Answer:
1. The word 'tend' means 'disposed to', or 'frequently leads to' destruction.
2. He chose this subtitle for this section to explain how difficult it was for the French people to control the Vietnamese people.
3. Ruined means destruction.
4. The Vietnamese people were doing the ruining.
Explanation:
The article, "The Vietnam Wars," highlights the resistance put up by the Vietnamese people when other nations like the Chinese and French tried to subjugate them. In that section, the phrase, "Everything Tends to Ruin", was used by a French Military commander to summarize the frustration of the French people who tried to colonize the Vietnamese people.
The locals used their knowledge of the terrains to cause mayhem to their colonists. They resisted the schooling offered by the French people and rather embraced their culture. All ploys by the French colonists to subjugate them were met with resistance.
1) Are
2) There
3) in
4) have to
5) do
6) lives
7) well
8) have
9)should
10) Can
Answer: Based on its girth and size.
Explanation: According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the lake sturgeon which is currently an endangered species can live up to 55years for males and 70 to 100years for females.
However, the size and girth is an important criteria used by fish experts in deducing the number of years a sturgeon had used.
Thus, the caught sturgeon is about 7feet long and along with its girth suggested it had spent over a century roaming in the water body.
