WORKSHEET ad the following passage carefully :
The Weather
.) Through human history, weather has altered the march of events and cause som
cataclysms. Since Columbus did not know where he was going or where he had arrived wh
there, the winds truly deserve nearly as much credit as he for the discovery of Amer
westerlies helped turn the 1588 Spanish Armada away from England in a limpin
Napoleon was done in twice by weather : once by the snow and cold that forced his fearf
from Moscow, later by the rain that bedevilled him at Waterloo and caused Victor Hugo
"A few drops of water ... an unseasonable cloud crossing the sky, sufficed for the overth
world." In 1944 the Allied invasion of Normandy was made possible by a narrow ir
reasonably good weather between the bad. It was so narrow, in fact, that Supreme Allied Co
Dwight Eisenhower later expressed gratitude to "the gods of war".
Every year brings fresh reminders of the weather's power over human life and events in tl
horrifying tornadoes, hurricanes and floods. These leave behind forgettable stati
unforgettable images of devastated towns and battered humanity that can only humbl by

()activityconstruct an argument about a topic, theme, or idea that you read about in william shakespeare's romeo and juliet, act ii or act iii. make sure you create a central claim for your argument that is debatable. provide textual evidence from the play to support your argument. my analysis juliet shows maturity by putting their needs before hers. after juliet has arranged her 'death' with friar lawrence, she is an emotionally awoken woman who will do anything to be with the one she loves. "and i will do it without fear or doubt, to live an unstained wife to my sweet love". juliet faces her fears and trusts in god and friar lawrence. she is forced to use trickery in order to stay true to dear romeo. this showed remarkable courage. before she takes the potion she uses a soliloquy that confronts all her fears. she speaks in blank verse showing the seriousness of the situation. when juliet awakes to see a lifeless romeo lying beside her, juliet's maturity and loyalty takes over and she takes the decision to choose eternity over the present. the quotation "then i'll be brief. o happy dagger! this is my sheath; there rust, and let me die." shows the quickness and determination of juliet's death. during the period of a few days juliet matures into a committed and reliable woman and wife, capable of taking decisions without the of others. shakespeare shows this by clearly stating the different stages that happen and by making everything occur in a short period of time. part cwrite a 300-word essay arguing the thesis of your analysis.