Saturday 11 May 2013

Practice how to write an essay, with the topic is THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF THE LIVING IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY


THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES
OF THE LIVING IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
The living in the twentieth century is commonly called globalization era. In other hands, it has changed the world in progression of culture, economic, social, education, life style and others. The people have modern transportation, communication, and technology. However, the joyful of people in this era has an effect both positive and negative effects. Living in the twentieth century offers certain advantages, such as a higher standard of living but it also has disadvantages, such as a polluted environment.
The biggest advantage of living in the twentieth century is the high standard of living we enjoy. There are some advantages of living in this century like more money for less hard worker than manual, longer life expectancy, and modern convenience. This era can be called modernization. The twentieth century has grown as economic and technological era. Each growth has many advantages in every aspects of life. 
People do not need work hard to earn more money. In this modernization, they are able to get more money for less hard worker than manual. Nowadays, they prefer to be office workers than manual laborers. Manual laborers have been changed into machines or computer by the office workers. The productions of outcome are bigger than using manual laborers. They use their mind more than the strength of their muscle. The effects of more productions, they have higher salaries. The government services have also increased such social security, unemployed benefits, and disability insurances.    
Health is still the most important thing for the human even in the twentieth century. They have an opportunity in longer life expectancy. Many diseases can be recovered by better medical care. They can find the ways to be better from disease because each city have more hospitals, doctors, and nurses. The many advances in medical technology are used as alternative medical treatment and therapy like blood pressure monitor, pixel-optics electronics for eye glass and others. The nutrition for health has improved. So, they have more leisure time because being healthy every time.
            There are many modern conveniences involve communication tools, machines in the home, and faster transportation. The progression of using communication is facilitate the people to communicate directly even in far distance by using telephones. They can enjoy the radio and television as media to get information, entertainment, and any others. This era provides labor-saving machines in the home such dishwashers, washing machines, and vacuum cleaners. The faster transportation like plain and train also facilitate the people who want to move to other place quickly.
            Living with the advantages is incomplete if hasn't opposite effect of those. One of the main disadvantages of living in the twentieth century is that we are living in an increasingly polluted environment. The biggest modern develop has biggest pollution that always appear are air pollution and water pollution as international problem. Air pollution is big trouble in the world. Smog and nuclear fallout in atmosphere cause greenhouse or global warming that have influent to all creatures living in earth. 70% of Earth is water and 20% is ground, however water pollution is increase rapidly. It makes water become dirty, black and dangerous. There are many caused of water pollution, such as: chemical waste from factory that contains dangerous ingredients and toxic  In many countries stated that chemical waste effects are caused of dead fish and contaminate drinking water supplies. Because, chemical waste is usually discard on river. Raw sewage from cities has same effect as chemical waste. People distribute their sewage from their house to drain, then go to river and finish on the sea. And in the sea, chemical waste from factory and sewage from cities are joined with oil spills from ships. All the pollution have bad effect to health, human life and nature.
            A second disadvantage of living in the twentieth century is depersonalization of human relationship. Nowadays, because of life style and high technology, people’ works are changed with machine, such as: automated vending machines, banks, etc. In several countries, vending machines not only sell cigarette or soft drink, but also sell tools, gadget, or cars. And people can take their money without go to bank because we can find more automated banks in public area. Other machines that changed human are tape recorded telephone answering and computerized dating services. People can play the tape recorded of telephone answering when they back to home and know all news that recorded on tape. And computerized dating service is connected single man and single women or single boy and single girl who want to date. Each person can send his profile and write his couple’s types that he wants to the server. Then, server matches he with a girl and they can date.
            For modernization life style, numbers become too important in human life in twentieth century. For example is social security numbers. They are used as individual social security, administration, index of employee or student, credit record, tax, etc. in other hands, shopaholic and socialite usually use credit card numbers. Those machines and numbers are created to help human life style in this era, yet it makes many people unemployed and become poor. Therefore, width social discrepancy is appearing as unfinished problem. 
            The final disadvantage of living in twentieth century is the weakening of spiritual values. This globalization increases materialistic culture. Money and possession are important than anything in life. Those make people become individual and egoistic. And people’ faith in science instead of in religion. They who live in metropolis cities usually forget the rules of God. Their mindset is change into realistic that believe in anything that has evidence and leave the religion that learn about morality. They don’t realize that religion contains science.            
            In conclusion, although the twentieth century has indeed given a lot of advantages by making as richer, healthier, and freer to enjoy our lives, it has, in my opinion, not made us wiser. The twentieth century has also made our earth dirtier, our people less humane, and our spiritual lives poorer. We should continue to enjoy the benefits of technological advancements because they free us to pursue our interest and goals. However, we must make a concerted effort to preserve our natural environment for future generations. Moreover, we should take the time now to make our lives more meaningful in an increasingly impersonal, computerized world.

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