Total War and Good-Byes

Total War and Good-Byes is basically the ending of the zombie war and how it is won in different countries. I especially enjoyed the perspective from Denver. It talked about how the new army was different from the one that fought in the battle of Yonkers. I liked this because it brought you back to the beginning to compare and show just how far humanity had come as a military. I especially thought the interwoven Kevlar that made their BDU's bite proof was ingenious and showed just how dumb they were at Yonkers for not thinking of something so simple. Another aspect I enjoyed was how openly the military was to it's combatants. I believe during the interview, one of the combatants was a 52 year old nun, which while numerous, just goes to show you that everyone can be a vital role to saving lives. Finally one of the best things was just them using their enormous Humvee's to push through and mow down hordes of zombies. It seems like something so trivial and noticeable but I guess it just goes to show that when something so stressful first happens, it's hard to keep your head on straight. All in all, it was a very good book. I enjoyed the graphic storytelling from many perspectives throughout the world. Although at the beginning, it was hard to get past a book that was comprised as a slew of interviews, I honestly couldn't see it being written any other way. 

artical sum.

the first one I went threw was the article on video game violence.  they show a lot of work on the effects to the younger people. while parents who kept the games away from the kids they didn't watch what they see on tv. so while they do all this research to decide the games aren't for the young it never just gets to blaming parents. if the kids were kept away from all the violent stuff till the age in witch they can under stand it is fantasy. I already know there is a lot of research on this topic but yet again it never goes away.

next I went to the movie section they talk about that no matter what movies would have become just as violent. some one would have done this. they also mention no true connection in violence in the real world. there is a comparison of the violence to say whisky. in moderation it isn't bad.

combine/ while there are many things our society would like to blame for events like this. we blame any source of violence and after an event like this we throw the blame around. when does this become the persons fault who did it. we all are accountable for our own actions but yet they want to say it is another reason.

Finland

This section talks about the difference between humans and zombies warfare. Zombies don't have any restrictions they are 100% into fighting till there will be no more living on earth.unlike human we require food water and ext. To keep going .the only way our numbers go up is by having kids. This makes us weaker because if one of us fall we get turned to the zombie side. This is bad because if we kill one of them. They are just out of fight for good. If they get a living person they gain in number. So unless we fight in ways we don't loose people we would be slowly taking them or even giving them more numbers. This is all important because they fully understand where they are going to have to go to win a war with the living dead. I like this section on the fact it just seems like survival.

Total War and Good Byes Summary

Ben Smith

7/13/15

In the section Total War of the book "World War Z" written by Max Brooks, it discusses an interview that takes place in Denver, Colorado, USA. The interview details the New Army and how they adapted to fight the zombies. They did this by making the BDU's with bite proof Kevlar and making them comfy. Also with the weapons they have a Lobo for close quarter combat and a infantry rifle for long range. One thing that the New Army stressed was physical stamina because they felt that it could help you in all situations. In this section it introduces z-shock, which is losing your head after seeing to many zombies. The last thing that this interview talks about is how the New Army used line formation in battle, switching guys out when they got tired. One thing I found interesting in this section is the fact that earlier in the book they used all this advanced weaponry and military tactics to try to defeat the zombies with no success, yet when they converted to old military tactics such as the line formation they encountered great success against the zombies. This just shows to me that simply getting back to your roots can how the most success.

WWZ - Total War and Goodbyes

Section: Pages 331-333

This section is over the man that is "addicted to killing". He is a man from Barbados, and like other men that come home from the military life, war life, they don't know how to live without doing the things they were taught to do for song long when the war is over. This man goes on to say that he tried to have a normal life, "I tried to fit in, settle down, make some friends, get a job, and do my part to help get America back together." But it didn't work for him, he said he felt like he was dead when he wasn't killing. He tries to justify himself by comparing what he does to those in the Army.

This was a good section to have for the overall aspect of the book because if an apocalypse like this were to happen, there would be people that would have this same struggle. This helps us to see what could actually happen and possibly see what we could do to prevent it. This section definitely gets our minds thinking towards what the fate of each of us would be, I don't know what my reaction would be during a time like this.

What I didn't like about this section was just the overall gloominess, how sad it was. And he also took it to a whole new level when he joined the "Impisi: Zulu for Hyena, the one who cleans up the dead." He doesn't get control over himself, yet he joins a group that has no rules when it comes to killing people.

What I did like about this section was how the author was able to show how a man with this problem thinks, and acts. It gave good insight on what the others going through this are feeling. It showed how he was not able to get control over himself, but he would "...hit my limit, get drunk, get in a fight, lose control." This section showed how he would go out looking for trouble, trying to recreate what it was like when the zombies were running around.

War world Z

"Total war" and " Good byes" are the last two chapters of War World Z. The book ended surpricely different on a happy note. The book ended with the war against the zombies being won by the humans, I thought it would end with all humans being infected and the zombies wining. The section of total war talked about what wat was really about, and the way we are different when it comes to fighting. The zombies have nothing to lose but to gain more of them every time they kill one of us humans. However we have everything to lose the war and more life's. We need much more needs to survive than zombies. The section that stood out to me in the chapter goodbyes was the women in Russia Maria who was in the clinic providing her services to her country. She was being use for child barring and providing more population to the country after te outbreak.

World War Z: Total War and Good-Byes

In World War Z chapter 8 and 9, Total War and Good-Byes, Brooks told the stories of different countries and how they finished the zombie war. I found it interesting in the chapter, Total War, when the interviewer stated the meaning of total war; 100% committed to war and no limitations. This stuck out to me when I started thinking about it because it talked about how zombies didn't have any limitations because they didn't have anything to lose. Therefore, they were the definition of total war. Whereas humans couldn't because they weren't 100% committed because they did have something to lose. I also found this chapter interesting because it hit the strategies of other countries. One that I found most interesting and disturbing was Nebraska, USA. I found this fighting style to be disturbing because even though dogs may not be as "important" as human lives, they still matter. and I found it disturbing that some people thought it would be a good idea for dogs to just be a suicide bomber. The last chapter, Good-Byes, was interesting; but I didn't see it coming at all. It was weird that no one seemed to be happy about the fact that the zombie war was apparently over, everyone was still scared that they might still be out there. The Russian woman having a bunch of babies and giving them away was super weird, and the "Whacko" was a clear example of how the war affected people.

World War Z- Around the world, and Above

The story ending with several different countries wrapping up their "z"-day apocalypse experience, ended in with a relieving feeling for me. Seeing that the people also coming into relief after the events is soothing and also answers what happened next for me. Basically a simple epilogue of events after the world wide crisis. Particular place that caught my attention was Denver, Colorado with Todd Wainio. The way it was described about the people not celebrating seemed realistic to me, since after such a Worldly historic event most people did not celebrate after such damage done to lives, families, and societies I would not feel up to it either. Likely just preparing to just role right into the rebuilding and recovering processes.

Terryonna Samuels

 The ending of the book "World War Z" by Max Brooks was not the way I expected it. I expected it to be an all out war and  extinction of the zombies and it seem like the ending of a huge war. Instead it was kinda different. One part of the book o want to talk about is China. The old man speaks to the interviewer and tells him that he is happy that the kids can go outside and play with out fear. Of course there are rules like not being able to go out after dark and always be with somebody. He says that people aren't selfish and self centered but in a few generations it will be the same again.
   The next section I want talk about is the lady that was four months pregnant. She said that she is working for her country to make it a better place even if it means not knowing her childern or fathers of her childern. She was confident that Russia was superior again and wanted the interviewer to tell the world. I'm not sure what they were using her babies for but I believe that anyone who has to give her childern up to help their country that they are pretty confident that things are going to work and get better.
  Zombies still exstist but not on the same level that they use to be. Order has been restored in countries and things are going back to normal. People are going out to eat and playing outside, I would say it is safe to say that the humans won the war in Zombies vs. Humans

World War Z, Around the World and Above Summary

Ben Smith

In the chapter "Around the World, and Above" of World War Z written by Max Brooks, I choose to discuss the interview done in Cienfuegos, Cuba. In this section it talks about how Seryosha Garcia Alvarez tells the interviewer that Cuba won the Zombie War. Later in the interview he discusses how Cuba was never on stable ground economically during and after the Cold War, but then The Great Panic hit and Cuba had long prepared itself for the undead since their geography gave them advanced warning. Cuba not only survived the initial zombie outbreaks, they even allowed refugees to come ashore. When the refugees got ashore they soon realized that they had to obey Cuba's rules, with most of the refugees coming from the United States making the paradigm shift a little. The refugees were then put in Quarantine Resettlement Centers. Some of which were compared to prison camps, although Alvarez disagrees. The Cubans welcomed the Americans with open arms, allowing 10 percent of them to do jobs nobody else wanted: dish washers, street cleaners. The work force surge led to an economic evolution, Cuba became the "Breadbasket, the manufacturing center, the training ground, and the springboard" of the world. With capitalism came democracy, which lead to good relations with the refugees. What surprised Alvarez is that Fidel didn't try to stop it, instead he embraced it. He even held the first Democratic election. One thing I found interesting in this book is the relationship between America and Cuba. I find it interesting because in the book it shows Cuba as becoming more susceptible to the effects of democracy and more accepting of Americans in general. I wonder that if Cuba was more economically advanced, if they would be more accepting of America and its culture in real life.

World War Z Total War Summary Lucas Nichols

In the section of Total War in World War Z, the interviewer interviews General D'Ambrosia in the command information center. Which is a blimp three thousand feet above Finland. During the interview General D'Ambrosia talks about how he disliked the order of attacking and how it worried him. He was scared to send men to go fight off two million zombies. He then talks about how they could no longer rely on the old rules of war. They all had to be rewritten into a set of new rules of war. He says that armies must be "bred, fed, and led", what this meant was the people must breed people to fight. Feed people to keep fighting and have someone to lead them to victory. He mentioned that zombies were in no way restricted by this. It was the zombies unfair advantage to the war they had no limits they were ready for war at all times. What I thought was most interesting of this section was the idea of having rules in a time of chaos. It reminds me that as humans even in the midst of most chaotic times, we need rules to keep us in order and to prevail as a race. It shows however that zombies have the advantage of not having any rules at all literally and how they almost made the human race go extinct in this book.  

World War Z - Around the World, and Above

Section: South Korea, pages 199-203

I chose this section because of how mysterious it is. At the beginning of each section the author usually states what that specific country did to save its people and if it was successful or not, but this section simply stated that it had no idea what happened in North Korea. Unlike the North Koreans, who are trained with military tactics, who had a large army and a safe place to go during another war, the South Koreans had nothing. The North Koreans closed off the railroad connecting the two, surprisingly brushed off by the South Koreans as another security check. The North Koreans simply disappeared,  the farmers, "...every man, woman, and child in North Korea, had simply vanished."

This section is important to the context of the larger story because it sheds light to another way a country dealt with this crisis, and it makes us wonder what ever happened to the North Koreans in the underground tunnels? "Maybe those caverns are teeming with twenty-three million zombies, emaciated automaton howling in the darkness and just waiting to be unleashed." This ending sentence could act as foreshadowing, leading our minds to think that maybe those twenty three million will someday be unleashed.

I liked the section because it left us wondering, it wasn't as straight forward as the others by telling us from the start how they tried to survive the apocalypse. I like the way that the author wrote it, saying that the South Koreans saw it slowly happening, everyone up North disappearing, but they shrugged it off. I didn't like how shallow it was, there didn't seem to be any deep connection like the other sections or countries. This part was shallow and short and I wished there had been a little bit more to take away from this section other than the fact that the North Koreans disappeared.

the chapter Around the World and above from the book World War Z. There was a a section that talked about this man in China being interviewee was an old man who was very patriotic,he used to be a officer in the Chinese army. There was so a big problem going on in China. The army had refused to use the Redeker plan and were running out of options to fight the zombies, they were being out number and something needed to be done, The plan the captain came up with was to a nuclear submarine and leave the country. At the end the captain has to fire the nuclear weapon.  I thought it was interesting to see how a such a big country was getting outnumber and being attacked when they such a big amount of people that at the end they had to use a nuclear weapon

Andrew 7/8

I liked the section province of bohemia. This section talks alot about the old castles that were tourest atractions. But out of the zombie infestation they turn into safe places for people some in witch were some what updated .this is interesting because they are turning back to old day buildings and weapons to fight and keep safe. While the writer tell of some of them eventuly getting over ran by zombies or the people inside would give up. Most of them would turn to winter for scaviging for food and supplies. They also talk about multiple castlesthat have all different stuff.

World War Z Around the world and above Summary Lucas Nichols

In the section of World War Z, Around the world and above. There is an interview done in Cienfuegos, Cuba. The interviewer interviews a man named Seryosha Garcia Alvarez. At the very begging of this interview Seryosha states Cuba won the zombie war. He then goes on about how his country of Cuba never had it good economically, he also talks about how they had to put up with the U.S blockade even after the cold war. But later when the great panic at hit, Cuba had been well prepared for the attack because they knew in advance. They were even ready to put up with all of the refugees that had sought out to Cuba for protection. But the refugees that had actually been able to make it to the shore of Cuba, they had to live under strict rules put into to place for them. A lot of these refugees were from the united states. The refugees were all paced into Quarantine centers. Later some of the prisoners were allowed to do work no one else wanted like physical labor. But six months later all of the camps had emptied and everyone engaged in a huge work force which then gave Cuba an economic evolution and turned Cuba into a capitalism. Then with capitalism came democracy which was formed between the refugees and Cubans. What I thought was most interesting of this section was that most of the refugees were in fact Americans. After the cold war Cuba certainly didn't like the US but the fact that they accepted US citizens into their country and then later turned into a capitalist country with democracy is very interesting.  

'World War Z: Turning the Tides' Summary by Seth Comara

In 'Turning the Tide', a chapter in the Max Brooks novel World War Z, the author begins describing how humanity begins getting a foothold in the Z war. Not all methods as merciful as they seem. For example Paul Redeker, a brilliant yet dispassionate man who was famous for constructing the non-bias government 'Plan Orange' in which Reeker calculated who should be saved in the event of a doomsday scenario in the Afrikaner region. With his assistance, a new plan was set forth to suit the survivors of the Z war. As many lives were spared by this plan, there were equal who became bait. Sacrifices to keep the zombies at bay. It seemed Redeker's philosophy on human sentimentality was put into action by the NIA. In the end, Reeker lost his mind, this supposedly unemotional man was so destroyed by his own actions, that he created a whole new persona to escape the man he had become.  I'm not surprised it ended this way, after all, the zombies are un bais as well. They do not bow to love, grief, or hate. Its our humanity that makes us better than them. Without our humanity, we're barely even human.

Terryonna Samuels

My reaction to the chapter Around the world and above was surprising. The one specific interview that I want to talk about is the one when the student that lives in Tokyo was knowing about everything that was going on and wasn't scared. He stayed on his computer still studying and still memorizing facts that would no longer help him in the zombie world. He was so I on blogging and learning information about who the people were going to overthrow the living dead that he didn't realize that his parents were missing and he still doesn't know what happened to them. Throughout that interview the interviewer kept asking if he was afraid or worried he wasn't. Not until he the computer reception went out and he no long was receiving blogs and when we was in his hallway covered in black slime was when he realized that he should have took survival skills more seriously.
  I understand that it is typical for Asian students to want to be wrapped around with knowledge but I think that he took the learning and shelter to a different level. My theory is that maybe he thought that  if he stayed in his apartment and kept blogging that time will pass and the zombies would be vanquished before he knew it. I also think that he didn't realize that his apartment wasn't zombie proof and that they attack anybody at anytime in anyplace.

war world z summary

In the chapter Turning the tire in the book War World Z, the part that stood out for me was about the character Paul Redeker. He was a very interesting character, I thought the plan he crated the Orange 84 was very intriguing, the way he though out all the steps and how some will survived and others will be feed to the zombies. His plan was straight to point not every can be save, so a “safe zone” is needed to help the survivors. I thought it was a good plan since he went straight to the point and created a solution to the problem.