Read the excerpt from hamlet, act i, scene ii. [exeunt all except hamlet.] hamlet: o! that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew; or that the everlasting had not fixd his canon gainst self-slaughter! o god! o god! how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world. fie on t! o fie! tis an unweeded garden, that grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature possess it merely. that it should come to this! what effect does the stage direction have on the scene?

Read this excerpt from we’ve got a job: the 1963 children’s march. though connor was commissioner of public safety, blacks knew that it wasn't their health and safety he intended to protect. and he certainly didn't put out their fires. between the late 1940s and early 1960s, more than fifty black homes and churches in birmingham were bombed. one neighborhood was hit so often, it was called "dynamite hill." no one was ever prosecuted, even when the police could identify the bombers. what is the tone of the excerpt? inquisitive sentimental apologetic scornful