Weekly #2

Change can be either good or bad in many ways. It can be good because of the enhancements of technology, but it can also be bad because of the air pollution and food that is being processed. In ancient times, people traveled by foot. Then, the horse and carriage was the new way to travel. Today we have cars; millions and millions of cars that travel every day. These cars were both a good thing and a bad thing. They were good because it was easier and much faster to travel places. It is also much more comfortable then a bumpy ride on a horse and carriage or a tiring walk on the hard ground. There are also many downsides of this wonderful but also polluting at the same time. A lot of the pollution in our air is caused by cars and factories. As you can see, this is just one of the major examples of change in our society. In this essay, the change in of art, the agricultural revolution, and architecture and urban planning will be discussed and hopefully it will be able to teach more of the ups and downs of change in our world.

            In ancient times, art was used as a messenger. It was used to describe where people came from, what people looked like, and the way that people lived. Since these times when art was drawn on walls of stone, art has changed in more than one major way. One major example of major art was the Rosetta stone. This massive stone with tree different types of writing on it told us many things.  This stone also taught us many things. We learned how to read hieroglyphics, and about the history of these things. Today, art is mostly for show. People do put pieces of meaning, and hidden things in paintings, but we aren’t out writing on caves about how the hunt went or major events. Basically, art is not the same as it used to be. We learned so much of our history form art but it just isn’t the same anymore. When we look at ancient art, we learn what happened in that time period and about these people’s lives, but most modern art won’t teach people about these kinds of things. There are exceptions though. For example, when 9/11 occurred, there were paintings that represented that. There still are paintings that will teach the people of the future things about our life today, but it is not how it used to be in the ancient times.

Architecture and urban planning have also gone through change. Farmers used to have to go to the stream and collect water for their crops and bring it back. Today, we have irrigation systems. With these, we barely even have to lift a finger in order to water acres of crops. This, for example, was a good change. The next example is not. A long time ago, farmers had to wait longer for their crops and animals to grow. Today, we have growth hormones and other formulas to cause plants and animals to develop much faster. This can be a very bad change in many ways. Many cows suffer from ecoli. This is a disease that is very harmful if people consume this infected meat. This disease is given to the cow from corn. Most cows are only fed corn and no grass, while research shows that feeding a cow grass for just five days will wipe the ecoli out of their system. As you can see, not all of these changes are good and some of them are so harmful that they could cause death. Ancient planning in Mesopotamia was a very good change that would later show to help our society today. This helped us get the idea for a city, and make cities in our modern world. If it weren’t for them, I don’t even know where we would be today.

As you can see change has many ups and downs, but it is good to experience the ups and downs in our life. If we didn’t, we would never learn anything like we can now. Hopefully we will be able to see many more changes, and keep trying to make our world the best place that we can.