Read 62 pages of Jekyll and Hyde, read political cultures, lectures, and a quiz

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+ANNOTATIONS
+
+I've heard about Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde before. It's about a
+werewolf-like scenario, I think, where they are the same person but Mr
+Hyde is like a monster or something. Dr Jekyll is a medical doctor, I
+think, but I don't know much else.
+
+Opening sentence:
+"Mr. UTTERSON the lawyer was a man of a rugged coun-tenance, that was
+never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse;
+backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, and yet somehow
+lovable."
+
+Setting: London, Physician-class
+
+CHAPTER ONE (Story of the Door)
+What does this title mean?
+
+Kindly but reserved man. (!Utterson, lawyer)
+Is he reserved deliberately, and why does this reservation extend to a
+lack of direct spoken kindliness?
+It appears he is supportive, but insufficiently discerning, or maybe he
+is genuine and just doesn't work too hard in manipulating socially
+("modest").
+Richard Enfield (I've heard that name before) is his friend, and appears
+to be similarly disinclined.
+There is a dingy building in a bright street of a dingy neighborhood.
+A "damned Juggernaut" runs over a small girl in an empty street. But how
+is it related? Is this Dr Jekyll? "one look, so ugly?" No, the doctor is
+Jekyll, and he murderously hates [got to be a better word] the man who
+lives in the terrible, uninviting building of the rich man (readily has
+100 pounds and 10 pounds in gold) who was also famous or paying with a
+famous person's cheque. -- Enfield
+Oh wait this isn't the same door, maybe, but this guy doesn't ask
+questions because he fears negative outcomes. (huh, maybe part of the
+same ungregariousness they share, because Utterson agrees).
+So Hyde is the man who walked over the child, and he is inexplicable.
+
+CHAPTER TWO (Search for Mr Hyde)
+
+Jekyll leaves all his possessions to Hyde in case of his own
+disappearance.
+
+"Such unscientific balderdash would have estranged Damon and Pythias"
+- Doctor Landon
+Jekyll had become "too fanciful"
+
+Utterson seeks Mr Hyde and meets him.
+Why does he put everyone at unease?
+He is pale, dwarfish but without clear malformity.
+And he has offputting mannerisms, but that's not enough for loathing.
+It does appear to be supernatural.
+This feels like cosmic horror (even though it pretty clearly isn't thus
+far).
+
+"He [Hyde] mostly comes and goes by the laboratory." and never stays for
+dinner.
+
+Utterson worries for Jekyll's welfare, but this worry is motivated by
+hatred for Hyde.
+
+CHAPTER THREE (Dr Jekyll was quite at ease)
+
+Utterson's dry, ungay manner is impressed.
+Jekyll calls it a private matter where he is free (uncoerced) by Hyde,
+but he is merely "interested."
+And Jekyll, when interrogated by Utterson, dismisses it as private.
+Lanyon and Jekyll are sort of rivals, but Jekyll claims to like Lanyon
+as a person despite Lanyon criticizing Jekyll's work.
+Note: I'm pretty sure they're the same person from prior knowledge, so
+each telling the other everything (like "I didn't think you would lie")
+is in line with this.
+
+CHAPTER FOUR (The Carew Murder Case)
+
+Hyde kills some man with Jekyll's cane, and the police get involved.
+Utterson comes forward with evidence after high-profile police
+investigation starts, and Hyde has abandoned his house, claiming to only
+leave for one hour, but his quarters are ransacked and pocketbook
+burned.
+His house is occupied by an "evil" but not disqueting old woman.
+
+CHAPTER FIVE (Incident of the Letter)
+
+"I have grounds for certainty that I cannot share with any one."
+I'm thinking Frankenstein's monster situation.
+Oh! It's an MP who's been murdered.
+And now Jekyll is worried about scandal and is "done with" Hyde.
+According to Mr Guest (handwriting analyst and Utterson's confidante),
+the letter has been forged by Jekyll because the handwriting is similar.
+Other peculiar things: Jekyll's servant hadn't received any mail, and
+Hyde's letter had been in the laboratory (an old dissecting chamber).
+
+CHAPTER SIX (Remarkable Incident of Dr Lanyon)
+
+Dr Jekyll moves past the controversy and becomes his old self, a good
+party host, entertainer, benefactor (charity, religion).
+Supposedly falls ill, so Utterson visits Dr Lanyon who is sick with
+something (matter of weeks he says), whom never wants to see Jekyll
+again.
+Dr Lanyon dies a week later and funeral happens.
+Utterson has a letter from Lanyon to open in case of death or
+disappearance of Jekyll.
+Jekyll continues to be a recluse and spends more and more time in
+laboratory.
+
+CHAPTER SEVEN (Incident at the Window)
+
+Oops, didn't realize this but probably should have: the ominous door is
+a back entrance to Dr Jekyll's house.
+They talk to him, but Jekyll is "very low," and smiles but then gives a
+look of "abject terror and despair."
+
+CHAPTER EIGHT (The Last Night)
+
+Dr Jekyll needs drugs to cure himself of something.
+All his staff are worried, especially Poole.
+He has become irritable and inscrutable, demanding raw materials from
+chemists to make a drug, and complains they are not pure.
+He is a recluse, so the demands are in form of paper, and he remains all
+day in his chamber.
+Actually, he refuses to be seen because he is a horrible sight or
+something.
+He wears a mask even to surreptitiously search for something.
+Jekyll has become dwarven despite his original high stature
+    (It's Hyde, and Poole thinks it's some sort of creature)
+They successfully break into the cabinet and find Hyde twitching on the
+ground.
+Then they search for Jekyll's body or evidence.
+They find evidence of experiment, the drug that Poole brought him from
+the chemist, assorted in various cups.
+And a final will and testament, a personal letter, and a third
+enclosure.
+The will declares Utterson Jekyll's recipient, the personal letter
+declaring the end is near and speaking of Lanyon's recounting of the
+tale as well as his own uncounting.
+Calls himself "unworthy and unhappy."
+
+WORDS
+Coquetry - playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest
+Emuluous - rivalrous
+Catholicity - universality
+Sawbones - MD/surgeon
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+1. What year was Hygeia published and who wrote it?
+
+Thomas Beddoes in 1802.
+
+2. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde published and who wrote
+it?
+
+1886 by Robert Louis Stevenson
+
+3. What is health according to Thomas Beddoes?
+
+Health is a social ideal of individual habits (rules and regulations)
+as a form of preventive medicine.
+
+4. What reoccurring phrases and specific words are used to describe Mr.
+Hyde?
+
+pale and dwarfish, deformed, without any nameable malformity,
+displeasing
+
+5. In the first chapter, “The Story of the Door,” where does the door
+lead?
+
+The door leads to the back of Dr Jekyll's house,
+
+6. Who is the protagonist of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? Why do you think
+Stevenson chooses this person?
+
+Mr. Utterson, a lawyer, is the protagonist. Stevenson uses this person
+because he is curious 
+
+7. Define genre.
+
+Genre is a class of works (in this case literate) with common themes and
+tropes.
+
+8. What is the genre of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
+
+It is told with the tropes of a mystery or detective story, but the
+atmosphere and traits of Hyde correspond with horror.
+
+9. In the last chapter we read, “The Last Night,” what happens to Mr.
+Hyde?
+
+He dies of whatever disease he suffers, surrounded by his failed
+attempts to save himself medically.
+
+10. How does Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde depict health? (Hint: Please
+consider the Health learning outcome on the syllabus as well as the
+mini-lecture on Thomas Beddoes).
+
+It depicts health as social wellbeing. The ability of one of the
+characters to interact with their peers, like in throwing parties or in
+interacting with others. This typically corresponds to physiological
+health, in that paleness or dwarfism are considered to be negative
+qualities, but it is very much a social construct as well.
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+"The Three Political Cultures" by Daniel J Elazar
+
+"The US is...inhabited by a single people of great diversity."
+It has a single political culture and many subcultures.
+
+Policital culture:
+    Patterns of political attitudes
+    Expectations of purpose/nature of government and poli. process
+    Who works in the government
+    Interacting with government and civic behavior (ethics, conscience,)
+
+The US's three subcultures:
+    Each tied to an original region and carried by migration. Systems of
+    "marketplace and the commonwealth"
+    Each is a framework rather than an absolute set of ideas, and
+    changes over time like other cultures
+    - Individualistic
+        Government is a service to people and doesn't have goals other
+        than serving its people individually.
+        Keep private activities private, and the government should only
+        regulate public activities (like economic marketplace), but be
+        small gov't
+        Politics is viewed as a career and a way to better oneself (be
+        compensated) by providing good services for the public.
+        Political life is a system of mutual obligations, on a
+        person-to-person basis for small org but person-to-party basis
+        for federal or state (for ex.)
+        Okay with corruption and limited ideological purity. Deal-making
+        and maintaining a mostly beneficial political system for
+        constituents is viewed as best practice.
+    - Moralistic
+        Government is focused on developing commonwealth or "greater
+        good."
+        Morality of politicians is important because the trades that
+        happen are means to establish a good society.
+        Community and gov't (if necessary) can intervene in private life
+        if for public welfare. (Communitarian)
+        Many believe that greater good can be best served by community
+        involvement, wary of government encroachment, and economically.
+        Sometimes support social intervention like censorship.
+        Party regularity is unimportant because politicians are expected
+        to work towards a good society, regardless of nonpartisan, third
+        party, or even cross-party alliance.
+        Amateur participation is expected because politics is not
+        supposed to be a profitable business, and corruption deterred.
+        Support and accept increased government footprint, and allow
+        bureaucracy and merit systems.
+    - Traditionalistic
+        "Paternalistic and elitist conception of the commonwealth"
+        Government maintains a strict hierarchy and supports itself as a
+        small group of established elite with family ties or social
+        position.
+        Expects that any (even minimal) participant in political culture
+        have a definite role to play and gain personally (although not
+        always pecuniarily).
+        Believe that political parties are unimportant except to recruit
+        for undesirable offices.
+        Political leaders are "conservative and custodial"
+        Anti-bureaucratic, support informal relationship-based systems
+        to maintain the hierarchy (because bureaucracy -> merit).
+
+Geographically, established early in the colonies. DC, VA, PA area
+individualistic. North is moralistic and South is traditional. These
+typically extend westward, and the individualistic tribe is less
+established than the other two, but very often mixes with moralistic.
+
+Interactions:
+    - moralistic + individualistic balance each other's respective
+      tendencies to overreach into personal life and to allow society to
+      degrade.
+    - traditionalistic order, while often damaging to opressed groups,
+      helps create (when functioning properly) a benevolent elite for
+      political power but has the same danger as oligarchy.
+    
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+Political Science trying to be a science doesn't make it a science, but
+it approaches actionable results.
+Trump, Obama campaigns use "Hope and Change," or "MAGA" based on how
+voters interact with the political system.
+Or presentations based on hard work vs god/religious messages.
+Data collection and targeted messaging is getting better.
+
+# American Gov and Process
+The government is slow/inefficient, but this is how it was designed by
+the founders.
+What did they want?
+    - Feared tyranny = distrust of power (in general)
+    - System of government
+        - Divides power (branches balance each other's power)
+        - Competitive: {bicameral legis. competes, states compete,
+          branches compete} for power
+        - Checks and Balances, Federalism
+        - Government is slow, piecemeal, and balanced
+
+Types of Gov (formal structure that rules people)
+- Who governs?
+    Autocracy = one, oligarchy = group, democracy = people
+- How much gov control?
+    Authoritarian = ( state > individual rights ), often violent
+    Totalitarian =  ( state eliminates other forms of power, transforms
+    society ), always violent
+    Constitutional = power, rights, responsibilities designed beforehand
+- Other, more complex classifications