29 points for answering 16. in “the deadliest tsunami in history,” warning for an approaching tsunami can be difficult because? large waves are very small when out at sea? they are so common that the signs are often unnoticed they are more frequent now because of climate changes 17. in “orphans give indian couple will to live,” the paramesvarans believe? the orphaned children them more than they the children this is the best way to honor their deceased relatives their own children died in order to inspire the building of a school for orphans the tsunami was meant to kill the paramasvarans as well 18. in “orphans give indian couple will to live,” the paramasvarans felt guilty because? they are not allowed to adopt any more children they could not appropriately bury their children they should no have let their children swim they can not afford school for all of their adopted kids

16. large waves are very small when out at sea?

17.their own children died in order to inspire the building of a school for orphans

18.they could not appropriately bury their children

when world war i broke out across europe in 1914, president woodrow wilson proclaimed the united states would remain neutral, and many americans supported this policy of nonintervention. however, public opinion about neutrality started to change after the sinking of the british ocean liner lusitania by a german u-boat in 1915; almost 2,000 people perished, including 128 americans. along with news of the zimmerman telegram threatening an alliance between germany and mexico, wilson asked congress for a declaration of war against germany. the u.s. officially entered the conflict on april 6, 1917.

explanati“there were many such dangers, in which the odds were all against them. their children were not as well as they had been at home; but how could they know that there was no sewer to their house, and that the drainage of fifteen years was in a cesspool under it? how could they know that the pale-blue milk that they bought around the corner was watered, and doctored with formaldehyde besides? when the children were not well at home, teta elzbieta would gather herbs and cure them; now she was obliged to go to the drugstore and buy extracts–and how was she to know that they were all adulterated? how could they find out that their tea and coffee, their sugar and flour, had been doctored; that their canned peas had been colored with copper salts, and their fruit jams with aniline dyes? and even if they had known it, what good would it have done them, since there was no place within miles of them where any other sort was to be had? the bitter winter was coming, and they had to save money to get more clothing and bedding; but it would not matter in the least how much they saved, they could not get anything to keep them warm. all the clothing that was to be had in the stores was made of cotton and shoddy, which is made by tearing old clothes to pieces and weaving the fiber again. if they paid higher prices, they might get frills and fanciness, or be cheated; but genuine quality they could not obtain for love nor moneyon: