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    Tristen Lyle 3-22-13 2A Dead and Undead Lapham The Ignorance of the Human Race In 2006‚ a great piece of literature was written‚ its name: World War Z by Max Brooks. This book documents the survivors of the World War Z apocalypse; while of course this book is fictional it draws you in and will at times make you feel like you are reading a piece of non-fictional literature. This is what fascinated me most by it. Not only did the book draw you in with its non-fictional fiction style‚ its theme

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    Nikole Blodgett English 101 October 1‚ 2014 Paper 1: Literary Analysis In the book “World War Z” the characters in the book express many examples of the worst and best of human behavior. We see characters that choose self-preservation‚ and those who rise above self-preservation and instead choose self-sacrifice. The choice to save others or to save yourself really says what kind of person you are. Although we would like to say we would be the hero and save everyone before we would save ourselves

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    Ethical Practice in Nursing S.Z‚ a 65 year old Hispanic male‚ is being discharged from hospital after being admitted with a blood sugar of 589. He has been seeing a curandero to manage his diabetes mellitus type II‚ hyperlipidemia‚ and osteoarthritis. He has not taken his prescription medications for these chronic conditions‚ but instead takes traditional medicines the curandero tells him to take. His daughter approaches the nurse with her concerns over her father’s heath and asks the nurse if

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    Heroes in World War Z According to the Wikipedia definition of “hero‚” a person who fills this role can be described in the following way: “Hero (male) and heroine (female) came to refer to characters who‚ in the face of danger and adversity or from a position of weakness‚ display courage and the will for self sacrifice.” (“Hero”) In the novel World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War‚ author Max Brooks constructs some stories in which people who are heroes fit this description. Specifically

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    “In pre-war times‚ this outpost was considered the most remote on Earth. Situated near the planets southern geomagnetic pole‚ atop the four-kilometer ice crust of Lake Vostok‚ temperatures here have been recorded at a world record negative eighty-nine degrees Celsius‚ with highs rarely reaching above negative twenty two. This extreme cold‚ and the fact that overland transport takes over a month to reach the station were what made Vostok so attractive to Breckinridge “Breck” Scott.”(Brooks 55). There

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    Whacko In World War Z

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    In the novel World war z‚ I chose the character Whacko; he was the former president of the United States. He is a diverse Republican however; he is implied as being a Howard Dean that is a Democrat even though he points out that he once formed a bi-partisan ticket with Colin Powell that was a republican. It is obvious that the president and the vice president must come from the same political party. This is to mean that then even the former president popularly known as the “Big Guy” must have been

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    World War Z Myth

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    World War Z is a film that was released in 2013 and is based on an outbreak of a lethal disease causing humans to turn into vicious‚ feral carnivores. The star of the film‚ Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt)‚ embarks on a worldwide search to find a cure and halt the spread of this infection. In the opening of World War Z‚ an average American family is distressed by alarming news of an unknown lethal contagion that is rapidly spreading across the world. In only a couple days‚ the outbreak has traveled to their

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    an infectious agent leading civilization to the brink of extinction? World War Z is a 2013 action horror film directed by Marc Forster that addresses these concerns‚ among others. Based on the 2006 novel of the same name by author Max Brooks‚ the movie stars Brad Pitt as former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane‚ a reluctant hero who is forced to abandon his family in the midst of a global disaster while he travels the world in the hope of ending the pandemic. The film brings up three interesting

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    Horror In World War Z

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    tropes are exaggerated and entertaining reflections of our human world and the problems in it. World War Z examines the fear of giant corporations‚ something many people worry about in our modern world. Horror is often so absurd that on the surface we are purely intrigued by the imaginary creatures with their made up problems. Underneath the Hollywood glamor‚ horror forces us to face very real situations that are not that far from the world we are living in. Vampires represent the fear of human sexuality

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    justice system has always stated " innocent until proven guilty." The war in Iraq has brought out several ethical dilemmas since significant changes in the military action and homeland security. Holding terrorists suspects without legal representation‚ charges or court hearings is almost absurd. However‚ using the paradigm model‚ it really explains itself. The paradigm of short term versus long term is best suited for this type of dilemma. The government is taking immediate present action‚ due to the need

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