Bettina, a manager, sends an e-mail warning her subordinate, Noah, of disciplinary action if he continues spending too much time on personal phone calls. However, Noah did not attach too much importance to the e-mail, thinking it was just a passing reminder and that his boss was not all that serious. Why should Bettina have spoken to Noah directly in this situation and avoided the use of e-mail?

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?

Why did lincoln inform the confederacy that he would not e sending troops or weapons as food supplies were sent to fort sumter?

Name that largest artificial lake built in the 11th century