Kurt Angle

Vonnegut’s Ice-9 What if there existed a type of ice that could freeze anything within seconds of contact? A big plot driver in Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Cat’s Cradle is the made-up bio-weapon called Ice-9 which does exactly that. When Dr. Asa Breed says, “When it [the rain] fell, it would freeze into hard little hobnails of ice-nine—and that would be the end of the world!” he clearly shows how dangerous this weapon is to the entire world (Vonnegut 50). It’s very existence would be a bigger threat…

Harrison Bergeron is an amazing short story that gives its reader a glimpse of what the future could be like if the government attempted to make everyone equal. It is also unnerving because our society could eventually become like that. There is also a short film called 2081 that is also a good film. Harrison Bergeron and 2081 are similar but have a lot of differences and that is what I am going to talk about. Harrison Bergeron is a dystopian and satirical short story. It combines elements of…

often make things seem more perfect than they really are. Kurt Vonnegut shows that perfection on the surface isn’t always true, and it can be hard to make sense of that. In the story “2BRO2B” Kurt Vonnegut develops the theme that surface perfection isn’t always real through the elements external conflict and setting. Vonnegut uses setting to display surface perfection through the painting and the utopia. In the beginning of the story, Kurt makes the audience think that this world is perfect and…

Bergeron" "The worst form of equality is to take unequal things and make them equal, " is a quote by the well known Aristotle. This statement can also be a theme found in the story "Harrison Bergeron.”Written by Kurt Vonnegut, "Harrison Bergeron" is the story of a dystopian universe. Kurt Vonnegut seems to want to get across his point of equality not been for the best when taking too far. In "Harrison Bergeron", the idea of equality is taken out of perspective. We see the possible effects of…

Cora Satterfield April White 2nd period 14 Apr. 2017 The King of Grunge Kurt Cobain was a great artist and considered “The King of Grunge.” Kurt started music at a young age, he was given a guitar from his Uncle Chuck and entertained the kids and teachers at school with his artistic talents. As a teen, Cobain began attending all of “The Melvins” rehearsals, where he met his best friend Krist Novoselic, whom he later teamed up with to form Nirvana. In 1988, Nirvana released their first single…

Journal Entry #9 September 12, 2014 Topic: My reading since September 2nd Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut – pp.275 (Book finished) Slaughterhouse-Five is an antiwar satire following Billy Pilgrim, a former World War II veteran who has become “unstuck in time.” The novel has a nonlinear narrative, constantly jumping between Billy’s war time, pre-war, and post-war experiences as he lives the events of his life over and over again. The plot mainly focuses around the war and Billy’s…

1. The fact that the government had added 213 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution shows us they they got really serious about rules, what you can and can not do, and very serious about making everyone equal. 2. The narrator says that Georges ¨thought fled in panic like danits¨ it pretty much is saying that his thoughts just go all over the place and he can't ever quite remember what he was thinking about. 3.In the story for people that need to be handicapped because of the way they look or how…

“Peace, love, empathy. Kurt Cobain,” and like that the famous, musical genius signed his name at the bottom of his suicide note, only to tragically die shortly after. Kurt Cobain was the singer and guitarist for the punk-rock band named Nirvana. He was known for his voice that sounded more like a melodic scream and producing a wailing guitar sound which consisted of a lot of feedback to make his music sound as obscene as possible. Other than Cobain’s signature sound, Nirvana was known for…

Imagine a world where people lived to be 200, and where in order to have children someone would have to volunteer to die. In the text 2BRO2B by Kurt Vonnegut, this is the society people live in. Vonnegut made it easy for the reader to see the painter makes his own guilt in anger. In this short story we see that the painter isn’t proud of his worker. IN the text it says “You think I’m proud of this daub?” Which the order responds, “You're a gloomy old duck, aren't you?” These two times shew…

Harrison Bergeron Paper Harrison Bergeron is a story about equality and total government control. No one is allowed to be different from each other in anyway. People have to wear handicaps so that everyone is the same height, speed, and even amount of beauty. The author is trying to say that total equivalence is dangerous. People not being able to think about thoughts more than 20 seconds, very talented individuals throughout the story are held back by handicaps like the ballerinas, and people…