Option 1 Situation: Imagine that the main character of your short story, poem, nonfiction piece, or short script (a bite-sized play, movie, television show, or even video game) has just awakened in a different decade. Imagine that this character is clueless about the decade you have chosen and only remembers life from 2000-2020. He or she awakens somewhere in the United States and needs you to help him/her fit into the current decade that you have chosen. Prompt: Write a narrative introducing this character to the decade in some creative way. What would the character think of the United States during your chosen decade? What would seem strange or odd to the character? What conflicts might he/she come up against? (needs to be 2000 characters)

What do mcmahon’s references to thomas carlyle and john stuart mill do for his own image and credibility?

How would you write "the fourth of july? " the 4th of july or the fourth of july? are they both grammatically correct?

Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 3, of julius caesar. cassius. am i not stayed for? tell me. cinna. yes, you are. o cassius, if you could but win the noble brutus to our party— cassius. be you content. good cinna, take this paper and look you lay it in the praetor’s chair, where brutus may but find it. and throw this in at his window. set this up with wax upon old brutus’ statue. all this done, repair to pompey’s porch, where you shall find us. is decius brutus and trebonius there? cinna. all but metellus cimber, and he’s gone to seek you at your house. well, i will hie, and so bestow these papers as you bade me. cassius. that done, repair to pompey’s theatre. what is cassius’s motivation for sending brutus the letter? cassius wants to make sure that cinna is on his side. cassius wants to reassure cinna that brutus will follow them. cassius wants to sway brutus to kill caesar. cassius wants to alert brutus about the conspiracy against him.