Progress. The term has an undeniably positive connotation, bringing to the mind words such as innovation, discovery, or improvement. We think of steps being taken towards equality and groundbreaking medical discoveries. Oxford Dictionary defines it as “development towards an improved or more advanced condition”. In...
It is rightly said by Frederick Douglass that if there is no struggle, there is no progress. It is a struggle which keeps us moving ahead in life. One’s struggles never get wasted and he/she always receives a good reward for them. These were golden...
Wessels describes how we have exceeded carrying capacity and eventually natural order will restore itself. One negative feedback solution the author discusses is global warming and the melting of the ice caps. In the event of global sea waters warming, greater influxes in fresh water...
The topic I have chosen for my IGCSE Global Perspectives Component#1 is Digital World. The sphere that I am highlighting under this topic is “have technological advancements reached a limit by which they can be called harmful”. The reason why I have selected this topic...
Over the last few years, I have faced several challenges in meeting my own goals for success as a student. I have lost my father and was battling depressing for over 5 years. I had issues keeping up with my life and facing any situation...
Progress and Poverty was written by Henry George in 1879. Henry George was a popular reformer, whose work was popular in the nineteenth century, which sparked reform movements. In Progress and Poverty George argued that the wealth created by social and technological advances in the...
A serendipitous discovery is a discovery that has been discovered accidentally. One important discovery was because of Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen (Roentgen), a German mechanical engineer and physicist, born on March 27, 1845. Wilhelm R?ntgen was 40 years old and a physics professor at the Julius...
In the history of scientific development, there has always been some lag between the gathering of data in nature and the theories that describe these observations. Of course, they cannot be done simultaneously, but there have been countless instances of scientific theory that developed decades,...
Introduction Within the long time past days, some time recently before the mechanical insurgency, man used diverse implies to outlive and compete. The procedures utilized by man to search for food to outlast was exceptionally provincial and natural. Superior still, man was effective in finishing...
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