The two films depict the Black Death of the 14th century in Tuscany and the Spanish Flu of 1918 in Britain in very different ways. While Cataclysm takes a broad approach to exploring how the Black Death affected the entire society, The Flu that Killed 50 Million focuses more on the individual impacts of the epidemic. Cataclysm uses historical accounts, including first-hand accounts of the time, to recreate the events and atmosphere of the time, whereas The Flu that Killed 50 Million focuses on a more intimate story and uses more modern techniques, such as interviews and archival footage, to depict the real-world consequences of the Spanish flu. Both films have different objectives and tell different stories, but they both share a common goal:
The portrayal of zombies in film and television has somewhat changed over the years. Modern day zombies are more often shown as flesh-eating, primal creatures with no sign of intelligence other than basic animalistic instincts. These zombies are a manifestation of the fear of the government becoming too powerful. They represent the human fear that the government will force people to submit and obey, allow invasion, and push modern medicine to go too far.
Dr. Ian Crozier, is a doctor that volunteered to help those infected in West Africa. Crozier later went on to be infected by the same virus he helped treat, he is a survivor of the deadly virus Ebola. Soon after being released from treatment he began to have symptoms, including severe back pain, hearing loss,seizures, and tinnitus. The most conspicuous complication was his serious eye problem, it caused him to have blurry vision, see halos around objects,feel pressure and pain in his left eye, and even changed his eye color. The strangest part of all this was that even after 100 days of being released from the hospital, the virus was still attacking his eyes, thankfully he could not pass the virus through mellow contact.
During the mid-fourteenth century, a plague hit Europe. Initially spreading through rats and subsequently fleas, it killed at least one-third of the population of Europe and continued intermittently until the 18th century. There was no known cure at the time, and the bacteria spread very quickly and would kill an infected person within two days, which led to structural public policies, religious, and medical changes in Europe. The plague had an enormous social effect, killing much of the population and encouraging new health reforms, it also had religious effects by attracting the attention of the Catholic Church, and lastly, it affected the trade around Europe, limiting the transportation of goods. As a response to the plague that took place
In man’s eyes, zombies are hostile to human nature and can potentially wreak wreck nations. Though it is not definite, the idea of a widespread of the undead eradicating entire species populates from horror films and novels, promoting danger and enhancing terror to the public. In fear of the scenario, humans gather information in preparation for the apocalyptic era. In hope’s to resolve the situation, many great minds guide readers to salvage through literature, often with irrelevant information one can justify. Ali Kahn’s “Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse”, the schematic “How to Survive Zombies” and the Zombie Research Society’s “Mayans Destroyed by Zombies” enhances one’s lack of capability when surviving a zombie apocalypse by writing
Kendra Bogosian Geography 1401-001 10/28/15 Current Event 2 There has been much debate over the years, among Americans, questioning whether FEMA is doing more harm than good. In the article, “Horrors of FEMA disaster Relief,” many facts are given to discredit FEMA. WND discusses how the brain behind FEMA’s decision-making process is complete chaos. Some states have had to “hire consulting firms just to try to navigate the paperwork, with consultants earning as much as $180 an hour – all of which is billed to American taxpayers,” when they already are required to pay enormous amounts of money to the government.
The zombie apocalypse is one of the scariest thoughts that someone could think of. “Could an outbreak occur? Could the human population survive with what we got?” Everyone has thought about this in their lifetime. Many houses have plenty of items to survive, but do we have enough to pack in a few minutes before the zombies come and eat your brains?
In their article “ Zombies - A Pop Culture Resource For Public Health Awareness” (2013) Melissa Nasiruddin, Monique Halabi, Alexander Doa, Kyle Chen, and Brandon Brown identify how Zombies serve as a means of educating the public on health concerns like disease or disasters through various media outlets, particularly television and movies. The authors first develop their claim by providing a historical context into the creation of zombies as well as their incorporation into popular culture. The authors then discuss how zombies are an ideal opportunity for increasing awareness of public health issues by drawing parallels between the zombies in pop culture and former Public health issues. This is then proven by psychological reasoning and real-world
Ebola Viruses There are many different ways to pass away, some harsher than others. In “The Hot Zone” By Richard Preston, there are a few different viruses explained to be deadly to not only humans, but other species as well. The hot zone is an area on earth that contains lethal, infectious organisms. Marburg virus, Ebola Zaire, and Sudan virus all contribute to making the hot zone so pernicious.
Additionally, they are said to go around biting those that are not yet affected in order to transfer the disease to them. However, a lot of people do not realize that this description is an example of the rabies disease. I will focus on the shared characteristics that both zombification and rabies produce. Zombification and
In a zombie apocalypse you would need to take five steps to start off, and lucky for you I’m gonna tell them to you. The first step that you would need to take is to find a safe place to hide and cry, because you will be very scared. Second step would be get with friends or people you trust, so you are not alone out in the wild. Third step would be to find food and water, which would still be abundant in the beginning. Fourth step would be to try to get as far away from a town or city and set up a temporary camp.
Almost everybody in horror movies dies because they try to explore and be curious. If you want to survive follow these next simple rules. Here is how to survive. To survive don’t be alone, stay quiet, and have a dumb friend. There are more elements to survive a horror movie but these are the main ones you need to survive.
Mass Shootings have been pretty common in the U.S. In the past 30 years or so. According to the Congressional Research Service, there have been 78 mass shootings in the United States since 1983. The shootings have resulted in 547 deaths and 1,023 casualties. Mass shootings are only responsible for a very small percentage of deaths in the United States, but mass shootings are happening more often than ever, a mass shooting happens on average one time a month.
But some zombies can be created by viruses’ and vu do. In the last of us (video game) the zombie outbreak was from a zombie ant. When the zombie ant bite someone fungal residue on a human’s face and other parts of the body. The virus took 60% of the human’s species. If you don’t want to see people grow mushrooms out of head fallow the steps and rules that will tell how to survive the ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE!
Create yourself a zombie proof door by just raising up by one block. Since zombies need the top part of the door to break it down, it will continually have to jump to actually break it down which is impossible; and we are on hard mode.
