Asquat black telephone, I mean an octopus, the god of our Signal Corps, owns a recess in Berlin (more probably Moscow, which one German general has named the core of the enemy’s whole being.) Somewhere between steel reefs, a wire wrapped in gutta-percha vibrates: I hereby . . . zzZZZZZ . . . the critical situation . . . a crushing blow. But because these phrases remain unauthenticated (and because the penalty for eavesdropping is death), it’s not recommended to press one’s ear to the wire, which bristles anyhow with electrifed barbs; better to sit obedient, for the wait can’t be long; negotiations have failed. Away flees Chamberlain, crying: Peace in our time. France obligingly disinterests herself in the Prague government. Motorized columns …show more content…
If you give us everything we want within twenty-four hours, we’ll compensate you with land in the infinite East. In Mecklenburg, we’ve prepared a demonstration of the world’s first rocket-powered plane. Serving the sleepwalker’s rapture, Göring promises that five hundred more rocket-powered planes will be ready within a lightning-flash. Then he runs out for a tryst with the film star Lida Baarova. In Moscow, Marshal Tukhachevsky announces that operations in a future war will unfold as broad maneuver undertakings on a massive scale. He’ll be shot right away. And Europe Central’s ministers, who will also be shot, appear on balconies supported by nude marble girls, where they utter dreamy speeches, all the while listening for the ring of the telephone. Europe Central will resist, they say, at least until the commencement of Case White. Every man will be issued a sweaty black machine-carbine, probably hand-forged, along with ten round lead bullets, three black pineapple grenades each not much larger than a pistol grip, and a forked powder horn of yellowed ivory adorned with circle-inscribed stars . . . The telephone gloats: Liberating advance . . . shock armies . . . ratio of mechanized …show more content…
Is it true that it can hear your every breath through its black holes? In his underground headquarters with its many guards, the realist sits tired behind a large desk, awaiting the telephone’s demands. Although he’s good at hanging up on people with as much force as the soldier who slams another shell into our antittank gun, he’s hanging up on them, not on the telephone itself, which he can’t live without. He subsumes himself in it, all-hearing; he knows when Shostakovich takes his name in vain. At the first ring he’ll summon his generals to attend him at that conference table with its green cloth. The sleepwalker’s all eyes; he’s all ears; their mating forms the telephone. 3 This consciousness may indeed derive, as the American victors will assert, from entirely mechanical factors: Within the bakelite* skull of the entity hangs, either nestled or strangled in a latticework of scarlet-colored wires, a malignantly complex brain not much larger than a walnut. Its cortex consists of two brown-and-yellow lobes filamented with fine copper wire. It owns ideas as neatly, numerously arrayed as Poland’s faded yellow eagle standards: The camp of counterrevolution . . . German straightforwardness . . . the slanders of the opposition . . . the soundness of the Volkish theory. It knows how to get everyone, from Akhmatova (who, visionary that she is, mistakes it for a heart of rose coral), to Zhykov (who fools himself that it can be played with), from Gerstein
A. The Air Force has the Community College of the Air Force (CCAF) which is a nationally accredited associate’s degree program. Degree program is based off from your Air Force Specialty Code in which you receive credit for technical training but still basic courses such as Math, English, Public Specking, etc. Tuition assistance and tuition re-imbursement options are available for most colleges and universities.
Attention-getter: “School ownership is our goal.” Who on earth would want to have full control over a school and its students? The military would
Vonnegut uses the Federal Communications Commission to not only convey, but to amplify the serious political consequences of a machine like the euphio ever existing. The Federal Communications Commission, or the FCC for short, supervises what is allowed and not allowed on TV, radio, etc., and they need more information on the euphio that Fred, Lew, and the narrator have made. The narrator wants to convince the government that “America doesn’t want what we discovered” (88), but Lew thinks that “It’ll bring families together again, save the American home.” We know that the latter statement is false, but when Fred says, “this little monster could kill civilization,” he is sincere. In fact, the narrator mentions how “the only benefit we could get from the euphio would be if we could somehow lay down a peace-of-mind barrage on our enemies” (95). The world, at the invention of nuclear weapons, became paranoid that a nuclear war could wipe out humanity in a few hours. If the euphio were to be broadcasted globally, people would forget what they were doing and simply sit around until their deaths, with no need for the destruction of nuclear weapons. Aside from the story itself giving us the warning which Vonnegut is trying to tell us, we also know how he feels about
The United States dropped their first atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945. The explosion was tragic, “90 percent of the city was wiped out and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens and thousand more would later die to radiation exposure” (Lemay and Paul). Innocent children and citizens would die.
My fellow Congressmen, I stand before you in order to convince you that it is beneficial if not necessary, that we annex Texas and go to war with Mexico. Texas is filled with resources, not only does Texas contain many minerals and fuels, it also contains fertile farm lands that many citizens would be happy to occupy. As I am sure many of you have seen, the citizens of America have been filled with westward fever as of recently. Annexing Texas would give our citizens another place to settle, not only that, but annexing Texas would also allow us to encourage an agrarian economy. Texas would not only gain for us a huge portion of land, but would also open up the pathway to the Pacific ocean, allowing us to grow our trade economy with the countries of the far east. Annexing
I am sure that everyone of you have heard about aliens and UFOs. Indeed, we all have heard about the famous case of aliens and UFOs in Roswell, New Mexico. Most people might be interested in the topic of aliens, but I know that the majority of you just think of it as rumours and the existence of them are impossible. Therefore, I am standing here in front all of you to make you change your perspective. I am strongly confident that I have found the evidence of their real existence to convince all of you.
We seem to be hyped up by the most recent innovations, mesmerized by the spectrum of conveniences and advantages that they can offer, without realizing the ominous aftermath of this ephemeral trend. In Eula Biss’ essay “Time and Distance Overcome,” an ingenious mind of the past sought to connect the households under a vast wire communication system to keep them more intact. When Alexander Graham Bell broadcasted the telephone and telephone poles with a grand project of constructing a social network, Thomas Edison eulogized its efficiency: Biss explicates how people of the past were at first fascinated by the idea that the human voice can be transmitted through telephone wires. However, no one would have speculated that the technology that was developed with a modest purpose of reuniting families via the human voice would be used as a tool to commit violence such as in race riots and lynching. To much surprise, the most benign form of telephone poles were used for hanging innocent Black people after they had been cut down half-alive, beaten to death with clubs, and even burned with oil.
Did you know that it only took twenty minutes for people to die once the Nazis had forced them into a gas chamber? In that short amount of time all their hopes, dreams and achievements disappeared. Elie Wiesel believed that whenever “men and women are being persecuted because of their race, religion or political views…” then it falls on all of us, both individuals and government, to help. I agree with Wiesel that to stop future genocide and further racism, we must all come together because not only are we all human beings, but if we don't then we will never advance.
You must think the worst of me to not have written for more than 3 months. But plans had changed since I last wrote to you. The small section of the Royal Australian Air Force that I was promoted into only 3 months ago, was called for war.
The piercing, cacophonous wails of an ensemble of curious infants on a mission of exploration. Their small worlds shaken and their trust betrayed by the very caregivers who were supposed to provide and care for them; they have suddenly turned on them and replaced joy with immense pain and confusion (whatever happened to the Nightingale Pledge?). A newfound sense of curiosity suddenly replaced with a fear instilled upon them at an age when exploration is commonplace and discovery is supposed to be encouraged.
Alexander Graham Bell (March 3rd – August 2nd, 1922 a Scottish-born scientist) demonstrated the first practical telephone in 1876, when the world was not quite waiting for the telephone and had a hard time accepting the invention. Biss opens the essay with a quote “Of what use is such an invention?”, line 1. The quote appeared in The New York World, shortly after the presentation of Bell´s telephone. In this part, Biss seems ironic, as she has chosen to use that exact quote in an essay published in 2008. There is no doubt; The telephone had already made a great impact on us back in 2008 and most of us probably think of it as a tool we cannot live without. A telephone has become a matter of course in any household throughout most of the world and we definitely find the telephone of great use. In the 1870´s, people did not really understand the purpose of the telephone and even the idea of a national telephone network seemed useless, line 5-8. People were not informed about the benefits of having a
“Germany attempts domination of Europe.” The president reads the paper with a worried expression. Just as the chief of staff, Henry Marshall, walks into the oval office he asks the president to see him in a top-secret meeting with Charles north, Thomas Adams, and Peter Lewis. “Mr. President,” Henry begins, "these men are former criminals that have that are the masterminds behind the biggest crimes in the united states but they now no longer desire money but want to do something good for the world.” Henry goes on saying that they are the perfect people to be sent to Germany on a top secret mission to recover the agent codenamed “Wolf.” Roosevelt’s worried face gave the impression that he didn’t approve; he said, “Why send these untrustworthy
I will not be present tomorrow. On my behalf please give students the benchmark I left for them. The benchmark is on the desk and it is double sided. One side has the outline/checklist and the other side had the actual essay prompt on the Great Depression. In addition, I made copies of my roster for attendance and it is next to the copies of the essay ( green paper). I have loose leaf paper underneath the keyboard of the class computer. If students need writing utensils it is in the supply box, they know where to get
The abuses of modern technology have been highlighted in posters from Germany and Britain, as the conversation on telephones was not entirely secure. The dangers of an unguarded conversation on telephone has been pointed out in ‘Carless talks Costs lives’ posters by Fougasse, where a man having a telephone conversation in a red telephone box (figure.3.12) is overheard by multiple caricature heads of Hitler placed above and on both sides of the box. ‘The torpedo is listening careless words may cost both lives and ships’ poster (figure.3.106) shows an eared torpedo, with swastika marks all over, listening at telephone box with sailor inside. The destructions of an unguarded conversation was measured colossal. Another poster (figure.3.102)
Yes, have our current military. Provides a safety net for all and makes sure that we have no foreign threats. Keeps our freedom and independence. It is an extension to providing a free environment for all. 81% support and like the military overall (Forbes.com)The military is there to serve and protect America as a whole as well. They defend the constitution when oath is taken (Opening phrase is, I will support & defend the Constitution (In Military.com) ) Without that, there is a sense of vulnerability and others may perceive us as weak and easily manipulated. With a force, we will have a chance against others and a way to protect our citizens. Our current constitution provides Congress the authority to shape the different military branches & their conducts, basically support the military. Without basic protection, how can we even have a slim chance of surviving? Not everyone can protect themselves like the young, old, sick, & disabled. They play a huge part in promoting political agenda, protecting economic interests, internal population control, construction, emergency services, social ceremonies, and guarding important areas. Also plays a huge role in power projection.Also function as a discrete subculture within a larger society through the development of infrastructures such as housing, schools, utilities, logistics, health/medical, law, food production, finance, & banking. NECESSITIES. Gives unfortunate a chance at a job with support and honor. 1.4 million serve (Time)