... write this particular book. The main character is Billy Pilgrim who is actually Kurt Vonnegut himself. Vonnegut, like Billy Pilgrim, emerged from a meat locker beneath a slaughterhouse into the moonscape of burned-out Dresden. His surviving captors put him to work finding, burying, and burning bodies. His task continued until ... to help Billy fall asleep jiggles him while he weeps. He closes his eyes and he is back in Luxembourg, marching. The wind makes his eyes water. Roland Weary marches ahead of him, his feet raw and bloody from his ill-fitting clogs. The prisoners march into German...

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... to determine if he was late." (82) Before leaving, the Indy requested an escort to help find enemy submarines that may be lurking in the depths beneath them. The reply was that none was needed so the boys aboard the Indy assumed that it would be a relatively safe trip. Contrary to this belief ... power to destroy a city block." (101) The first torpedo hit the Indy's radio station #1 and by 12:06 the once great ship was taking in water by the tons. Resulting from where the torpedo hit, the two decks of the ship couldn't communicate with each other. Everything happened so fast McVay couldn...

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... they have been away from civilization for to long but Diana doesn't know any better because she was born after all the destruction. Mean while beneath the ground, hidden away from the rest of the world lives Hector? He lives in an underground town set up by a crazy control-freak ... warming the planet up at an alarming rate. With the warming of the planet comes the melting of the ice caps and that raise's the water levels around the world. Although this is happening slowly, already 10 pacific islands have been lost and the natives have had to move of there ... are casting in on this p...

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... put in cattle cars with 76 others, they have already been weakened by their journey. All things that we as human beings take for granted, such as water, food, a flat surface to sleep on, and even a semi-private place to relieve ourselves was taken from these people. Even being sent from place ... and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silenc...

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... where scientists, physicists and all others involved in the project would live and do research. "Site Y, as the hypothetical laboratory was initially called, needed good transportation, an adequate supply of water, a local labor force and a moderate climate for year-round construction and for experiments conducted outdoors" (Rhodes 449). Industrial and research activities took place at such sites as Los Alamos, New ... ruined. Eighty percent of the firefighting personnel could not respond to alarms and most of the firefighters were killed or severely wounded. Seventy percent of the fire...

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... and the Soviet Union had many nuclear submarines all over the world. After W.W.II, a series of technological innovations, culminating in nuclear propulsion, transformed the submarine into a true underwater boat, faster beneath the surface than above and able to remain submerged indefinitely. Perhaps one of the most famous yet unknown Soviet submarines, called the K-19, came within miles of the American coastline ... movie, K-19: The Widowmaker came out. This movie showed how close the Soviet's were from attacking the U.S. The K-19 was the first submarine to fire a nuclear missile from u...

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• Grade Level: High School