Home front

The chapter home front is interesting to me because it more of less talks about how america got back to their feet during the war. I feel this rebuild is usually let out, because in most zombie apocalypse's you jus jump forward to the gall or the rise. The steps in between are very important to me because I feel it shows how people adapt. Joe Muhammad's interview was a strong example to use to show this apocalypse.

Turning The Tide

This chapter is about the interviewee interviewing a person name X, Azania. This author's story is about a guy name Paul Redeker, who is the most hated man in Africa. Paul Redeker, involve was in a plan called the "Orange Eighty Four. It is called Orange Eighty Four, because in 1984, Redeker is suppose to finish his survival plan. He was job was to decide which county/land are suppose to be sacrifice. What the author, Azania described him as a dispassionate man with no soul. Some people from the government called "National Intelligence Agency" (NIA) wanted to see if Redeker survival plan would work and wanted to know if he was the main creator for Orange Eighty Four. So they decided to track him down. One of Redeker's plan was that you can't save everyone. Then Paul Redeker had gone to a mental facility and the author, in the end, Azania took over Redeker's Orange Eighty Four plan.


I picked this chapter because I think it is important. The interviewee is interviewing the author of "Rainbow Fist. South Africa at war" I think this part is significant because there are plenty of people out there who lives needed to be saved but one of these men such as Paul Redeker don't think the whole world should be saved. That's why Azania and others believed that he was dispassionate man and that he wanted to save himself instead of other cilvians.

WWZ Section 3

Niall Owens
WWZ Section 3

In my favorite portion of this section the narrator interviews Jesika. Her family had travelled North to avoid, to escape the Zombies. They hoped that the monsters would freeze and die, that their issue would be over by Christmas. Jesika hints at, but never specifically says that she and her family had to practice cannibalism to survive the winter. All of their sacrifice, near death were however for not. The Zombies somehow were unable to survive the winter and continue to come after those who survived the cold. This section is my favorite because I would of had a similar my mindset as well. In the face of a Zombie apocalypse I would head North, to Canada and beyond. The fact that it didn't work in this book is a twist I didn't expect. No where else seems more safe than a ice land.

The Great Panic

Niall Owens
World War Z - Section 2
My favorite passage of this section was that in The Holy Russian Empire, in which the author interviews Maria Zhuganova. Her story moved me more than the rest. The nature in which she turned from being a solider simply for the experience to defending a nation that she had very little pride or loyalty to. Her description of the unveiling of the Zombie reality in which her friend, Arkady, was bitten and infected stood out to me. The last passage on this section in Denver, Colorado was also interesting. It high lights many of current issues in American society such as ignorance which causes mistakes, such as incorrect choice of weapons, to be made. The "Shock and Awe" element that is so important to the USA's culture was useless. I feel as if this highlights the reality of America's attitude to many very serious issues in the world.

               In the beginning the man interviews Gavin Blaire, he flies a blimp. Blaire talks about how he got a birds-eye view of the terrible decisions that people made. He say that people took to the roads to run from the zombies. He saw civilians on the side of the road begging for transportation. While seeing that he sees the crowd is moving faster than the cars. Then, he hears frantic screams. Zombies were in the mix of the crowd. People shot a mix of mostly people, and cars, and the zombies the got to eat like kings.  He starts to wander if people feel more safe in a crowd, even if that crowd is part zombie. Sean Collins is a great part, he talks about how his job is to kill,and to make sure some people aren't killed. Philip Adler is an Irish man, who tells about his crazy time in the war against the Zombies. He talks about how Lang's orders made him question so much about the reason why he was there. They were supposed to help people, not leave them to die. He gave in, though, so he didn't have to see his men die. It would be hard on him.

Home Front Summary World War Z

In the next two sections the writer goes even into to more countries to interview a hand full of people that survived the zombie outbreak. In the first section the interviewer talks to Xolelwa Azania, who is writing a book about Paul Redeker, the mean who created "Plan Orange". He then meets with Philip Adler, who was a soldier protecting refugees, but was forced to retreat and leave them all behind. He explains how he followed General Lang's orders and how General Lang died. Next he goes to the Ukraine and interviews Bohdan Kondratiu, who tells his story of getting hit with a chemical weapon on a bridge, while trying to protect civilians. He then goes to Canada and speaks with Jesika Hendricks who was once an American, but her family chose to move north after the outbreak. She tells her story of how they picked up a woman who was out of gas, and also how they survived in Canada. Finally he visits India, where the interviewer talks to Sardar Kah, who speaks about his time in the Indian Military.

Home Front USA-WWZ

In the Chapter Home Front USA was an interesting chapter. It starts off with the first interview, it took place in Taos, New Mexico. This part explains how America got back to its feet during the war. How they needed guys to fight off zombies and also work to get back on their feet. It later explains how the Quislings and how they are 100% human physically but they act like zombies mentally. It also brings up how the ADS(Asymptomatic Demise Syndrome) is the despair of living after the zombies. Some people will lose the will to live and just die from ADS. At the end of the chapter it explains the story of bad ass Colonel Christina Eliopolis and how she survived when she fell out of an airplane and managed to survive the zombie environment.

This chapter explains how the US solves the problems from the zombie apocalypse. It explains the steps after the zombie apocalypse and how it still affected them. I liked the chapter part especially the interview of Joe Muhammad. I thought it was the most interesting one because it explains how he helped the neighborhood stay together and how they ended up surviving and there incidents with Quislings. The topics I would bring up for class discussion would be the ADS, the Quislings and what steps they took to get back on their feet.

World War Z blogger Home Front USA

Home Front USA was an interesting chapter. The first interview took place in New Mexico and it was talking about how the people in the United States needed to get back on their feet. They needed workers that knew how to work with their hands and they would be the people in power for all the jobs. This chapter also talked about things called quislings (100% humans, but act like zombies mentally) and how people would confuse them with zombies because of how they acted. Zombies could tell the difference between an actual zombie and a quisling. This chapter introduced a man named Roy who was making films using the military and showed zombies getting killed by lasers. In this chapter you find out that this zombie apocalypse is what causes ADS and that lies that were told was what kept people fighting to live rather than just giving up. Towards the end of the chapter it talked about Colonel Christina Eliopolis and her survival escape when she fell out of a plane and how she witnessed zombies in trees, etc. This chapter is important to the context of the story because it gives direct insight to the actual problems occurring in the U.S. after the zombie attack and how the U.S. is solving this problem. It's also important to the large context of the story because we get different point of views on how people will solve this zombie problem. I chose this chapter because I liked to read about how the U.S. was going to react to the situation. I liked reading about how that government handled it and what type of precaution steps that they took to make the situation better. The story about the quislings was really interesting because it was weird how a normal human being can act like a zombie if they really aren't a zombie. What makes their minds act like a zombie? This chapter develops topics about weapons and safety. We can discuss this in class and talk about how important those things were in this chapter. We can also talk about the syndrome ADS and how it affected many people in the book.

World War Z part 3

Chapter 5

            After reading both chapter 5 and 6, chapter 5 seemed more interesting to me. The author first meets with Xolelwa Azania who is writing a book about Paul Redeker. She talks about the “plan orange” that Redeker came up with. This plan explains who will survive, where the civilians will go and where the safe zones were. People didn’t really like him since his plan was so emotionless. He next interviews Philip Adler who Philip had secured a command post at the Renaissance Hotel. He instructed his men to attain resources, barricade the area and train the civilians. He was instructed to abandon the civilians by General Lang and he doesn’t want to do that. He planned to kill General Lang but he commits suicide. He then goes to a sanatorium and meets with Bohdan Taras Kondratiuk. He tells the author about his experience with the zombies.

            The author then travels to Canada and meets with Jesika Hendricks and she tells him about how her family drives up north because her dad believes that zombies will not be able to survive the cold. She describes the hardships she has to endure, such as running out of gas, the cold and exchanging a radio monitor for stew. Ultimately it was a bad decision. The last place he goes is India and he speaks with Sardar Khan. Him and General Raj Singh were trying to close off certain areas and there were multiple busses that were filled with zombies and civilians.

I thought the interview with Jesika was really interesting. The interview touched on the impact the zombies have on family life. She talks about how her parents were constantly fighting and were never in agreement about what to do. Clearly the zombie war affected the economy, politics and family dynamics. I also thought it was interesting that zombies could sustain life in the cold temperatures. This means that they were basically immune to most things.

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Chapter 4 in World War Z I think brought out a lot of points of how many people see our and other country as. Part 7 in Chapter 4 talks about the Yonkers zombie outbreak. Many people believe that the USA has one of the strongest military and stubborn when it come to other country. When we got the information about the Zombie outbreak the USA brushed the information off thinking even if this is true we have a strong army that could easy take care of the problem. The USA was complete wrong in the battle of Yonkers against the zombie the USA Army ran out of ammo and the advance weapon were did not work against the zombie. with the USA getting over ran by zombie prove that we need to advice from other countries to make are military better.

Scott

My next interview is from Scott who called this virus "African rabies". Scott makes a fake vaccine (phalanx) that will apparently stop/help the spread. In all reality the medicine is a scam only to make himself enough money to build a huge big-dome to protect him from the outside world. This is important to the book because it shows how people will turn on each other to protect themselves over the greater good. A theme I think will pop up more than once.

Patient zero

For my first world war z post I'm going to do it on his interview with patient zero. This was his interview with a young boy who doctors tracked the virus back to. During his interview the young boy was going crazy where he ripped his arm off and the arm still moved on its own. This to me was a huge first example of the virus; up to this point we don't know too much about it. During the Great panic the people who fight back will learn the bodies of the infected will still function as long as the brain is in tacked.

Swift

The article of A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift was a cruel and complex read in my opinion. The reason why it was complex read because the description was just simply disturbing and complex because the way he was thinking was to figure out some other problem but he used examples of cannibalism (eating children). It talks about how the Irish are really poor and they struggle to find food for their families. So they sell infants so they can buy food and the city starts talking about ways to they can cook the children to feed the poor. By this there would be a smaller population of individuals and a decreased percentage of starvation. It would help the economy and become a industry. The rich would buy these products, allowing money to flow through the society and creating stability as well as jobs.

The Great Panic

The part about the Great Panic that caught my attention was the incident in Topeka, Kansas. It is a four year old girl telling a story about her mother and her. The story took place in the a church and how her mother took her awaiting for their death. She talks about how the preacher tells everyone to relax and calm down and out of no where zombies start breaking windows and start to get into the church. She started to discuss how the parents were protecting there children and trying to figure out to get away. They started to build a barrier with the benches in the church. Someone ends up carrying Sharon outside and telling her to run and keep running. So Sharon ends up running away from the zombies. The part was that significant is that the way that Sharon tells the story. She tells it so vividly that she made the doctor that was present with her felt like they were in the church.

The story was important to me because it shows what people would go through in a zombie apocalypse. To hear such a traumatizing story that put doctor in shock from a 4 year old girl. When she was talking about the gun shots in the church, she even made movements with her arms to make it seem realistic.

The Great Panic was an interesting chapter. The part that really interested me was the incident that occurred in Topeka, Kansas. A girl is telling a story about her and her mother being in church waiting for these zombies to come attack. She talks about how the preacher tells everyone to relax and calm down and out of no where zombies start breaking windows and busting into the church. All the mothers in the church were trying to protect all the children. People carried Sharon outside and told her to run. She ended up getting away. Sharon told the story so vividly and she made the story feel like you were actually there with her. I really like this story because it made you feel afraid because she was so specific about everything she said in this story. It sounded like she even put fear in the doctor when he was listening to the story. When she was talking about the gun shots in the church, she even made movements with her arms to make it seem realistic.

World War Z Section 1

William Estes
Section 1
World War Z
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Section 1 "World War Z"

                This section of the book basically tells about the formation of the virus into the humans. From the start when it was contracted by a boy in China. The narrator jumps around from location to location giving interview from many different races about this outbreak. This chapter shows shows the lack of communication between different races that then allows for this virus to take hold of everything that it comes into contact with. Thinking that it was some form of rabies, but then later proven wrong because of the strange actions the infected begin to have.

               I would have to say this is what stuck out to me the most because when you think deeply into it all, all someone had to do was communicate that they were not sure what is going on right now, and then asked for help. I also saw that there seemed to be a cover up, like nothing is wrong. Instead of asking for help to see if anyone has come across something like this before. The other thing that I noticed was the different outlooks of the outbreak from different view points. I didn't think about the fact that other people from other regions having a different outlook.

Swift Article

A Modest Proposal By: Jonathan Swift

            During the reading of "A modest proposal" it is understood that the over population of beggars are a problem in London. And that these people have children that they themselves cannot take care of. This then turns to having teenagers that are beggars as well. These children then turn to shoplifting and other thing like such that will lead them into more trouble. A proposal is made by Swift to remove children from these beggars at about a year old. These children will then serve as income to the parents to take care of their other children, and the child that was sold off will become food for a more wealthy family. This proposal will keep the overpopulation down, as well as abortion rates of bastard children, and serve as a way for professional beggars to be able to provide for their current children and families, as stated by Swift. I see this as a moral issue and a very off your rocker way of thinking.

The Great Panic

In the chapter The Great Panic is about the highlights of the human outbreak. The outbreak was started in China but then other nations had started to have outbreaks as well. Then the first winter came and the spreading outbreak had died done until a reporter had reported there was another outbreak disease that zombies had become more cannibalism. More a 10 million had died that winter. Even the U.S. Military had failed because of their planning didn't go through.
The Great Panic is an important chapter in the story because it talks about the outbreaks and how it is spreading through out the world. It is significant due to this outbreak affected many lives. The government can't even help their own people. The isolation and disaster is increasing.

World War Z Intro, Warnings, and Blame by Shaun Conway Jr.

The introduction section of World War Z begins by talking about the different names that this apocalyptic war has been called by various people around the world. Then, it opens up to a man who has written a report that is being criticized by someone. This report is being written in post-apocalyptic times, giving data for the future generations to study. (history) This then brings us to the second section--Warnings. Warnings gave the readers insight about how the virus/infection came about spreading, and the first signs of this infection's location(s). The author is a doctor who talks about his experiences with the approaching virus and the people that it had infected. He talks about how he worked as a transporter for people and drugs, and that his business became very valuable when the spread of the infection was increased. Within the spreading of the disease, we are also learning about the economy and how those with power can maneuver and transport themselves around much easier than those who are less fortunate. Then, someone is being interviewed for a long time, being asked numerous questions and giving numerous answers. Within this interview, stories are being told about the encounters with zombies and how the government has tried to cover it up. Not only that, but there is also a war going on between 2 countries.

The Great Panic

The account that caught my attention was about the girl in Topeka, KS, that had the mind of a four year old girl. Her mother takes her to a church awaiting their doom and she retells her story so vividly the doctors present even struggle to bring themselves back to reality. There's lots of grown ups around her and she remember people discussing what they should do to save themselves and their children also. Sharon talks about the church members pushing benches to the doors, attempting to create a barrier between the living and the dead. Unfortunately, some dumb ass breaks out one of the windows trying to do whatever he felt was going to help, and destroys the safety barrier. Suddenly, her mom begins to choke her (i think) in an attempt to protect her from the ghouls, but she's rescued by her friends mom (Ashley) who has been killed by the ghouls before reaching the safe haven of the church and is told to "Run, just run, run, run."

This story was important to me because even though she had the mental capacity of a four year old, Sharon was still able to understand what was going on and had more reason than those well above her level. She had the talent of telling her stories in such a way that made those around fear that this was going to happen right in front of them. Everyone's story is valuable and everyone has a voice, some are just too ignorant to know it.

World War Z Summary One

Summary

Section 1

Niall Owens

June 22, 2015                      

World War Z – Section One Summary

            The first portion of the book lays out what has happened, before, during, and somewhat after the Zombie outbreak. The section highlights the inability of humans to communicate or recognize the outbreak and the repercussions that it had. The narrator discusses the experiences of numerous people from all aspects of life and from all over the planet, from Finland, to Montana, to Antarctica. The first conclusion society came to be that this was a sort of rabies break out because of the bizarre behavior the victims exhibited. However it became clear that this was not the case, this was a Zombie outbreak. To control the widespread panic a placebo, called Phalanx was introduced into society to keep people docile. I’m very interested to learn how people in this fictional world will react to the onset and uncontrollability of the disease.

World War Z. The Great Panic Summary

While reading The Great Panic section of World War Z, one chapter stuck out to me the most. The chapter titled "Bridgetown, Barbados, West Indies Federation". The interviewer meets his next interviwee at a bar, his name is T. Sean Collins. The interview begins with Collins trying to explain his job to the interviewer, but he has a hard time describing what he does or what he could be called. Eventually he just say that he is basically a body guard for a rich famous man. He explains his time guarding him at his beachfront home. The man he was guarding invites over other famous people to help them take shelter from the zombies, but really he is just trying to make himself look good. Paparazzi have been at the house and so have news anchors and interviewers. Not to long after all of this starts, the zombies begin to show up. This causing people in lowers classes seeking shelter to try and take over the rich man's house. Lot's of people end up dying, famous celebrities kill other celebrities and normal people and celebrities kill each other. Collins eventually escapes on a surf board.
This chapter really stuck out to me because it shows how greed can destroy people. The rich man wanting to flaunt his wealth ultimately set himself up for disaster. I also found this chapter interesting because the humans are almost acting like zombies by doing whatever it takes to stay alive, much like zombies will do whatever it takes to eat you. Both are similar in this chapter because they both are acting as if they have a dire need for a specific thing. Humans seeking shelter and protection, while zombies are seeking flesh.

World War Z-the great panic summary

                                                                                  Anmol Sethi

Chapter 4

            Chapter 4 continues with the interview style trend. He first interviews Gavin Blaire who tells his version of what he remembers from the great panic. He mentions how congested the highway was and then mentions how he saw the zombies attack their way through the highway. He then heads to India where he speaks to Ajay Shah who headed for Alang in order to get away from the zombies. This was a fatal mistake as Alang is famous ships’ graveyard. However he manages to get away and seek help from a crewman. He continues onto Kansas where he meets Sharon, who lacks social skills. This has occurred because she was left alone around zombies. She cannot speak and mimics a zombie. The author goes to Russia and meets with Maria Zhuganova. She tells her strange story about her adventure on the platoon with the zombie. He then goes off to Barbados and speaks to Sean who is paid to protect others from zombie attacks.

 The author meets with Ahmed from Greenland and he tells his story that occurs during the tension between India and Pakistan. The zombies had attacked Iran and Iran asked Pakistan for help. The help was not given and Iran blew up the Ketch River Bridge. This incited nuclear warfare. The last interview takes place in Denver with Todd Wainio. Todd was in a small suburb called Yonkers when he was experiencing the great panic. There was a huge zombie warfare between the civilians and the zombies.

I thought that it was really interesting how there were so many different perspectives in this chapter about the great panic. The section that stuck out to me symbolically was the interview with Ahmed. This is because I find it ironic that during zombie warfare, the war between India and Pakistan was still going on in full swing. It was interesting that even when Iran needed help, Pakistan was not willing to give it to them and Iran retaliated in order to get their point across. I think this is symbolic because it explains a great human flaw, which is that even in the face of a crisis; we are unable to look past our ego and pride in order to help someone else.