It's time for the Lawn Jean Chronoscope, a television journal of the important issues of the hour brought to you every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, a presentation of the Lawn Jean Wittner Watch Company, maker of Lawn Jean, the world's most honored watch, and Wittner, distinguished companion to the world-honored Lawn Jean. Good evening. This is Frank Knight. May I introduce our co-editors for this edition of the Lawn Jean Chronoscope? Larry Lissert from the CBS Television News staff and August Hector, chief editorial writer for the New York Herald Tribune. Our distinguished guest for this evening is the Honorable Charles J. Kirsten, United States representative from Wisconsin. Representative Kirsten, you're the author of the Kirsten amendment to the Mutual Security Act, the amendment that looks forward to the liberation of the Soviet Union's captured territories. May we ask you tonight just what's happened to that amendment? Has it ever been implemented? Well, Mr. Lissert, this amendment was adopted about three years ago, and nothing was done during the first two years. I think the amendment is under study at the present time. Well, just what does that amendment take up? It's a hundred million dollars for the formation of military groups out of refugees from the communist countries, is that right? Well, one of the major objectives of the amendment is to form military units, national military units, from escapees from behind the Iron Curtain countries, for example, Polish units, Hungarian units, Czechoslovak units, and so forth, with their own distinctive uniforms and flags of their own free countries, attached to NATO or to the American forces. Would the idea be that these would be used in the countries of their origin in some future war? Well, the chief idea, Mr. Heckscher, is that they might be magnets of defection. Presently, there is a disposition, a rather important disposition, on the part of many of the members of the armed forces in these countries to escape, but there's no place to escape to. These would provide a place for them to escape to. Representative Kirsten, twice now, I believe, the Soviet Union has brought up charges against the United States on the basis of the Kirsten amendment, charging that we are inferring in the internal affairs of the so-called people's democracies. How do you answer that? Oh, that's correct. They have brought up these charges twice, Larry. The exact opposite is true. This is not interference in the internal affairs of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and so on. It is the communists who have interfered in the internal affairs of these countries, and for the communists to say that anything that might be done to aid in the freedom of these people is interference in their internal affairs, is much like the burglar who, in the process of throttling a victim in a victim's home, and if a friend of the victim appears at the window, the burglar shouts, don't interfere in the sanctity of this home. Well, Mr. Representative Kirsten, you're also the chairman of the Seven Man Baltic Committee of the House of Representatives, having to do with Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Do you get any information out of those captured territories now? Well, of course, the information coming from these three small countries that were absorbed forcibly by the Soviet Union back in 1940, the information coming from them now is very sparse. A great deal of very interesting information came from them during the course of the past several years that our committee will have access to, in the form of documents and witnesses who have escaped from these countries. Is this information that comes primarily to your committee, or is it come through the Central Intelligence Division, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the system, and the intelligence system of the government? Well, I think the major portion of it, Mr. Heckscher, will come from the Baltic peoples themselves, who escaped from these countries at various times, many of whom have documents, some Russian documents, which they picked up when the Russians fled from these countries in June of 1941. You recall the Nazis drove the Soviets out in June of 1941, and there was a period there of several weeks and several months in some areas where the Baltic peoples were able to seize many of the documents that the NKVD had when they were in there. Some of these documents we will have access to. Representative Kirsten, are many people escaping from behind the Iron Curtain now that you have access to or can talk to? From these countries, very few, although there have been some very dramatic escapes within the past year, and I've talked to some of those. For example, one man that escaped earlier this year in a bolt, and about a year ago, there was a family that escaped. Of course, the greatest number of escapees come through East Germany, that is from Berlin, from mostly East Germany and some from the other captive nations. Representative Kirsten, your planning, I think, to investigate the whole manner in which the Baltic states were originally taken over by the Communists and have been subjugated to their rule. Is that right? That's correct, Mr. Heksher. What do you expect to find out from an investigation of that kind that will be useful either in legislation or in the work of the Congress? Well, Mr. Heksher, when the Communists planned to take over the Baltic states, they entered into non-aggression pacts with them. They were engaged in negotiations with them. They had a lot of peace propaganda, and behind that facade, they were all the time preparing for very ruthless aggression. So I think it's very valuable to our times that we know how the Communists act in distinction to their propaganda. I think by showing the facts of their aggression in these three defenseless countries, we can show the operation of the Communist conspiracy in any country that they would take over. You think of it as a kind of pilot operation, then? It was definitely a blueprint operation. The same type of aggression that they committed there, the same type of occupation practices that have occurred there, and they're still occurring, are put into force in the other countries. The same type of blueprint that they would apply in any country in the world. Representative Kirsten, I think before the election, Secretary Jealous said that we could never settle for a policy of containment with 800 million people behind the Iron Curtain. But very recently, in September of this year, he said to the United Nations that the United States creed does not call for revolution or inciting other countries' peoples to violence. Now, how does that jibe? Isn't that containment rather than liberation? I think if I'm not mistaken, he said that we would not export revolution. We don't have to export revolution. Potential revolution is in every one of these countries. We would not want to impose our ideas upon them. They have the idea. And I think it's a problem now of the free world helping them to realize this idea. The riots in East Germany and East Berlin certainly demonstrated this. And I think it changed the thinking of a lot of people in the Western world. Yes, but wasn't it true that when those riots occurred, we found that then we didn't want to take the measures, which might be called liberation, that we were afraid that whatever we did to assubate that situation might lead to a general war? Well, as a matter of fact, I think that Radio Rios and other information programs that were set in at that time helped to implement that. I think actually the Soviets were greatly jarred by that. The end of that uprising is not yet. I think that will stand as a very important, dangerous fact for communist control. The fact that people unarmed were able to rise up against Soviet tanks. The fact that a Polish officer under communist control is reported to have failed to shoot down rioting Germans. And the fact that apparently many Soviet troops had to be executed because they did not proceed against these rioters is very dangerous to the communists. This is something that must be studied on a broad scale and implemented on a broad scale, not perhaps immediately, but certainly it is of immediate and great consequence. Representative Kirsten, you said that Radio Rios, which is the German radio in West Germany, was helpful in the June 17th riots. And I take it therefore that you mean that information programs are helpful. But haven't we under this Congress cut down on the money being expended for the voice of America? There was a temporary cutback in this last session. But with a definite understanding that the program would be expanded next year with the proper type of orientation, I happen to have participated in the debate on that proposition. And Mr. Tabor, the chairman of the Appropriations Committee, stated that the program would be fully supported when it was properly oriented. And I believe it is being properly oriented now. I believe that the information program should be fully supported. It should be expanded. It can be a great factor in the helping to win the Cold War. Representative Kirsten, isn't this new program which the administration has put in less in the direction of psychological warfare and more in the direction of plain information than it ever has been before? Isn't it a step back really from the policy of liberation or rollback? Oh, I don't think so, Mr. Heckscher. I think, for example, the recent disclosure of the terrible atrocities in Korea by the government, that is by the Department of Defense, was an illustration of what can be done with the truth and with facts. This is a very effective psychological warfare. If you want to call it that, it's an information program. But they are very hard, dangerous facts to people who don't know the truth about communists. That is, it gives the truth about communists, and it is very dangerous to the communists themselves. Representative Kirsten, as the last question may I ask is, do you apparently think that liberation can be accomplished without war by peaceful means? But tell me, do you think we can liberate the Iron Curtain countries and still reduce taxes? Well, I think that the only way taxes can be reduced, the only way that we can stop drafting American boys, is by adopting and proceeding upon a real policy of liberation by every peaceful means short of an all-out war between the free world and the slave world. I think a policy of liberation is a policy of peace. It's the communist line that liberation means war. Only, Mr. Lusser, if these people are abandoned, only if the free world forgets them, could there be an all-out World War III. Well, thank you very much, Representative Kirsten, for being with us here tonight. Thank you. The opinions you've heard our speakers express tonight have been entirely their own. 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Hello, Edexcel gang and welcome back to yet another GCSE revision lesson. Now lots of you wanted me to go over the English literature paper one exam. This is the assessment where you are tested on both Shakespeare as well as a modern text. You've got to answer three questions in one hour, 45 minutes now. This paper can be challenging because basically you need to be really, really careful with how you manage yourself with timings and of course also you've got lots of quotations you need to have memorized especially for part B of section A which is the Shakespeare stuff as well as the third question which is to do with your modern text and of course you need to remember context and so on. So before we dive into a model answer that I've prepared let's begin by quickly talking about timings and how to manage yourself throughout this exam. Now remember with the Shakespeare part which is in section A in case this is the first part of the exam you have two sections or two questions that you need to answer. You've got part A which is related to the extract that you're given in front of you and then part B which is related thematically to something that's gone on in part A and then you've got to answer an essay based on that but you're talking about what's going on elsewhere in the play. How do you manage your timings? My suggestion is you spend around 55 minutes on section A okay so you're doing 55 minutes for the two questions this is the two Shakespeare questions. Remember to spend the initial 10 minutes of this 55 minutes reading through both questions okay highlighting the key words also highlighting what you're going to use from the extract and then also jotting down your memorized quotations which are relevant to that question okay that's your first 10 minutes and then that would leave you with around 22 minutes to write out your response for part A of the question this is the extract and then 22 minutes for part B you're splitting your time equally because they're both worth 20 months in terms of the questions okay now when it comes to the second part of the exam don't forget you've got the modern text to think about you should allocate around 50 minutes to this question it's just one essay question you're given a choice pick one don't do both then spend around 10 minutes planning your response for that question and then of course the remaining 40 minutes writing out and writing through your response. Now within this particular lesson I want to go over Macbeth specifically and this is section A of the English Literature Paper one okay so I'm going to be focusing in on this lesson specifically on Macbeth and how to write model answers for both part A and part B of this exam. As I mentioned you want to allocate around 55 minutes on this question remember for section A so this is the first half of the question where you've got the extract this tests your AO2 skills okay so this is your awareness of a language form instruction of course also AO1 where you're able to identify and interpret what's going on in the extract and answer the question accurately that's part A however remember part B which is the way you've got the general question and then you've got to think about quotations from elsewhere in the play this tests your AO3 your awareness of context as well as themes okay so don't mention context in part A part A you just keep that for your analysis and a close language analysis of the extract and then part B that's where you're talking about context as well as themes my suggestion in terms of structuring your response is for part A start with just a nice intro talking about you know the keywords within the question and then choosing at least a minimum of three quotations from the beginning middle and end of the extract answering using those to answer the questions and of course using really good language and structure techniques then for part B which is just the general question try to start off with a nice introduction think about three quotations from elsewhere do not use quotations from the extract it will be interpreted as quite lazy okay this is where you're showing off your knowledge of the play and what you remember in relation to the keywords in the question so start off with your introduction then at least three pure paragraphs related to what's going on elsewhere in the play make sure you include context and theme in your points and then finish off with a conclusion so now let's dive into a model response that I have prepared more specifically for the 2021 edXcel pass paper question okay so I'm going to be answering the question that appeared in the 2021 exam which is available to download for free on edXcel's website and also by the way guys what I've also included if you just look at the link is a free context sheet related to mcbeth okay so if you need to kind of brush up on okay I've kind of forgotten some stuff to do with context you can literally download that for free and then use that to kind of brush up on your knowledge okay so let's dive into a model response I've prepared for this 2021 exam so let's dive into how to answer this exam paper remember you always get an extract for part a but then of course you then have a general question for part b now what I would suggest is first begin by reading the questions getting lay of the land and especially when you read part b you have this in the back of your mind as you're answering part a of this question okay or rather of this portion of the exam so let's have a look at part a first off you're asked to explore how Shakespeare presents the character of Duncan in this extract refer closely to the extract in your answer okay so of course with this question you're being asked to focus solely on King Duncan's character and within this portion of the exam you need to make sure you have lots of language form and structure observations that's for part a but let's have a look at part b in this extract Duncan's ambition is to be an honorable king who rewards loyalty interesting explain the importance of ambition keywords and the question elsewhere in the play in your answer you must consider where ambition is shown and also the the effects ambition has within the play you must refer to the context of the play in your answer so remember in part b even if they tell you that in the extract that goes before we're looking at King Duncan's ambition actually you definitely are not expected to use the extract for part b part a is the extract but then part b you can't be lazy and just only rely on the extract you have to show your awareness of elsewhere in the play with your memorized quotations and make sure it's related to the theme of ambition and how it's shown okay so let's dive into literally reading through the extract and then i'll show you what my thought process would be as i'm finding my three quotations i'm going to talk about when answering this part of the paper so let's have a look at the question itself we are told that this is taken from act one scene four from lines 11 to 43 in this extract Duncan describes how distressed he is with the traitor the Thane of Cordo and thanks Macbeth and Banquo for the part in play they played in defeating the rebels okay so of course here this is the part after the war is over Macbeth and Banquo have played a massive hand in winning this war for king Duncan king Duncan here is now rewarding them so let's have a look at what king Duncan says Duncan there's no art to find the mind's construction in the face he was a gentleman and who not a built an absolute trust here what he's basically saying is he finds it difficult to tell what people are thinking when he just looks at their face and to Macbeth Banquo Ross and Angus to Macbeth over this cousin the sin of mind gratitude is now even now was heavy on me thou art so far before that swifter swing of recompense is slow to overtake thee what's thou had less deserved that the portion both of thanks and payment might have been mine only have left to say more is thy due more than more than all can pay so at first king Duncan is reflecting he's thinking oh my gosh I'm so bad at telling you know what people think just by looking at their face in other words what he's admitting is he's a little bit gullible if somebody's smiling in his face he literally thinks oh they really like me and this is what the previous saint of corridor did leading to his betrayal but then here when Macbeth enters he's basically showing a lot of gratitude he's basically telling Macbeth look I'm so happy I wish you know I could do something to show you that I'm so sorry I should have given you this you know I should have promoted you and given you even more power before because you're such an amazing general basically that's all he's saying here and of course as you're going through this you're picking out techniques okay so of course here when he talks about the mind's construction on the face this is a metaphor here when he's talking and saying oh where this cousin is speaking using exclamatory sentence remember an exclamatory sentence is a sentence that ends with an exclamation mark showing someone is shouting and then he says you know um more is thy do more than all can pay so here this is what we call a comparative adjective he's basically telling Macbeth look I'm so happy for all you've done I don't even know if I can do enough to repay you for the work that you've done in fighting and winning the war against the thing of cordel Macbeth the service and the loyalty I owe in doing it pays itself your highness's part is to receive our duties Macbeth is just basically saying look I'm just doing my job and our duties are to your throne and state children and servants which do but they should by doing everything safe toward your love and honor basically Macbeth is saying look I'm just doing my job you know um I'm serving you as king I don't expect any reward or any payment but thanks so much for you recognizing me then Duncan says welcome hither so he says welcome I began to plant thee and will labor to make the full growing so here king Duncan is using imagery related to growth and nature okay so this is language that belongs to the semantic field of nature again this is a language technique remember xametry centers is a structure technique anyway he's basically using language uh belongs to semantic field of nature to show that he wants to you know really really nurture Macbeth he's like oh my gosh you're so amazing and you know um I'm gonna do my best to make you grow into you know the royal title I'm gonna be giving you noble Banquo and then he now turns to Banquo that has no less deserved nor must be known no less have done so let me unfold thee and hold thee to my heart right so here again he basically he turns to Macbeth and says you know I definitely need to I want to nurture you you're amazing you're such a great general but also he turns to Banquo and says I also want to reward you for your efforts and here he speaks using alliteration of H hold and heart what we can see here is he is a very generous king he rewards all of his men okay now let's carry on Banquo there if I grow the harvest is your own and also Banquo is just like Macbeth is like no no no it's fine you know you don't have to promote me I'm just doing my job Duncan my plentious joys wanton and fullness seek to hide themselves in drops of sorrow sons kinsman staines so now he addresses everybody he holds court right holds court means he is he has a lot of command he has a commanding presence right so he holds court and Shakespeare uses listing more specifically ascended listing without any and or but or because right to show that king Duncan you know he's holding court and you whose places are the nearest no we will establish our state upon our eldest Malcolm so now he's telling everybody look I'm gonna put my trust in Malcolm whom we name here after the prince of cumberland so he's basically saying you know I'm giving Malcolm my eldest son this title the prince of cumberland which honor must not an accompanied invest him only but signs of nobleness like stars shall sign shine on all deserve us to Macbeth from hence to Iviness bind us further to you so he basically tells everybody look Malcolm um he's going to be prince but also uh just so you guys know he's also going to be my heir right if anything happens to me Malcolm is going to take over then he turns to Macbeth and says great let's now go and visit your place and you know um I'm coming over to visit you as a way to say thanks for all the amazing work you have done okay now in terms of answering this question I would just look for so this is to do with the character of Duncan I would look for three points something from the beginning middle and end to illustrate how his character is shown I definitely my first point is definitely going to be related to this metaphor we can see here that actually this is one of his flaws as a leader we can see that king Duncan is very trusting but also this means he's quite gullible of course what this does is it foreshadows how he's betrayed later on in the play by this the thane of cordal right so the first thing of cordal mcdonald betrays him but then Macbeth betrays him and kills him okay so this is the first thing I'll probably talk about equally what I'm probably going to talk about from towards the middle is king Duncan's use of this exclamatory sentence coupled perhaps with his use of the semantic field of nature to illustrate that he's really generous he's somebody that really wants to nurture his men okay so that will be my second point that I'll talk about when considering the character of Duncan the final bit so this is now from towards the end of the extract I'm probably going to use or mention how king Duncan holds court he's quite commanding as a leader okay we can see here that everybody respects him and of course under his leadership Scotland is strong okay it stays powerful and you know um we get the sense that Scotland remains undefeated as a country okay those would be the three things I'll talk about when I'm looking at this extract so I'm going to dive into answering this question before I move on to part b so let's begin by examining the model answer that I prepared for part a now as I mentioned for the first half of the question part a start off with a nice introduction to show you have a handle of what you need to discuss but also it's a nice way of easing your examiner into what you're going to be discussing especially the three main points you're going to take from the extract so let's have a look at my brief introduction within the extract Shakespeare presents king Duncan as a righteous leader who rewards his men he's evidently pleased with the sacrifices mcbeth and banco made and their concerted efforts to win the war concerted means the working together rather than hoarding power rather than keeping power to himself he rewards and promotes them hence we can see he's generous nevertheless he openly admits that he is gullible evidently his fatal flaw is his inability to look beyond surface appearances and this leads others to betray him so from the opening I have begun by talking generally about the three points I'm going to talk about okay so how is the character of Duncan shown firstly he's illustrated as being quite a generous leader he's actually quite good in rewarding his men but the sad thing is he is very gullible he easily believes people based on the surface appearances that's my introduction however now I'm going to go into my first point and by the way bear in mind when it comes to actually stretching my paragraphs are always good for appeal paragraph structure point evidence explanation link okay so this is my first paragraph related to the extract first the king Duncan dispress expresses deep disappointment in the previous stain of cordal so I'm starting off from the opening of the extract he considers his betrayal and king Duncan openly admits that he easily trusts others meaning we can see he's not a very discerning character when you're discerning that means you're able to look beyond just people's surface appearances and you're able to think mmm actually is there something that's being hidden okay that's my opening point I've added two sentences to explain and elaborate how king Duncan's character is shown now here's my evidence he acknowledges that there's no art to find the mind's construction in the face taken from this opening part as I mentioned I'm going to work through the extract taking some from the beginning middle and end so I've taken this quotation here now let's have a look at how I'm now going to start racking up points especially for my AO2 this is the language form and structure side of your essay okay this is for part one or for part a Shakespeare's metaphor is especially powerful in revealing king Duncan finds it tough to understand the mind's construction of embedded that quotation and he trusts surface appearances too easily the noun face now I'm zooming in on one particular word conveys how he quickly trusts others and assumes their loyal based on superficial appearances superficial means just surface again in my explanation which is the where the bulk of your mocks are because you're really analyzing and going into detail especially when it comes to language and structure I am analyzing and talking about how is king Duncan's character shown and I'm going into more detail now here's my link therefore king Duncan is depicted as a gullible character we realize that we realize this is his fatal flaw so the thing that leads to his downfall that other characters will use against him that's my link back to the question now moving on to my second peel paragraph point evidence explanation link moreover as the extra progresses we can see king Duncan is incredibly grateful and giving he expresses shame at not having promoted Macbeth before this battle so we see him as humble as well as nurturing that's my opening point I'm working through the extract he's embarrassed when he addresses his worthiest cousin exclamation mark yet he promises to plant the and make the full of growing so what I've done here is within the extract I've taken a little bit from here but also a little bit from here to mention and to obviously illustrate that I'm working through the extract and I'm picking something now from towards the middle here's my explanation king Duncan is uh or rather um Shakespeare so now this is where my explanation starts Shakespeare's exclamatory sentence structure because I'm talking about sentence type cousin reveals how overwhelmed king Duncan is with Macbeth's loyalty to him he is a humble yet nurturing king and he uses language belonging to the semantic field of nature language technique including plant and growing to show that he will guide and nurture Macbeth as he develops as one of his most valued men that's my explanation here's my link consequently we realize he's a righteous character this is king Duncan he is quick to praise Macbeth and criticise his own slowness in promoting him that's my link back to the question now I need to make sure with my final peel paragraph I'm picking something from towards the end thus I'm showing that I've worked through the entire extract I'm not being lazy and only selecting quotations from limited parts of the extract so this is my final point before I finish part a of this question finally not only is king Duncan presented as generous given he promotes banquo but he's also well respected he easily holds court and the men respect his decision to make his son prince and heir hear what I'm saying is that king Duncan he has a lot of authority and a lot of power king Duncan addresses all the sons kinsman tains present as he makes Malcolm the prince I've taken evidence from towards the end here's my explanation Shakespeare employs a syndetine which is listing listing without any commerce or rather listing without any connectives it's only commerce okay so this is listing without uh connectives so Shakespeare uses a syndetine to illustrate how king Duncan confidently speaks to the men who are present he is evidently in full control of all his subjects and we can see that the court this is everybody present there silently listens to his decrees his orders here's my link therefore king Duncan is depicted as a giving yet dominant leader he holds court effortlessly and under his leadership Scotland wins wars meaning his men respect and revere him here's my link back to the question I have now completed my response on the character of Duncan within this extract however of course now I need to move on to part b where i'm thinking about elsewhere in the play okay and of course in this case we're told okay in this extract Duncan's ambition is to be an honorable king and who rewards loyalty explain the importance of ambition elsewhere remember that even if there are some characters like king Duncan who illustrate the positive side of ambition honestly this play is about the destructive side of ambition so when i'm thinking about where ambition is shown and how effects of ambition is shown within the play I will probably talk about how ambition is shown in mcbeth where at first when he doesn't have any ambition he's described as oh for brave mcbeth well he deserves that name but then when once he develops ambition he you know even once he kills the king he says i'm afraid to look on what i've done right he then also talks about will all Neptune's ocean wash his blood from my hands here we can see that ambition has very negative effects on him it actually becomes his fatal flaw his haemacia okay this means that ambition leads him to make a series of mistakes and errors that leads to his downfall also ambition is shown quite negatively when it comes to the character of lady mcbeth so definitely my other point will be to do with lady mcbeth and how even from the start when we meet her she's totally corrupted with ambition she calls in the spirits she says unsex me here what this is illustrating is her ambition is so vivid and so powerful that she's willing to even be transformed into a man in order to literally become king herself okay so if it takes her being a man doing the killings herself she's basically saying i'm happy to do that okay she she actually sees the femininity it's something that's really annoying and this is due to her own personal ambition the other thing i'll probably talk about is how lady mcbeth's ambition leads her to dominate her husband she even goes as far as questioning his masculinity in order to make him kill the king the final character i'll probably talk about are characters are the witches who definitely recognize the destructive impact of ambition in fact they know it's so destructive and so good and causing chaos that they decide to plant these seeds of ambition in mcbeth's mind again what this is illustrating is ambition largely apart from say the case of king duncan it's largely presented as a really destructive force i'm going to talk about in my three separate paragraphs mcbeth lady mcbeth and the witches i'll start off with my introduction quotations from elsewhere in the play relating to my main point so this is my main three points and my main three pill paragraphs and then i'll end with a conclusion and as i've mentioned i've already done that so let's read through my model response on how ambition is shown elsewhere in the play pay attention to the fact that i literally never use any of the quotations from the extract because that's not what you're supposed to do in this part of the question so i'll start off with my introduction whilst ambition is presented as a positive motivating force for king duncan ambition is arguably presented as destructive force by shakespeare indeed once ambition is planted in mcbeth's mind it leads him to betray the king and it becomes his hamsher good word to use fatal flaw that leads to his ruin lady mcbeth is equally presented as being corrupted with ambition and the witches wreak chaos in scotland by influencing mcbeth to develop his sense of ambition i've basically summarized what i'm going to talk about in the remaining part of my essay now moving on to point number one or paragraph number one this is the mcbeth paragraph firstly ambition is important is an important central theme which spurs the tragedy in this play remember that ambition spurs the tragedy it pushes the tragedy forward before being ambitious mcbeth was valiant and loyal yet ambition had disastrous effects on him as it led him to become weak and paranoid that's my opening point to do with ambition and how it destroys mcbeth here's my evidence prior to meeting the witches we learned that brave mcbeth was talented and skilled general nonetheless his ambition reduced him to a fearful person as he was afraid to think what i have done after he killed the king i've used the quotation break brave mcbeth from act one scene two and then from act two scene two i've used another quotation to show that mcbeth once he kills the king he's now really really afraid and afraid and paranoid here's my explanation it's clear that ambition corrupted mcbeth and made him a shadow of his former self he went from being brave to becoming afraid as a result of disrupting the great chain of being by killing the king now here i'm using racking up a o three points i'm talking about context shakesburg wish to show the destructive effects of regicide it led mcbeth to violate divine right of kings and his awareness of his sacrilege sacrilege means you're acting against god led him to grow paranoid of god's punishment here in my explanation i've talked about context i've really made it clear that i'm mentioning great chain of being as well as divine right of kings here's my link hence ambition damages mcbeth it leads him to commit regicide and he constantly becomes a paranoid frightened man who destroys scotland with his tyranny so this is my first point to do with ambition after my introduction here's my second point additionally ambition is presented as a dark force which has corrupted lady mcbeth now this is my lady mcbeth point she earns to become powerful leading her to go against her nature as a woman that's my second point here's my evidence she calls on you spirits to unsex me she even goes as far as manipulating mcbeth claiming second bit of evidence when you just do it then you were a man as you can see i've taken something from act one scene five and then later on from act one scene seven where firstly lady mcbeth is shown as wanting to you know change her gender but then later she also is shown as using mcbeth's masculinity as a way to force him to kill the king here's now my explanation with my a03 it's clear that ambition contaminated lady mcbeth's heart she wanted power so much that she was willing to be transformed into a man if that would help her gain power ambition leads her to use mcbeth to gain power as she forces him to prove his masculinity by killing the king this contextually led many jacobians to see her as the fourth witch as she went against expectations of how typical women acted at the time rather than being passive and submissive to mcbeth she was domineering and commanding masterminding the plot to kill the king again here's my explanation i've gone into lots of detail i've added lots of context as well and added and gotten those extra a03 points consequently now i'm linking back to the question we can see ambition makes lady mcbeth malevolent which means evil and evil she sees her femininity as a weakness and she uses her husband as a tool to gain power here's my link back to the question now this is my final point before i conclude finally ambition plays a central role in unleashing chaos and destruction in scotland the witches recognize ambition as a unique damaging force and they deliberately plant the seeds of ambition mcbeth to create third point now i'm talking about the witches how they're showing ambition is still quite bad they wait until the hurly burly is over before they meet with mcbeth so i've taken something from act one scene one when they're talking about hurly burly as well as when they're talking about meet with mcbeth they're not at once they encounter mcbeth they proclaim hell mcbeth king hereafter so i've added three quotations hurly burly meet with mcbeth and hell mcbeth king hereafter taking from act one scene three i'm showing my understanding and my memorized quotations across the play here's my explanation the witches clearly understand the poor ambition had on people they deliberately caused mcbeth to become ambitious so that he can cause wanton chaos in scotland wanton means unnecessary their presence would have been a bad omen a bad symbol for shakespeare's jackabye an audience context a03 in fact even king james the first of england was so frightened of witches he wrote demonology that's the book that he wrote as a way of warning readers against trusting them as they would reverse the natural order so i've added lots and lots of context here now linking back therefore the witches deliberately disrupt the natural order in scotland by causing mcbeth's ambition to grow they recognize it as a terrible force and they gleefully use it to create chaos in scotland that's my link back to the question now i finish off by concluding in conclusion it's clear that ambition is largely presented as a destructive force when used for righteous purposes for example by king duncan ambition led scotland to be a powerful state so i'm nodding back to the question which is basically talking about king duncan's ambition to be an honorable king okay so i'm still mentioning that to show that yep i understand what the question was mentioning yet ambition is largely misused by many characters in the play it corrupts both mcbeth and lady mcbeth leading them to commit treason and mislead scotland similarly the witches use ambition to cause to create chaos and division which ultimately causes tragedy in the play so that's essentially how to write a four mark response for both part a and part b of the mcbeth question and this is for the english literature paper one assessments okay i hope this has helped and thank you so much for listening


Welcome to this week's CMC Markets Weekly Charcing Analysis webinar. My name's Jasper Lawler. I'm a work as an analyst here. I've got the risk warning on the screen. I'm just going to get that through here. Okay. Now over to the platform. Now as you can see, it is just a sea of red in equity markets today. And that's just basically the only thing you can do is the volatility is on the up. It's our volatility index, the VIX stocks are down. Obviously some of the biggest losses being seen in Europe. And this is all just because of the Greek crisis, obviously. There's capital controls in Greece today. It looks almost certain that they won't make their IMF payment. And there's just concerns in markets that even though Greece is a small economy, they could come tumbling out of the euro. That kind of destabilizes the euro in itself, which is obviously a major currency. And it's just a concern that, you know, it could be a kind of butterfly effect, which my colleague Michael wrote about in the morning report, that these things could just spread through some sort of contagion. And, you know, what's an issue in obviously Greek financial markets now. The Greek stock exchange is closed. But you can imagine the Greek bank stocks are going to take it hammering. Banking stocks in other European markets are getting hit pretty hard. And there's just a worry that a financial small effect in Greece can just spread through markets and hit other countries. A few things going on this week. We can have just a look at our economic calendar here. So we've put up our trading tool on our market calendar. And so this is what we're dealing with today. Not so much going on today. The big one today, which we've yet to have the result from, is the CPI from Germany. Now inflation has been starting to pick up again recently in Europe, helped by high oil prices, but also pick up an economic activity.  And why we're seeing a bit of a pullback in European equity markets in general is that maybe the QE program won't run its full course. If inflation heads back to their 2% target, you know, there's not really a need to have the QE. That was the justification for the QE in the first place. And obviously the markets have been spurred on by the low interest rates, bond buying that was involved in the QE program. Housing data, really the only kind of important one in the U.S. today. Housing actually has been one of the more positive aspects of the U.K. economy. And it's why a lot of people are calling for Q2 growth estimates to be revised a bit higher, is that housing has been doing particularly well. Oh, for some reason it's gone to the top again. And then when we head into tomorrow, we've got retail sales to Germany, German unemployment, so a few key stats from Germany this week. So that's, you know, obviously Greece is really kind of rocking the Euro today. I mean, it's what's driving the movements in the Euro. You might kind of imagine that the Euro would be lower in risk of a quick default, but that's not actually what's been happening recently. The Euro is actually tend to move higher when Greece has got closer to an exit. And I think that somehow reflects the way the Euro is being used. It's being used as a funding currency to buy other currencies. People are selling Euros and using it to buy other currencies with higher yields, or perhaps higher future yields like the U.S. dollar maybe, but more like the Australian dollar and things like that with higher interest rates. And so they'll actually unwind those trades when there's a bit of instability in Greece. So the net result is actually the Euro, not people aren't really buying it, but they're sort of getting rid of their short trades, if you like, in their carry trades. It's a bit of a convoluted explanation for things the closest we can get. So GDP, final revision for the UK. This week's a battle. Yeah, it's a sort of rear view mirror stuff, but the pound, there has been some kind of raised expectations a little bit recently that we might even see a rate hike this year, which for a while wasn't even considered a possibility. Wheel is one of the more hawkish members. He said it could be as early as August. I really doubt that would happen in two months. We're going to go from 9-0 in the voting at the Bank of England to 9-0 the other direction. Seems unlikely, but he may be voting for that in August, and maybe that will be the beginning of a transition towards the end of the year. Maybe there is a chance, depending on the strength of the UK economy, depending on what contagion has spilled out from Greece to Europe, and then obviously the UK economy is dependent on Europe to trade. So if Europe's not doing too well, the UK gets affected by that. So a lot does kind of rest on Greece, but should things pick up a bit, maybe we will see a rate hike towards the end of the year. So retail sales for the US, more home data, and a bunch of PMIs, manufacturing PMIs really mostly across Europe on Wednesday. That's going to be the main consideration. If you're trading oil, obviously we've got the inventories data, so that's the most important item in the weekly calendar for oil traders. And as we move into Thursday, obviously the big one is the non-fumpare oils in the US. Now you might be wondering why Thursday is just because Friday is July 4th. Sorry, it's actually July. It's basically because of the July 4th holiday. They've set it back one day. So make sure you remember that the NFP is on Thursday this week. And then Friday, US markets on holiday, but we're still going in European markets. That's obviously going to be pretty huge for the US dollar. And US markets are stuck in a range at the moment. I don't think this will be make or break, but a really strong number could send us down towards the bottom of the range. The general trade with these non-fumpare oils has been a really strong number. It raises the prospect of tightening in the US. So what they kind of want is the 200 to 300 range is generally fairly comfortable, I think. But the consensus here is 230,000, so I think we probably don't want it much more than that. If it was 280,000 again, that pushing into 300,000 probably would be a concern for markets that the Fed may go ahead and lift off in September. So that's the bulk of the important data. We've got factory orders later that day, more PMIs on Friday, and then European retail sales. That's the data week ahead. Let's have a look at some of these charts. We'll start with the European markets. So the channel that we've been looking at for a while worked out pretty nicely in the end. So we had the lows through here, and we just had a parallel line along the top. And stuff is around there a bit, but as of today, and there's news in Greece, it's come crashing down and basically stopped to ride out this support line, this low here. We couldn't close there below that a couple of times, and we've paused here now. But I think there's probably a little bounce back from here, but my suspicion is that we will move towards the bottom of the range here, the bottom of the channel, and probably touch on this 200-day moving average if not drop through it. I mean, Greece is a real headwind for Europe at the moment, and so unless we hear of some major change in policy from the European Central Bank, I don't really see the – there's not going to be huge downside, but I just don't see us breaking up into new highs while we've got this Greek crisis hanging over us because European markets have already made a lot of gains on the back of the QE programme, and so I think we do need to – my take on it is that we do have to get through this Greek crisis first. Certainly some possibilities though. This support could be enough to push up to the top of the channel again but I suspect perhaps another drop down. So really a culmination of support here from these February lows, the 200-day and the bottom of the channel. When you have a confluence of potential support factors like that, it raises the possibility that it will get a bounce, but you have to be aware that this general short-term trend we're dealing with is kind of down, so if you are buying into there, you've got to be aware that there's a good chance that it won't make it back to this peak again. So quite where you take profits, if you were buying in this support area, that's trickier because you're going against the trend. When you're going with the trend, you can have the expectation that prices will continue and break highs if it's an uptrend and break lows if it's a downtrend. That's why trading with the trend is just easier. You don't know when a correction will end, when a bounce will end in a downtrend, so it's difficult to target your take profit level. Let's switch over to UK markets here. You can see the UK suffering a bit less than European markets. Obviously, we're not part of the euro. Thank goodness in the UK. So not quite as much contagion risk, but Chinese markets were down again. You can see we've broken the support here in the UK 100. I did see this happening because we've shown before in one of the previous webinars that a projection from the height of this pattern and the height of the pattern probably would be largest here at the beginning of the wedge. That projected down would put us at lower levels than this low, so the fact that we've broken below there is not a huge surprise to me. From here, given that we're in this downtrending environment, I would imagine that we probably do need to trade into 6300, perhaps might find some interest, and then the 6100 level has been pretty significant, so that may attract some buying interest there. We're downtrending. We're below all the moving averages. I mean, this tested the high, but generally speaking, peak, lower peak. Tested, but not a higher peak. Lower trough, lower trough, lower trough. So yes, it's downtrend on this sort of daily timescale. Obviously, we've got to keep in mind that just keep us some perspective on this. Still generally sort of upwards, positively trading market. And we can see actually on this weekly chart that the 6300 has another layer of support from this 200-week SMA, which has one, two, and three support to the price previously. Good chance for some support in that area, and I wouldn't be too surprised if we go down to test it. Maybe they'll find a last-minute solution in Greece. Varafakis, the Greek finance minister, has still said they're aiming for a deal before tomorrow, but to be honest, that seems incredibly unlikely. And then we're just going to have to wait for the result of the referendum in Greece, which is taking place on the 5th of July to see how the Greek people vote, whether they want to stay in the Euro and have the associated austerity or vote to end austerity, not accept the offer from the IMF and the European Central Bank and the Eurozone, and in not accepting that, probably drop out of the Euro. Let's jump over to US markets now. It seems some pretty hefty losses. I mean, it's only 1%, but if those are 200 points in the Dow, definitely a pretty poor start setting up. And again, even though we saw what I think I didn't quite actually mention, but in China, they did cut interest rates, so the typical environment would be quite a positive thing for markets, but really with this situation of Greece, it's just been put to one side. So US markets heading down on Greece despite some stimulus efforts from the People's Bank of China by cutting interest rates. So here we can see that we're still in this kind of trading range. There's a few different levels. We pushed down through this support for the first time, intraday today for the first time since 7th of April, which is pretty significant, lowest in what's that, two and a half months in US markets today. We've got some kind of fairly solid support in and around this area. We've got this line drawn. But my feeling is that probably this became a new significant level. If we can close below there today, then probably we're on our way back down to the 17,000 mark. We do have US earnings season starts in a couple of weeks. And I think probably going into it, there are going to be some worries that again, this strong dollar has affected international earnings. And the oil companies probably are still going to be sitting lower earnings because even though the oil price has bounced a bit, it's still at $60 a barrel, which is basically 50% of what it was a year ago. So I think that the energy and the more internationally orientated stocks are going to be hit by the stronger dollar in the week or oil price. And so there will be worries about that. And that could be enough coupled with Greece to send us down to the bottom in this changing range. And maybe that will happen. And then maybe going into earning season, if things start to impress some of the major names like Apple and Facebook, if they can come out with these earnings, that may be able to turn things around in around the 17,000 level. Now, we are running out a bit of time, although I did start a bit late. So we're probably going to run over time of the year. Let's switch over to commodities. Now, I think this just demonstrates the general weakness of gold is that we're only at .3% or $4 an ounce today. It's fairly minimal price reaction from gold given such a risk off day. So let's have a look at the chart there and we'll kind of see why. People just aren't acting too favorably. Now, you can basically see that the same line I've had drawn in since there. Foul to close below, pushed up to the top of the range here. A couple of spinning tops in and around that spot again and today we pushed higher. But we're just in this trading range. We're not. We're a sort of downward type sloping using this bottom trend line and the 200 day moving average downward type sloping. Range in gold. So there's get a few jolty days, but it's not really proving the ultimate safe haven at the moment. At least it is up today. People haven't been selling their gold alongside everything else they have been buying into gold. And we're seeing general safe haven flows in general. Dolly Yen, I mean, Dolo has been, has not really been sought out as a safe haven. It's flat against the pound and the Yen. But you can see, yeah, I mean, really, I guess the Yen has not been a massive safe haven out here either. So a lack of desire, just sort of selling but a lack of desire to switch into some of these safe haven assets. Now crude oil lower on general risk sentiment today. Let's have a look at the outlook here. To me, this is fairly critical. I think this trend line is pretty well defined in Brent and we closed below it for a couple of days last week. Not the most dramatic action, but today we're looking a bit lower. We're running into this support area. So to me, it looks like we're breaking down. I'll probably get rid of this channel. But yeah, first support broken, which is the rising dynamic support of the trend line. The next support that needs to be broken is this line here. And I've drawn this potential support, which kind of is through these peaks. But I suspect that if we do break these lows, that might provide a bit of temporary respite, but I suspect we've probably had an indecent amount lower down into this kind of support type here, which would put us at a sort of a low, that would be about $53 about, I think. Yeah, $52.50. I think we could be heading back down to $52.50 from there, maybe find a bit of support. But I move that much lower. We'll rattle the oil market. And people will get worried that this move high is over. And so if we get down to $52.50, there's a good chance that we'll just move through and test the lows as well. I don't tend to think my default assumption is that we're not going to break to new lows below what was the low 43, was it? 45 and change in crude oil print. I don't think we're going to break through there, but I do think sort of crude oil is just trading in a new range now. Okay, let's have a look at some of these currencies. Well, I mean, I'm not sure how many of you trade the bonds, but you know on a day like this, it's actually proved to be quite an interesting market to trade. The prices are higher here, and so that means yields are lower. So people are buying bonds, buying European bonds today, buying the German boom, buying UK Guilts, buying US Treasuries, and getting out of stock markets, obviously. You might think that really having Greece exiting the Eurozone would cause yields to spike. I wouldn't countries need higher financing costs when there's an associated high level of risk. Wouldn't investors want to be paying more in yield to take on the risk of dealing with Europe, which involves Greece? As it turns out, that's really not the case. People are still viewing bonds as a safe place to be in terms of thermal. So let's have a quick look at the Euro. Yeah, I have this kind of – I've just drew this as a dotted trend line before, and it's sort of worked. I mean, these things are not perfect, although we are seeing a bit of a bounce off there. I suppose probably more related to this general sort of breakthrough area here, maybe what price is reacting to a bit more. So we saw obviously a big gap lower in the Euro, just explaining this candlestick formation here. So this was a lower – we closed the mark on Friday here. We gapped a lot lower on Sunday as the news broke that capital controls and referendum in Greece, but today we're trading higher, and we've basically filled that opening gap from Sunday. So I think we have moved into sort of trading range type environments, so I wouldn't be surprised actually to see a move back down to 108.15 in the Euro. I don't think this turn line has too much merit, but if we can close above there, perhaps it does. If we can close above there today, which we are looking to at the moment, maybe we can get a push back into the highs. I've been saying that I think this is an uptrend, it's my last one here, but just the fact that we didn't move much – this is quite a sort of straight move up. We just about recovered this peak, so I've sort of been calling for yes, we do need a deeper correction first, perhaps down to where we had this little dip here, this kind of breakout area is potentially where we could see the correction end, but also a sort of confluence of moving averages and this kind of weekly demand area. We could get as low as that. But I think the trend is higher. It's a bit of a kind of choppy higher trend in the pound, but my bias is for long trades here. That said, I think it's probably heading lower from here, but it's hard to know when it would end. Just coming into the end of the session here, did break these lows here in the Dolly Yen. We weren't able to push through the spike here from June 17, and we've dropped back down, made lows past the lowest since 26th of May, so lowest in a month in Dolly Yen. But yeah, similar to Euro. It has this big open lower, but I've basically filled the gap, not as big a gap in the Euro as the Euro, but saw some initial safe haven demand for the Yen, but that's starting to get unwound in the major trading sessions today. Okay, I think we're going to call it a day there. I hope that was useful. Good luck with trading this week. We've got the non-farm payrolls, the ongoing Greek crisis, so there should be some good opportunities. I mean, this is what you want to see when you're trading. You want to see these 3% plus moves in equities, 1% plus moves in currency. That's how we can make the money with this kind of volatility. All right, thanks again, everyone. Jasper Law is signing out.


Integrals involving trigonometric functions often rely on trigonometric identities. The main identities you should know are the definitional identities that give you tangent, secant, and cosecant in terms of sine and cosine, and the Pythagorean identities. It will be very useful to know the co-function identities for cosine, cotangent, and cosecant in terms of sine, tangent, and secant, and conversely, as well as the angle sum and difference identities. But what if you forget them? The thing to keep in mind is that a problem exists whether or not you know how to solve it. There's a lot of trig identities, and you can get bogged down in memorizing a whole bunch of things, but remember, understand concepts don't memorize formulas. So for example, let's find the integral of cosine squared. Now there's a reduction formula for powers of sine and cosine, but if you don't remember it, what can you do? Yeah, that's not that useful. So the thing to keep in mind is there's really only two integration techniques. Substitution and integration by parts. All else is algebra, which will include some trigonometric identities. So there's no obvious substitution, so let's try integration by parts. We note that cosine squared is cosine times cosine, so we'll let u be cosine and dv be cosine, and we'll differentiate and integrate, and integration by parts will give us. Now you can't completely abandon the identities, but if you know the definitional identities and the Pythagorean identities, you'll be able to do most things. So our Pythagorean identity can be used to convert this sine squared in to, and we can simplify it and rewrite our integral as, and we can evaluate the first integral. And notice we have a cosine squared theta on both sides of the equation. So we can solve for the integral of cosine squared theta, or let's try the integral of sine to the fourth. Since we know the antiderivative of sine theta will make the choices for u and dv, differentiating and integrating, and so integration by parts will give us. Using the Pythagorean identity, we can rewrite cosine squared and simplify. Now we have the integral of sine to the fourth on both sides, so we can solve for it. Now we could find sine squared theta d theta using integration by parts again, but we just found the integral of cosine squared theta d theta, so let's use the Pythagorean identity to rewrite this as, and we can make use of our integral of cosine squared theta d theta, and using our previous result gives us. Since the traditional approach for integrals like this uses the reduction formulas, your answer may be different. So how can you check? First of all remember, in the real world you can't look up the answers, but you still need to check them. So according to a computer algebra system, the integral of sine to the fourth is this, but we found this, and let's verify the answers are correct. So the obvious thing to try is we could differentiate both answers and verify their derivatives are equal to sine to the fourth, but this would require using a lot of trigonometric simplifications. However, if we're already using a computer algebra system, we can also rely on a theorem, the antiderivatives of a function differ by a constant, and so we can find their difference. And since the difference is a constant, then both are antiderivatives. Or we can graph the two functions. And we see the graphs of the two functions appear to be the same, so they're probably both correct.


Welcome to the TickMeal Update, I'm Kiana Daniels, CEO of Investiva.com. On Thursday, the ECB kept its rate at 0% as forecasted and the U.S. Durable Goods Orders came in lower than expected and the U.K.'s Boris Johnson called for election in the bid to advance the Brexit. Friday will have some low-key events, such as the German IFO of Business Climates for October and the U.S. Baker Hughes' RIG Count. Today, I'm looking at the Dollar-Swissie pair, which has been bouncing off the daily Ichimoku Cloud in the past week, reaching the 0.99 resistance level on Thursday. At this point, we could expect a bit of a pullback, but the bullish momentum seems strong enough to keep at it medium-term for another week or so. Of course, trading in the financial markets involves a risk of loss and you should only trade the money that you can afford to lose. If you liked this video, give it a thumbs up and subscribe to our social media. I will see you again next week.


Hello everyone, this is Ahmed Dan and on this channel you can find financial travel and more videos if you like what you see Please do the thumbs up and consider subscribing. Thank you Hello everyone, this is Ahmed Dan of AhmedDan.com today. I'll have another episode of unboxing video and I'll be unboxing the Thermopro digital hygrometer thermometer which measures indoor humidity and temperature so Humidity is the amount of water vapor present in the air or in other words This is the you know gaseous state of water. So the higher the humidity you're going to feel more uncomfortable because your body cannot dry the sweat and It feels very uncomfortable and in general the Comfortable humidity should be in the range of between 30% to 50% so with this Thermometer or hygrometer you can you know it shows the Temperature humidity which is present in the indoor condition so I'm going to be putting it on my fridge or somewhere in the house so I can you know keep an eye on it and so we'll unbox and take a look at it and Some of the features of this one is that it has backlight and touch screen and then it measures It runs on triple Triple batteries it needs to see batteries and it measures humidity and temperature every 10 seconds and it shows like you know at all times so once we open the Product then we'll be able to see There are more features in there and then again this is not paid or affiliated reviews So my views are non-affiliated honest and unbiased so that way you know that you know you're getting on the honest opinion So there's no affiliated link to click or make money off you So let's open up the box and see what we have here Okay, so this is the box it came this way So this has various models and the one we are looking at is TP 55 So we'll just go ahead and open it right now and looks like Okay, so the first thing I see that you know they include it a Battery and looks like actually it's a double to two triple a batteries. So We'll put this here now Then let's take it take out the whole thing okay, so you have an empty box right here and Let's put it in there Okay, so this is a very lightweight and not too big not too small hydrometer and Let's take out the whole thing set this aside and There is a information card it just a Our warranty card so it has three year extended warranty and if you need help then you can call our email These numbers so let's put it aside and then looks like we have a small brochure And it says here that indoor humidity and temperature monitor instruction manual So I'm not going to go through all the manuals and everything. So I'll just set it aside. So what I'll do I'll Install the battery and let me show you how it looks So this is how it looks So looks like we have two magnetic, you know pad to attach it to the fridge or anything metal and then we have a Protective cover here. So let's take off the Cover for a battery chamber and let's insert This battery Put it this way. Let's check if this works first. Okay, so it looks like it's working right away. So I'm okay to Close the lid. Okay. So let me just remove this protective cover So that way you can see it better and I'll just leave it there Okay, so right now It started showing temperature right away. So I'm not sure this is right or wrong But let's change it to Celsius actually it already shows Celsius which is 22.9 degrees Celsius right now Because in Canada we use Celsius in Fahrenheit, but it has that option to if you need Fahrenheit that's right there and it says 38% looks like Humidity level which it mentions here We are in a comfort level. So the best thing I like about this is that it has dry right here And then it has a comfort right here and it has weight So, you know with this measurement you can tell what position you're in right now This is how it looks and looks like it just works fine because I have another Temperature monitor inside home and let me just match with the other reading So my other temperature Reading clock mentions that it's 23 and here it shows 24.1 So looks like it's very close The slight variance variation would be due to the fact that the positioning because the other clock is on the wall so so far this one looks okay and I Just noticed that there is a small Light icon right here, which is right here So I have a feeling that if you press this then it's going to be lit. So let's try that Okay, yes, that's that's what it is So if you need to see that this in the you know at night or in the dark Then all you have to do is just press this button Right here and this should go away after like, you know a minute or half Half minute actually looks like it's default to maybe 10 15 seconds Which is not bad to save the battery, but you may be able to change that But for now, I'll just leave it here so The designing and everything, you know, it's not bad and comparing the price. This is an inexpensive product so I'm happy with the purchase and Looks like, you know, I'm going to be looking at the humidity and temperature more often from now on So that all for now. If you like what you see, please give it a thumbs up on this channel I do different types of product reviews travel videos critical videos so Please subscribe because you know, there will be more videos coming up and I'll see shortly. Thank you