Rationing

Introduction Inflation is defined as the sustained increase in the general price level of goods and services in an economy over a period of time. When the general price level rises, each unit of currency buys fewer buys fewer goods and services. Accordingly, inflation reflects a drop in the purchase power per unit of money, a loss of real value in the medium of exchange and unit of account within the economy. A major measure of price inflation is the inflation rate, the annualised percentage…

Eric heard the loud crack of gun, and started running as fast as he could. As he ran, he could feel the wind rushing past him. He knew he wasn’t running fast enough, and tried to run faster, but he couldn’t. By then he knew he had lost the race. It was the semi-finals at state for the high school track team and his team need him to win one race. He knew now that his team had surely lost the meet. As he walked by his teammates he just hung his head in shame. On the way back, he couldn’t hear…

At the end of the nineteenth century, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia reluctantly took command of an empire overflowing with revolutionaries seeking change in response to hardships. His shy personality, coupled with his lack of political education, made him unfit to handle the war-torn chaos that would soon darken Russian skies. Nicholas’ series of unfortunate, unprepared and uninformed decisions began with his marriage and would ultimately lead to the demise of his imperial family’s…

Natural disasters are unavoidable events caused by the forces of nature working together. There is a great deal of man-made environmental disasters that left lasting impressions on the habitats humans and animals were and are still compelled to share. Some include “Door to Hell” caused by a drilling rig made by Soviet geologists, Ecocide in Vietnam during the Vietnam war where American military strategists destructed farmland in order to damage their opponent’s food sources, and The Love Canal…

“We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our lives. We are eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.” This quote by Erich Maria Remarque, a World War 1 veteran, provides a real image of consequence. It highlights the loss of innocence in youth, sorrow, despair, and the loss of dreams among others. The highly emotional impact of the quote prompted further research into the glaring…

Authorities would frequently take children to schools far from their home communities as part of a strategy to alienate them from their kin and traditions. Children attending the schools were victims of corporal punishment, deplorable living conditions, rationing of food, sexual assaults, and many other crimes. The process segregated…

Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of A Novel by A. Anatoli Kuznetsov is a firsthand account of the Nazi occupation of Kiev from 1941 to 1943. Kuznetsov presents that he had began documenting events of the occupation since he was fourteen years old. The book describes the end of Soviet rule in Ukraine to Soviet liberation and the aftermath of Kiev following the Second World War. The book centers around Kiev with special attention focused on the ravine of Babi Yar where firstly Jews were brutally…

Operations Planning for a Group Medical When opening a new practice, physicians must hire a consultant to build a business plan for the practice. The consultant is to make a program and provide the practice future success and encourages excellence. The awareness is public health and emergency preparedness for natural disaster tragedy for a medical practice plan. Strategies are prepared by management for the demands of patients’ health care and serve the community as needed. Internal comparison…

sentiment that is deeply rooted in society and the political landscape. The President understood this and strove to get “the American public ‘involved’ in the war against Hitler. Propaganda, gift programs like Bundles for Britain, war bond campaigns, rationing, and industrial mobilization” were all initiated to achieve Roosevelt’s goal. Thousands of American men would pay the ultimate price to see the “Anglo-American forces liberate Western Europe” because a personal and political relationship…

With mainland Europe left in ruins after war, civilians of the devastated countries sought to rebuild their cities, and return everything to normal. This attempt of normalisation is what drives the story lines of both Primo Levi’s ‘The Reawakening’ and Roberto Rossellini’s ‘Germany Year Zero,’ as the characters in both seek to make things as they were before the war. What differs between the two stories is how the characters went about the process of normalisation, and how each story arc…