Discussion #3: Poe: "Cask of the Amontillado" After reading the story, watch this video reading of Edgar Allan Poe's "Cask of Amontillado:" Edgar A. Poe and Vincent Price: The Cask of the Amontillado.

Discuss the experience of hearing and seeing a short story acted and recited by discussing both prompts:

1.Is Vincent Price's interpretation close to what you imagined when you read the story?

2.How does Price convey the sense of the narrator as unreliable, i. e.: either justified in his revenge or simply as a madman?

In the declaration of independence, thomas jefferson states that governments derive their power from

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." lately, i’ve been giving more thought to the kind of english my mother speaks. like others, i have described it to people as “broken” or “fractured” english. but i wince when i say that. it has always bothered me that i can think of no other way to describe it other than “broken,” as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness and soundness. what best supports the inference that tan believes nonstandard english is no less valid than standard english? tan spends a lot of time thinking about her mother’s “fractured” english. tan has trouble thinking of descriptive words when she is writing. tan’s american education makes it difficult for her to understand her mother. tan winces when she describes her mother’s english as “broken.”

Which situation best describes the concept of causation?