Progress essay

          Progress is a good thing. It can help change the world. With progress comes change, some people, however, do not like progress. Often when someone doesn’t like progress is because their regular routine changes. But once those people get used to it, they normally turn out to like it, because progress and change are a good thing. Progress and change are kind of a package deal, and they are indeed a good thing.

          Without change or progress we wouldn’t have half of what he have to do, we would have maybe a quarter, maybe. Most of the progress that the U.S. has made has to do with technology. Just look at Thomas Edison, he tried to create the light bulb probably about a thousand times. Without all of his hard work and progress, we would still be living in the candle light. At Walden’s Pond everyone tried to convince Thoreau that he was crazy and that he needed to stop working on something he truly believed in, then we would still be trying to save the planet.

            It’s funny how things turn out. No one would have thought that some crazy man named Thoreau would be making real progress. Trying to save the planet, back then, was something that was a change. People didn’t like the idea of change but once they got used to the idea, the idea kept growing. Living in twenty first century people have come to be a lot more lenient to change. Apple is the best example of progress. When Apple was first created, the computer was old, big, clunky, and lots of wires. Now, if you walk into an Apple store, there are cordless laptops that are shiny, sleek, and very thin. And we even have iPads. Apple is most likely the best example to show how much progress the U.S. has made in the past 100 years.

             Progress is how the world evolves, and without change the world could not make progress. At Walden’s Pond no one thought Thoreau could do anything. But he changed lives. Apple has made the most progress, therefore the most change. The world needs change, the world needs to evolve. Without the progress that the U.S. has made we would still be sitting in the dark.