Most of his tactics were outdated and predictable for the Germans. This meant that it was easy for the Germans to slaughter the English with their machine guns which Haig thought was over rated. Haig also based most of his plans on unreliable machinery that didn’t always work. Also by bombarding the Germans with shells before going over no man’s land this warned the Germans of an English attack. Some historians say that it is unfair to call Haig the “Butcher of the Somme”.
Case Study 14.1: Mackerel Economics in Federal Prisons Case study 14.1 poses the question how well do pouches of mackerel satisfy the six properties of ideal money, which include “durable, portable, divisible, uniform quality, low opportunity cost, and stable value.” (McEachern, 2012). We have to take in consideration that this form of commodity money was implemented after federal prisons banned cigarettes in 2004. Mackerel has replaced cigarettes and has satisfied all six properties of ideal money quite well. The pouches are durable, it is safe to assume that they rarely have the opportunity to expire because they serve as commodity money in federal prison among the inmates. The pouches are durable as well.
Bronx Masquerade by Nikki 670L Grimes Power Vocabulary List Powered by The Lexile Framework™ for Reading ACCIDENTAL Pronunciation ak-si-dent-uhl Part of Speech adjective Definition 1 occurring unexpectedly or by chance; happening without intent or through carelessness and often with unfortunate results Word Used in Context Her accidental fall from the horse caused her to sprain her wrist. The spot of blue paint on the wall was accidental, but Emily liked the way it looked, so she left it there. Jake used to spill his milk a lot during lunch, but it was always accidental, and nothing he meant to do. Pronunciation uh-sem-blee Part of Speech noun Definition 1 a meeting of lots of people Word Used in Context The ceremony was performed at five in the afternoon in front of an assembly of relatives and friends. The school held an assembly to honor the students who won the spelling bee.
Dressing somebody up to look alive dont make it so.”……..“I don’t want no casket. It’s a waste of money. What I would really like, is to be wrapped in two or three feed sacks and laid right in the ground. But that would bother you all, so use the pine box upstairs at the store that Miss Mattie Lou’s coffin come in. I been saving it.
He shoos away a cow that wants milking, and returns to the barn to cry quietly. Cash passes by and Dewey Dell calls out, but Vardaman continues to cry in the dark. Darl (ch 42) Darl helps lay the semiconscious Cash on top of the coffin.
The first of these words are ‘foul’ and ‘ragged’. These words are sensory words since they immediately make contact with the reader’s senses. ‘Foul’ is a smell and ‘ragged’ is an appearance. McCarthy will use sensory language more often as the passage progresses. The subsequent line has a few more examples: “They had been making forays at night up the arroyo for wood and water and they had been feeding off a dead mule that lay gutted and stinking in the far corner of the yard.” They had been attacking at night for resources and had been eating a dead mule, which comes back to the theme of survival.
They got this by the way the soldiers stood up in mud and cold water which caused the feet to go numb and give them trench foot. The only way you could stop from getting this was to constantly change your socks but most soldiers ignored this as it was hard to take their shoes off in such agony. Another condition was the rats which were infested with diseases and sometimes could be deadly. The rats lived off dead bodies and sometimes bit sleeping soldiers giving them illnesses. One of the exciting aspects of WW1 was the use of different types of weapons, the main weapon that every soldier had, another weapon was the gases, poison gas which caused blindness and death by choking, mustard gas which killed you instantly if breathed, they stopped using mustard gas though as a lot of soldiers died from it as if they threw it and the wind went the opposite direction they mostly killed themselves!
The knowledge and ignorance in the story was greatly important to us as a motivation to do different in some cases. ““Magazines became a nice blend of vanilla tapioca. Books, so the damned snobbish critics said, were dishwater. No wonder books stopped selling, the critics said. But the public, knowing what it wanted, spinning happily, let the comic books survive.”” There are knowledge we use today but also some ignorance.
From the very beginning Nick shows how Gatsby was materialistic “he took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them one by one before daisy” (Fitzgerald 98). As he was trying to impress Daisy, his love materialistic things began to grow. He was always trying to live up to daisy standards. This materialistic thing is what made Gatsby desperate which led to his destruction or corruption. This corruption was what Tom revealed to Daisy “ he and this Wolfshiem bought up a lot of side street drug stores here in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter” (Fitzgerald 141).
And we have most definitely had a hard time with the Indians. With the Komagata Maru, and the Continuous Passage Act, Canada wasn’t greatly appreciated by India. Canada doesn’t exactly have the best past when dealing with immigrants, but in the last 100 years, we have made a much greater effort in allowing immigrants into our country. The Komagata Maru incident, is one of the worst things, in my opinion, that Canada has ever been a part of. Promising that they could come into Canada if they did something, they do it, and then not let them into Canada.