Question: Feeding a crowd of hundreds doesn't make Kenny Seals-Nutt nervous. In fact, he _ in the kitchen. He's in his perfect place when dicing tomatoes, making salads and baking cakes. By the time Kenny, 16, reached his third year of high school at Hickory Grove, North Carolina, US, he had become vice president of his school's cooking club. He also opened his own food company, called Modern Fusion. Kenny said he developed his love of cooking by watching his mother, and his grandmother, who owned a catering business herself. Kenny helped them both in order to remember their tips: how long to cook chicken so it stays wet, and the right amount of tomatoes to add to a spaghetti dish. At the age of 5, he cooked his first dish of shrimp and broccoli. Taking it for his school lunch, he warmed it up in the school's microwave, while the other kids ate their sandwiches. "I love to eat, and it started to become more fun to cook than to use a microwave," he said. Cooking came easy to Kenny, and he enjoyed adding new ingredients into common dishes. "It started with a passion and I wanted to know more," he said. He began to watch the Food Network and read chef blogs. Last summer, Kenny put his skills to the test by working with his grandmother to cater his uncle's wedding. While she cooked traditional dishes, Kenny wanted to add new to the expected flavors . Now Kenny spends his weekends catering his own events: weddings, birthday parties, baby showers. Kenny's dishes are always a hit. Chef Frederick Mookie Hicks, owner of a catering business, said Kenny's success comes from his ability to multitask in the kitchen. Hicks said he has asked Kenny to cook with him on jobs three times now, and he presents Kenny as a positive example of a passionate chef to the students in his cooking classes. "He's so vigorous about cooking that he doesn't let anything stop him," Hicks said. "I knew in the first five minutes of working with the kid that he is something special." 1. What was Kenny's last name?
2. What did he enjoy doing?
3. Did he start his own business?
4. What was it called?
5. What position did he hold at the club as his school?
6. Where was the school?
7. How old was Kenny when he got that position?
8. Which year of school was he in?
9. How did he obtain his passion for cooking?
10. Did he learn from them?
11. What tips he did get?
12. How old was he when he started cooking?
13. Was did he cook first?
14. Where did he eat it?
15. What TV station did he watch?
16. What was his first catering job?
17. Where did they work together?
18. Who made the traditional dishes?
19. What did Kenny want to do?
20. What makes Kenny successful in the kitchen? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Seals-Nutt
2. Cooking
3. yes
4. Modern Fusion
5. Vice President
6. North Carolina
7. 16
8. Third
9. watching his mother and grandmother
10. yes
11. how long to cook chicken, how many tomatoes go in a spaghtti dish
12. Five
13. shrimp and broccoli
14. school
15. Food Network
16. Working for his grandmother
17. His uncle's wedding
18. his grandmother
19. add new and unexpected flavors
20. multitasking


Question: War is a state of armed conflict between societies. It is generally characterized by extreme aggression, destruction, and mortality, using regular or irregular military forces. An absence of war is usually called "peace". Warfare refers to the common activities and characteristics of types of war, or of wars in general. Total war is warfare that is not restricted to purely legitimate military targets, and can result in massive civilian or other non-combatant suffering and casualties. 

While some scholars see war as a universal and ancestral aspect of human nature, others argue it is a result of specific socio-cultural or ecological circumstances. 

The deadliest war in history, in terms of the cumulative number of deaths since its start, is the Second World War, from 1939 to 1945, with 60–85 million deaths, followed by the Mongol conquests at up to 60 million. As concerns a belligerent's losses in proportion to its prewar population, the most destructive war in modern history may have been the Paraguayan War (see Paraguayan War casualties). In 2013 war resulted in 31,000 deaths, down from 72,000 deaths in 1990. In 2003, Richard Smalley identified war as the sixth (of ten) biggest problem facing humanity for the next fifty years. War usually results in significant deterioration of infrastructure and the ecosystem, a decrease in social spending, famine, large-scale emigration from the war zone, and often the mistreatment of prisoners of war or civilians. For instance, of the nine million people who were on the territory of Soviet Belarus in 1941, some 1.6 million were killed by the Germans in actions away from battlefields, including about 700,000 prisoners of war, 500,000 Jews, and 320,000 people counted as partisans (the vast majority of whom were unarmed civilians). Another byproduct of some wars is the prevalence of propaganda by some or all parties in the conflict, and increased revenues by weapons manufacturers. 1. what is the deadliest war in history?
2. how many died?
3. over what time period?
4. how many belarussians were killed by germans away from the battlefield?
5. what is the second deadliest war in history?
6. how many deaths did that result in?
7. do some scholars see war as a part of human nature?
8. what do other argue it is a result of?
9. what is war
10. what is warfare?
11. what is the opposite of war?
12. how is total war defined?
13. how is war characterized?
14. what do some consider the most destructive war in modern history?
15. who identified war as the 6th greatest problem facing humanity?
16. in what year did he say that?
17. over what time period does he expect humanity to face the problem?
18. is war good for the ecosystem?
19. does it increase social spending?
20. does it create famine? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. the Second World War
2. 60–85 million
3. from 1939 to 1945
4. unknown
5. the Mongol conquests
6. up to 60 million
7. Yes
8. specific socio-cultural or ecological circumstances.
9. a state of armed conflict between societies
10. the common activities and characteristics of types of war
11. peace
12. warfare that is not restricted to purely legitimate military targets
13. by extreme aggression
14. the Paraguayan War
15. Richard Smalley
16. 2003,
17. the next fifty years
18. No
19. No
20. Yes