1. What is your perspective of the American identity? 2. How would you describe the culture of the United States? Think about this on a
macro scale and a micro scale.
3. Think of a book you've read or a movie you've seen that exhibits this perspective.
In what way does it reflect the American identity?

Select the correct text in the passage. which two lines in this excerpt from shakespeare's romeo and juliet foreshadow the tragic fate of romeo and juliet? friar laurence: so smile the heavens upon this holy act, that after hours with sorrow chide us not! romeo: amen, amen! but come what sorrow can, it cannot countervail the exchange of joy that one short minute gives me in her sight: do thou but close our hands with holy words, then love-devouring death do what he dare; it is enough i may but call her mine. friar laurence: these violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness and in the taste confounds the appetite: therefore love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

Create an accurate summary of the “goodbye” scene between marylin and her brother in “the cold equations”

Nat least one hundred and fifty words, explain the importance of point of view in "i stand here ironing".