MSND Summary: ACT TWO Scene 2

When Titania falls asleep after hearing the singing from her train of fairies, Oberon sneakingly puts the flower juice onto her eyes, while chanting a song to get her to fall in love with the first thing she wakes up to.

Meanwhile, Lysander and Hermia enter arguing whether or not to sleep with eachother or not. Of course, Hermia hates the idea, and they end up sleeping with space between them. While they are sleeping, Puck enters angered because he cannot find the Athenians Oberon was speaking of. He then sees Lysander and Hermia sleeping, thinking that he has found the right couple. Mistakingly, he adds the juice to Lysander's eyes and thinks he has correctly followed his master's orders.

Then enters Demetrius and Helena. Demetrius continues to yell at her and wants her to stop chasing him. She continues to argue back, but then gets tired from chasing him all this time. While she slows down, she sees Lysander sleeping, and wakes him up. Because of the flower juice, he falls in love with Helena. He confesses his love for her, but Helena thinks Lysander is lying and stomps away. Lysander chases after her, leaving Hermia sleeping alone.

MSND Summary: ACT TWO Scene 1

In act two scene one, we are introduced to the king and queen of fairies, Titania and Oberon. We also learn that Oberon's servant, Puck is a mischievous man that loves to play tricks on mortals. Titania and Oberon are in a huge fight over Titania's possession of a little Indian boy and refuses to give him up to Oberon. Furiously mad at Titania, Oberon devises a plan and orders Puck to get the juice of the flower, Love-in-idleness. When this juice is rubbed on a person's sleeping eyelids, the person will fall in love with the next thing they see when they wake up. He then plans to rub it on Titania's eyes once he receives the juice from Puck, causing her to fall madly in love with a horrible creature, and then hopefully getting the possession of the Indian boy.

A desperate Helena chasing after Demetrius then enter the scene. Demetrius is determined to find and stop Hermia and Lysander from eloping, while Helena tries to confess her love for Demetrius. Helena tells him that the more she's being pushed away by him, the more she loves him. Demetrius refuses to hear this and tries to shun her.

Meanwhile, Oberon is still in the forest and is able to see the love problems between these Athenians. Oberon then orders his servant to put the flower juice on Demetrius' eyes too, so that he will fall in love with Helena, and her love for him will no longer be unrequitted.

MSND Summary: ACT ONE Scene 2

Preparing for the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta, a group of men meet to practice a play for Theses and Hippolyta's special day. Quince tells them that the play they'll be performing is The Most Lamentable Comedy and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe. Quince then assigns the roles of the actors, leaving defenseless Flute to play a woman part. We are also introduced to Bottom, whose a loud and arrogant guy who thinks he can play every part. Bottom is quickly mad at Quince for not giving him the part he thinks he's supposed to play, but is then convinced that he should be playing the part of Pyramus. All of the actors then decide to meet later in the woods to practice the play.

MSND Summary: ACT ONE Scene 1

In the first scene of Midsummer's Night Dream, we are introduced to Theseus, the Duke of Athens and his fiance, Hippolyta. While they are planning their wedding, an angered Egeus walks in complaining about his daughter, Hermia. Two men of Athens, Lysander and Demetrius love Hermia but Egeus only wants Demetrius to have his daughter's hand in marriage. Egeus also complains about the fact if his daughter doesn't respect his wishes and marries Demetrius, then she should suffer the consequences from the law of Athens. Lysander then fights back and states that Demetrius has already won Egeus' s love already, and he deserves Hermia as his own wife. Lysander also argues that Demetrius has been emotionally connected with Helelna, until he met Hermia and has left her alone since that day. After hearing all of this commotion, Theseus takes Egeus and Demetrius aside to discuss things more.

At the end of the scene, Hermia and Lysander are left alone. The two love birds then devise a plan to run away far from Athens. They'll alope and start a new life together without Demetrius. Then in walks Helena whose still madly in love with Demetrius, and is told about Lysander and Hermia's plan to run away. She envies them greatly and decides to tell Demetrius to get him to fall back in love with her.

Chinese Civil War

The Nationalist Party, also known as the Kuomintang, suffered a painful civil war against people of their own country from the Chinese Communist Party. Apallingly, this war had caused the lives of over one million people. The Communists wanted China to be like the Soviet Union, while the nationalists wished that their country would be more like America. The United States and United Kingdom backed up the nationalists, giving them millions dollars worth of economic funds.
For many years, starting in 1927, the two groups of people never sought to find peace with eachother. During 1937-1945, the Sino-Japanese war helped the Chinese Civil War come to a hault, but when Japan stopped invading China, they started having friction between eachother again. From 1946-1950 Kuomintang, and the Communists started to continuously fight against one another, and finally the Kuomintang left the mainland of China and moved to Taiwan, Penghu and other small islands around Asia.
To this day, no agreement or settlement has been made between the Communists and the Nationalists, and having China still being known as the People's Republic of China.