Lice

Thank you Roger. This year marks the 70th year of the Holocaust. One of the most horrifying events in history, the Holocaust was the systematic killing of millions with the most predominant victims being the Jewish people. Starting before World War One in 1933, the Holocaust was based on a hatred for the Jews that was in ground in Germany that was fueled even more by the Nazi party led by Adolf Hitler. In the years before the Nazi party came to power Germany was in turmoil coming off of a loss…

to patrol, repair, or add barbed wire to their front lines.Trench warfare had a massive impact on soldiers as it caused huge amounts of casualties on the battlefield and also caused health problems because the battlefield was infested with rats and lice. Trench warfare is when holes are built into the ground and sandbags are placed around the holes as a protective barrier. When using trench warfare, the soldiers would shoot from the holes they had built in front. Trench warfare is no longer a…

other to try and touch Boo Radley house. Boo Radley is known for being a malevolent phantom. School starts and Scout meets her new teacher named Miss Caroline. Miss Caroline meets her new student named Burris Ewell which came to school with “cooties” lice in his hair and made her cry. In this journal, I will be predicting and evaluating. I am predicting that Jem, Scout, and Dill will not meet Boo. Here are two reasons why they are scared of boo. The first reason is he looks scary. He has…

A driving force in the world is balance. Since ancient Greece, the symbolism and characterization of balance has been shown in numerous different cultures over a vast majority of the world. For example, the use of the Chinese symbol “yin-yang” shows the fact that there is a slight bit of good in evil, This is shown greatly in nature and influences humans. During the 1800s, there were poets known as Romantics who were known for their affection with nature. People take the usage of balance in…

WATKINS GLEN (WENY) - On October 10, the Farm Sanctuary, rescued more than 130 starving and dying animals from a farm in the Hudson Valley area alongside the Hudson Valley SPCA. Roughly 50 of those animals were sent to the Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen for recovery. As Tara Hess, the Senior Shelter Manager at the Farm Sanctuary, walks into a barn, she kneels downs next to Mouse. A pig who oddly enough looks like a mouse but is constantly slouching because his back left leg is limp. Hess…

were always fearful of getting it because they could get it any day and any time of the day without knowing it. It was easily spread throughout the soldiers because it was very contagious and the carriers of the disease and the ones that started were lice. The trenches were the perfect place for trench fever to flourish, “Death was always imminent from artillery fire, but just as threatening was illness from rat bites, bad food,…

there were many other effects that DDT had on humans, due to the flow of contamination and direct contamination. The fish are affected by DDT and birds and eagles eat fish.DDT was initially used by the military in WW II to control malaria, typhus, body lice, and bubonic plague.Cases of malaria fell from 400,000 in 1946 to virtually none in 1950. DDT is still used today in South America, Africa, and Asia for this purpose.And also the year it was banned was 1972.DDT also is highly toxic toward a…

The motive of many movies and poems is to entertain and educate. Over the years of endless English classes, we learn that entertainment is not always funny and education is not always facts and dates. By watching movies, the watcher gets to have a better understanding of how a situation actually went, rather than reading bullet points of facts on a PowerPoint slide. Poems give the reader visuals by having comparisons and detailed adjectives. A main event that is frequently brought up and taught…

The Western Front The Western Front is a labyrinth of trenches which were used for the protection of soldiers during World War I. It is located down the coasts of France and Belgium and trails 740 km to the Swiss border. Out of the many countries involved, the first few that joined the Western Front included Serbia, Russia, France, Belgium and the British Empire all of which fought against the Ottoman Empire, Germany and Austria-Hungary. One of the main causes of the First World War was due to…

scratching could be dangerous or even fatal as it was an unsanitary environment. Lice was a major problem during the war. They would cover the whole body and when they would bite it cause the soldiers to itch. Lice was the cause of trench fever in WWI. Lice would suck the blood of someone who was infected with trench fever and then jump to bite another person, in which this spread trench fever across the soldiers. [16] Lice would breed constantly in the soldiers clothing, soldiers tried to wash…