<span>Lesotho
The Kingdom of Lesotho, located in southern Africa, is completely surrounded by the country of South Africa. The capital of Lesotho is Maseru. Lesotho was previously known as Basutoland. Lesotho gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1966. The country is a member of the United Nations. Forty percent of its inhabitants live below the poverty line.</span><span />
<span>Answer: A. The Alamo was the most important location in Texas.
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B. Travis was left in the care of the Alamo, by Colonel James Bowie,
and when the Mexican army began siege to the Alamo, Travis sent letters
requesting arms and supplies, along with reinforcements to defend it,
since Travis thought along with Bowie , that
maintaining the Alamo was crucial, and in Travis' most famous and
patriotic letter, addressing the people of Texas and all the Americans
in the world, he expressed that he would remain defending the Alamo as
long as he could, and die as a <span>soldier, since he would never surrender to the army of Santa Anna, and defend his honor.</span></span>
Answer:
D) Meat Inspection Act in 1906.
Explanation:
Upton Sinclair's book <em>The Jungle</em> was a fictional book about the experience of immigrants working in the meatpacking industry in Chicago. Even though this book was fictional, many of the details about working conditions and the unsanitary ways of the meatpacking industry were factualy. This book outlined the lack of cleanliness and disgusting habits of the meatpacking industry, including rats within some of the meat they sold to the American public.
This book caused outrage amongst American citizens. President Teddy Roosevelt responded to this book and its content by passing the Meat Inspection Act. This resulted in government regulation of this industry and a set of sanitary standards that busineses must meet.
<span>Given the pillars of five principal relationships, it is self-evident that harmonious relationship is the central tenet here. Historically, countries around the sinosphere (Korea, Vietnam, Japan) understood even the relationship between themselves and China in the context of king (Chinese emperor) and his servant according to Mencius' teaching (以小事大).Confucius lived during the Spring and Autumn period, a turbulent epoch of time when you had states warring one another. There are 4 references to the word, "war" in the Analects.<span><span>Let a good man teach the people seven years, and they may then likewise be employed in war.
</span><span>To lead an uninstructed people to war, is to throw them away.
</span><span>The things in reference to which the Master exercised the greatest caution were —fasting, war, and sickness.
</span>The Duke Hwan assembled all the princes together, and that not with weapons of war and chariots.</span></span><span>Although it could be implicit from the rest of his teachings that war would not happen in an ideal situation, it's most likely that he saw it as an inevitable part of life, therefore we read an instruction to prepare judiciously for war. Remember, it's likely that many of his disciples were future leaders and officials at various government positions.</span>
