One reason for Shakespeare's long-standing popularity is the universal nature of his themes. Research modern stagings of Romeo and Juliet. Where have these been performed? Have modern stagings tinkered with the setting, characters, or plot events.

What are the four types of biological molecules?

Complete the following sentences with the correct form of the adjectives shown in parentheses. Pay special attention to the agreement of gender and number. Tengo ______________________ amigos. (mucho)

What is meant by outgassing, and what modern phenomenon serves that role today ?

Most of Shakespeare's plays are based on stories that were already well known to his audiences. (He never wrote a play about a contemporary subject.) Romeo and Juliet is based on a long narrative poem by Arthur Brooke, which was published in 1562 as The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet. Brooke's popular poem itself was based on older Italian stories.

Romeo and Juliet, a very young man and a nearly fourteen-year-old girl, fall in love at first sight. They are caught up in an idealized, almost unreal, passionate love. They are in love with love. In his Prologue, Brooke preaches a moral, which people of his time expected. He says that Romeo and Juliet had to die because they broke the laws and married unwisely, against their parents' wishes. But Shakespeare does away with this moralizing. He presents the couple as "star-crossed lovers," doomed to disaster by fate. To understand what starcrossed means, you have to realize that most people of Shakespeare's time believed in astrology. They believed that the course of their lives was partly determined by the hour, day, month, and year of their birth-hence, "the star" under which they were born. But Shakespeare may not have shared this belief. In a later play,

Julius Caesar, Shakespeare has a character question this old idea about astrology and the influence of the stars:

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves that we are underlings.

Although Shakespeare says in the Prologue that Romeo and Juliet are star-crossed, he does not make them mere victims of fate. Romeo and juliet make decisions that lead to their disaster. More important, other characters have a hand in the play's tragic ending. How important do you think fate is in affecting what happens to us? To what degree do you think we control our own destinies?

Use online resources to work on this chapter's questions. Please note that website information changes over time, and these changes may limit your ability to answer some of these questions. Clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch enjoyed phenomenal success in the late $1990$s. Between $1996$ and $2000$, its sales grew almost fourfold-from $\$ 335$ million to more than $\$ 1.2$ billion-and its stock price soared by more than $500 \%$. However, in $2002$, its growth rate had begun to slow down, and Abercrombie had a hard time meeting its quarterly earnings targets. As a result, the stock price in late $2002$ was about half of what it was $3$ years earlier. Abercrombie's struggles resulted from increased competition, a sluggish economy, and the challenges of staying ahead of the fashion curve. From late $2002$ until November $2007$, the company's stock rebounded strongly; however, its stock price declined during the $2008$ economic downturn. Its stock price rebounded until late October $2011$, when it began a downward trend again. Its stock price started to rise again in early $2013$, but has been on a downward trend since that time. Questions remain about the firm's long-term growth prospects. However, the company has been cutting costs and improving productivity with its focus on the supply chain. In addition, it has been actively repurchasing shares, indicating that management believes its shares are undervalued. The company continues to steadily expand stores abroad while closing underperforming domestic stores.

Given the questions about Abercrombie's future growth rate, analysts have focused on the company's earnings reports. Financial websites such as Yahoo! Finance, Morningstar, and MSN Money provide information on the company's recent earnings history along with a summary of analysts' earnings forecasts.

Based on analysts' forecasts, what is the expected long-term ($5$-year) growth rate in earnings?

Using data from the 2010 census, a random sample of 348 U.S. residents aged 18 and older was selected. Among the variables recorded were gender (male or female), housing status (rent or own), and marital status (married or not married). The first two-way table summarizes the relationship between gender and housing status.

$$\begin{array} {lc} & \text{Gender} \\ \text {$\begin{matrix} \text{Housing}\\ \text{status}\\ \end{matrix}$} & \begin{array}{c|c|c|c} & \text { Male } & \text { Female } & \text { Total } \\ \hline \text { Own } & 132 & 122 & 254 \\ \hline \text { Rent } & 50 & 44 & 94 \\ \hline \text { Total } & 182 & 166 & 348 \end{array}\\ \end{array}$$

Make a graph to display the association between gender and housing status. Describe what you see.

Modern therapies for phobias are usually given the general name of e________b-_________treatments.

What is the function of enzymes in biological systems?

What is a batholith ? In what modern tectonic setting are batholiths being generated ?

The main meeting room of the Glen Oaks Community Center measures 46 feet by 34 feet and has a 12-foot ceiling. It is well insulated and faces the east side of his house. The manager wants to purchase an air conditioner. How large an air conditioner should he purchase? Round up to the next thousand BTUs.

Do modern nuclear weapons use fission or fusion or both? Explain.

The principle of competitive exclusion states that (A) two species cannot coexist in the same habitat. (B) competition between two species always causes the extinction or emigration of one species. (C ) two species that have exactly the same niche cannot coexist in a community. (D) two species will stop reproducing until one species leaves the habitat.

QWERTY. What do those letters mean to you? The next time you sit down at a computer, look at the keyboard. You will find these six letters lined up on the left side of the top row of letters. You will also see that many of the alphabet's most commonly used letters-such as $e, i$, and $o$-can only be typed by moving your fingers away from the center row, which is where your fingers naturally fall. (1) The QWERTY keyboard indisputably lacks efficiency. (2) Did we get duped into using it? Today, typing is usually faster than writing by hand. (3) We could infer from this that our current keyboard design was created to maximize speed. (4) But this would be a fallacy. In fact, the keyboard was designed to be slow!

Originally, the typewriter was invented to provide readable, standardized print, not to increase the speed of writing. In the late 1860s, Christopher Sholes invented the first commercial typewriter. There was a problem, though: The typewriter keys tended to jam when people typed too fast. So Sholes arranged a keyboard so that letters commonly typed together, such as $t h$ and $s h$, could not be hit at the same time. Thus, the QWERTY arrangement was born. However, as typewriter design improved, keys stopped jamming. (5) In today's world, it is easy to refute the claim that the QWERTY keyboard arrangement is the best one. So why is it still in use?

The answer lies, at least in part, in a contest that took place in 1888. Mrs. L. V. Longley, head of a Cincinnati typing school, sponsored a race between her star pupil, Frank McGurrin, and rival typist, Louis Taub. (6) Mrs. Longley had developed a ten-finger typing method based on the QWERTY keyboard, and she became an apologist for the arrangement. McGurrin used a QWERTY keyboard; Taub did not. (7) In a highly publicized event, McGurrin soundly defeated Taub, substantiating the superiority of the QWERTY arrangement in the eyes of the public. (8) The truth is, however, that the contest was something of a red herring. The superiority of McGurrin's typing was probably a result of the "touch-typing" system he had developed, which enabled him to type without looking at the keys. Whatever its history, there is still strong resistance to changing the QWERTY keyboard. One reason is that most people are used to this keyboard. Those who already know how to type do not want to have to relearn this skill to accommodate a new arrangement. Also, companies that produce keyboards have a considerable financial investment in the current letter positions. (9) Not everyone has been dissuaded from trying to improve this keyboard design, however. Dr. Anton Dvorak patented a keyboard that puts all of the vowels on the line where we usually place our fingers. In one experiment, he found that a person's fingers traveled only one mile during a typical day's typing on his keyboard. In contrast, a person's fingers traveled at least sixteen miles when typing on the QWERTY keyboard. (10) These results imply that the Dvorak arrangement is superior. So the next time your fingers are tired from keyboarding, think of Dr. Dvorak. Perhaps someday his arrangement will give those fingers a rest. Indicate whether the statements below are TRUE or FALSE according to the passage. The QWERTY keyboard was originally designed to maximize the typist's speed.