humiliation that began about the opium war but at the same time it is easy for a lot of people including myself to think of something like the opium war like an anomaly or something very particular to very particular timer and place and i have to stand guilty of thinking about the opium war thatbo way. but great scholarship, truly great scholarship like killer hi, a lot of work that is done at the lawson institute forces us and me to see the world in a totally new way. this book has forced me and enforces all readers to really focus on the internal and incredibly expansive relationship between drugs and war. that relationship extends from work conducted by people who were often on a form of drug, some kind of psychoactive substance and it extends towards an conquest of drugs or the raw material for drugs and it extends to wars for markets and for outlets of drugs and of course were all familiar with wars against drugs. but as peter argued so effectively, this phenomenon, this
i need everyone s help in the room for the sake of the common good. take this device and silence it, please. that way we won t get any nycalls from our children or grandchildren taking us out of the meeting. so i want to welcome you this evening on behalf of the board of directors of the reformed institute of metropolitan washington. my name is larry goldman, i m interim director of the institute . we are dedicated as an institute to the education of techurches and the community in the reformed tradition and enhancing theological discourse related to religious life and to the common good. i want to thank the session of national presbyterian church for providing the venue for this evening s event. national is one of 10 sponsoring congregations of the reforminstitute and a fantastic place . you ll find the names of our other sponsoring communities in the brochure that you have at your seat and if you do not have one, please let us know, we re going to get one to you. the reform
tell us about your students. they come from very rural areas. we are very on the edge of sumter county, kind of shaped like the panhandle. we are completely away from the nearest city. k-8.ve about 400 kids grow,ds are determined to determined to low. personalities, trying to make their communities a better place. your focus is south carolina state history. what prompted you to be a teacher fellow? zach: i came to c-span s educator conference a few years ago. it was right after my first year of teaching, and it was hard for my students to realize of what happens in washington because so many of them have not ever left sumter county. or you know there s a field trip year whereast school most of the kids it was the first time they had ever even been to a zoo. that conference kind of planted the seed of using c-span s footage and clips in my classroom to show them what s happening in washington and why it s so important. over the last couple of years, i ve made it a point to u
provisions and how that can be an awesome thing to do an activity with. please help me in welcoming karen. good morning everyone. i hope everyone has had a good week so far. this morning i m going to talk to about rationing in world war ii. we all know that teenagers and most of his work with teenagers have large appetite. i have one at home with an incredibly large appetite. i like to try and engage kids with the topic that not only fits their appetite but also increases their appetite for learning. i find that food is often times in engaging topic. napoleon or frederick the great, depending on who you listen to said an army marches on its stomach. to supply not just the u.s. army but increasingly throughout world war ii, also that of our allies, prisoners of war and those who we liberated in the civilian population. the people of the united states had to implement solutions to foundational problems. food production and distribution. the solution impact not only wartime pr
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