Part A
Synthesize and evaluate your thoughts and response. Researching and
preparing for a discussion helps to ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of a
group discussion. To start forming your response, write down your initial
thoughts on your chosen topic.
Answer these questions as you develop your thesis and prepare for the small-
group discussion:
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1. What is the American identity?
2. What is your cultural background?
2. How does your culture fit into the American identity?
How have historical events contributed to the development
of an American identity?
How has the American identity evolved over time?
therican Dream
Synonymous to the American

Hamlet: ] it will but skin and film the ulcerous place, whiles rank corruption, mining all within, infects unseen. confess yourself to heaven; repent what’s past; avoid what is to come; and do not spread the compost on the weeds to make them ranker. —hamlet, william shakespeare what is the central motif in the passage? the passage of time madness disease and decay gardening

Read the excerpt from act iv, scene iv of romeo and juliet. capulet: good faith! ’tis day: the county will be here with music straight, for so he said he would. [music within.] i hear him near. nurse! wife! what, no! what, nurse, i say! 30 re-enter nurse. go waken juliet, go and trim her up; i’ll go and chat with paris. hie, make haste, make haste; the bridegroom he is come already: make haste, i say. [exeunt.] 35 this scene is an example of dramatic irony used to create suspense since the audience knows that the musicians will not arrive on time. capulet approves of the match to paris. romeo is already married to juliet. the nurse will be unable to rouse juliet.

Andy bernard laughed at my joke, spitting out his water. complete thought incomplete thought