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Zombie Apocalypse Analysis
Abdul Azim bin Abdul Nasser
LING 101
Instructor: Cassandra Bishop
December 13, 2011
Draft 2

A Bibliographic Essay on the Escape from Zombie Land

“Social Media: Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse” by Ali S. Khan published in Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website generally discuss the “what-if” situation when it comes to a zombie attack and how to deal with it. The fact that Khan discussed interesting topic in his article with catchy title about “zombie apocalypse”, this draws my attention to go through more in depth about this topic. I realized many are talking about the same subject as well on the realm of net and then stumbled across so many other articles similar to Khan’s. I decided to choose three other articles to be compared to the Khan’s article in this essay. I find that every each of the articles is unique on its own way of delivering the idea on preparation to face the
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There are a lot of scientific terms used in the article which I think the author does not explain thoroughly. I find that not everyone can understand the term and readers like me, I need to Google some of the words out. Many would not going to do so, resulting the readers not continuing to read the article till the end. The article also did not explain what a zombie is but I assume by now, many would know what zombie generally means. The author of this article also stated that this “How-To” tips are not to be confused with the ones from CDC’s. So I assume that is a clever way on telling the readers how the article differs from the other. The article is really interesting, and I find it refreshing with all the scientific way of surviving zombies attack rather than reading repetitively about predictable tips and

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