To save fuel and food for the troops over in europe it limited the citezens use of supplies
the trapizoid one's area is 28 since 7 x 4 is 28 and you do multiply the slanted height
They became rivals because each one wanted more power than the other for example in world war 2 the USA made the atomic bomb which showed the world that the Americans were the most powerful country but after ww2 Russia and USA started a Cold War which lead to the feud between there political views and the start of better technology and the space race
Today, I wished I were dead. We are crowded into a tiny space. Animals are given more room to live. I am chained to the men on either side of me. One is sick. He is burning with fever and groans constantly. When he dies, I will be chained to a dead man. I feel sick, too, but it is only the smell turning my stomach. My nose is filled with the odors of sickness and dirt and human waste. I would give anything for a breath of clean air. But I cannot ask. If I do, I will be whipped until I cannot stand. I am afraid I will not survive this journey.