Style, Exercise 6.2

1. During the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the tale of King Lear and his daughters was a popular one. By Elizabeth's death, at least a dozen books offered iterations of the story to anyone seeking it. With a simple narrative and obvious moral, the characters were underdeveloped in most versions of the story. Shakespeare must have had several versions of the story available to him when he began work on Lear. Even though his characters were based on stock figures of legend, he turned them into credible human beings with complex motives.

2. The issue at hand is whether management's "duty to disclose" during contract bargaining includes disclosing the date an operation intends to close down. Management should bargain in good faith to minimize conflict even though case law is scant on this matter. Companies are obligated to disclose major changes in 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 which required three-quarters of the history to set up. Thucydides' anticipation of the invasion is demonstrated by his step-by-step description of the decline in Athenian society. We anticipate the invasion as inevitable because we have associated it with the tragic drama of decline.

4. The current hypothesis explaining the severe condition of altered mucosal and vascular permeability is of a toxin elaborated by the vibrio. Evidence favoring this hypothesis is found in changed capillaries located near the basal surface of epithelial cells and the appearance of numerous microvesicles in the cytoplasm of the mucosal cells. The altered capillary permeability is key to the hydrodynamic transport of fluid into the interstitial tissue and then through the mucosa into the lumen of the gut.

5. Changes in revenues are as follows. In the Ohio and Kentucky areas, from July 1-August 31, an increase to $56,792 from $32,934 was realized, a net increase of approximately 73%. In the same period there was an increase of $15,370, from $153,281 to $168,651, in the Indiana and Illinois areas - an increase of 10 percent. A decrease in the Wisconsin and Minnesota regions occurred in almost the same period of time, to $190,580 from $200,102, or 5 percent.

-Justin Lin