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<p>There is of course, no legitimate branch of science that enables us to predict the future accurately. Yet the degree of change in the world is so overwhelming and so promising that the future, I believe, is far brighter than anyone has contemplated since the end of the Second World War.
Adapted from Allan E. Goodman, A Brief History of the Future: The United States in a Changing World Order</p>
<p>Assignment:
Is the world changing for the better? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your poinr of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.</p>
<p>My essay:</p>
<p>During the beginning of the twentieth century, people envisioned a future of progress in which the world was constantly getitng better. They hoped for liberation from the chains of war, disease, and poverty. However, as history has shown, the world is regressing and becoming even worse, with horrors being committed on an even greater scale than ever before.</p>
<p>Before half of the twentieth century was over, the world had been ravaged by two world war. While both caused millions of deaths, the later one resulted in the deaths of eleven million people, showing how even war is becoming deadlier. During the Holocaust, an unprecedented mass genocide occurred at the hands of a select group led by Adolf Hitler. Instead of using advances in technology for the better, the Gestapo sought new, more effective ways of mass murder. Poisonous gas, crematoria, and more accurate artillery were produced in mass numbers for one sole purpose: to kill more of the "inferior" ethnic groups.</p>
<p>Advances in science over time haven't allowed for a cure to cancer, but they have allowed for weapons of mass destruction. Until 1943 during World War II, there was no effective way to commit mass murder. With the invention of the atomic bond, humans became capable of destroying the world several times over. Instead of people living with more of a sense of security because they live in a better world, there is a sense of fear throughout society that tomrorow could be D-Day.</p>
<p>Many Americans thought that day had come on September 11, 2001, when they saw their lives collapsing around them. Their own technology, the aircraft that had astounded the world when it was first invented by the Wright Brothers, killed thousands as planes crashed into the World Trade Towers, killing thousands of civilians. Another war was launched, this time against terrorist suspects abroad and in America. The wars show an unprecedented global chaos as several countries thousands of miles away are being simultaneously attacked.</p>
<p>War today encompasses countries all over the world, resulting in more people being deployed overseas, where their blood drips on to foreign soil. Technology seves to increase the magnitude of harm it is possible to inflict on others instead of allowing people to live safer, more comfortable lives. The terror that pervades society shows that this is not a better world that we live in today.</p>