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Given:
1. India’s GDP per Capita in nominal absolute values for 2005: 500 dollars
2. The US President’s salary in nominal absolute values for 1789: 25,000 dollars
3. Percentage of the above value in the American Economy in 1789: 0.03-5% (so basically the president accounted for 1/2000th of the country’s GDP…)

+ (add the clues/givens together…)
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Conclusion:
The US President made 50 times more 216 years ago (ever since the constitution was made) than a modern indian makes in India. This isn’t even taking into effect the natural depreciation of monetary units (inflation). Talk about a balance gone wrong…

Yup, this is what I learn by doing Bergantz homework

You guys only comment on the sad posts, like the one about hurricanes and tropical storms.

“On Aug. 19, 1934, a plebiscite in Germany approved the vesting of sole executive power in Adolf Hitler as Fuhrer.” So coincidental it was the day before my birthday.

Whenever I read descriptive parts of literature, I slow down and start a mental composition of what the descriptions all amount to. It’s funny when new information in a new sentence forces me to realign certain objects, change certain colors and such — it’s funny to see things morph in my head.

I’m talking of scenes like Asher describing his (various) rooms. I mean static descriptions, not descriptions of what people are doing.

It does begin to annoy me, though, when I get obsessed with dimensions and perfectly aligning the furniture…

I got my new glasses! Hooray! Apparently my prescription didn’t change (at all) over the past two years. I could’ve sworn my eyes only got worse o_O 275 250. There was a large jump from Freshman year to Soph year though.

I notice my happy topics are a lot shorter than my sad topics. What’s up with that?

What a happy event to end the war that killed 75 million people.

God damn those bastards for almost killing my grandfather. Hiroshima should not have been the place that was attacked by the US. The US should have rounded up every Japanese soldier operating outside his home and slaughtered them the way they slaughtered innocent civilians in Korea, China, and the rest of Asia — for fun, as a game, to see who can kill the most. We don’t need any backwards and anti-diplomatic politicians in the Japanese government anyway.

The Japanese PM should not be honoring the “sacrifices” of the soldiers deemed as war criminals every year by visiting and praying at the Yasukuni shrine. That’s just not right. Maybe Angela Merkel should pay tribute to Hitler and his co-conspirators every year, in spite of the victims (European Jews and Allied & German soldiers in the case of Germany, and Chinese & American civilians in the case of Japan). Maybe Japan will get the point that worshipping war criminals is not appreciated.

Good riddance Koizumi’s departing soon. Too bad he’s replaced by an even more radical politician…

EDIT: fixed a typo mentioned by the OH SO HELPFUL KATHERINE.