How would you paraphrase this poem? What are the speaker’s objectionsto social media?
What will be an ideal response?
- The poem is an ironic invitation to participate in a mass ritual of arrested development, universal trivialization, and erasure of the bounds of judgment, taste, and privacy. Alexie sees the electronic revolution as replacing true personal contact and genuine emotional and spiritual experience with virtual interactions that breed isolation and loneliness, emotional emptiness and spiritual sterility. Anyone of a certain age who has ever attended a high-school reunion can testify to how easily decades of maturation and personal development are swept aside in an instant reversion to one’s adolescent self. Anyone who has spent time on social media can bear witness to the facile bonhomie and fatuous nostalgia that prevail there, with endlessly shared litanies containing lines like “Remember when rap was what your parents gave you in the mouth if you talked back to them?” Many young people have already learned, to their severe cost, that Internet postings are public and permanent, and that college admissions officers and prospective employers are not favorably impressed by personal accounts of epic promiscuity and drunkenness. When, in its infancy, the Internet was touted as the greatest educational tool in human history, no one foresaw that its principal functions would include the facilitation of commerce and personal abuse and the delivery of pornography and videos of cats playing the piano.
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¿Qué hago? (los trabajos de la casa)
What will be an ideal response?
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She’s smiling about it.
Schreiben Sie die Sätze auf Deutsch.
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Which one of the following sentences has an abbreviation error?
a) At 3:00 a.m., the firefighters arrived on our doorstep. b) We are studying the formation of the U.S. government in history. c) Many people wish to live in the U.S. d) RCA made and distributed many records.
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Since the 1970s, approximately 800,000 legal and 300,000 illegal new immigrants
__________ the United States. A) are entering B) have entered C) enter
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