1. Look At Our Life Today
Look at our life today; look how it has changed.
Just one hundred years ago we could see O"Henry's little secretaries typing for ten hours a day. Weak and deprived of rights, they could be easily dismissed, experience sexual harassment or encounter health problems. They had nobody to be protected by, nobody to turn to. Dark rooms, bad air, and sitting for whole day. It was cruel, but innocent world. Hours, after work, spent in front of windows of an underwear store, cheap food and little dark rooms with gas lighting in the evenings. When she stepped outside her office, she forgot where she worked, she stayed alone with herself, she was on her own planet, she was in her own world.
Today we can see the same girl in front of the same underwear store with a mobile phone in her hand giving orders to bank or suppliers. Life has changed. Rhythm has changed. Conditions have changed. For good or bad? Our little hero can't be dismissed anymore, just because boss's wife doesn't like her. She can't be forced to make things she doesn't want to do. There are days when she works for 16 hours, twice more than she should, but she is paid for these hours. Her office is cozy, bright, and comfortable. She can be promoted. She can be sent to learn. She is protected and independent. But no matter where she goes with her mobile phone on her - it's on. Always.
We find ourselves today, at the beginning of the Twenty-first century, in bright .
well air-conditioned offices, protected by contracts in our pockets and by armies of different employees associations. We have become more productive with the help of personal computers, electronic mail, scanners, facsimile machines, and voice message systems. Our mobile phone can take us out of bed to solve urgent problems. "Super" clients can keep us at work on the birthday of our little daughter. Where is our privacy? Where is our real life? "Buying" rules have changed and so have "selling" rules.
The idea of a corrupted government has only a historical significance. ... It will improve the quality of life for the people it is supposed to govern. ... Women were not to be looked at as equals. ... Economics and sociology were problems during his life, for Bellamy to make such predictions as he did he had to have some idea of how our economy would run. ... Again everybody has credit and is considered to be equal. ...
That is an issue that a lot of Americans deal with today. ... Things like the way we talk about this issue in our culture, how our values shape the messages about this issue, and how socialization processes influence how we understand this issue. ... Some people can look at poor people and how they live and not think anything of it at all. ... There are many different ways that we change our culture and fight poverty. ... In conclusion, poverty has been a long standing problem in America and action has to be taken in order to change it. ...
Looking Backward A Novel by Edward Bellamy How would you feel if one day you woke up and you were in a completely different world from what you were used to? ... I think some of the main things that I would have to get used to in my life would be school, school activities, family life, social life, and how I would react to my new lifestyle. ... In our society today teachers don't get the credit they should or get paid like they should. ... In Bellamy's world there really is no competition so that would change my school life drastically. ... Our society today is based large...
Has technology shaped our society? ... This, evidently, changes the way society works. ... But how did we come to live in a consumers society? ... And even today, when we look at cars, cellular phones and computers we still want the best to make an impression on the people around us. ... It has shaped our society into a consumers society. ...
History has been rewritten to accommodate the frail minds of the passive masses, and other than advances in an entertainment industry, science has been deemed a mindless hobby. ... You cannot fathom how the world could ever turn to that. ... How often do you sit with your family and ask more than, "How was your day,"? ... Our classics' histories are being changed to lessen the hatred and hardships endured, but is that not an even greater insult in itself? ... A portrait of who we are painted the way we wanted to look, despite our real emotions or demeanor. ...
Nine years ago, when I decided to choose cheerleading over basketball, I would have never expected how drastically cheer would change my life. ... There are nine seniors here so there is no reason why no one has stepped up and been a leader.... It took me a second to realize today is the day. ... I thought some how this might give us a better chance of winning. ... " My team and I look at each other with tears in our eyes and at that moment we realized our dream was about to come true. ...
Change is a factor of life. ... Without change we wouldn't be here right now, it has allowed us to evolve into the everyday normality as we perceive it today. ... This shows us how much our world has changed in the span of almost 150 years, we have shaped and changed our country to something totally different to what it used to be. ... We all have our own history of changes, and also our own future. ... In perspective of the whole world we are either directly or indirectly affected by change, if we are unhappy with it we can try and make our own changes, but in the end all that matters i...
