What is the overall purpose of Queen Elizabeth's Address to the Troops at Tilbury?
Read the excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.I have repeatedly asserted, and produced what appeared to me irrefragable arguments drawn from matters of fact, to prove my assertion, that women cannot, by force, be confined to domestic concerns; for they will, however ignorant, intermeddle with more weighty affairs, neglecting private duties only to disturb, by cunning tricks, the orderly plans of reason which rise above their comprehension.
Read the paragraph.Point: Gilgamesh is an epic hero because of his great strength and bravery.Illustration: ________________________________________________________Explanation: Because Gilgamesh succeeds in such a challenging and frightful task, he proves himself to be notably strong and brave.
Read the excerpt from Hamlet.Gertrude: O Hamlet! speak no more; Thou turn’st mine eyes into my very soul; And there I see such black and grained spots As will not leave their tinct.Hamlet: Nay, but to live In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, Stew’d in corruption, honeying and making loveOver the nasty sty,—Gertrude: O! speak to me no more; These words like daggers enter in mine ears; No more, sweet Hamlet!
Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.In 1574 the city authorities are given powers to restrict playhouses, forcing the actors to find new premises in the suburbs. This becomes a golden opportunity for John Brayne and his brother-in-law, James Burbage, who in 1576 build a new theater, simply called The Theatre, at Shoreditch, just half a mile north of Bishopsgate. The following year a second theater, the Curtain, is built just two hundred yards away. Despite some heavy opposition from Puritan preachers and moralists, both theaters are successful.
Read the excerpt from Le Morte d’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory.What saw thou there? said the king. Sir, he said, I saw nothing but waves and winds.Read the excerpt from "Morte d'Arthur” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.Then spake King Arthur to Sir Bedivere:"Hast thou perform’d my mission which I gave?What is it thou hast seen? or what hast heard?”And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere:"I heard the ripple washing in the reeds,And the wild water lapping on the crag.”
Read the excerpt from Act IV of Hamlet.Claudius: Good Laertes,If you desire to know the certainty Of your dear father's death, is 't writ in your revenge, That, swoopstake, you will draw both friend and foe, Winner and loser?Laertes: None but his enemies.Claudius: Will you know them then?Laertes: To his good friends thus wide I'll ope my arms; And like the kind life-rendering pelican, Repast them with my blood.
Read the excerpt from Act I of Hamlet.Horatio: Hail to your lordship! Hamlet: I am glad to see you well: Horatio, or I do forget myself.
Which sentence should be revised to have a formal style and objective language?
Which activities support the central idea about financial planning? Select 3 options.
Read the excerpt from "Morte d'Arthur" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.On one side lay the Ocean, and on oneLay a great water, and the moon was full.Then spake King Arthur to Sir Bedivere:
Which topic is suitable for the size and scope of a five-paragraph essay?
Read the excerpt from Gilgamesh: A New English Version.At four hundred miles they stopped to eat, at a thousand miles they pitched their camp. They had traveled for just three days and nights, a six weeks’ journey for ordinary men. When the sun was setting, they dug a well, they filled their waterskins with fresh water, Gilgamesh climbed to the mountaintop, he poured out flour as an offering and said, "Mountain, bring me a favorable dream.”
Read the excerpt from Act II of Romeo and Juliet.Juliet: Now, good sweet nurse- O Lord, why look'st thou sad?Though news be sad, yet tell them merrily;If good, thou shamest the music of sweet newsBy playing it to me with so sour a face.
Read the passage from The Iliad.When Hector heard this he was glad, and went about among the Trojan ranks holding his spear by the middle to keep them back, and they all sat down at his bidding: but the Achaeans still aimed at him with stones and arrows, till Agamemnon shouted to them saying, "Hold, Argives, shoot not, sons of the Achaeans; Hector desires to speak.”They ceased taking aim and were still, whereon Hector spoke. "Hear from my mouth,” said he, "Trojans and Achaeans, the saying of Alexandrus, through whom this quarrel has come about. He bids the Trojans and Achaeans lay their armour upon the ground, while he and Menelaus fight in the midst of you for Helen and all her wealth.
Read the passage from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.It is unlikely that you will be hanged for taking a wild animal such as a rabbit; but, even so, you will get a fine amounting to three times the value of the animal as well as three months in prison, and you will have to enter into a bond to guarantee your good behavior in the future; a second offense will be treated more harshly.
Read the passage.Contemporary historian Ian Mortimer showcases his historical expertise in the nonfiction book The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England. Other people have created monotonous historical essays, but Mortimer has written an amusing and engrossing book.
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