Exercise 6.2 - Daniel Lee

1. During Queen Elizabeth's reign, the story of King Lear and his daughters was so popular that, by the time Queen Elizabeth died, the story was available in at least a dozen books. However, most of these stories were simple narratives which had underdeveloped characters and an obvious moral. Several versions of this story must have been available to Shakespeare when he began work on Lear, perhaps his greatest tragedy. Even though Shakespeare's characters were based on the stock figures of legend, he turned them into credible human beings with complex motives.

2. It would appear that the issue is whether the management has a "duty to disclose" the date an operation intends to close down during contract bargaining. The management has to bargain in good faith to minimize conflict. Though the case law is scanty, companies are obligated to disclose major changes in an operation during bargaining in order to allow the union to put forth proposals on behalf of its members.

3. The most important event in Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is Athens' catastrophic Sicilian Invasion. As a result, three-quarters of the history is devoted to setting up the invasion. We can see how Thucydides anticipates the Sicilian Invasion through the step-by-step decline in Athenian society. We need to anticipate the invasion in order to associate inevitability with the tragic drama.

4. It is currently hypothesized that mucosal and vascular permeability is altered by a toxin that is elaborated by the vibrio. Evidence favoring this hypothesis include changes in small capillaries located near the basal surface of the epithelial cells and the appearance of numerous microvesicles in the cytoplasm of the mucosal cells. Altered capillary permeability is also believed to depend on the hydrodynamic transport of fluid, first flowing into the interstital tissue and later making its way through the muocsa and into the lumen of the gut.

5. From July 1-August 31, revenue changes are as follows: Ohio and Kentucky went up 73 percent, from $32,934 to $56,792; Indiana and Illinois went up 10 percent, from $153,281 to $168,651; Wisconsin and Minnesota went down 5 percent, from $200,102 to $190,580.