one of the IR operators mentioned in the beginning of the chapter are alive today because they couldn’t take the emotional toll of answering and hearing transmissions of thousands of cries for help from civilians.

Turning the tide

This chapter was mostly about the Redeker Plan, what its about and the aftermath of it. I found the Redeker Plan extremely interesting because I feel that you would have to be inn very hard times to create a plan like that and actually have people go through with it. The plan was about creating two safe zones as a way to protect themselves from the zombies the first safe zone was not actually safe at all and it was the people that were not "necessary" to the survival of humans. They were used at a diversion for the zombies so the other group can escape without being followed. The other group is the higher up people in the world such as government leaders, military, and political people. They were going to go to a place that they could protect themselves from the zombies that was hopefully by a mountain or other natural protective barrier. I could not believe that someone could actually think up a plan like this and the government actually go along with it. At first they though he was crazy but they realized that it was the only way to safe as many as possible and start over.

World War Z chapter 6: Home Front USA

Chapter 6, Home Front USA, was mainly about getting the remaining American Citizens back on there feet to help the country's "safe zone" in any way they could. People that had a 'white-collar' skill set, labeled F-6, were immediately put to in unskilled labor, which included digging graves, cleaning the streets, cleaning chimneys, etc. People that had war-needed skills were labeled as A-1, and they were the most useful, probably in keeping the safe-zone safe. The part that really stood out to me was how many people were siding with the zombies. That some claimed that they shouldn't stop God's will, and others said that the zombies were doing mother nature's job, which I can only think is getting rid of humans. I think it's just ridiculous how, instead of trying to fight and save themselves, they think that the zombies are a higher calling and that they shouldn't fight the inevitable.

World War Z: Home Front USA

This chapter was about interviews with people across the USA. One person talked about getting America back on its feet after the zombie apocalypse had started. He labeled people an F-6 or A-1. F-6 people were put into unskilled labor because they weren't skilled in what the US needed during the war. A-1 people became part of the Community Self-Sufficiency Program. Rich people were mad about having plumber or construction workers be their bosses, but some people were happy with their new jobs. They worked on three things they did that helped the allies win World War II, which is why they started on doing it again during this war.

World War Z chapter 5: Turning the Tide

Chapter 5, Turning the Tide, was mainly about what was going on after the great panic and what the government and their military were doing to keep everything together, and keep the zombies away from where they are. One part of the chapter that I found interesting was how Paul Redeker re-did Plan Orange, and turned it into "Orange Eighty-four", which was a plan on who lived, and who was sacrificed amongst the African population. Who was chosen was determined by IQ, income, fertility, and anything that seemed a desired quality or trait about that person. But what was even more surprising, that even though this plan made him the most hated man in Africa, when people came for him, they wanted the plan to be taken into effect, and it did. I am just shocked at how desperate they were that they were ready to keep a few of their citizens and then throw the majority out as bait to keep the zombies away from the ones they actually want saved.

World War Z: Turning the Tide

This chapter takes place in South Africa, Ireland, Ukraine, Canada, and India. In the section that took place in South Africa was about a man named Paul Redeker. Redeker was one of history's most controversial figures as many people thought of him as a savior, while others considered him evil. But most people considered him, dispassionate. They believed this because he wants everyone to shed their humanity and lose all emotions. He wrote papers about alternate solutions to quandaries pertaining to history. After he wrote these, the South African government took notice of him and hired him to revise their survival plan, "Orange." Due to his lack of emotion and great logic, he was even able to calculate who should be rescued and who shouldn't which would eliminate the need for the use of as many resources as trying to save everyone. When the Great Panic began, the NIA came to Redeker to find out if he had a plan for the zombie apocalypse, which he did have one in 3 easy steps. Shortly after, no one had ever seen Redeker again, as he is at an insane asylum.

The Great Panic

          The Great Panic, this chapter is about the fact that people begin to understand and realized that Zombies are proberly real.This chapter shows how people were rushing to the coast just to get the boat and swim . It amazed me and for those who were able to swam, they were pulled by the Zombies under the water. I think this is  scary because they are risking their life and taking money for other people  to ride in their boat.

         There was an extreeme situation where a girl, Sharon recalls when her mother tried to strangle her believing that it was act out of love because sharon mother believe she was trying to prevent her daughter from becoming infected by Zombie. Sorry, but  I am not a fan of this book!

Turning the Tide

This chapter discusses the way various governments had to make tough decisions to deal with the outbreak. Much of the chapter is focused on how the different versions of the Redeker plan were carried out in various countries who sacrificed there own citizens for security. One particularly drastic example of this came from the Rajastahn, India chapter where a BRO officer is charged with blowing up a road in the Himalayas to secure the mountain from zombies but the road is still full of refugees trying to cross. The army was unable to keep the panicked civilians from trying to cross so the order was given to blow the bridge up no matter how many people were on it. The general explained how even if they refused, the air force would just bomb the thing which would destroy part of the mountain which would provide the zombies access to the other side making the barrier useless. After the charges fail to explode, General Raj-Singh sacrifices himself to complete the mission. The thing that stood about about this chapter for me is the imagery of the zombies falling off the cliff when Khan wakes up. He described as sounding like water droplets dripping but in reality it was the horde still trying to get to him and falling, in turn, to hit the valley far below.  

World War Z: Turning the Tide

This chapter was mainly about the aftermath of the beginning of the Zombie Apocalypse and what militaries and the governments were doing to keep the living dead as far from their territories as possible. A story that caught my attention was told by a girl named Jesika, who lived in Sand Lakes Provincial Wilderness Park, Manitoba, Canada. Her story was about her and her families "trip" to go as far north as possible. This is what they all thought would be the safest idea. She talked of the fun they had at first, everyone being so nice, singing songs by a campfire, until it all came to an end. Slowly, they ran out of food and resources, no more wood to burn, no more fish to catch, or animals to hunt. People began fighting and hating each other, stealing from one another. Everyone just waited for winter to start, then couldn't wait for it to be over. What I thought was most interesting was that she said they couldn't wait for winter because the Zombies would freeze, but as soon as winter came to an end, they melted, and were back to the way they were. Ready to eat brains.

World War Z: Turning the Tide

The beginning of the chapter starts out by introducing a character named Paul Redeker. Paul Redeker was a figure despised in South Africa for having previously created a plan to save the white minority in the event of a revolt by the black majority against the apartheid system. However, because of his ability to separate logic and reason from emotion, he was able to create an efficient survival plan that not only helped South Africa survive the zombie apocalypse, but also served as a blueprint for other countries to survive as well. During this period, there were massive evacuations being undertaken and many refugees continued crossing over borders and into “safe” havens. However this migration of people posed many problems. In the capital of Ukraine, it became increasingly difficult to separate the uninfected from the infected. As a result, high command resorted to their last resort by having a fighter jet use chemical weapons on the refugees being evacuated in order to identify the infected. Another example was the migration of many Americans into Canada, hoping that the winter would make zombies immobile. However, many people died from hunger or the cold because no one planned beyond a stay of a few months. In my opinion, the most extreme example took place in India. A pass that refugees were passing over was blown up to stop the millions of zombies following the refugees from getting through. What stood out to me the most was that because the detonators did not go off as planned, the general in charge was so devoted to his mission that he set them off manually and gave his own life.

World War Z chapter 4: The Great Panic

The chapter the Great Panic is really about how people are coming to terms with what is happening and their experience in the Great Panic. The part the stood out to me the most was how people were running to the coast to get on the boats and even swimming to get to them; and the people that swam got pulled under by the zombies the boats were throwing overboard. I cringe at the thought that because Zombies don't need air to breathe, they can literally just walk along the bottom and then, eventually, walk onto any land.

The Great Panic

This chapter is ultimately about how people begin to deal with the realization that zombies are real. People have been in denial before this so it comes as quite a shock. One part that stood out to me was the part about people swimming out to get to boats and being pulled under by zombies. Imagine how scary this would be. Risking your life to try to save it. And the fact that people were taking money for others to ride in their boats. Did they really think money was still going to matter?

The Great Panic

In this chapter, it talks about how everyone is starting to truly realize what is happening in the world around them, a zombie apocalypse and it talks about the great panic that swarmed through everyone's minds. They finally accepted the fact of a zombie apocalypse after a news story confirmed it was real. It talked about the extremes that were happening around the world because of the zombie infection. It talks about how no one is prepared for something like this, except Israel of course who used their intel wisely. The part that stood out to me was the Russian platoon killing the little girl zombie. It showed that people were still seeing zombies as humans, which would get you killed. They didn't want to let go of their family, friends, or the rest of what made them human,

World War Z: The Great Panic

Up until this point, many were still in denial over the zombie threat. In "The Great Panic," the chapter describes the events that happened in the aftermath of a news story confirming the existence of the outbreak of the zombie plague. In this chapter you see some of the extreme situations people are pushed into. In Russia, members of an army unit were forced to decide which member out of ten members was to be killed as a punishment for rebelling against having to hunt down zombies. There was also a scene where a girl named Sharon recalls when her mother tried to strangle her.  Another extreme situation was when people tried to flee to the sea and had outbreaks among the passengers, there was one man who desperately swam through zombie infested waters in order to reach a boat. The final event of the chapter was the battle between the U.S military and the zombies that took place in Yonkers. What was meant to be a shining victory intended to restore the nation's morale; ended up becoming a complete disaster. This was due in part to the use of weapons which were ineffective against zombies. The part that stood out to me was when Sharon's mother tried to kill her because killing is mostly seen as an act of cruelty and inhumanity. However, in this case it was an act out of love, as the mother was trying to prevent Sharon from becoming infected and reanimated as a zombie.

World War Z: Chapters 1-3

In chapters 1-3, it starts by talking about how China's population has taken a major death toll of about 34,950,000 people. It starts with a doctor in China, who had found "patient zero," he was tied up in a room with skin gone from being bounded and yet no blood, he had no pulse and his skin was cold and grey. The doctor realizes what it is and is jailed so he can not tell anyone about it, but the infection had already been spread outside of the country. Chapters 1-3 are interviews about what people were doing when they first saw it happen around the world, including Israel building a fort with high walls, America buying Phalanx and more.

The Great Panic

Although this whole chapter is interesting, I think it is the first part that catches my attention the most. This takes place in Memphis, Tennessee. The interviewer talks to Gavin Blaire who is a pilot during the Great Panic. Gavin explains what its like to see a bird's eye view of humans trying to escape zombies. the visuals reminded me of something you would see while evacuating from a natural disaster such as a hurricane. Cars are bumper to bumper down highway 80. Some people have gotten out of their cars and are running faster than the traffic is moving. Gavin notices how much is being left behind, even expensive things like a grand piano. This scene relates to the rest of the book because you start to see how people start to drop everything and run away from the zombies. This is one of the first clearly unsuccessful plans in trying to escape the walking dead. He sees zombies actually grabbing people from their cars or getting in the cars to get humans. They have no way of escape. The cars are so tightly packed that some people can't even open their doors to run away.

If I was in this situation I would be terrified! I don't think I would use a car to get away because it seems inefficient when everyone else is doing the same thing. Something's I noticed is that this shows that a lot of the things in our world are materialistic. Luckily, people were leaving behind what might weigh them down in order to reach safety. I wonder if people were leaving behind other people if the could run faster or had bigger cars than others. Would some be ready to betray other's to save themselves? I think this ties in with the class because people have a tendency to run away from their problems. This was a perfect example of human nature. I think its important to see how people react in crazy, unexpected situations like that.

The Great Panic

This specific chapter goes into detail about what it is really like when people realize what is truly going on and people "panic". Throughout poor attempts to escape the inescapable we learn that there is no true escape. The chapter goes into how there is almost no defense against the zombies. The part that sticks out the most is the very beginning when he was talking about how everyone was on I-80 at an attempt to escape and many people were trapped in a swarm of zombies and how this created more panic and only made it worse. It sets up how people act during this time. it shows us the current state of people and there decision making process. It is important to the book because it shows us how the general public reacted to zombies and how the zombies tend to act towards humans.

World War Z: The Great Panic

This chapter was primarily about what was going on in peoples lives after the Zombie Apocalypse hit. People were in fact at great panic, trying to leave their state and escape the terror, only to find out it's everywhere. Some places, like Greenland aren't as infested as most, so they consider themselves lucky. People were killing one another, jealous if someone had more protection than you(Bridgetown, Barbados, West Indies Federation). Streets were destroyed and everyone was acting like animals, specifically described as "monkeys." A part that stuck out to me, was on pages 96 and 97. The man said that the zombies were invincible, only dying if shot in the head; so the bombs that were meant to cause them to burst like balloons, actually didn't effect them at all like they would a normal human being.

The Great Panic

This chapter lets the reader see what it was like when people around the world finally realized that the apocalypse was really happening. Everyone panicked and, in the chaos, did anything they could to protect what was their's. People tried escaping to other states or countries, only to find out there was no escape. A soldier talked about how even the military's strongest weapons and fighting tactics had no effect on the zombies, and how horrifying it was to get down to their last defense and still be unable to protect themselves, let alone win or do much damage at all. Another man told about his experience attempting to flee his country aboard a boat, watching people drown, reanimate underwater, and pull another person under. No one was prepared to deal with something this major, which caused the Great Panic.

The Great Panic

This chapter basically talks about what people are doing after they realize the Zombie Apocalypse is real. It really makes me picture the movie 28 Days Later, because the movie involved an infectious disease that people spread to one another as well. It tells about the struggles people are going to to find safety, what is happening to some of the families that have been infected, and all the chaos this has caused. People are running out to sea to reach boats to flee, family members are killing other members without knowing, and it's all a huge panic as the title suggests. The part that stuck out to me the most is the balloon bombs that were created. It's crazy that these bombs had no affect on the zombies because the only kill shot for them are their heads. If anyone else were to be near one of them, it game over.

Violence in the Media









Violence in Video Games
The focus of this article was how the aggression and violence in video games was connected to violence in real life. The article basically stated how parents need to use the rating system that  was designed  to place each video game in its appropriate age group.And how parents should know the story of the video game  before they let their children play it. There has been some studies that has shown that the violence in these video games are related to the violence that's happening in the real world.

Violence in Movies:
This Article was about Harvey Weinstien and how he wanted to put a end to violent movies because even though their is no actual study showing that violence and movie violence were connected he feels as if violence can be influence by it. Even though he was in the film business and helped Tarentino with his career he didn't carethatt people would respond back with negative comments.

Violence in Music
This article was about Marilyn Manson and his opinion on how he felt when people was saying how his music influenced the teens who shot up Columbine High School. the teens didnt even listen to Marilyn Manson and he felt as if they just found someone who was similar to the music he listen to and just had to blame someone. Reporters was saying that the teens were dressed as him but they werent. Marilyn also stated that by putting those murderers on magazine covers only gave them power by letting them become a kind of role model to children who are a little off.

Notes over World War Z class discussion

Key

   Q? – question

   A: - answer

   SN: - side note

Q? How is the book set up?

   A: A bunch of interviews from a guy going around collecting information about what happened from all the surviving important people (12 years later).

Q? How did the book start out?

   A: The UN military branch sends out the guy to go and collect all of the information.

Q? How did the outbreak happen?

   A: A doctor visits a village in China and sees a bunch of sick people and a child culprit. He calls his friend to ask what’s going on, and his friend asks of he’s armed. The doctor says no. the doctor, freaked out by his friends reaction calls his daughter to say goodbye. The military shows up, kills all of the infected, and arrests the doctor and everybody who isn’t infected.

Q? Why is this important?

   A: China is trying to keep the infection a secret, and succeeds for a couple of years. It shows how china is trying to deal with it without causing panic about it.

Q? What stands out as important?

   A: The doctor who makes a placebo drug.

Q? Why is this important/a problem?

   A: It gave everybody hope, but didn’t do anything to help the actual problem.

     SN: He’s super rude about it.

Q? Page 56-57, why did he say that?

   A: He is justifying why he did it, and how it’s not his problem

Q? What interested you the most?

   A: Black-market organs (pg. 21-28).

Q? What’s going on and why is it a big deal?

   A: They have to find a special heart and turn towards the black-market, and the patient gets infected. This seems to be how the outbreak spread across the world.

Q? What else seemed important in today’s readings?

   A: How Israel stepped up to protect itself against the zombies.

     SN: They built a wall and invited the Jews and people of Palestinian descent inside for safety.

Q? How did Israel know to do this?

   A: Some people get an email, saw all of the warning signs and took action.

Q? What’s going on in the paragraph?

   A: They’ve been “burned” before for not listening to warning signs. So when they see the sign/hear about something absolutely ridiculous, like walking corpses, they don’t risk it and immediately take action and investigate.

Q? Why is the report so crucial?

   A: It’s all of the evidence of the zombies being real and they share it with everybody.

Q? What does America do about the report?

   A: They ignore it and think its crazy, as does everybody else who gets it.

SN: I found it interesting that the son fought against safety.

Q? Why did he fight?

   A: Because he thought it was like a prison, and he grew up with believing that the Jews were their (Palestinians) mortal enemies.

Q? What happens with all of the fighting/civil war in Israel?

   A: The Rebels fight back.

World War Z Chapters 1-3

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War is about the interviews done by survivors of a plague. The plague stated in China from a little boy who had be bitten from playing around in his village. The doctor that was interviewed, Dr. Kwang, told us how the boy at just seemed so lifeless at first. Then after you thought everything was okay, they boy broke out of his restraints and started going crazy. The plague spread over the whole world and caused people to take immediate action to seek for any shelters. The plague was believed to be rabies that first came from Africa and spread to other parts in the world. The book seems to be all about the interviews of these survivors and the horrible experiences they have had because of it. Losing lost ones, homes, and sanity all because of these horrific creature torturing them.

The part that probably stood out the most to me was what I mentioned above about the boy. I couldn't even begin to describe how I would act if I was in the doctor's shoes. He talked about the skin looked gray and there seemed to be no life in the little boy at all. Also, let's stop and talk about how it's a young boy at that. I know I'm young but just to think if that was a kid I knew seeing him like that would crush me. It only got worse when the boy turned out to be infected and tried attacking the doctor. It's so insane how this author has grabbed my attention and I'm even more intrigued about zombies now. I can honestly saw I'm ready for what's going to happen next.

World War Z: Chapters 1-3

The Introduction first introduced the interviewer, who was commissioned with the task of of writing a report on "The Zombie War," and instead decided to write a book composed of interviews from those who had lived through the ordeal. The chapter "Warnings," describes the origins of the zombie war; beginning with how the first case of the outbreak was found in China in a boy who had been bitten while treasure hunting. The chapter goes on to describe the subtle hints of a zombie outbreak from people worldwide and the steps that Israel took to prevent the outbreak from getting through their borders. In the last chapter it becomes known that an anti rabies drug was produced and marketed as being able to to protect people from getting infected despite having no such capabilities. This caused the masses to be subdued and to not take the zombie war as seriously as they should have. This also ties into the section that stood out to me the most. With a zombie outbreak underway, Breck Scott only had one thing on his mind; profit. It is fascinating to know that even in such an extreme situation there is always someone who will take advantage of people's fears.

Volume 1

I'm actually really excited to read the rest after I finished with volume one. I know zombies aren't real, at least not that we know of but some fantasy is great to me. I like how the author really tries to make you understand how he feels about it and he makes the reading more interesting to stay hooked. The thing that really stood out the most to me is how the guy lost his entire family. This book so far shows how much everyone is helping out to stay together and survive. It seems like that's going to happen throughout the book, so whoever decides to stray off is probably going to be the ones to go. This part stuck out to me so much because before reading it, I had a family member that just recently passed away. Seeing how caring everyone was in the book and how they needed to stay together like a family reminded me of my own family.

World War Z: Chapters 1-3

  World War Z, by Max Brooks, starts off with a major deficit to china's population. The books starts with an accounts of Doctor in China who visits a young boy who was bitten and there arises the dilemma of the disease, it is thought it be rabies. a young boy, patient zero, was bit at a village in china. This is where the first account of "zombie" comes to our attention. The doctor recalls his accounts and in the end of chapter one is jailed and upon his escape finds the disease has escaped China's borders. The Book continues to interview others from different places around the world to have view on their stories.
  The part in the book that stood out the most for me was the part where he went into deep detail about patient zero and described his condition and his "mental state" it stood out because he described is vividly and made me really have an image in my head.

World War Z chapters 1-3

In the chapters 1-3 of World War Z, by Max Brooks, has a big underlining question of if it's rabies, or really something else. The disease that started in China from a little boy who said to have gotten bitten while diving for treasure in his old village, has now spread around the world and is having people flee to seek shelter. In the book, it is structured like an interview, talking to different people and what they went through while the outbreak was happening.

There were two parts that stuck out to me the most, one of them being  when Israel set up their fortress and people were flocking to it, it didn't raise a big enough commotion from the other nations; they just thought of it as they're crazy. The United States even had a big discussion about it, even asked what if they were right, but, to them, the whole idea of "walking corpses" was a crazy notion, and that's why they were unprepared to the whole outbreak. The second thing that stood out to me was how nobody really knew about the Warmbrunn-Knight report except after the Great Panic. People may have heard the name, but never knew the contents, except Israel, which is why they set up the confinement. Everybody was so unprepared for not knowing the report, the the entire world paid for it with the lives of thousands.

World War Z chapters 1-3

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie war is a book full of interviews from survivors of the plague. It started in China and moved across the world. People believed it was rabies. They were terrified, and rightly so because these "sick" people were breaking into homes and killing anyone they came across. Something that stood out to me was the man who created the cure for rabies, Phalanx, telling people they wouldn't have to worry if they bought it because it would prevent them from getting rabies. He was so proud of himself for his creation because he made so much money off of it, and he didn't really have to lie; Phalanx could prevent rabies, just not the plague they were facing. This stood out to me the most because of how uncaring he seemed and how proud he was, especially considering the state of panic the world was in at the time.

World War Z Ch. 1-3

Reading the first parts of World War Z was confusing but insightful. It gave it a realistic feel with the introduction being about an interviewer tasked with writing about "The Zombie War." When his work is deemed to emotional and biased, he decides to write a book instead. One could compare his timing of the book to post 9/11. How would anyone know it was too soon to talk about such events?

He starts by interviewing a doctor from China named Dr. Kwang, who tells the interviewer that the first outbreak he saw was in a village called New Dachang. He claimed he met "patient zero" there. It was a young boy who looked dead, but was violent and thrashed through his restraints. The doctor found out the boy went out with his father and came back with a bite. The boy seemed to infect other villagers so the village was put on lock down. At the end of the chapter it is revealed that the doctor was imprisoned without charges & escaped from prison, but it was too late. The outbreak had spread. It always amazes me in story lines similar to this that nobody seems to listen to warning or notice that there is something seriously wrong and dangerous going on. 

The interviewer lands in America and speaks with CIA agent Bob Archer, where he learns the CIA is not how the average American person thinks of them. They knew China was hiding something and thought they were soon about to declare war on the U.S... little did they know the situation was much more grave. 

World War Z first 3 chapters

When I first began to read this book, I was very confused on the perspective of the author. Once I realized the unnamed interviewer is the main perspective of the book, it made a ton more sense! The book is about this man who is commissioned to write a report on the Zombie Wars. He travels the world hearing different people's personal experiences of this war, its beginning and take off. When he turns in his findings, his boss finds its too emotional so he takes out the "human factor" of the book. You start to learn how what they believed was "African rabies" crossed the world through various modes of transmission including refugees, black market organs, and  human trafficking. Every person's story is so intriguing. Some have truly horrific experiences while others are just mad at the world for the whole epidemic.

I don't know if I could pick one favorite part of the book so far. I think the really graphic parts are more interesting because I can visualize what is happening like I am in their shoes. Right off the beginning I could feel the uneasiness of the doctor who found the zombie child. I would be so freaked if I saw something so lifeless still moving. You could really hear the arm snap off even though I was just reading. I appreciate the writer's creativity. The character from Bethlehem, Palestine had a connecting feel, as well. When his father lashed out at him for trying to leave the family I could feel the rage between the two. I would be so scared to be put in a brand new situation where you're constantly checked and praying you make it through the dog interrogation. When the interviewer talked to the guy from Antarctica I was almost mad at the man. He was so inconsiderate of the human race's well being! How could he not blame himself for selling a fake vaccine that he knew would make no difference? It was shocking to think that people in real life could do that. What if the flu vaccine just a sense of security? food for thought  

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War Ch. 1-3

Was it Rabies? Or was it something else? What could have caused such a terrible, fearful outbreak? A plague that first began in China, was suddenly spreading throughout the world. These things breaking into peoples homes, attacking one another, without any sense they're doing it, or who they're doing it to. In this book, Max Brooks interviewed a few important people on what exactly happened in these times, who did it truly effect, and what was the government doing to stop it? 
One part that stuck out to me specifically was the placebos that were created for the sole purpose of providing hope for everyone. Phalanx. Proud of himself for the millions of dollars he was making, Mister Scotts story stuck out to me the most. He had very little care in the matter, all he cared about was the money. This was very weird to me considering what was going on at the time...how was he so okay with it? Once I get further into this book, I hope to find some answer to this question. Maybe the situation wasn't as big of a deal then it seems. Although that's hard to believe considering in the last section of the chapter I learn that a man named Tim and his wife and kids were so rudely interrupted on a nice day by these walkers; breaking into their home, pulling children's hair, and flat out attacking them, forcing them to leave and forget everything behind. 

Walking dead

One of the things that stood out was when Rick wokes up and  wondering around in the hospital. He was calling for help but no one to answer him. It also amazed me the kindness of the people he meet when he came out of the hospital and get to his home. Other that stood out to me was when shane and Rick were fighting in the wood and shane get aggravated planed to shoot Rick but someone else appear and kill shane .There is alot of things that stood out  to me in this book .

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                                                       Dialogue Essay


Me: Hello everyone and thanks for joining us this evening! On today’s episode we have three

special guest, first let me introduce to you Craig Anderson,phD Director of the center for the

study of violence, Next we have Lawrence Kutner,phD, and last is Temmy from New Times

paper. This evening we will be having a debate and discuss about  the controversial issue of

how violent  video games contribute to youths violence.

Me: So,Craig , what is your opinion about how violent video games contribute to youth

Violence?

Craig: (smiles) I believe violence game has a lot to do in the life of our youth. The results

Overall have been fairly consistent across types of studies and visual media like television

, films, and video games. There is a significant  relation between exposure to media violence

and aggressive  behavior .

Lawrence Kutner (shake head ) That is not true, it’s clear that the big fears bandied about in the

Press that violent video games make children significantly  more violent in the real world;that

Children engage in the illegal, immoral, sexist, and violent acts they see in some of these

Game are not supported by simplistic form. That should make sense to anyone who thinks about

It. After all, millions of children and adults play these games, yet the world has not been reduced

To chaos and anarchy.

Temmy:(shake head at Lawrence) Lawrence has brought up a very good and  Interesting

Argument, there are studies to prove her claims to be true and I think we should all come up with

What we can do to prevent the violence in video games with the children and youth.

Me: Good and great  opinion from the three of you. Craig what do think about what Lawrence

Said and you mention about aggressive behavior , can you explain more on that?

Craig: Sure, exposing  children and youth to violent visual media in physical aggressive

Against another  person. By physical I mean behavior that is intended  to harm another

Person physically , such as hitting with a first or some object. A single belief exposure

To violent media can increase aggressive in the immediate situation. Repeated exposure  leads

To general increase in aggressive over time. This relation between media violence and

Aggressive behavior is causal.


Me: Well this is where we will stop for this evening, I agree with all of you in one way

Or the other. I feel like we could agree on what we allow our children and youth should

Watch or the kind of video games they play. I want to thank all of you for coming to the

Show this evening . I hope to meet with you anytime we need to do more of this debate!

Thank you all for your participation.

Articles

The article on Video games gives a vivid description on how video game violence influences real life aggression. Using large groups of data from over 20 years on the effects of video games, Gentile and Anderson cover a range of examples and ideas about the topic of violence, from the history of violence in video games, to studies that have been conducted on the matter.

Marilyn Manson states that his music could not been responsible for the columbine shootings. He is furious with the media for publicizing people responsible for such cases of horror, like the Columbine shooters and is also mad for media trying to place the blame on musicians and movies for the behaviors of these individuals. He even states that the shooters were not actually fans of his music, yet the media still blamed him.

Andrew O'Hehir depicts the relationship between movie violence and real violence. He celebrates Weinstein for standing out. Violence has gone down in this country, as Andrew states, even when violence in media is at its peak. O'Hehir says weary to those jumping to conclusions, because it's hard to know what is causing these people to act out in such hatred.