Kate and her sister, amy, are planning dinner for 18 people. of course, they will have the traditional turkey and potatoes, but this year half the guests are vegetarian. and now that kate's daughter has decided to avoid everything gluten, kate and amy are planning to make everyone's favorite pie with gluten-free crusts. given their good-natured cooperation with everyone's meal preferences and their curiosity about trying new and unfamiliar recipes, you might expect them to on bfas scales.

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?

How does a long war with a high number of casualties generally affect civilians’ and soldiers’ opinions of their government?

During the early period of spanish colonialism, the death of large numbers of native people led to what