<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Want to grade my essay? I wrote it in 20 minutes.
Prompt:
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 Stated in a Changing World Order.
Is the world changing for the better?</p>
<p>Over the last few centuries, many aspects of the world have changed. The outcome? Weapons that undermine us, as well as advanced medicine that fosters our health. This new technology millennium has created novel inventionsranging from harmful to facilitating. A few epitomes of how new technology can be harmful can be manifested in literature, such as Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, and Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, while paradigms in history, such as the invention of reading and writing, depict how new discoveries can foster learning.</p>
<p>Lord of the Flies by William Golding highlights how new technology can lamentably have a harmful ramification. Piggy, one of the stranded boys, ownsa a pair of glasses, which had were somewhat new at the time, since his vision was not very good without them. When the boys become stranded on the island. They realize that the glasses can be used to start a fire. At first, the boys return the glasses to Piggy when they have finished with them, but as they become more desperate to escape, Piggy is ambushed and his glasses stolen. This leads to Piggy walking around on his own, unable to see anything, and getting crushed by a boulder. Had his glasses not been invented, the boys would not have stolen Piggys glasses to start the fire, and so Piggy would not have died. </p>
<p>The invention of reading and writing, conversely, depicts how novelty ideas can foster intelligence and preservation of history. Before writing was introduced, stories were passed down from generation to generation verbally. However, these anecdotes would sometimes be forgotten, thus being lost in history. When writing was unveiled, storytellers were able to freeze their chronicles in time, ensuring that they would be remembered. Without the new idea od writing and reading, it is irrefutable that much of our history would be lost, and that we would not exercise our brains enough, implicating in unintelligence.</p>
<p>Life of Pi by Yann Martel also epitomizes how inventions can undermine people. The antagonist, Pi, lives in India with his zookeeper father, who decides one day to travel to Canada with Pi and his zoo animals. On board in the collection of animals is a huge Bengal tiger, that is stored in a new cage that is designed to hold tigers. Having the tiger in a newly invented cage gives Pi and his father a fallacious sense of security, so it is a surprise to them when the tiger escapes, putting everyone on board in danger of being killed. The sailors lure Pi onto a lifeboat, which contains the tiger. Had the cage not been a new invention, Pis father would not have relied so much on it, and Pi would still be on board with his father.
It is ostensible that while some inventions may facilitate us, othersalthough they may sound helpfulresult in problematic dilemmas. As the epitomes have exemplified, the change in this world is for the better, as well as for the worst. Contrary to Allan E. Goodmans doctrine, The degree change in the world
is so promising., the change will not always be positive. Surely, although changes in the world may be positive, there will always be negative side effects as well. After all, Tylenol may cure a headache, but it evokes sleeplessness! </p>
<p>What do you think? Out of 6? And what should I improve? It isn't my strongest essay, I know.
Thanks.</p>