Arsenic and Old Lace, a well written Shakespearian comedy was the script chosen for this years Fall Play. ... Still with the one extra room, they don't rent the room out to any normal person, they enjoy renting the room out to older men that are lonely and don't have a family. ... Then the Brewster sisters slip arsenic into their famous Elderberry wine killing their resident. ... Witherspoon is a lonely older gentleman, and he gladly accepts a glass of the spiked elderberry wine....

• Word Count: 457
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Old methods of mining obviously ruined the land as everyone was digging into it. ... One teaspoon of 2% cyanide solution can kill person, and before people knew it was a hazard, drainage laced with the material was left to break down in open ponds and other bodies of water. ... The acid then draws arsenic, lead and mercury out of the piles of ore, just to name a few heavy metals. ...

• Word Count: 394
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The father witnesses his son gradually distancing from both him and his culture as he grows older. ... Although not entirely thrown off her yearning for Australian informality and spontaneity, her years in France teach her to reach some understanding of an old and complex civilisation, and to savour a way of life capable of enriching even the perpetual outsider. ... As she asks an obnoxiously rude salesman in a "lolly voice laced with arsenic" if he"d "forgotten to take (his) Prozac today", Turnbull recognizes the difference she now views such encounters with. ...

• Word Count: 1749
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Fire was used methodically to burn old growth and encourage new. ... Indeed it was at the 1861 Royal Commission Inquiry into the state of the Native Police in the then one-year-old Queensland colony that some of the most overt evidence of the State practice of indiscriminate murder towards Aborigines is revealed. ... Wheeler: There is no other way Settler John Coley gave evidence on one of the most brutal practices inflicted upon Aborigines; the lacing of rationed flour with strychnine. ...

• Word Count: 2923
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate