What is one reason why few people of color are elected to public office?

Topic: Choose one of the following prompts to respond to in your essay: 1. Gender issues are significant throughout this play. What differences are there in the roles and behaviors of men and women? 2. Compare and contrast the Athenian couples with the mechanicals. In what ways are the dispositions of the two groups different from each other? Are they the same in any way? 3. Choose three characters and analyze how they use power over others. Is their use of power justified? 4. Argue whether three characters truly change by the end of the play. Why or why not? 5. Analyze how illusions (dreams, magic, or mistaken identity) shape the events of the play and what Shakespeare suggests about reality. 6. Analyze the literary elements used throughout the play and how those elements advance the theme of the play. Elements to Include in Your Essay: Your essay will be a total of 5 paragraphs (one introduction, three body paragraphs, and one conclusion). Each body paragraph should have 6-8 sentences. The introduction and conclusion should have at least 5 sentences. Each body paragraph should support your thesis and analyze specific elements from the play. You should include at least three quotes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream (one quote per body paragraph). You should include at least one quote from your secondary source in one body paragraph.  Purpose: This assignment will help you advance the foundational skills you will need for future writing assignments. By practicing literary analysis and learning how to incorporate a secondary source, you will strengthen your ability to create strong arguments, support your ideas with evidence, and write in a clear academic style. These skills will be essential for your upcoming research essay and other college-level writing tasks. Outside Sources: For this assignment, you will use A Midsummer Night’s Dream as your primary source and at least one secondary source to help back up your argument. Please use no more than three secondary sources.  The secondary source can come from the sources I have provided on Canvas, a scholarly source on AVL, or a scholarly source on Google Scholar. No other sources are permitted. Using AI to generate or write any part of your essay is not permitted and will be considered plagiarism. Format: This essay is to be written in MLA format. Include a header with your last name page # in the top right corner of the page. Include a heading with your name, instructor’s name, course, and assignment due date. Include an original title in the center of the page. When citing sources, include in-text citations and a Works Cited page. Use present-tense verbs (words like “are,” “is,” and “wants”). DO NOT use contractions (such as “didn’t”) in your essay. Use third-person point-of-view in this essay. DO NOT use first (I, we, our, us) or second-person point-of-view (any form of you). A Successful Essay: An effective essay successfully addresses and elaborates the topic chosen. Your thesis statement should be clear and easy to identify in the introduction paragraph, and the body paragraphs of your essay should refer back to the thesis. This essay should be well-organized, engaging, properly formatted, and free of major grammatical errors. Remember, avoid excessive plot summary. Focus on analysis and interpretation. Example essay: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Example Essay.docxDownload A Midsummer Night’s Dream Example Essay.docx Final draft checklist: The Ultimate Checklist for a Great Essay.pdfDownload The Ultimate Checklist for a Great Essay.pdf Essay rubric: 2026 WSCC English Grading Rubric Detailed Version.docx Download 2026 WSCC English Grading Rubric Detailed Version.docxand WSCC English Grading Rubric 2026.docxDownload WSCC English Grading Rubric 2026.docx MLA handout: MLA Handout.pdf In-Text Citation Example for Plays: Provide the act, scene, and line numbers where the quote is found. Separate each element (except for the author of the source) with a period. Example of an In-Text Citation: (Shakespeare 3.3.96-7). Block Quote: Use a block quote when citing dialogue between two or more characters in a drama/play. Block quotes will be indented an additional 0.5 inch (like you are indenting the beginning of a paragraph) and will not include quotation marks around the quote. Also, the punctuation to conclude the block quote will be listed before the in-text citation. Example of a Block Quote: In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare expresses the conflicts and obstacles that love must overcome, as shown in the dialogue between Hermia and Lysander: HERMIA. Oh, cross! Too high to be enthrall’d to low. LYSANDER. Or else misgraffed in respect of years,– HERMIA. Oh, spite! Too old to be engaged to young. (1.1.136–138) Work Cited Template:  Author’s Last Name, First Name. Title of the Play. Name of Anthology, edited by Editor’s First and Last Name, edition, Publisher, Year of Publication, Page Number(s).   Remember, if you are handwriting an essay, titles of larger containers (like the title of this play) will be underlined. If you are typing an essay, titles of larger containers will be italicized. 

A teacher is interested in how many minutes students spend on homework each night. The teacher randomly selects 40 students and the average was 67 minutes.   a. The population is [a]. b. The sample is [b]. c. Is this an observational study or a designed experiment? [c]

A physical therapist (PT) positions the patient supine with knee flexed to 90 degrees and hip flexed to 45 degrees. The PT applies pressure (sits) on foot while grasping proximal tibia with thumbs on tibial plateau pulling upward. What ligament is the PT assessing?

A 46-year-old patient complains of pain in the medial aspect of the forearm, wrist, and 4th and 5th digits of the hand. The examining physical therapist is aware of all of the entrapment sites for the nerve that could be contributing to the symptoms. Which of the following locations of nerve entrapment has the potential to refer symptoms in the area described by the patient? 

A continuous murmur is most associated with:

A physical therapist (PT) is reviewing a patient’s intake paperwork before an initial evaluation. The PT notices the patient answered the following in a section of the paperwork:  “During the past month, have you been bothered by feeling down, depressed, or hopeless?” Yes “During the past month, have you been bothered by little interest or pleasure in doing things?” No “Is this something you would like help with today?” Yes What would be the most appropriate response by the PT from this given information?

A physical therapist observes the posture shown in the image. What would be an appropriate assessment for the PT to perform in the objective examination? 

An older man who identifies as Mexican recalls how the U.S. Census in 1940 categorized Mexican people as “white.” This is an example of ______.

A 52-year-old recreational runner presents with insidious onset of plantar heel pain that is worse with the first steps in the morning and after prolonged standing. During the physical examination, the physical therapist palpates along the plantar aspect of the calcaneus and notes pain reproduction. Which of the following examination findings would BEST support a diagnosis of plantar heel pain?