Problem: Unlike the Spanish milled dollar the U.S. dollar is based upon a decimal system of values. In addition to the dollar the coinage act officially established monetary units of mill or one-thousandth of a dollar (symbol ), cent or one-hundredth of a dollar (symbol ), dime or one-tenth of a dollar, and eagle or ten dollars, with prescribed weights and composition of gold, silver, or copper for each. It was proposed in the mid-1800s that one hundred dollars be known as a union, but no union coins were ever struck and only patterns for the $50 half union exist. However, only cents are in everyday use as divisions of the dollar; "dime" is used solely as the name of the coin with the value of 10, while "eagle" and "mill" are largely unknown to the general public, though mills are sometimes used in matters of tax levies, and gasoline prices are usually in the form of $X.XX9 per gallon, e.g., $3.599, sometimes written as $3.59910. When currently issued in circulating form, denominations equal to or less than a dollar are emitted as U.S. coins while denominations equal to or greater than a dollar are emitted as Federal Reserve notes (with the exception of gold, silver and platinum coins valued up to $100 as legal tender, but worth far more as bullion). Both one-dollar coins and notes are produced today, although the note form is significantly more common. In the past, "paper money" was occasionally issued in denominations less than a dollar (fractional currency) and gold coins were issued for circulation up to the value of $20 (known as the "double eagle", discontinued in the 1930s). The term eagle was used in the Coinage Act of 1792 for the denomination of ten dollars, and subsequently was used in naming gold coins. Paper currency less than one dollar in denomination, known as "fractional currency", was also sometimes pejoratively referred to as "shinplasters". In 1854, James Guthrie, then Secretary of the Treasury, proposed creating $100, $50 and $25 gold coins, which were referred to as a "Union", "Half Union", and "Quarter Union", thus implying a denomination of 1 Union = $100.
1. How much is a dime worth?
2. A cent?
3. Is there one called a mil?
4. How much is that?
5. What set these values?
6. Was this in Spain?
7. Where was it?
8. If a piece of money is worth at least a dollar what do the make for it?
9. What about less than that?
Answer: 1. one-tenth of a dollar
2. one-hundredth of a dollar
3. A mill, yes
4. one-thousandth of a dolla
5. coinage act
6. No
7. U.S
8. Federal Reserve notes
9. U.S. coins

Q: The West Indies or Caribbean Basin is a region of the North Atlantic Ocean in the Caribbean that includes the island countries and surrounding waters of three major archipelagoes: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago.

The region is known as the area running from Florida westward along the Gulf Coast, and then south along the Mexican coast through Central America and then eastward across the northern coast of South America.

Bermuda is also included within the region even though it is in the west-central Atlantic, due to its common cultural history created by European colonization of the region, and in most of the region by the presence of a significant group of African descent.

Indigenous peoples were the first inhabitants of the West Indies. In 1492, Christopher Columbus became the first European to arrive at the islands, where he is believed by historians to have first stepped foot in the Bahamas. After the first of the voyages of Christopher Columbus to the Americas, Europeans began to use the term "West Indies" to distinguish the region from the East Indies of South Asia and Southeast Asia.

In the late sixteenth century, French, English and Dutch merchants and privateers began their operations in the Caribbean Sea, attacking Spanish and Portuguese shipping and coastal areas. They often took refuge and refitted their ships in the areas the Spanish could not conquer, including the islands of the Lesser Antilles, the northern coast of South America including the mouth of the Orinoco, and the Atlantic Coast of Central America. In the Lesser Antilles they managed to establish a foothold following the colonization of St Kitts in 1624 and Barbados in 1626, and when the Sugar Revolution took off in the mid-seventeenth century, they brought in thousands of Africans to work the fields and mills as slave laborers. These Africans wrought a demographic revolution, replacing or joining with either the indigenous Caribs or the European settlers who were there as indentured servants.

Answer the following questions:
1. What region is this about?
2. Which body of water is it in?
3. How many island chains are part of it?
4. What are they?
5. Is Bermuda included in it?
6. Is it physically located in the region?
7. Then why is it included?
8. Who else lives in this region?
9. Who lived there first?
10. Who was the first European there?
11. When?
12. Which place did he visit first?
13. Why is the region called the West Indies?
A: 1. The West Indies
2. North Atlantic Ocean
3. three
4. the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago.
5. Yes
6. Not really
7. due to its common cultural history created by European colonization of the region
8. a significant group of African descent.
9. Indigenous peoples
10. Christopher Columbus
11. 1492
12. Bahamas
13. to distinguish the region from the East Indies of South Asia and Southeast Asia.

Problem: Eva Mozes Kor has good reasons to look down upon Oskar Groning. When she and her twin sister, Miriam, arrived in the Auschwitz death camp, they were met by Josef Mengele and became part of the cruel scientist's experiments. Groning was a junior squad leader at the camp.

While Groning could argue he was not directly responsible for procedures carried out on twins,nor for the mass murder of so many others, he played a critical role in the effort to kill Jews.

After the war Groning led an ordinary, quiet life until he became alarmed by the rise of Holocaust deniers. He went public with his role and in September 2014 was charged as an accessory to murder.

When Groning went on trial in April 2015, Eva Mozes Kor was called as a witness. After her session, she walked straight up to the 93-year-old former Nazi and shook his hand.

Eva Mozes Kor will never forget nor excuse what the Nazis did. Her two books make that clear: Surviving the Angel of Death. and the earlier Echoes from Auschwitz. She has also spent her post-war years drawing attention to the Holocaust, in the hope of preventing a repeat of its horrors.

At the same time, she is dedicated ( ) to healing rather than revenge. As she wrote in a Facebook post:

Forgiving does not mean forgetting-we all want to prevent these things from ever happening again. Forgiveness is about self-healing, self-liberation, and self-empowerment... Let's all work together to teach the world how to heal.

As a survivor suffering so much, Eva Mozes Kor is a role model for the kind of forgiveness that mends souls, a forgiveness that carries with it the responsibility to work for a world in which such horrors no longer happen.
1. Who was groning?
2. Where?
3. Is someone upset with him?
4. Who?
5. Was she at the camp?
6. Did anyone come with her?
7. What was her name?
8. Who were they introduced to?
9. Was he kind to them?
10. What did he do to them?
11. Was Groning aware of this?
12. Was he caught when the war ended?
13. what did he do?
14. Why did he go public?
15. How old was he now?
16. Did Miriam shake his hand at the trial?
17. What kind of Camp was it?
18. Who was killed in the camp?
19. When was Groning put on trial?
20. Who testified against him?
21. Did she write anything after the war?
Answer:
1. a junior squad leader
2. Auschwitz
3. Yes
4. Eva Mozes Kor
5. Yes
6. her twin sister
7. Miriam
8. Josef Mengele
9. no
10. Experimented on them
11. Yes
12. No
13. He went public with his role and in September 2014 was charged as an accessory to murde
14. he became alarmed by the rise of Holocaust deniers
15. 93-year-old
16. Yes
17. death camp
18. Jews
19. September 2014
20. Eva Mozes Kor
21. Yes