Essays on Day of The Dead

Ricardo Talancon is a 20-year old student living at home with his six siblings and their mother and father. He is the eldest among his siblings and is the first to finish high school. He is also the first in his family to attend college as he is currently enrolled at UCLA, where he is studying hard to obtain a law degree. Born in the year 1996, Ricardo was initially a Mexican citizen living with his mother and father in a town known as Xico, which is fairly large and prosperous enough. His father supported the family by catering ...

Romero tells similar stories in his first zombie film Night of the Living Dead (1968) and his two later films Day of the Dead (1985) and Diary of the Dead (2007). But the approach Romero uses in each film varies. ‘The Night of the Living Dead’ and ‘The Day of the Dead’ use a standard movie narrative while Diary of the Dead incorporates found footage or point of view (POV) techniques popularized by The Blair Witch Project and used to varying success in films such as Quarantine, Area 5.1, and Cloverdale. Romero uses this technique to criticize the prevalence of ...

Intercultural Communication

Before the arrival of the Portuguese in the year 1500, Amerindian people stayed in Brazil who spoke different languages. There were around six million Indians in Brazil who spoke 1,000 different languages. After arriving the Portuguese settlers encountered the Tupi people, who then controlled most of the Brazilian coast and used to speak a set of closely related languages. The Portuguese were called "Tapuias", by the Tupi people. In the first two centuries of colonization, a language known as ‘Línguageral’ was widely spoken by all, from Amerindians, Portuguese to the African and their descendants, and a vast area from Sao ...

Thesis Statement

When one mentions the word, ‘zombie,’ our minds rattle up the inconspicuous vision of rotten corpses snaking their way to transfixed, screaming and terrified victims. What one sees from the earlier Hollywood movies of the 30s and 40s to the early 21st century is a great transformation of the zombies from one being created to obey the orders of its creator to its creation from viruses and man-made environmental hazards. From the sluggish, disfigured and emancipated zombie to highly intelligent, quick and horrific zombies, the transformation of zombies Hollywood-style is conspicuous for all to see. Zombies would never have existed ...

Early Christianity adopted many of the Pagan rituals as it evolved. The influences of Paganism can be found in the symbols Christians use as proof of their faith, the buildings they worship in and the ceremonies they participate into the holidays they celebrate. John H. Newman the author of Development of the Christian stated, "The use of temples, and these dedicated to particular saints, and ornamented on occasions with branches of trees; incense, lamps, and candles; votive offerings on recovery from illness; holy water; asylums; holy days and seasons, use of calendars, processions, blessings on the fields, sacerdotal vestments, ...