While walking home from work, lake park mall security guard scott thornton thought about his day. a shoplifter had outrun him, he had lost the keys to the golf cart, and a group of skateboarders had made fun of his weight. things had not gone so well. scott was so deep in thought that he did not even notice that he had stumbled on to a movie set. lost in thought, he passed by trailers, cameras, and stagehands, yet he was unaware of the scene around him. when he came out of his daze, he looked up and saw a man who was wearing a ski mask waving a knife at an old lady. figuring that the masked man was robbing the old woman, scott bolted into action. he was so charged up with adrenaline that he did not even notice the cameraman filming him as he jump kicked the actor wearing the ski mask. *?

“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?