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Open Question: History Help ASAP Please!?

1. What country did the United States back for independence in order to build the Panama Canal? (1 point) Panama Colombia Peru Venezuela 2. How did technology affect World War I? (1 point) It had no effect because the war was fought on the ground. The use of tanks and other vehicles shortened the war. Fewer people died because of new methods of protection. It provided more powerful and deadly weapons. 3. What strategy did the Allies use to defeat the Germans in World War II? (1 point) They squeezed Germany from two directions. They pushed the Germans into France. They pushed the Germans into the Soviet Union. They allowed the Germans to take Poland. 4. Which two superpowers were involved in the Cold War? (1 point) the United States and the Soviet Union Britain and the Soviet Union France and Germany Japan and the Soviet Union 5. Why did the United States want the Soviet Union to remove its nuclear weapons from Cuba? (1 point) It wanted to protect Cuba from communism. Cuba is close to the United States border. It was protecting nearby countries in Central America. The United States did not have any missiles of its own. 6. Which of the following symbolizes the end of the Cold War? (1 point) U.S. President Bush worked toward easing tensions. The Soviet Union broke up into 15 independent republics. People in Eastern Europe were gaining more freedom. The Berlin Wall was built. 7. In which war was the United States involved in the early 1990s? (1 point) Korean War Iraqi War Persian Gulf War Vietnam War 8. What was the result of the Supreme Court’s ruling that segregation in public schools was illegal? (1 point) All children could not attend the same schools. All children could attend the same schools. Public schools were separated by race. Only white students could attend public schools. 9. Which of the following BEST describes the Soviet satellite Sputnik? (1 point) the first satellite launched into space the first satellite to reach the moon the first satellite to carry a person into space the first satellite to carry a laboratory rat into space 10. What was the name for writers and journalists who wanted reforms? (1 point) scouts muckrakers scourers muskrats 11. Which of the following was the main reason for building the Panama Canal? (1 point) Panama wanted its independence from Colombia. The United States got rid of disease-carrying mosquitoes. The canal made the trip between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans quicker. The United States controlled the Isthmus of Panama. 12. Which of the following BEST describes the Great Migration? (1 point) Many African Americans moved to the North for better jobs. Many Americans left their useless lands and moved west. Many Canadians moved to the northern United States. Many Europeans moved to the United States for better jobs. 13. Which of the following does NOT describe life during the Great Depression? (1 point) Many farmers lost their farms. Many people were homeless. Many people were unemployed. Many people bought cars. 14. How did the Vietnam War affect American society? (1 point) Most Americans wanted U.S. soldiers to fight in Vietnam. Americans were divided on the issue of fighting in Vietnam. Most Americans did not want U.S. soldiers to fight in Vietnam. Most Americans wanted the United States to take over Vietnam. 15. Main Idea and Details What did the Supreme Court mean by “separate but equal”? Why did many people feel this idea was faulty? (1 point) 16. Cause and Effect How did World War I lead to the right to vote for U.S. women? (1 point) 17. Draw Conclusions In the years before World War II, why did some dictators believe they could take over Europe and other parts of the world? (1 point)

Open Question: history guestions please help!!?

1. What country did the United States back for independence in order to build the Panama Canal? (1 point) Panama Colombia Peru Venezuela 2. How did technology affect World War I? (1 point) It had no effect because the war was fought on the ground. The use of tanks and other vehicles shortened the war. Fewer people died because of new methods of protection. It provided more powerful and deadly weapons. 3. What strategy did the Allies use to defeat the Germans in World War II? (1 point) They squeezed Germany from two directions. They pushed the Germans into France. They pushed the Germans into the Soviet Union. They allowed the Germans to take Poland. 4. Which two superpowers were involved in the Cold War? (1 point) the United States and the Soviet Union Britain and the Soviet Union France and Germany Japan and the Soviet Union 5. Why did the United States want the Soviet Union to remove its nuclear weapons from Cuba? (1 point) It wanted to protect Cuba from communism. Cuba is close to the United States border. It was protecting nearby countries in Central America. The United States did not have any missiles of its own. 6. Which of the following symbolizes the end of the Cold War? (1 point) U.S. President Bush worked toward easing tensions. The Soviet Union broke up into 15 independent republics. People in Eastern Europe were gaining more freedom. The Berlin Wall was built. 7. In which war was the United States involved in the early 1990s? (1 point) Korean War Iraqi War Persian Gulf War Vietnam War 8. What was the result of the Supreme Court’s ruling that segregation in public schools was illegal? (1 point) All children could not attend the same schools. All children could attend the same schools. Public schools were separated by race. Only white students could attend public schools. 9. Which of the following BEST describes the Soviet satellite Sputnik? (1 point) the first satellite launched into space the first satellite to reach the moon the first satellite to carry a person into space the first satellite to carry a laboratory rat into space 10. What was the name for writers and journalists who wanted reforms? (1 point) scouts muckrakers scourers muskrats 11. Which of the following was the main reason for building the Panama Canal? (1 point) Panama wanted its independence from Colombia. The United States got rid of disease-carrying mosquitoes. The canal made the trip between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans quicker. The United States controlled the Isthmus of Panama. 12. Which of the following BEST describes the Great Migration? (1 point) Many African Americans moved to the North for better jobs. Many Americans left their useless lands and moved west. Many Canadians moved to the northern United States. Many Europeans moved to the United States for better jobs. 13. Which of the following does NOT describe life during the Great Depression? (1 point) Many farmers lost their farms. Many people were homeless. Many people were unemployed. Many people bought cars. 14. How did the Vietnam War affect American society? (1 point) Most Americans wanted U.S. soldiers to fight in Vietnam. Americans were divided on the issue of fighting in Vietnam. Most Americans did not want U.S. soldiers to fight in Vietnam. Most Americans wanted the United States to take over Vietnam. 15. Main Idea and Details What did the Supreme Court mean by “separate but equal”? Why did many people feel this idea was faulty? (1 point) 16. Cause and Effect How did World War I lead to the right to vote for U.S. women? (1 point) 17. Draw Conclusions In the years before World War II, why did some dictators believe they could take over Europe and other parts of the world? (1 point)

Open Question: Severe anxiety/generalized anxiety... Unwanted thoughts.. Help plz!!?

Ok.. So since I was 16 I was diagnosed with generalized anxiety with panic attacks!!! It's left me alone for the most part for 10 years, but now it seems it's come back with avegemce!! I am almost 27 and for the past 2 weeks I've been feeling panicky everyday out of no where! I have physically symptoms like nausea, throwing up, shaking, Heart racing, sweating, scared, dry mouth( etc... As well as the mental like the unwanted scary thoughts! The unwanted thoughts is the worst! They make me feel like I am literally gonna go crazy! Like, when I'm visiting my mom I get thoughts of hurting her, when I'm with my vf I get thoughts of telling him i wanna leave him, even when I'm around strangers in a store I feel like doing something embarrassing or harmful... Why???????!!... I love my boyfriend and we are very happy together... Y do I get thoughts of telling him I wanna leave him?? And why do I get thoughts of hurting my family?? I'd never ever wanna do that!! Someone plz give me advice! Plz tell me Im not alone with this. I don't wanna go insane! I don't wanna lose my man! When I was 16 I had thoughts of wanting to sleep with my stepfather! Same type of thing! I also had the violent thoughts back then too!! They aren't true thought.. When going through my panicked, I crave my boyfriend comforting and holding me for gosh sakes!!! I also feel like I can't calm down and that I always gotta be moving or talking... :(. Im pretty sure aware of what triggered me to feel panicky these past 2 weeks.. A dead friend of min died suddenly from a severe Hebert attack.. So I think all of this is in my subconscious. Plz someone help!! I do have Ativan I can take to relax.

Resolved Question: Why is it ok to tell people they are fat to their face? Does the world have no manners anymore?

I am very very overweight, but am on the path to fixing it. Two weeks ago I was 5'8 and 278lbs and a size 18. My doctor put me on metformin (an insulin regulating med) and phentermine (a weight loss aide), I have been eating between 1,200 and 1,400 calories a day, and working out a minimum of an hour a day. I have lost 10lbs in 2 weeks! So I'm on my way to being healthier. Anyways, part of why I am overweight (I say part because I do assume responsibility for my own actions) is I have a metabolic syndrome, PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome), insulin resistance, and rheumatoid arthritis. The first three conditions make it hard to lose weight because my hormones and metabolism are shot. The rheumatoid arthritis makes it hard to work out because my knee joints are always "on fire" and I've torn my meniscus 3 times (I am now on cortisone shots and pain killers). Anyways you would think my family and friends would be somewhat understanding that my situation was difficult, that it made it harder for me to lose weight. Instead, these are some of the comments I've had said to me: "Why are you making this so complicated? There's only one thing that causes people to be fat, it's being lazy and eating a lot. Fix that and you'll lose weight." "Don't you have a hard time looking in the mirror? Doesn't it motivate change?" "I miss you being skinny. You were skinny all the way til age 16 then it just piled on. You were so cute back then." "You are lucky a guy married you being so big. Most guys don't like big girls." Why do people think it's ok to say these things? Whatever happened to tact and manners? You can't comment on race, religion, economic status, or bad hair to someone's face but you can come out and insult their size? I don't get it. I will be 100% honest, this is what my doctor told me. My conditions make it more difficult for me to lose weight than the average person, but its up to me if I want to do the hard work and get it done. So far I am. Looking in the mirror was motivator for me, but the horrible things my family said did nothing but hurt

Open Question: Obama's literary agent says he was 'born in Kenya'. How did the mainstream media miss this?

Tim Stanley; The Telegraph. Whatever you think of Breitbart.com’s punishing vetting process, it has exposed just how little work the mainstream media did in investigating candidate Obama back in 2008. Not all of Team Breitbart’s revelations have been election-deciders, but they have often been stuff that a simple Google would have uncovered. If they revealed tomorrow that he’d had his own cross-dressing-themed sitcom on primetime TV in the 1980s, I wouldn’t be surprised. The latest find is a fascinating inversion of the birther conspiracy. Breitbart.com has discovered that in 1991 Barack Obama’s literary agent (who also represented New Kids on the Block) published a booklet that included a biography of the future President. The audience was “business colleagues” in the publishing industry and it was designed to promote Obama’s anticipated first book (later abandoned) called Journeys in Black and White. Here’s how it describes the author’s origins. Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. The son of an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, he attended Columbia University and worked as a financial journalist and editor for Business International Corporation. The key phrase here is “was born in Kenya" – and this bio line was apparently being used as late as 2007. Today, the President has satisfied all right-minded folk that he was in fact born in Hawaii. Breitbart.com itself has always rejected the absurd cult of birtherism. In fact, this story is really the opposite of birtherism – Breitbart infers that in the past Obama encouraged people to think that he was born abroad in order to establish an identity as an authentic, exotic voice in the debate on racial politics. Obama’s old literary agent has issued a terse statement to the effect that the wording was all her fault and she never consulted her client. If that’s true, she’s a bad agent. A different agent, quoted by Breitbart.com, disagrees. He told the website “that while ‘almost nobody’ wrote his or her own biography, the non-athletes in the booklet, whom ‘the agents deal[t] with on a daily basis,’ were ‘probably’ approached to approve the text as presented.” If we accept that Obama didn’t provide the biography, it would seem highly unlikely that he didn’t get a chance to vet it. Accepting that he didn’t do that either, it’s incredibly strange that the literary agent approached by Breitbart.com does not remember Obama calling the agency to register a complaint and make a correction. My mother spent a lot of her childhood in Grenada. If my literary agent told people I was born in the Caribbean, I’d at least pick up the phone to set the record straight. Look beyond the sordid details and the big story here is that this nugget wasn’t part of the wider discussion had back in 2008 about Obama's background and credentials. And why not? The documents were easy to find – the one that showed that “born in Kenya” was still being used in 2007 was on the Internet. As for Obama, the vetting continues and Republicans have yet more to play with – with the focus, sadly, once more on race. For those who think that the Tea Party media is being obsessive and nasty, think of this as an exercise in levelling the playing field. If The Washington Post is going to write about how Mitt Romney once cut the hair of a guy it presumes was gay (because, well, his hair needed cutting), then Breitbart.com probably thinks it has every just cause to shout about every occasion that Obama ate a dog or told someone he was half-Phoenecian to get their vote. Tit for tat, although the Rightwing's tat is a little better researched. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100158834/obama-used-to-be-a-kenyan/ So the Lefty Tool-boys once again get together for a group whine, demanding we ignore reality. Sorry , but that is not gonna happen; Truth will out. Obama was not vetted in 08 at all, just stuck on a pedestal and rubber stamped for election while 'Tingles' ran thru the News room. That Failure of the Media to do it's Job is the Point if the article. You would know that if you had bothered to read it before going to 'line 4' on your Obama-bot 'Talking Points' sheet. You guys are seriously lame. Obama was Not vetted in 08 and to this day we actually know very little about him...That will change. He Will be vetted this time. Facts Matter...Get used to it.

Open Question: Do white upper class liberals hate black people ?

my evidence.... 1. Liberals discourage traditional family values and shun the nuclear family, despite there being a huge problem of single motherhood and infidelity in the black community, 2/3 black children in America are born and raised without their biological fathers, and 70% of black women with children or without are single. 2. Liberals encourage interracial dating and marriage, which statistics show overwhelmingly affect minority populations, it is almost impossible to find a black man outside of the south that is not at least part white,it is not white upper class liberals in the suburbs marrying outside their class and race, they tend to stick together, it is people in low income neighborhoods trying to escape the forced reality they live in. 3. and finally, the most damning, abortion, there are huge areas in this country where if you are a black embryo, you are more likely to be aborted than born, including places like NYC, many black commentators who have traditionally sided with upper class white liberals, like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, have termed it black genocide, the founder of planned parent, Margaret Sanger, was an open an admitted racist, who had a stated goal of eliminating dark skinned children. now it seems pretty clear to me that obviously liberal social policies seriously, seriously harm the black community, whether or not it is intentional is what am I asking you? do upper class ivory tower white liberals hate black people, or are they just ignorant about the damages their policies cause ? _______ I do find it hilarious that none of the answers so far, as ridiculous and child like as they have been, have actually responded to any of the facts I presented in asking the question... oh well, can't expect anything intelligent or coherent from Liberals can I ?

Open Question: I need help with my buisness letter!!!!!!!!!!!! :D?

can you pls read over this and tell me anything i could add on or do to make it better (or longer) Also can u tell me if a book title should be in quotes or in italics. Can u mabey wrie a short paragraph on what to change or what to add Hart High School 24825 N. Newhall Ave. Newhall, Ca 91321 May16 2012 Dear Ms. Blocked Name: This year we have read many great books including “To kill a mocking bird”, “The Odyssey” and many outside reading books. But if were to keep any of those books we read, I would have to say that I would want to keep “To kill a Mocking bird.” All the books that we have read this year have great lessons to learn from them. The main lesson in To Kill a Mockingbird is to never judge someone because of their class, race, or beliefs. It also covers the loss of innocence (which is symbolized by the mockingbird). It also shows the racial injustice and, to a certain degree, gender inequality. Bob Ewell shod gender inequality by abusing his daughter Mayella Ewell. To kill a mocking bird is also a great novel to read because it is packed with action and drama. There is fighting, a court case, and even a part where Atticus shoots an old rabid dog to save his children. An example on a scene with drama is when Tom Robinson tries to escape from jail and the police shoot him 8 times. So to conclude my letter I want to make it very clear that To kill a mockingbird should continue to be on our curriculum because it is a book that has many lessons and a book that contain lots of action filled parts. Sincerely, My Name thank you sooo much in advance!!!! XD

Open Question: What career should i be looking at?

So i recently change my major of choice because i realized id much rather work with cars but im not sure on exact career, my plan is to have a garage and deal with show cars or race cars, wheather pro or street. What job deals with that kind of stuff? * turbos, custom parts ect.

Open Question: runners! half marathon advice?

im starting my first training group this saturday and will be training all summer (5 - 6 days a week, except for when im on a trip) and up until the race, which is january 13th of next year, so i have plenty of time to train. i also run cross country and track at my high school. currently, i can only run 3.5 miles max but of course will be building up my mileage...which is the part im a little scared about.. any advice?? ps. im a 15 y/o girl and will be running the half when im 16

Open Question: Why do people take credit for other people achievements?

Why do so many Americans say, "we invented this and that"? When in reality it was just a hand full of really smart people who worked their asses off. Or when certain races say, "we brought this food and this music into the US". When again, it was people who lived hundreds of years ago. It would be like me taking credit for what my dad has done. It's just not right, and it's also disrespectful. Why don't people realize that they weren't alive back then and had no part in any of those major historical events? They were smart people who worked their asses off.