Unwind

Unwind (novel)

Unwind is a dystopian novel by Neal Shusterman. Unwind takes place in a future version of the United States. After the Second Civil War was fought over abortion, a compromise was reached, "The Bill of Life," a set of constitutional amendments allowing parents to sign an order for their children between the ages of 13 and 18 to be "unwound" — often taken to "harvest camps." The child's body would be dismembered and used as surgical or cosmetic transplants, essentially making conventional surgery redundant. The reasoning is that since 99.44% of the child's body is used, Unwinds do not technically die because their individual body parts live on.

Call stack

In computer science, a call stack is a stack data structure that stores information about the active subroutines and inline blocks of a computer program. This type of stack is also known as an execution stack, program stack, control stack, run-time stack, or machine stack, and is often shortened to simply the "stack". Although maintenance of the call stack is important for the proper functioning of most software, the details are normally hidden and automatic in high-level programming languages. Many computer instruction sets provide special instructions for manipulating stacks.

unwind

Verb

1. To separate (something that is wound up)
2. To disentangle

Noun

1. Any mechanism or operation that unwinds something.