After reading 56-71 of The World Is Flat and viewing the general Timeline of the Digital Age,
describe, as a group, how the internet and the personal computer helped lead to globalization
Part Two:
Read this section of a poem and discuss the questions below
The Erasure of Certainty
by Hugh Cook
The erasure of certainty
Was never quite announced
But has arrived.
We start the day in rainbows,
Frogmarching the fractured colors
Into raw cement.
By noon,
We're into transformative commerce,
Renting the Andes,
Mortgaging Japan,
Selling Brazilian sunlight to central Alaska.
Evening.
It's getting hectic.
The temps are dancing upside down.
The boss starts speaking Tibetan.
A disenfranchised stapler turns carnivorous.
Was never quite announced
But has arrived.
We start the day in rainbows,
Frogmarching the fractured colors
Into raw cement.
By noon,
We're into transformative commerce,
Renting the Andes,
Mortgaging Japan,
Selling Brazilian sunlight to central Alaska.
Evening.
It's getting hectic.
The temps are dancing upside down.
The boss starts speaking Tibetan.
A disenfranchised stapler turns carnivorous.
Discuss the following as a group
1. What is the theme of this poem?
2. What type of poem is this?
3. What figurative language does the author use to get the point across?
4. What is the author's bias? Do you agree or disagree with him?
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