Article Precis for MWP #3

Bradyn Busche 12 September 2012 Mrs. Dawn Diprince English 101- Précis Chap. 6 in ‘Choices’ In this article entitled, “Slaves, Cannibals, and Infected Hyper-Whites:The Race and Religion of Zombies” (2012), Elizabeth McAlister demonstrates the renewed interest in zombie films due to zombies embezzlement of the mind with deeply symbolic structures that are a matter of ration and irrational thinking. It refers to popular horror films of today's society such as "Night of the Living Dead" "The Walking Dead" "Dawn of the Dead" "28 Days Later" and books such as "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"(2009). McAlister shows the readers the allegory of zombies and the current events taking place. Her purpose is to show the symbolism behind the constantly seen zombie films of today's times. This, of course, is in order to allow the readers to understand all symbols located within the plot, story, characters, and sub meanings within the film. Her audience is a base of horror film viewers trying to fully understand films and all their rhetoric.

Free Writing on Video

This video recorded on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” speaks about CBS news’ idea that each time the word ‘nigger’ is written in the book “Adventures of Huckle Berry Finn” with the word ‘Slave.’ Both John Stewart and his guest argue against the idea that editing the original text is inappropriate due to the fact that if we edit one aspect of the book, that opens the door to edit other aspects of the book which completely gets rid of the original meaning put forth by the book. They also point out that editing the text to say ‘slave’ every time the word nigger is said is not much of an improvement. They point out that the word nigger is a general statement to black people while slave is just a job description that therefore makes editing the text seems invalid and obsolete.