Good day today. It was pretty and I sat outside. I mastered using a scanner. French was easy and I got some work done.

The rest of this entry can be ignored. It's all GRE prep stuff.

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, 1875-1877
-Making decisions for yourself
-political parties
-historical time
-women's roles and perceptions of men (increased independence)
-marriage
-country vs city
-spiritualism
-treatment of favorite daughters
-perceptions of doctors and medicine
-foreign language use
-ways to find happiness
-similarities between peasants and upper class
-children's ability to perceive--sense hypocrisy
-I went insane at page 288

The Passionate shepherd to His Love Christopher Marlowe 1599,1600
-"Come live with me and by my love"...repeated...and in last line changes to "Then live..."
-Consonant, form AABB CCDD...XXYY ZZYY
-8 syllables in each line
-Rely on nature
-Offer to provide from nature to meet modern needs
-Materialism
-Conditional if, then statements