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If the Barometric pressure is 2280, and PaCO2 is 40, and FiO2 is 1.0, what is the PAO2?

What is the purpose of “didactic” literature?  Provide at least two examples from the works we have read in the final section of the course, and explain how each fits the definition of “didactic.”

What are the three targets of “A Modest Proposal”?  Why does Swift attack them?

The Great Fire of London most likely prevented further outbreaks of plague due to rebuilding the city.

The Age of Reason and the Neoclassical Period are different periods.

Describe the Great Chain of Being.

Swift’s Modest Proposal was to eat the babies of Scotland.

Orgon is right to trust Tartuffe.

Define deus ex machina.  Which of the works we’ve read uses this element and how?

Ulysses is the Roman name for the Greek hero Odysseus who had been a character in The Iliad and The Odyssey.