Night Of The Living Dead: The Nurse's Role In Pop Culture

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Since George Romero’s film released in 1968, Night of the Living Dead, zombies have been a major part of pop culture. According to The Nurse's Role in the Prevention of Solanum Infection, there are five main types of zombies. The first type of zombie is the necromantic zombies or the un-dead raised from the grave by magic or sorcery. The second type of zombie is a voodoo zombie that requires black magic in order to be raised from the dead. The third type of zombie is the Nazi zombie that came from the experiments performed during World War Two. During this time period, an “army of the un-dead” was attempted to created under Hitler's direction. The fourth type of zombie are the revenant zombies. These zombies are driven into a zombified state due to their thirst for revenge. The fifth and last type of zombie is the atomic zombie. These zombies are change and modify due to atomic radiation exposure. There are so many different types of zombies, there …show more content…

I pay my school and sorority bills online, I complete most of my school work online, I watch tv on my computer via Netflix, and much much more. I do not completely agree that computers are zombies when they are not controlled by a virus. When you think of a zombie, it is a being that has no control over its actions. Humans control computers and act as a higher force. Computers have no soul, no essence, no personality, and no spiritual spark which are the general characteristics of a zombie. While all of this is true, I think that when the computer is under attack by a virus the zombie metaphor makes a little bit more sense. When I think of a zombie I think of a person taken over by a virus which causes them to have no control over their actions. Even though a computer without a threat or attack of a virus fits many of the zombie characteristics, for a normal or “healthy” computer there is no virus taking over the