... wealth to the already rich family. She believes her father has gone crazy after his plane crash, head injury, and brain surgery. Robert - Billy and Valencia's son. He joins the Green Berets and fights in Vietnam. Montana Wildhack - an American star of pornographic films. She is captured by ... aliens and brought to Tralfamadore to be Billy's mate in the zoo. Trafalmadorians - aliens who are able to perceive things in 4 dimensions. The idea of being able to perceive the past ... Trout - An unsuccessful science-fiction writer who lives in Ilium and makes his living as a circulation man fo...

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• Grade Level: High School

... in optometry and ends up marrying the daughter of the school's owner, Valencia, who is overweight and has lower self-esteem than he does. After they are married, Billy is put in charge of a successful optometry practice, but receives little help from Valencia's father. They continue to positively establish themselves in the community by starting a ... the snow and die." (Vonnegut, Page#) In the end, all the other soldiers he is traveling with die except Billy, which is a cruel and ironic ending to an already awful war experience. Adding to Billy's already troubled existence, he is abduct...

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... in 1969. I chose this book because it sounded like an interesting war novel. The main character in this book is Billy Pilgrim. Billy is a weakling, not some one who you would think to fight in a war. Billy was an optometrist. Billy has no fear of dying. After each death in the story he says, "So it goes". The conflict in this ... book is that no one believes Billy about the Trafalmadores and how he was captured and taken through time. Every one thinks he is insane. They blame it on when he hit his ... head in the plane crash. The conflict is between Billy and everyone else. The conflict...

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• Grade Level: High School

... of telling his story of Dresden. The setting of Slaughterhouse-Five is wide-ranged, each place having a significant effect on Vonnegut's story through the life of Billy Pilgrim. The three most important places are Germany during world war two; Ilium, New York, before and after the war; and an alien planet called Tralfamadore ... . Ilium, New York is the fictional town in New York where Billy Pilgrim is born in 1922 and where he lives most of his life. In Chapter 1, Vonnegut tells us that after the war he and his wife ... mirrors the narrators the most. Vonnegut having experienced war and...

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... that was given to his small group of friends, that were also writers, of the Columbia University. There are many publishers that confirm the importance of On the RoadFor example, Synopsis tells us in its review: "This novel epitomized to the world the Beat philosophy" (amazon.com-#1). Also, Library Journal writes: "Undoubtedly one of the most influential and important novels of ... Road tails his travels across America that took him seven years, he traveled by bus, hitchhiking and in his friends car. Furthermore, it tells us about many other things, like Synopsis point out: "It chronicl...

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... hip-hop dancing and were very positive in socializing with other schools. My interviewees were named Egg and Rock from the "Ones To Watch" dance school, Fanny from the BCDC (Billy Chan Dance Center) dance school. I thought it was very good to get teachers involved in the interviews because not only are they hip-hop dancers but they teach hip-hop ... keep the momentum going. I asked her when she was offered the teaching position. Fanny said that she was offered the position after a long time of learning. Billy Chan, who is the owner of BCDC (Billy Chan Dance Center), was always keeping t...

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... , was a dairy farmer and Presbyterian preacher. His mother, Priscilla, was an English teacher in a local school. From his earliest years, Gardner demonstrated an unusual ability with language and was nicknamed "Budd" (Welsh for "poet") by his mother. In July of 1948, Gardner published his first creation - a cartoon of an elephant - in Seventeen magazine. The literary world took little notice, and Gardner ... ...

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... mystery in the ending of "Landlady" (pg.18) ""No my dear," she said. "Only you."" The reader does not know what exactly happens to Billy, but the implication is given that the landlady would probably stuff Billy. The same technique was used in the ending of "The Way Up to Heaven." He also likes to shock his readers by having a twist in ... ...

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Peter M. Senge, 1990, The Fifth Discipline, New York, Doubleday, 90-2991 ISBN 0-385-26094-6 Synopsis: The Fifth Discipline could be a textbook for the science of management. Senge authored the book while the director of the Center for Organizational Learning at MIT's Sloan School of Management. ... ...

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Synopsis: An ensemble comedy about five guys, all in their twenties, all coping with the mysteries of life and women, and is set in the back streets and sometimes hidden clubs of Hollywood. It's a story told in the language of the "cocktail nation," a growing twenty something retro-Swing dance movem...

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... his first home run at Maple Leaf Park in Toronto, and on September 5, 1914 he hit a three-run shot on Ellis Johnson of Toronto, over the fence in right field. Billy Kelly was the only Toronto player to take a hit from Ruth throughout this game. The Monday morning after this game, Toronto's Globe and Mail featured an article on Babe Ruth ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School