The book The Wave by Morton Rhue is a fiction story but is based on an incident that occurred in a high school in Palo Alto, California. In the book, history teacher Ben Ross shows a movie to his high school class about Germany while studying World War Two. After a series of questions after the movie, Ross conducts an experiment to roughly explain the cruel behavior of the German Nazis during the Holocaust. He starts an organization called the Wave in his class that spreads rapidly throughout the school. Laurie Saunders, one of Mr. Ross' students, is against the Wave and believes that it is controlling the majority of the school, who are forming a huge group dedicated to recruiting new Wave members and following the rules set up by Mr. Ross. Mr. Ross gets in trouble when the Wave turns violent against the non-members. Ross then explains to the members how they have absent-mindedly let someone control their decisions, just like the Nazis following the commands of Adolf Hitler. The......

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Title: The Wave
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Approximate Pages: 2 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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