Poem Analysis: 'I Hear America Singing'
Jeet Patel
Period-6
How is Technology changing the world, and what are you doing in order to adjust to those changes?
Us humans have came long way since the stone ages. We have made many extraordinary inventions and explorations. The world we live in now is nothing like the world it was before, that is because of technology. Technology has reshaped the way we socialize , the way we prepare our kids for their careers and most importantly the way that we live our everyday lives. Technology is changing the human race, society and the world as we know it. Humans are becoming more and more dependent upon technology. Even though technology has made our lives better and easier in many way, it has also became a problem for many individuals. It’s true that technology has made a lot of things faster and easier, but technology also has taken something from us. And that is jobs. Before machines and gadgets , all the factories were occupied by humans, now mostly all the factories are filled with machines. There are less cashiers in grocery shops and more self scanning checkouts. In the poem, “I hear America Singing”, which was written around 1840s, the poet mentions several types of people going to work, and doing their jobs. Half of the jobs that are mentioned in the poem doesn’t …show more content…
I personally don’t always depend on technology. If I don’t know a meaning of a word or if I have a question that I can’t answer I would look up information in dictionary and books first. And if I still can’t find it then I will use the internet. Internet is also a very big factor in everyday activities today. According to a youtube video,”shift happens 2016”, 75 billion devices will be connected to the Internet by 2020. This number is 10 times our human population! It’s a fact that technology has made us dependent and lazy but, Whether we let technology take over human species is on our
Period-6
How is Technology changing the world, and what are you doing in order to adjust to those changes?
Us humans have came long way since the stone ages. We have made many extraordinary inventions and explorations. The world we live in now is nothing like the world it was before, that is because of technology. Technology has reshaped the way we socialize , the way we prepare our kids for their careers and most importantly the way that we live our everyday lives. Technology is changing the human race, society and the world as we know it. Humans are becoming more and more dependent upon technology. Even though technology has made our lives better and easier in many way, it has also became a problem for many individuals. It’s true that technology has made a lot of things faster and easier, but technology also has taken something from us. And that is jobs. Before machines and gadgets , all the factories were occupied by humans, now mostly all the factories are filled with machines. There are less cashiers in grocery shops and more self scanning checkouts. In the poem, “I hear America Singing”, which was written around 1840s, the poet mentions several types of people going to work, and doing their jobs. Half of the jobs that are mentioned in the poem doesn’t …show more content…
I personally don’t always depend on technology. If I don’t know a meaning of a word or if I have a question that I can’t answer I would look up information in dictionary and books first. And if I still can’t find it then I will use the internet. Internet is also a very big factor in everyday activities today. According to a youtube video,”shift happens 2016”, 75 billion devices will be connected to the Internet by 2020. This number is 10 times our human population! It’s a fact that technology has made us dependent and lazy but, Whether we let technology take over human species is on our