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Day 39/67 of GED in Five Months, constructing metaphors, and, thinking like an Adult

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

 Adulting, metaphors, and seeing how definitions fit into the context of a whole are crucial for informed decision-making, and for constructing a better world, starting with new laws, once one knows how to properly suggest them.

End of week 10/18

 

Day 39 Lesson plan, Week 10
Today’s Reading
Grammar:similes and metaphors
Math: Area of circles and parts of circles
Day 39 Exit Ticket
(Day 38Day 40)

Action Items:

1.) What do you think is one possible metaphor for our current society?

2.) Please explain your metaphor, and how you thought of it, in detail…

3.) Write a book, story, blog post or tweet that uses those thoughts, and then, please tell us about it! If you write a book, once it is published please consider donating a copy to your local public library.

4.)  Feel free to answer…

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Israel restores indoor mask requirement after rise in Covid cases | Israel | The Guardian

Israel has decided to reimpose the mandatory wearing of masks in enclosed public spaces owing to a rise in Covid-19 cases just 10 days after the measure was lifted – a blow for a country that has prided itself on one of the world’s most successful vaccine rollouts.

The head of Israel’s pandemic response taskforce, Nachman Ash, told public radio on Friday that mask mandates in most indoor situations would be reinstated from noon, after the country recorded four successive days of more than 100 new cases. Thursday’s count of 227 new cases was the highest daily caseload in more than two months.

“We are seeing a doubling every few days,” Ash said on Friday. “Another thing that’s worrying is the infections are spreading. If we had two cities where most of the infections were, we have more cities where the numbers are rising and communities where the cases are going up.”

Ash said the rise in cases was probably due to travellers returning to the country infected with the highly contagious Delta variant, which is believed to be responsible for 70% of the new cases.

Source: Israel restores indoor mask requirement after rise in Covid cases | Israel | The Guardian

Leaders of Florida church arrested in connection to Capitol riot | TheHill

Authorities said in the court filings that they were then able to obtain cell phone data associated with the men, as well as Lesperance’s iCloud account, through which they found location data indicating that the men were located in an area that included the inside of the Capitol building on Jan. 6.  FBI agents also found cell phone photos taken of the Cusicks before and after the riot, in which they were wearing the same clothes they were allegedly seen wearing in Capitol security footage and body-worn camera footage from law enforcement.  According to Department of Justice records, the Cusicks and Lesperance each made their initial court appearance at the U.S. District Court in Orlando, where they were released on $25,000 bond each, a court spokesperson told local CBS affiliate station WKMG.  The father, 72, founded the Melbourne church, according to its website, with Casey Cusick, 35, listed as the vice president in business filing documents.

Source: Leaders of Florida church arrested in connection to Capitol riot | TheHill

The Taliban’s offensive is prompting Afghans to join the fight: ‘We need to defend our lands’ – The Washington Post

“Ghani came to power with an anti-warlord narrative and plan for disarming the people. Now his government is arming people,” said Hafiz Mansour, a legislator from the opposition Jamiat-i-Islami party that once led the anti-Taliban fight. “The government should show leadership and manage guns in a useful way. These forces should not become lawbreakers.”

But some government advisers said that many onetime militia bosses have now become invested in the country’s stability and economic success, and that like other Afghans who have experienced the fruits of democracy since the Taliban regime fell in 2001, they don’t want to see it collapse or be replaced by repressive religious rule again.

“Everyone has a stake in the system now,” said one senior government security adviser, speaking on the condition of anonymity to speak freely. “Even our strongest critics have enjoyed the freedoms that came with civilian rule. Nobody wants things to go backwards. Our forces can’t be in every village, and we are counting on the people to help. They are not trying to grab power, they are defending the system.”

Source: The Taliban’s offensive is prompting Afghans to join the fight: ‘We need to defend our lands’ – The Washington Post

Brazil’s prolonged coronavirus pandemic has driven millions of Brazilians into poverty – The Washington Post

Nearly 1 in 5 Brazilians say they’ve been stranded without any income. Half of the country is struggling to put food on the table. Nineteen million say they’re going hungry. The unemployment and inequality rates are at record highs. After the government reduced a program of pandemic payments to the poorest Brazilians, the largest number of Brazilians in a decade tumbled into extreme poverty, living on less than $2 per day. The homeless population swelled.

“When people are scared of getting sick, and when people are getting sick on the scale that they are in Brazil, there’s going to be a lot of instability,” said Marcelo Neri, an economist at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation, a university in Rio de Janeiro. “This has been terrible for the economy, especially for informal workers.”

Brazil has now been left with the worst of both worlds: A half-million dead — more than anywhere outside the United States — and millions more without work.

Source: Brazil’s prolonged coronavirus pandemic has driven millions of Brazilians into poverty – The Washington Post

Lone Pine 4

Michael Stephen Wills Photography

From this angle the Pinyon Pine is backed by Checkerboard Mesa slickrock.

For humans travelling on foot this weather worn sandstone is anything but slippery, If we wore iron horseshoes the sense of slippery, or slick, rock becomes apparent. It was ranchers mounted on horses who coined the name slickrock.

For this shot we approached Zion National Park from the east, via route 9, past Checkerboard Mesa.

Captured with a Kodak DCS Pro SLE/c dslr and a Canon lens EF 200 mm 1:2.8 L II stabilized with the Manfrotto Studio Tripod model 475 and the 468 Hydrostatic ball head. This series explores the possibility of the iconic “Lone Pine.”

Here is a gallery of the four Lone Pine images.

Copyright 2021 Michael Stephen Wills All Rights Reserved

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November 1942 (2)

Pacific Paratrooper

One of the US battleships  destroyed off Guadalcanal One of the US battleships destroyed off Guadalcanal

14 November – the Japanese convoy enroute to Guadalcanal was hit by a strike from the USS Enterprise and sank the IJN Kinugasa and set the Isuzi ablaze.  The Maya was then damaged as well as the flagship Chokai.  IJN Admiral Mikawa ordered a retreat and the US aircraft went after the fleeing vessels.  Flying Fortresses alternated their attacks with the carrier aircraft.  Upon hearing these reports, Yamamoto ordered Adm. Kondo to go in with his last battleships and 5 cruisers to destroy Henderson Field.

RAdm. Willis A. Lee RAdm. Willis A. Lee

15 November – Halsey determined that his only hope was Adm. Willis “Ching” Lee and his battleships.  As an expert with radar, Lee chose Cape Esperance as the confrontation site.  The cruiser Sendai, 9 miles away was the first vessel spotted ahead of KOndo’s battleships.  Lee’s 16″ shells were fired and the…

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Observations of Guadalcanal

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Nov. 4, 1942: Two alert U.S. Marines stand beside their small tank on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands during World War II. The military tank was used against the Japanese in the battle of the Tenaru River during the early stages of fighting. (AP Photo) Nov. 4, 1942: Two alert U.S. Marines stand beside their small tank on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands during World War II. The military tank was used against the Japanese in the battle of the Tenaru River during the early stages of fighting. (AP Photo)

Captain J.L. Zimmerman, USMC, a staff officer interviewed by an Army Intelligence officer shortly after the height of fighting ___

He ( the Japanese soldier) fought as an individual, as well and as bravely as any warrior the world has ever see; he bore privation and hardship that would have put out of action most of the troops of the Allied forces, and in spite of those hardships and privation, he attacked with determined ferocity whenever he came in contact with the American troops.  In attack, he was single minded and reckless of his life; in defense he was bitterly tenacious.

This was first published…

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