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With the concept of Schittny’s Invisibility Cloak, a feat as marvelous as that of using extreme distortion to simulate invisibility follows a very strict regime for it to actually become reality. And despite the irony of it, any individual needs an algorithm to cause chaos. The Cloak for instance, is the result of two large electromagnetic fields actively valancing atomic particles in the vicinity of the desired object to move constantly so that light that is directed at them passes through them…

Kurt Vonnegut was born on November 11, 1922, in Indianapolis, Indiana to Kurt Sr. and Edith Vonnegut. His father was an architect and his mother was the daughter of a wealthy brewer. Kurt Jr. was the youngest of their three children. The Depression brought many changes to the Vonnegut household. Kurt Sr. had to sell the house and Kurt Jr. was taken out of private school. In his teen years, Vonnegut wrote for the student paper, The Echo, and he continued his interest in journalism at Cornell,…

“Maybe it’s a supernatural phenomenon!” Ace encourages from his place across Nami and Vivi. “Aliens could’ve done it!” Luffy chokes on his food. “Mhphh—!” “Don’t do that.” Zoro frowns at Ace as he reached over and pats Luffy’s back. “You’ll get him all excited over nothing.” Ace grins mischievously. “What if she’s an alien herself and she’s come to take over the planet!” Luffy’s arms are going everywhere and he’s babbling nonsense behind all the food in his mouth. Law, who’d been quietly…

A Metaphor for War: Schwarzschild Radius and Black holes Connie Willis communicates that a black hole is akin to war through the use of a number of metaphors in her story Schwarzschild Radius. Schwarzschild Radius is about a World War One veteran, Rottschieben who is recounting his time in the war to a curious college student who wished to know about his time working alongside the physicist that is attributed with the discovery of the Schwarzschild Radius. Willis uses comparisons such as…

Vonnegut's fiction exposes the reality of the Vietnam War as dehumanizing and horrific towards one's ability to acheive individuality and liberation to form an identity. In Kurt Vonnegut's 1969 anti-war novel "Slaughterhouse Five" (SF) he shares many truths of fiction from his own experiences such as confinement is a barrier for personal growth, collectivism is not the key to acheiving liberation and identity is ultimately determined one's ability to detach themselves from others. This is…

“Slaughterhouse 5” by Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most complex and intriguing novels I have ever read, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I also appreciated the fact that we analyzed this book in class, although this is a book that I feel would be hard to understand unless analyzed from the point of view of the author. This is also a very difficult book to summarize, considering the fact that it is not written in any type of chronological order. That being said, the lack of an order of events…

The role of free will in Slaughterhouse Five Throughout the novel, Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut a recurring theme among the Tralmfaldorians and Billy Pilgrim is the belief of free will being nonexistent, alternatively our lives are already prearranged for us, and there's no room to alter our destiny. The Tralmfaldorians concept about life is everything is happening at once, there is no beginning of time nor end of time life is not a continuous path. On the contrary, life is rather…

Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut is part science fiction and part an autobiography telling his story of the war. Kurt Vonnegut uses the bombing of Dresden as a central setting that everything revolves around. The bombing is what makes this book part autobiography because Vonnegut was present during the bombing of Dresden as a prisoner of war during World War II. The time travel part of the book makes it part science fiction. The setting of Slaughterhouse-5 is wide ranging because this book…

Slaughter house-five is a book about the life of a man named Billy Pilgrim. After his childhood, Billy goes to school to study to become an optometrist so that he could work for his fathers business. He ends up becoming drafted into the military and is sent to Germany. He returns and suffers 3 traumatic events. First of all he suffers from nervous collapse, then he gets into a plane crash and is the only one to survive, and finally while he is recovering from his crash his wife passes away.…

Both Slaughterhouse Five, written by Kurt Vonnegut, and Briefing for A Descent into Hell, written by Doris Lessing, show signs of a disturbed individual; one whose life has been altered from reality. Billy Pilgrim, the main character of Slaughterhouse Five, disconnects from reality from the destruction of war. On the other hand, Charles Watkins, the main character of Briefing for A Descent into Hell, becomes disconnected from reality due to a mental breakdown. These novels deal with the works…