The essential question for this unit asks students to think about how a person's attitude about the past and the future affects their actions. Respond to that prompt using information from your previous experiences/observations (50 points) and information from the play, Othello (50 points) - this will require some major critical thinking and the information you provide must be accurate. Your response should be at least 7 sentences long. For extra credit, respond to another student's post in 5 or more sentences.

Read the excerpt from the dark game: true spy stories from invisible ink to cia moles. yet, by the time robert e. lee surrendered to ulysses grant at appomattox, virginia, some four years later, about 620,000 soldiers had died on the battlefields, more than american battle deaths in all other wars from the revolution through the vietnam war. what is the author’s primary purpose for including this detail? to inform readers about the differences between three military conflicts to persuade readers of the seriousness of the american civil war to entertain readers with tales from behind the lines of battle to encourage readers to visit battlegrounds in appomattox, virginia