Use the internet and other reference materials to learn how interactions between Cuba, the U. S., and other nations have had a significant impact on each other and on global events. Write an essay of 300 words describing how the saying, "No man is an island," can be applied to the nation of Cuba. Include your predictions as to how past events may impact Cuba's future.

Read this adapted excerpt from a famous poem by john keats. this poem is about a beautiful vase with intricate shapes and patterns. you, silent form, do tease us out of thought as does etemity: cold pastorall when old age shall this generation waste, you shall remain in the middle of other woe than ours, a friend to man, to whom you say "beauty is truth, truth beauty that is all you know on earth, and all you need to know what is the poet saying when he writes that "old age shall this generation waste"? the poet is expressing his dread of growing older the poet is mourning the changes he sees in his "generation." the poet is saying that beauty is illusionary and short-lived. the poet is saying that people don't live long; life is brief