The Adromeda Strain The Andromeda Strain The basic situation of the novel is that bacteria is brought to the earth from space by a U.S. Military space probe looking for new weapons. After it comes to earth it kills all the people of the small town of Piedmont in Arizona except for a baby named Jamie Ritter and an old man named Peter Jackson and the bacterium threatens to wipe out all living creatures in its path unless a vaccine is invented to protect against it. Then the scientists can’t agree with the army and the President over the best way to fight the virus. There are lots of conflicts between the characters on the Wildfire team. Stone has a low opinion of Hall’s ability to help and thinks that Burton is a slob.
AMC’s hit show “The Walking Dead” is currently going on its fourth season. This leaves Max Brooks “The Zombie Survival Guide” vulnerable to the consumption of the zombie fanatics who feed on anything zombie related. Brooks has written a follow up to “The Zombie Survival Guide” called “The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks” and has a movie currently in theaters called “World War Z” (Brodesser-Anker, 2013). It is obvious that there is a demand for zombie entertainment in today’s society. According to Brooks, “There’s been some really scary stuff that’s been happening — 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS.
Maxim Lazarev Ms. Shipp English 12, B5 13 January 2015 Logical Appeals Overpower the Feels Richard Preston used his work, Hot Zone, as a medium to appeal to an audience by using logic and reason through the facts and information he presents in the novel. Logos is what was primarily used in this nonfiction piece of literature. In the first part of the novel Preston talks about how deadly Ebola really is. He gives many anecdotes from people who have studied the virus and its effects. One of them was Gene Johnson, who was mentioned in this quote: “All of Gene Johnson’s infected monkeys died no matter what drugs they were given.
Menegele also attempted to change the kids’ eye color by injecting chemicals into their eyes. He performed experimental surgeries without anesthesia. Transfusions, isolation, reactions to stimuli, injections, removal of the limbs, and incestuous impregnations were all performed by him too. Torture, beaten, and killed by a malevolence doctor leave survivors haunted with horrors from Auschwitz. The lucky ones went to the right; the others went to the left.
Aaron English 1 Lemon 1/10/13 Ancillary Charles Klosterman’s “Zombie Life” explains his theory that technology turns you into a zombie, and you only have 2 options, take a stand and fight or sit and get sucked in. Klosterman an American author and essayist which has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, and The Washington Post, and has written books focusing on American popular culture believes that technology is changing our way of enjoying life by depending on a device to do our communicating for us. Klosterman’s idea that technology makes us zombie like is sadly true. If you have experienced textaphrenia-thinking you have heard or felt a new text message vibration when there is no message, then you have fallen in
sDr. Maxis and his scientist team, Group 935, were tasked with creating an army of super soldiers and new technology for the government project christened "Der Riese" or "The Giant". In his experiments, Maxis used Element 115 to create the zombies. The zombies, however, couldn't be controlled and would always be killed when they went berserk. While this was going on, Richtofen was testing 115 on living test subjects to create his super soldiers at a Siberian facility.
Andromeda Strain In the movie Andromeda Strain pH scale was included in the experiment trying to see what happens to blood when someone hyperventilates and proteins. On the first day the expertise were trying to solve the problem as to why the satellite retrieved from outer space was killing people and animals. Then the scientist had to design some experiments to find out more about the deadly organism. They knew that there were three things that they had to find out. First was to identify the organism.
After a lot of the monkeys in this room die very quickly the manager named Bill Volt calls Dan Dalgard a consultant doctor that would help examine the monkeys. They then call the Army when the situation gets worse. The army calls in Nancy and Jerry Jaxx and the use them alone with Gene Johnson a civilian who has studied the Marburg and Ebola virus, Frederick A. Murphy a virologist who was one of the co-founders of the Ebola virus and the first to photograph it. After Nancy collects some of the dead monkeys for testing they’re sent to the lab so they can find out what kind of Ebola or Marburg it is. They are shocked when it turns out to be most closely related to Ebola Zaire which is bad news because they are 15 miles from Washington D.C. After many more monkeys die and the virus seems to be traveling through the air Dan Dalgard hands over the entire facility to the Army.
An example of him trying to cure this disease is in his laboratory he has multiple rats that he is working on, he always has a human trying to be cured, and he has pictures of all of all the zombies that did not make it through testing. II. Symbolic Archetype For the symbolic Archetype of I am Legend I chose lightness vs. darkness. Light usually stands for hope and intellectual illumination, while darkness represents the unknown and ignorance. This is the battle between good and evil.
Jay King Professor McClung English-099 27 January 2015 How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse (If You Have the Balls) Although it is a highly popular theory that we will face a zombie apocalypse in the future, not many people are well prepared or even know how to prepare for such a catastrophic event. In this guide, I will list the most basic common methods to help even the most unprepared person set up the fundamental steps to surviving a zombie apocalypse. The main priority for surviving a zombie apocalypse is creating a team, securing weapons and safety, packing backpacks, finding shelter, and locating food. Step one: Create a team. Create a team to ensure safety for yourself and any other survivors in your vicinity.