Pigs‚ Dogs‚ Cats‚ Horses‚ and Rats Help Win the Civil War Ramon Crespo History 105 Professor James Allen April 28‚ 2013 Pigs‚ Dogs‚ Cats‚ Horses‚ and Rats Help Win the Civil War Before the Civil War According to Patricia B. Mitchell in “Cooking for the Cause” (2013)‚ the abundance of beef‚ horses‚ dogs‚ cats‚ and rats was a factor in the Union victory in the Civil War. The development and expansion of the railroads in the mid-19th century allowed the meat processing industry to centralize
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To beat the games is all she‚ Katniss Everdeen‚ wants to do. There is no time to strategize how one could possibly win in this game‚ you just have to go. Katniss Everdeen is in the stickiest situation of all‚ declaring herself as a volunteer for the Hunger games instead of her sister. The odds happened to not be in her favor. In this action packed book Katniss beats the odds of hunger‚ injuries‚ scary flying things‚ rivals and many more. She wouldn’t have been able to survive these situations without
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Company Case: Trap-Ease America: he big cheese of mousetrap. 1) I think the group is going to write the following "mission statement": We produce a trap that you could use safer and easier than the traditional one‚ with no risk of catching your fingers while loading it. I would have written the mission statement in a very similar way. However‚ I would have included the fact that your children are not in danger with the new trap as they are with the traditional one to show the disadvantages of the
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Greed has many consequences in our life and can affect more than just ourselves. Greed is in our innermost beings from the day we are born‚ ‘till the day we die. We force ourselves to give up those selfish ambitions with no avail. We fall into the traps of materialistic items and lose sight of the things that are essential to us. It’s the unexpected aftermath that brings us to our knees to weep. The consequences of greed are portrayed vividly in the story “The Necklace‚” When Mathilde‚ a beautiful
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“The Fundamentals of Caring” Melds Great Characters‚ Crude Humor‚ and Genuine Emotion In The Fundamentals of Caring‚ which debuted at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and was subsequently bought by Netflix‚ writer/director Rob Burnett aptly mixes black humor and genuine pathos to craft an engaging story about loss‚ love‚ and the pursuit of dream. The film stars Paul Rudd as Ben Benjamin‚ a bereaved writer who decides to enter a career as a caregiver while in the throes of a messy divorce. Ben’s
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written Andy Mulligan and “Millions” directed by Danny Boyle as the basis is very similar. Some of the similarities in the themes of the two texts are - Poverty‚ Friendship & Greed. These points are some of many that you can compare the two texts with. The first of the Comparisons between the two texts is poverty‚ In “Trash” the Main characters (Raphael‚ Gardo and Rat) are all living in a town called Behala‚ which in the book is a very poverted town in Manila. In millions this is the opposite
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The next image gives the film its title: a close-up of the rhythmic undulation of the red sorghum leaves in the wind -- a powerful metaphor for the sexual act and a symbol of the film’s central themes of passion and freedom. Later in the film‚ the trampling of the sorghum field changes into a symbol of oppression as the members of the community‚ young and old‚ are forced by Japanese soldiers to flatten the wild sorghum to make space for a new
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madness is Hamlet. She goes mad because of several reasons. The main one being is that Hamlet pretends to be mad and rejects Ophelia. After already being deeply hurt from being rejected she learns that Hamlet kills her father Polonius. “How‚ now a rat? Dead for a ducat‚ dead.” (act 3 scene 4 line
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make it home. Odysseus is challenged during the ten year war‚ but he will not give up‚ which proves how he is a true hero. The hero shows how he is a true hero through his actions and not his words. He continuously tricks his enemies with desirable traps that are hard to turn down‚and he does not loe sites of his goals. Odysseus demonstrates arete through heroism‚ perseverance and‚ most of all‚ his intelligence. Throughout the epic poem Odysseus demonstrates clever intelligence when he encounters
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uncle. We realize his violence and jealousy towards his mother. With these events‚ he builds frustration and anger and which turns him into an insane character. After Hamlet had killed Polonius‚ he had nothing to say and he even went on to call him a rat. This shows that he doesn’t care much about killing someone and moreover it does not affect him too much because he is so persistent in revenge. It seems as if he will go above and beyond his limits to get revenge. After the death of Polonius‚ Ophelia
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