In paragraph 4, what point is the author making when he talks about the Internet?
4By interacting with and trading with newfound nations, explorers were able to bring back products that were exotic to their own shores. They opened up trading routes between different countries. Trade has been an important part of life for most cultures throughout history; it is even more so today, as the Internet has improved our ability to maintain a global market. Today, most of the world’s goods are transported on the oceans from one seaport to another before making their way to your home.

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

there you go thats what we are missing

hello,

your answer is a) the metaphor suggests that the poetic themes are serious and dark.

collins is comparing the poem to a dark room. he is suggesting that the poems theme is serious and wants you to understand it. you don't need to understand the poet in order to understand the poem. you also don't need to move around while reading it. he is simply saying the poem has a dark and serious theme.

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maybe i could if you provided more information, such as a image of the text? (;

awnser:

over the two days of the convention, presided over by lucretia’s husband james mott, the declaration of sentiments was read and its resolutions debated. the ninth resolution continued to be the most controversial, particularly because the attendees were predominantly quaker, and quaker men often declined to vote. freed slave and newspaper editor frederick douglass argued for approval of the resolution and convinced the audience of its necessity. at the end of the convention, about 100 of the attendees signed the declaration, although some removed their names later due to criticism.