<p>(The essay.)</p>
<p>Prompt: Is creativity needed more than ever in the world today?</p>
<p>Creativity is an admirable trait useful in a variety of circumstances and needed more than ever in the world today. We have our most basic problems in the United States generally understood, and now we need to comprehend more complex problems and imagine fresh, creative solutions. Our ailing economy suffers from a dearth of new ways of thinking. Creativity is a quality that is more important today than ever before.</p>
<p>The United States has had the same president for the past eight years. We have had an old war revived and our economy progressively decline. In the upcoming presidential election, the American public is looking at all of the issues and, most significantly, looking at which candidate would provide much-ailed for change. Both campaigns have emphasized that their respective candidates would be agents of change, deliverers of fresh ideas, and the bearers of creative minds. Creativity is seen as necessary to secure innovation and save our depreciating economy.</p>
<p>Creativity solves problems. It has already done so in the past, as seen in Stephen Levitt's Freakonomics[u/]. One predicament described in his book is that of the Chicago school district. Teachers were cheating on standardized tests to make themselves appear to be better teachers than they actually were. The dilemma was that schools that needed help would be unidentifiable due to artificially high test scores. Stephen Levitt, an economist at the University of Chicago, thought of an innovative way to discern who the cheating teachers were. Without his creativity, the Chicago school district would be rampant with cheating today.</p>
<p>In a recent issue of Time Magazine, Bill Gates published an article about the need for creativity. He acknowledges, in the article, that capitalism has not mitigated the pecuniary qualms of many people and details how a new concept, "creative capitalism," will alleviate the economy disparity between the affluent and the indigent. Gates asserts that creativity will turn the "losers" created by the market into "winners."</p>
<p>Creativity has solved problems in the past, such as the situation in the Chicago school district, and will solve problems that we have in contemporary times, such as the devalued economy and the inequality of capitalism. Creativity is needed today more than ever not only in our leaders, but in ourselves as well.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance for your help, guys. :)</p>