Surviving this Project

Dear Reader,

         In “The Zombie Survival Guide” by Max Brooks it tells you everything you need to know about zombies and how to survive. I will demonstrate this through four examples. First is a newspaper article. It describes the thought on zombies being real or not. Second is a police report of an attack on a town. This is showing their violence and power. Third is a top ten list. It will tell you the best places to hide. Fourth and last is a photograph. It shows a picture of the terrible looking undead. These all will demonstrate the books main theme, survival.

         The Theme of survival or the will to live is a very important one. I chose this theme because it is what is taught through out the book. The book has many events that show people doing things they didn’t think they could do before to survive. When in the heat of the moment, survivors have made decisions like leaving a loved one that has been infected behind. Before this, these same, very attached people could not have left their loved ones side. Survival is what keeps every living thing going. Everything wants to live as long as possible and they can only do this with the will to survive. That is why this theme is important and also why I chose it.

Sincerely,

Kevin

“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.”

The New York Times

Zombies, Real or Myth

After what happened at Sperry, Alabama the conversation has been brought up about zombies. I have heard both sides of the story about zombies being real or not. The side that says they are real has given the zombies a disease name. They call it Solanum. They say it brings the dead back to life and infects other people. People on the other side of the argument say that the people who say they saw the so-called zombies are mentally insane. They must have been imagining what they saw. I am not sure on what to believe but when more information comes out, I will let you the readers know.

“Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope”

Police Report for Sperry, Alabama

Today a freak attack happened in Sperry. We got several different calls about these crazy people they called them. The people were moaning and trying to bite all the people they saw. We went down to the houses that called us to check it out. We found these people that if I didn’t know better I would call them zombies. They were attacking the house and then they noticed us. There were about eight or ten of them. We told them to stop and they wouldn’t we started to open fire. The bullets went right through their chest. One of the men got lucky and shot one in the head. The man dropped and didn’t move. We realized a headshot would finish them off. We killed all of them. The people told us that they had been under attack for a couple of hours. They said that these people had died in their homes from an unknown sickness and had come back to life.

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”

Top Ten Places to Live

During an Outbreak!

1.            Offshore Oil Rig

2.            Prison

3.            Military complex

4.            Island

5.            Schools

6.            Two Story House

7.            Office Buildings

8.            Warehouse

9.            Shipyards

10.        Piers and Docks

“One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation.”

The Eight Zombies that attacked Sparry, Alabama.

“We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.”

Reflection

      Each reflection i did connected to survival. i choose each one so that they all connected together in a way and i also made it so that each genre connected to my book and survival. this project overall was fun and i enjoyed it. i enjoyed the book i read. one thing i didnt like was that we had to put it on this blog. it made some things that would have been easy to do on  paper i could just turn in. one example of this was the wanted poster. i spent a lot a time on it and i couldnt get it to work so i just chose something else. i still enjoyed the project and i think it should be done next year. 

Works Cited

"Survival Quotes." Find the Famous Quotes You Need, ThinkExist.com Quotations. Web. 27 Mar. 2011. <http://thinkexist.com/quotations/survival/>.

Zombies. Digital image. Stellarpath.net. Web.

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bloggin and being sick

well i am writing this blog right now and it is during school except i am at home. i have been sick the past two and a half days. it is the reason that i am doing my blog today and not yesterday but oh well i took my risk of waiting until sunday. i wish i didnt have this terrible fever and ache so much because it is even hard to walk. hopefully i will be ok by tomorrow. my dad thinks i have the flu so it shouldnt last long right? i am feeling better than yesterday though. i am eating better today. oh well now its time to talk about the topic this week. what is my greatest achievement? im not really sure. i guess my greatest achievement would have to be when i made the jv basketball team. it was a hard team to make and i had to work hard to make that team. i had a great time with my teammates and we had a great season. we won occ which was another great achievement that our team had. i would defiantly say that making the team is my greatest achievement. i dont know what to talk about now. oh ya my book. i am reading the zombie survival guide. it is a good book so far. it is very different than a regular book. it is in a form of a guide but it has facts, well  fake facts about zombies. their strengths, weaknesses, and a lot more. well that is fifteen minutes and i am done.

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The Heart of Sports

     As Jack walked into his apartment on the 137 floor, he looked out his window. He saw a world greatly controlled by technology and computers. the whole city was controlled by computers and every small job was taken over by robots. Jack didn't really like this because as a kid, his dad lost his job to a robot. Jacks dad was a sales man but it wasn't very important anymore. if people wanted something they would just buy it off the internet or a robot would give all the information about a product. Jack then looked at the giant clock that floated over the city. It was a digital clock that read "May 7, 2163. 8:04 PM, New York City, New York". Jack was very sore after his day of work. He was lucky though because his job was playing basketball in the NBA. Jack really focused on basketball because sports was one of the only things that wasn't really affected by technology or more importantly robots.
     Jack was a tall guy at 6' 2". he is very muscular, quick and athletic. he was a point guard and a very good one at that. He had the leadership skills and the basketball skills to make sure his team would win. Jack played for the New York Galaxy. the names of the NBA teams were changed to fit with the more technological society. The next morning, Jack went to practice. He came into the locker room to get ready.
     "Hey Jack", said Mike, the teams best shooting guard.
     "Hey Mike, are you ready for practice today?" Jack asked.
     "Of coarse. I'm about to break Darren's ankles again!" , Mike said laughing and starring at Darren. Darren was the team's best defender so he took this personally.
     "Shut up Mike! That only happened once and the floor was slippery" Darren explained.
     "Ya sure it was, whatever you say" laughed Ben. Ben was the team's post and the team's tallest person at seven feet tall.
     "You cant even talk Ben," Jordan said, "I swatted you so bad yesterday the ball went out of the gym!" Everyone laughed except for ben who was a little embarrassed but he still chuckled under his breath.
      "Alright guys thats enough" Jack said, "Its time to go practice hard."
      The team had a great practice. every practice was great it seemed like. it showed on game days because their record was 46-5. their only losses were to their rivals the miami Robots. the Robots' team captain was Chet Douglas. Jack didnt like a single ting about him. Chet was cocky and mean, but that wasnt the main reason why Jack didn't like him. Chet didnt seem normal. he wasn't weird but he didnt seem human in ways. he seemed to perfect.
     the season continued and the galaxy kept on winning. they went to the play offs and won the first series. they kept on winning and finally arrived to the championship game and of coarse it was against the Miami Robots. except the team had a lot of their players injured in the last game. almost all of the starting five were hurt except for Chet Douglas. the league thought it wouldn't be a very good game if most of the team was hurt so they made a decision. they decided to replace all the players with actual robots. this made Jack mad. he already didnt like them to start with and now they were going to come into one of the only things not affected by them. they fames started and it was weird playing against a thing not a person. they were didnt get  tired but they did have some kinks in them. Jack took advantage of this. he could tell that they would get confused and he would find an opening to get an open shot or make a steal. Jack felt like there was similarities between the robots and Chet. after the first half the score was 57-49 the robots with the lead. at the start of the second half Chet went up for a lay up. Jack was getting frustrated so he took this moment to give off some steam. he hit Chet hard and Chet went sliding into the floor. his face had skid on the floor but when he got up the skin on it was coming off. it seemed like a mask and Jack realized Chet was a robot. no wonder he had hated him form the beginning. the robots didnt have any change in play, they all played at the same pace all the time. they never got angry or had a burst of energy. by the end of the third quarter, the score was 82-81 with the Robots up by one. the fourth quarter was close but it came down to the last 30 seconds. the Galaxy was only down by one. Jack pasted the ball to Mike. Mike crossed one of the robots and drove into the paint. he dished it out to Darren at the three point line. he made a quick pass to jack who shot with one second left. he sprayed Chet and won the game. after the game in Jack was approached by a reporter.
     "Jack, how do you feel the game went and what do you think about the robots playing basketball?" the reporter asked.
     "the game went great but i dont think the robots belong in this sport. they dont have the heart to play the game that any person can put into this sport." Jack said.
     Jack walked away to go celebrate his win with his team.

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Movies Movies Movies!

 i watch a lot of movies. i like all types from action and comedy to thriller and horrors. i dont like chick flicks and romances but there are some i watched because i was forced. my favorite movies are comedies. i like step brothers. Will Ferrel was really funny in this movie. i couldnt stop laughing when i watched it. i also like tropic thunder. it has a lot of good actors but i havent seen it in awhile. another good movie is i love you man. i watched it with my best friend and we use lines from the movie all the time. one line we always say is i love you broham. it made us laugh so hard when he said that. i like horror films also. i recently watched Saw Seven. i saw the whole Saw series and it was a great story line. it was interesting to see the traps but sometimes the traps were pretty graphic except that was part of the fun. i also just saw paranormal activity 1 and 2. i didnt find them that scary but there were some parts that made me jump. another great movie is the fighter. i saw part of it yesterday. it was exciting. one of my favorite childhood movies was Like Mike. a orphan finds these Jordan shoes. whenever he put them on he would play basketball like Michael Jordan. he then went to the NBA and took a bad team to the playoffs as a kid. movies are very enjoyable and i love watching them all the time.