Exercise 6.2

1. During the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the story of King Lear and his daughters was popular. By the time Elizabeth died, at least a dozen books included the story. However, most of these versions were simple narratives with obvious morals and undeveloped characters. When Shakespeare was writing King Lear, he must have used several versions of the story. Working from these simple stories, he transformed the stock figures of legend into credible, complex human beings.

2. The issue at question is whether the management's “duty to disclose” during contract bargaining includes the date an operation is intended to close down. The management must bargain in good faith in order to minimize conflict. For this reason, companies are obliged to disclose major changes in the operation, even though the law is unclear on the matter, so that unions can make proposals that are beneficial for union members.

3. The most important event in Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is Athens' catastrophic Sicilian invasion, so three quarters of the book is sent setting it up. Thucydides' anticipates this invasion by his description of the step-by-step decline in Athenian society. This anticipation is necessary to create the inevitability of tragic drama.

4. Currently, this condition is thought to be caused when mucosal and vascular permeability is altered by a toxin elaborated by the vibrio. Evidence for this hypothesis is provided by 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. The altered capillary permeability is believed to increase hydrodynamic transport of fluid into the interstitial tissue, and then through the mucosa into the lumen of the gut.

5. Changes in revenue are as follows. In the Ohio and Kentucky areas, from July 1-August 31, revenue increased from $32,934 to $56,792, a net increase of 73%. In the Indiana and Illinois areas over the same period revenue increased from $153,281 to $168651, a net increase of 10%. However, the Wisconsin and Minnesota regions had a decrease in revenue over the same period, from $200,102 to $190,580, a net decrease of 5%.

   
   

   -Andrew Lampinen