Zombie Apocalypse Analysis
Abdul Azim bin Abdul Nasser
LING 101
Instructor: Cassandra Bishop
December 13, 2011
Draft 2
A Bibliographic Essay on the Escape from Zombie Land
“Social Media: Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse” by Ali S. Khan published in Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website generally discuss the “what-if” situation when it comes to a zombie attack and how to deal with it. The fact that Khan discussed interesting topic in his article with catchy title about “zombie apocalypse”, this draws my attention to go through more in depth about this topic. I realized many are talking about the same subject as well on the realm of net and then stumbled across so many other articles similar to Khan’s. I decided to choose three other articles to be compared to the Khan’s article in this essay. I find that every each of the articles is unique on its own way of delivering the idea on preparation to face the …show more content…
zombie apocalypse with some other interesting added value and facts, while being distinctively in their own identity.
In the previous essay, I have discussed in depth about the “Social Media: Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse” article and how the whole article comes together. It is a fairly short and compact article on how to prepare when it comes to a zombie apocalypse. However, all of the tips given in the article are more on basic preparations that can be applied when it comes to natural disaster emergency as well making the article less intriguing. Apart from that, the article also added points on essentials meaning and history about zombies and how zombies penetrate the modern world and society. The excitement in the essay comes from the part where the author talks about a fiction medical paper wrote by Steven Scholzma, a Harvard psychiatrist that referred zombie could be a disease called Ataxic Neurodegenerative Satiety Deficiency Syndrome and it is infectious, thus bring us to the possibility of zombie apocalypse epidemic.
The other three articles that I would like to compare with the CDC’s one in this essay are “How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse Using Science” by Angela Watercutter, published in Wired.com, Survive a Zombie Apocalypse by unknown author, published in howto.wired.com and the last one is by Robin Parish from forevergeek.com and the article title is How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse. As I said earlier in this essay, all three discuss the same thing about “how to survive a zombie apocalypse” but with the authors’ own twist in each article stated.
All three article have their own plus points so it will differ and not totally repetitive from the other “How-To Zombie Apocalypse Guide” available on the net. The article by Angela Watercutter is written in a very scientific way relevant to its title. This article also provided interesting charts on what a zombie’s brain looks like and five quick tips on how to face the zombie scientifically according to Bradley Voytek, a UC Berkeley neuroscientist. The whole article is inspired by Voytek’s presentation and the charts are some parts from the presentation slides. The charts are illustrated in attractive way which attracts me as a reader to continue reading. The five tips are amusing and helpful enough as well as Voytek explains how to react with zombie encounters due to zombie’s brain defects based on his research according to his observation on many of the show’s about zombies. This article also contains what Voytek’s take on his fictional medical research and how the whole idea of his approach on this unique and interesting way of surviving the zombie apocalypse.
The author did a good job on keeping the readers on track and not bored while reading it with lots of scientific facts that related naturally to Voytek’s charts.
There are a lot of scientific terms used in the article which I think the author does not explain thoroughly. I find that not everyone can understand the term and readers like me, I need to Google some of the words out. Many would not going to do so, resulting the readers not continuing to read the article till the end. The article also did not explain what a zombie is but I assume by now, many would know what zombie generally means. The author of this article also stated that this “How-To” tips are not to be confused with the ones from CDC’s. So I assume that is a clever way on telling the readers how the article differs from the other. The article is really interesting, and I find it refreshing with all the scientific way of surviving zombies attack rather than reading repetitively about predictable tips and
tricks.
The next article I would like to talk about is the “Survive a Zombie Apocalypse” from how-to-wiki.wired.com. Unlike the other articles, this article discussed more in depth about the types of zombie and how to differentiate them according to their types. It is entertaining in some way because it never really comes to me there are types of zombies. The author of this article then explains about the weapons and he/she explains more into the types of firearm to be used if the zombie apocalypse going to happen. The article also explains how certain types of firearm are better than the other and the importance of the size of it. This is the only article that discussed about the long term planning for this apocalypse and how to deal with it in a long term period. In the next last part of the article, the author adds humorous remarks on how to deal with it mentally which add the fun to the article.
My take on this article is, it is a very layback article and in some way I find it almost not serious and more of a fun reading material. It does not come together perfectly but it did have a certain points that make the article unique which is the part where the author explains the types of firearm. The points given do make sense and are informational as far as the explanations goes well with the points. Humor elements that the author portrays in the article add fun in reading it as well. Other than that, I did not find many other things to elaborate about this particular article.
Last but not least, the third article, How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse by Robin Parish contains more likely the same contents as the ones from CDC’s. Apart from how similar it is to the CDC’s article, it explains how each items needed for the zombie apocalypse works logically and logistic wise and considerations that readers have to take note of when stocking up the materials needed. Like the article from “how-to-wiki.wired.com”, this article also includes humor in the writing, and I cannot help but laugh in between lines in the articles. Image that is used in the article are from The Walking Dead which is the most popular zombie themed TV series and these in a way coordinates with the topic discussed.
This last article does not really give much impact to me but it is a more casual to be compared with the CDC’s article. I like the opening of this last article when it says how Hollywood movies and video games are constantly there to remind us that zombie apocalypse is going to happen. I like how funny the article can be and at the same time, it makes sense. In another hand, it need more work in terms of giving more tips and elaborate points discussed. Apart from that, I find this a short and compact article but very entertaining.
After discussing about all three article and comparing it to the CDC’s article, I find every each of the article have their own strength. They all have unique points to offer and each have their own personalization onto the article. My favorite article would be the first one by Angela Watercutter regarding the neuroscience approach on surviving a zombie attack. However, the second ones are also informational when it comes to it firearm tips and tricks. The third one amuse me with it funny charm of writing.
As I said earlier on this essay, all three articles discussed almost the same thing like the CDC’s article but each of them differ in some way. When I was trying to find some other articles on the net as a material to compare with the CDC’s article, I noticed the others apart from what I have chosen have almost the same contents like CDC’s. That is the main reason why I chose these three articles to compare with the CDC’s, this way the strength of each article can be highlighted more. All and all, the writers of these zombie apocalypse survival articles surely have a great imagination in order to come out with such diverse tips. Well, I guess we all have to be creative and think outside the box in order to survive the zombie madness and keep off the zombie from eating our brain, now aren’t we?
Reference list
1. ¬Watercutter, A. (2011, June 30). How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse Using Science. Retrieved from http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/06/zombie-apocalypse-science/?pid=4321&viewall=true.
2. (2009, April 26). Survive a Zombie Apocalypse. Retrieved from http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Survive_a_Zombie_Apocalypse.
3. Parish, R. (2011, October 16). How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse. Retrieved from http://www.forevergeek.com/2011/10/how-to-survive-the-zombie-apocalypse/.
LING 101
Instructor: Cassandra Bishop
December 13, 2011
Draft 2
A Bibliographic Essay on the Escape from Zombie Land
“Social Media: Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse” by Ali S. Khan published in Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website generally discuss the “what-if” situation when it comes to a zombie attack and how to deal with it. The fact that Khan discussed interesting topic in his article with catchy title about “zombie apocalypse”, this draws my attention to go through more in depth about this topic. I realized many are talking about the same subject as well on the realm of net and then stumbled across so many other articles similar to Khan’s. I decided to choose three other articles to be compared to the Khan’s article in this essay. I find that every each of the articles is unique on its own way of delivering the idea on preparation to face the …show more content…
zombie apocalypse with some other interesting added value and facts, while being distinctively in their own identity.
In the previous essay, I have discussed in depth about the “Social Media: Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse” article and how the whole article comes together. It is a fairly short and compact article on how to prepare when it comes to a zombie apocalypse. However, all of the tips given in the article are more on basic preparations that can be applied when it comes to natural disaster emergency as well making the article less intriguing. Apart from that, the article also added points on essentials meaning and history about zombies and how zombies penetrate the modern world and society. The excitement in the essay comes from the part where the author talks about a fiction medical paper wrote by Steven Scholzma, a Harvard psychiatrist that referred zombie could be a disease called Ataxic Neurodegenerative Satiety Deficiency Syndrome and it is infectious, thus bring us to the possibility of zombie apocalypse epidemic.
The other three articles that I would like to compare with the CDC’s one in this essay are “How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse Using Science” by Angela Watercutter, published in Wired.com, Survive a Zombie Apocalypse by unknown author, published in howto.wired.com and the last one is by Robin Parish from forevergeek.com and the article title is How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse. As I said earlier in this essay, all three discuss the same thing about “how to survive a zombie apocalypse” but with the authors’ own twist in each article stated.
All three article have their own plus points so it will differ and not totally repetitive from the other “How-To Zombie Apocalypse Guide” available on the net. The article by Angela Watercutter is written in a very scientific way relevant to its title. This article also provided interesting charts on what a zombie’s brain looks like and five quick tips on how to face the zombie scientifically according to Bradley Voytek, a UC Berkeley neuroscientist. The whole article is inspired by Voytek’s presentation and the charts are some parts from the presentation slides. The charts are illustrated in attractive way which attracts me as a reader to continue reading. The five tips are amusing and helpful enough as well as Voytek explains how to react with zombie encounters due to zombie’s brain defects based on his research according to his observation on many of the show’s about zombies. This article also contains what Voytek’s take on his fictional medical research and how the whole idea of his approach on this unique and interesting way of surviving the zombie apocalypse.
The author did a good job on keeping the readers on track and not bored while reading it with lots of scientific facts that related naturally to Voytek’s charts.
There are a lot of scientific terms used in the article which I think the author does not explain thoroughly. I find that not everyone can understand the term and readers like me, I need to Google some of the words out. Many would not going to do so, resulting the readers not continuing to read the article till the end. The article also did not explain what a zombie is but I assume by now, many would know what zombie generally means. The author of this article also stated that this “How-To” tips are not to be confused with the ones from CDC’s. So I assume that is a clever way on telling the readers how the article differs from the other. The article is really interesting, and I find it refreshing with all the scientific way of surviving zombies attack rather than reading repetitively about predictable tips and
tricks.
The next article I would like to talk about is the “Survive a Zombie Apocalypse” from how-to-wiki.wired.com. Unlike the other articles, this article discussed more in depth about the types of zombie and how to differentiate them according to their types. It is entertaining in some way because it never really comes to me there are types of zombies. The author of this article then explains about the weapons and he/she explains more into the types of firearm to be used if the zombie apocalypse going to happen. The article also explains how certain types of firearm are better than the other and the importance of the size of it. This is the only article that discussed about the long term planning for this apocalypse and how to deal with it in a long term period. In the next last part of the article, the author adds humorous remarks on how to deal with it mentally which add the fun to the article.
My take on this article is, it is a very layback article and in some way I find it almost not serious and more of a fun reading material. It does not come together perfectly but it did have a certain points that make the article unique which is the part where the author explains the types of firearm. The points given do make sense and are informational as far as the explanations goes well with the points. Humor elements that the author portrays in the article add fun in reading it as well. Other than that, I did not find many other things to elaborate about this particular article.
Last but not least, the third article, How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse by Robin Parish contains more likely the same contents as the ones from CDC’s. Apart from how similar it is to the CDC’s article, it explains how each items needed for the zombie apocalypse works logically and logistic wise and considerations that readers have to take note of when stocking up the materials needed. Like the article from “how-to-wiki.wired.com”, this article also includes humor in the writing, and I cannot help but laugh in between lines in the articles. Image that is used in the article are from The Walking Dead which is the most popular zombie themed TV series and these in a way coordinates with the topic discussed.
This last article does not really give much impact to me but it is a more casual to be compared with the CDC’s article. I like the opening of this last article when it says how Hollywood movies and video games are constantly there to remind us that zombie apocalypse is going to happen. I like how funny the article can be and at the same time, it makes sense. In another hand, it need more work in terms of giving more tips and elaborate points discussed. Apart from that, I find this a short and compact article but very entertaining.
After discussing about all three article and comparing it to the CDC’s article, I find every each of the article have their own strength. They all have unique points to offer and each have their own personalization onto the article. My favorite article would be the first one by Angela Watercutter regarding the neuroscience approach on surviving a zombie attack. However, the second ones are also informational when it comes to it firearm tips and tricks. The third one amuse me with it funny charm of writing.
As I said earlier on this essay, all three articles discussed almost the same thing like the CDC’s article but each of them differ in some way. When I was trying to find some other articles on the net as a material to compare with the CDC’s article, I noticed the others apart from what I have chosen have almost the same contents like CDC’s. That is the main reason why I chose these three articles to compare with the CDC’s, this way the strength of each article can be highlighted more. All and all, the writers of these zombie apocalypse survival articles surely have a great imagination in order to come out with such diverse tips. Well, I guess we all have to be creative and think outside the box in order to survive the zombie madness and keep off the zombie from eating our brain, now aren’t we?
Reference list
1. ¬Watercutter, A. (2011, June 30). How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse Using Science. Retrieved from http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/06/zombie-apocalypse-science/?pid=4321&viewall=true.
2. (2009, April 26). Survive a Zombie Apocalypse. Retrieved from http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Survive_a_Zombie_Apocalypse.
3. Parish, R. (2011, October 16). How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse. Retrieved from http://www.forevergeek.com/2011/10/how-to-survive-the-zombie-apocalypse/.