<p>The world progresses constantly through time often in the direction influenced by mankind. Currently, however, the direction is making a turn for the worse. Though some may argue that modern technology has brought comfort and convenience to households worldwide, such an effect is actually deconstructive to the goodness of mankind. Technology takes away the peoples independence, it creates the medias overlordship over people, which in turn causes a decline of morality in the world.</p>
<p>Technology is a necessary essence in the definition of modern and future. It brings about various conveniences for people. Cars help us travel, refrigerators help preserve food, microprocessors automizes many aspects of our lives and computers help us in terms of information and communication. These are only few of the many examples of the prevailing technology of our time. These technologies, however, take away peoples needs to do tasks manually. For example, there are even tools that help the simple task of beating an egg! As the way technology progresses, eventually it will reach a point when people no longer need to do anything voluntarily food is fed, knowledge is inserted into the brain via disks. Life will be an overly simple process. Surely, such a situation is not a good one.</p>
<p>Media is also a product of technology and is being projected to us through TV, internet, films, advertisements, radio, and other various forms of information technology. Media has a large influence on the way people think. In the movie E.T., Reeses candy pieces is subliminally advertised through its use as a prop. Afterwards their sales skyrocketed. This is only one of the numerous examples in which media controls our lives. As technology advances, media will gain influence and power. Eventually people will lose their sense of original thought and psychologists can source all thought processes to media. Such a possibility is unacceptable.</p>
<p>Also due to media is the peoples decline in morals. Through movies and TV, we are bombarded by immorality. R-rated films and shows are being watched by all age groups. For example, I observed a woman holding a baby during a screening of War of the Worlds, an R-rated movie showing intense, shocking violence. Bombardment of immorality such as the violence stated above has influence on peoples behavior. The effects can be seen in the growing numbers of girls wearing revealing clothing and the growing interest of violence in boys. Immorality will, most definitely, yield problematic results.</p>
<p>The dependence on technology, influence of media, and decline of morals all highlight the problematic direction society is progressing towards. If nothing is to be done, eventually the results will be disastrous.</p>
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I find my biggest problem is not being able to attend to details while writing at high speed. I attempted a couple of essays with the grammatix method and this one (somehow turned out to not follow the method as much) seemed to be the best I can do. I can think of a million ways to improve it, but none of them can be done under the allowed time. In fact, I think this one actually went over the time limit by 3 minutes, which is a problem.</p>
<p>Please grade it.</p>
<p>And... are there any last-minute tips for writing the essay? I really want to crank out a 12 essay (I usually make about 7~9 mistakes in the MC and I want to get past that 700 line), but I don't think I'm quite there yet.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>