How did western powers gain greater trading rights in china? what internal problems?

The word “expires” tells the reader that paine believed the colonies’ separation from britain was inevitable. concerning. dangerous. fixable.

What was the significance other than the obvious harm to us forces of the terror attack on the uss cole in 2000

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is