Recently in my LA class we have started to read books about conflicts after the start of World War II and I have chosen the book All the Light We Cannot See, which is roughly about a blind french girl and an orphan boy with a radio who is recruited for a German Nazi army school. Well, on that topic, I found an article from BBC that is similar to one of the characters. The article is called "The teenage radio enthusiasts who helped win World War II." from BBC. It's about a person named Bob King, who starting at the age of 16, started incepting radio messages from the Nazi army. "We knew it was highly important, everything was marked 'top secret,' but only many years later we discovered that it was German secret service we were listening to," Bob says to BBC. And as well as many other departments in the war, Bob King was told to stay quiet about what he did many decades after the war. "Mr King says that they were not even allowed to mention anything to their families. His wife only found out about her husband's secret past in 1980 - more than three decades after he had stopped his interception activities." In my book, Werner was recruited at a young age to go to a Nazi Training school. There, he used his brains and his talents in math to help Germany with their radios, as well as other electrical devices. On page 82 for instance, Werner fixes a radio for a local officer. It says; "He tries to envision the bouncing pathways of electrons, the signal chain like a path through a crowded city, RF signal coming in here, passing through a grid of amplifiers, then to variable condensers, then to transformer coils.... He sees it. There are two breaks in one of the resistance wires.... Could two men have missed something so simple?" That was when he fixes a radio and first gets noticed by the officer. Then, later, in the war, Werner tries to fix the radio on page 204. "The power cable has been severed and the lead to the aboveground antenna is lost and Werner would not be surprised if the selector panel is broken. in the weakening amber of the field light, he stares at one crushed plug after another." Bibliography- Moskvitch, Katia. "The teenage radio enthusiasts who helped win World War II." BBC. July 5th, 2013. April 23rd, 2017. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-23162846 Doerr, Anthony. All the Light We Cannot See. 2014.
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Way back in the Industrial Revolution in the USA, jobs were plentiful. During this time period, machines were being built and helped manufacture many of the goods shipped around the world. Goods were now being built by the dozen instead of one by one. Jobs were booming due to the amount of goods being sold. The US was doing quite well. Because there were many many jobs to be found in the US, there were also many many people immigrating into the country. And because of that, there were many hardships that the immigrants faced. Just for starters, did I mention that there were loads of people entering the US? Immigrants coming into the US had to pass a series of tests just to become citizens. People left their own countries to go to the US for jobs. Which meant that there were many migrating in who did not speak English. They probably had no plan until they got into the country either. People needed jobs and they needed to be paid. They also needed supplies to live off of. Finding jobs that paid well was hard. Children had to work hard and long hours to get a measly three cents at some jobs, instead of going to school.
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