Little Boy

World War II
    The “Little Boy” was created through the Manhattan Project when Albert Einstein suggested to President Roosevelt that they create a atomic bomb. With the President’s permission, Einstein worked with Robert Oppenheimer, David Bohm, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, Otto Frisch, Rudolf Peierls, Felix Bloch, Niels Bohr, Emilio Segre, James Franck, Enrico Fermi, Klaus Fuchs and Edward Teller to create the bomb. Before testing “the Gadget” in New Mexico, scientists were unsure whether the bomb would fail to detonate or if it would work too well and destroy the planet. However when the bomb was tested, it succeeded their expectations. The bomb shot up 360 feet per second and a cloud of radioactive vapor materialized at 30,000 feet. Even a blind girl 120 miles away noticed the flash. Another bomb was then made, and used to destroy Hiroshima.

Monologue from the Perspective of an Inventor of the Atomic Bomb:
    This bomb, this one bomb defines the war. It will either end it, or we will die trying. I’ve put most of my life into the Manhattan project and I swear it will work! Everybody’s looking up to me -- my friends, my family -- so it has to work! But there’s still so many factors we have to account for. The plane dropping it from such a high altitude, the wind, the landscape! All it has to do, it’s one job, is to end this damn war.

The Baddest_Through Hells Fire

Casey Parks, Nonye Anyanwu, Gabe Garcia, Ariana Delucchi, Isabella B. Pelston
Humanities
Trollin’ Gnomes
Aliza Cruz
December 13, 2012

Scenes of War Proposal

Through Hell’s Fire & The Death of Germany’s Favorite General

1.) Overview of War: World War II

World War II was the longest, bloodiest war in history as it lasted a total of six years from September 1st, 1939- August 14, 1945. The war was caused by a variety of reasons, such as the failed Treaty of Versailles, which caused Germany to lose some of their land and pay 132 billion marks at the end of World War I. Another cause was that the League of Nations, a sort of earlier version of the United Nations, had failed in it’s primary purpose: to prevent future wars. And lastly, Adolf Hitler was an expansionist, as he sought to recover the land that Germany lost due to the Treaty of Versailles and then he began to megalomaniacally his conquest of Europe and then the world. And so, with all these, on the day of September 1st, 1939, the war began with the German invasion of Poland. And ended on September 2nd, 1945 when the surrender documents were signed aboard the USS Missouri.

2.) Overview of Perspective: A soldier who had found a boy trapped under rubble

At first, it was nothing special, then there was a white light and I couldn’t tell what had happened. Was I dead? Was I killed by those filthy American pigs? I thought, trying to desperately get a grip on the situation, then I was thrown backwards into a wall with such a violent, powerful force proving that I wasn’t dead, but something was seriously wrong. I slowly looked up to see what appeared to be a giant mushroom cloud coming from the city of Hiroshima. I grab my gear and possessions and run towards the city to see if there are any survivors. As I get closer to Hiroshima, the sky becomes darker, as if clouded by a malevolent force. Soon it became pitch black, but then distant lights guided my path, I wondered what the lights were until I got close to the source. It was fire, acres and acres of fire and black sky. Truly, I must have died, because this is, without a doubt, Hell. That’s when I hear a voice “Help! Please help! Hello? Anyone! Help!”
The voice frightens me at first, but then the more I hear the desperate cries for help, I begin to realize that it’s the voice of a child. I wander towards the burning ruins of a building when I see a child trapped underneath debris. As he wraps his arms around my neck, I know he’s still conscious, which relieves me and we wander through the fire for what seems like hours, when he mutters something quietly, “Takashi.” I repeat the name slowly and smile at him, and he smiles back. Soon, we reach the city and my mind starts to think about how this really is Hell and how maybe this child died with me. The buildings are destroyed, the sky is even blacker here, the only thing keeping the city lit is all the fire and there is death everywhere. All I can think is “Why?”

Death Camp

World War II:

     World War II began on September 1, 1939 and ended in 1945. Throughout the war about 50-70 million people were killed. Hitler was very influential in the war. Germany, Italy, and Japan made up the Axis of Power. The Allies were America, France, Britain, and Russia. America became involved after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Some of the negative effects of World War II were aconomic devastation in Europe, trauma, and homelessness. Some of the positive effects include economic growth in America and an increase in women's rights.

Monologue from the Perspective of Isadore Helfing:

     A four year old boy living in Kielce, Poland during the World War II. In September of 1939, my family and I were put in a ghetto, thay called it. My parents were sent to Treblinka, a concentration camp to be killed, and I had the choice of going with them, or staying and being forced tino labor. We rode there in a train for cattle, and the moment we arrived, I see dead bodies, two stories high. They are in front of it and they throw out the bodies because more trains come, so they throw them out. The boys pull the bodies into the graves and I jump in like one of them.

     In Treblinka, you are going down allies as they say, "Man on right, Women at left" so you would all go to the gas chambers. They were pushed in, screamed and pushing each other because they knew, until they were all in. Then they were gassed and slid pout the others side and put into graves. The ones who handled the dead bodies out of the chambers, or the ones who worked with the bodies of the trains.

     "Listen, this is going to be an uprising", the man told me. He said they were giving out ammunition to people who knew how to handle it. The fence around the camp was not electric, so it was easy to jump over. I saw the bullets hit the ground in front of me as we ran into the woods and hid overnight. Many of us got away, but all the others were killed on the spot. We found this out after the war, we counted how many had survived from both parts of the camp altogether--27.