The three biggest problems were rain, disease, and transportation.
The rain, particularly during the wet season, would cause mud slides and make the ground very dangerous. Weeks of work were often wasted every time a mud slide filled in areas previously dug out. This was most evident in the Culebra Cut. The cut was an artificial valley, not too far from Panama City, that had to be dug two feet wide for every foot deep. It was considered one of the biggest engineering feats of the time. The cut was an early adopter of terracing for that reason.
Diseases such as malaria, yellow fever, cholera, and dengue fever were transmitted by mosquitos. While the French were building the canal, disease took a massive hit on the labor, killing thousands of able-bodied men. It was a long time before officials realized that standing water was attracting the mosquitoes. When the Americans took over the project, they made an enormous effort to remove all bodies of water from the cities. Hospital bed posts were submersed in water to prevent termites. People kept barrels for water outside their homes. All of that water had to be covered or removed. They were able to get the diseases under control, but it’d be a long time before cures and pesticide efforts were put in place. Panama still employs trucks that spray for mosquitoes regularly.
The third problem was the transportation of men, supplies, and the soil as it was being removed. The construction of a railway greatly helped by hauling millions of tons of men, equipment, and supplies, but more importantly hauled the hundreds of millions of cubic yards of material removed from the canal cuts.
I highly recommend reading the book The Path between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, by David McCullough. It is loaded with highly detailed information from the very beginning of the canal construction through the completion of the project 44 years later,
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If i remember correctly they rebelled fighting the government instead of willingly moving west like the cherokee and choctaw.
It limited their activities to prostitution, extortion, gambling, and theft. prohibition provide gangsters with the opportunity to extend their activities in the illegal, and highly lucrative crimes of bootlegging
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Create your own network of friends who can support and motivate you when college life becomes too much. Do not isolate yourself. Remember the benefits that you will get after earning a degree, such as that sense of achievement, high self-esteem and better chances of a successful career.
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Israel should protect itself from Palestine like how each and every nation protects itself. By providing security to their own people, and taking the fight to them. Palestine has unofficially declared war and has always been warring against Israel, and failed to compromise in any way. All they look for is the destruction of the Jews and them being able to take the lands. Their tactics of destroying the Jews is similar to terrorists, and ideological similar to the Nazi's, the terrorism and sui-cide bombers, and the ideology that all "inferiors" and "jews" must die.
To be able to protect themselves, the Israelites must provide security for their citizens, and to be able to take the fight to the Palestines (which they cannot do, as the U.N. would not allow them too. However, sometimes just providing security is not enough, and Israel must fall on the old saying: "The best defense is a good offense." [Art of War].
Until Palestine learns and uses peace, or until the extinction of one or another people group, the Middle East will not experience peace.
