We Are All Doomed Part Two

While looking through the blogs, I came across Stellar Dreamer’s blog post about the article she did for, We Are All Doomed. The article, “Why Facebook is Bad For You", from The Sun news broad casting site, is concerned with the idea that Facebook is hurting users ability to get a job, let alone hold one down.  The thesis of the article doesn’t seem to be, DON”T Use Facebook, it’s more focused on informing the readers that there is a possibility that what you say, or the pictures you post can hurt.

The article even goes into a large generalization of what society does, and/or doesn’t do. “People don’t think about employers reading their Facebook pages and kids don’t think about their parents going online to check up on them. But an increasing number do.” And goes on to say that, “Recent research by an American university found 23 per cent of employers reviewed candidates’ profiles on social networking sites.”  Although this does SEEM like an impressive number, it could be easily debunked just because the information that is given was “research “done by “an American university”. Why not name the university the research came from? And when I tried to find these statistics, I couldn’t find any hard evidence to back this statement up. It was all other news articles and blogs that talked about the matter.

The article also says, “There have also been a number of cases of people being fired for criticizing their employer on Facebook…But it isn’t just criticism that can get you fired. It may be that you have posted pictures of yourself doing things your boss doesn’t think were suitable.” This doesn’t surprise me, but I’m not sure if that statement is based on here-say and/or a few scattered cases here and there.  However, I did find many news articles and things that said “ways to get fired because of Facebook.” Some from the most absurd to the most telling of human idiocy.  If you’re interested, check out, 17 People Who Were Fired For Using Facebook, some of them are very stupid it’s funny.

Another bit of interesting information this article gives is, “Other institutions have also used Facebook. Oxford University last year used the site to help discipline students for chucking flour and eggs around as part of their post-exam celebrations.”  This does just sound like another piece of gossip but it is most certainly not.  An article from Tech Dirt, Oxford Fines Students For Post-Exam Celebrations By Trolling Facebook,supports this line of information however there doesn’t seem to be much more on the subject. Perhaps it is because Oxford did not want a scandal who knows.

                This article from The Sun seems like a good article at first glance, but it is all opinion, with little to no evidence. Stellar Dreamer’s blog post was very good at breaking down the article, and its content, but I don’t think an actual conclusion was made about the evidence itself. But the Article is flawed, and needs a lot more concrete evidence to support the things it claims. It is more of a personal opinion, and either you agree with what it is saying or you don’t. But saying that it does make some good points, and I think that those points should really be thought about, because it is possible for your life to be ruined by Facebook.

-zombiegirl

Dawn of the Dead

         So, obviously I need to talk about a zombie movie, it is time, ha ha. So I chose the classic, almost iconic zombie movie, Dawn of the Dead, first created by George A. Romero in 1978. This movie was great.  It came after Romero's 1969 Night of the Living Dead, which can be credited as one of the first zombie movies. I found two movie posters.

The first poster seems like the more official one because it is on the IMDb description of the movie. The big white letters is actually a quote from one of the characters in the movie, “When there's no more room in hell the dead will walk the earth." it is interesting to see that the word hell is all capitalized and so is the word earth, perhaps to infer hell on earth, kind of creepy. This makes the person who sees this poster want to go watch a scary movie, but it doesn't fully come right and say what the movie is about. Under that to the left, in smaller black letters, it says that it is a new George A. Romero movie. And in giant red letters it says, DAWN of the DEAD, and under all of that it has all of that tiny little white lettering that says who directed, and wrote and who was staring. The wording on the poster really doesn't give much insight into what the movie is about, especially if the movie goer had not seen Night of the Living Dead. The background of the poster is a light purple top half, and the bottom half black, probably to symbolize sunrise. And on the crest of that sunrise a giant white head with red blotches on the left side of the face, is peering over the darkness, like it is rising.

        The second poster for this 1978 film looks like this:

This poster is much more of a cartoon, but gives a larger explanation of what the movie is about. Starting from the top, there is an image of the sun rising over a city, with a helicopter flying over the sea of zombies that appears to be chasing the much smaller images of the "survivors". And under all of that in red is Dawn of the Dead and under that in the tiny white lettering is the names of the directors, writers, actors, etc. This poster seems to say a lot more to the viewer, and weirdly more than the first one, even though this poster had almost no words at all on it. 

         

In 2004 Dawn of the Dead was re- booted. It was directed by Zack Snyder, and written by James Gunn, and this movie took George A. Romero's original screen play and changed it. It is basically the same concept, but has several tweaks, to make it a different experience. The movie poster is also very different from the original movies. It had orange and yellow background and sun with back figures that seem to be staggering out of the light. The bottom half of these figures bodies fade back into the light, and once again the only lettering on the poster is the title of the movie and the quote, “When there's no more room in hell the dead will walk the earth", in black this time, however the quote changed too, it was all capitalized now. WHICH FEELS LIKE IT TOOK MEANING AWAY FROM THE POSTER. The only difference between the newer poster and the older posters in that these is a release date March 26 th in red at the bottom.

Both movies are good, and each has a redeeming qualities. But their posters are very different. And defiantly shows which movie was trying to make money and which was trying to make history. 

                                                                                                                                                                   Even the trailers are contrastingly different check them out:                                                                           The top video is of the 1978 Dawn of the Dead

and the bottom is from 2004.

-zombiegirl