Question 5. In what ways does history, or the media (TV, newspapers, internet, social media, etc.), tell us who or what matters? Who counts and who does not? What are some examples? a) As a member of the Titan community, what is your role in shaping/affirming/complicating/conf ronting these messages? b) When interacting with any form of media, how often do you question what you are being told/shown? c) How can one be a discerning consumer of media and recognize biases or ways in which a story is spun in order to influence its audience?

Read the excerpt from act iv, scene iv of romeo and juliet. capulet: good faith! ’tis day: the county will be here with music straight, for so he said he would. [music within.] i hear him near. nurse! wife! what, no! what, nurse, i say! 30 re-enter nurse. go waken juliet, go and trim her up; i’ll go and chat with paris. hie, make haste, make haste; the bridegroom he is come already: make haste, i say. [exeunt.] 35 this scene is an example of dramatic irony used to create suspense since the audience knows that the musicians will not arrive on time. capulet approves of the match to paris. romeo is already married to juliet. the nurse will be unable to rouse juliet.