In life we go through many changes. In the following soliloquy from
             As You Like It (II.7.139 – 166), Shakespeare identifies seven ages through which each of us passes. Read the soliloquy carefully; then briefly explain each of the seven ages and identify the soliloquy's tone.
             All the world's a stage,
             And all the men and women merely players:
             They have their exits and their entrances;
             And one man in his time plays many parts,
             His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
             Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
             And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
             And shining morning face, creeping like snail
             Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
             Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
             Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
             Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
             Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
             Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
             In fair round belly with good capon lined,
             With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
             Full of wise saws and modern instances;
             And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
             Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
             With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
             His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
             For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
             Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
             And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
             That ends this strange eventful history,
             Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
             Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
             Read the following passage carefully. Then, in a carefully written paragraph, explain the author's perspective on the impact of technology and changes to the quality of life.
             In resenting progress and change, a man lays himself open to fault. I suppose the explanation of anyone's defending anything as simple and overcr
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