assignment4

DATE: 14/6/2007
NAME: NA YOUNG KIM (LUCY)
CLASS: ENG-WRITING
INSTRUCTOR: PAUL KANG
ASSIGNMENT: FREE TOPIC (SAT ESSAY QUESTION)

Is growth necessary to a happy and productive life?

Technological and economical advancement creates a satisfying life. Thanks to the growth, people no more suffer from starving or incurable disease compared to the past days in 1970s, before industrial revolution. On the other hand, lack of progress has caused various problems from small inconvenience in the daily lives and suicidal act even the economical crisis over many nations.
Describing terrible tragedy of ruined economy, The Death of a Salesman represents the importance of wealth. At the end of the story, Willy Loman who incessantly pursed prosperity finally commits suicide. It makes people consider the influence of economical power on a common salesman as well as disastrousness of human illusion. He would not have attempted suicide if he had achieved his goal; opulence. Likewise, improvement in finance may even save a life of human being.
Different from this big disastrous effect concerning a pious human life, demerit of unexploited district is also applied to small inconvenience in daily lives. Staying in Texas in 2000, I did not have cell phone which had not even existed in the past. Without the technologically invented communication device, I could not keep in touch with my friends at my will. Furthermore, dearth of communication with people which seems tranquil life style, made me inert and lethargic. Similarly, cell phones are so common nowadays that people cannot even perceive the usefulness of them. However, cell phones satisfy people with their communication system and finally make them happy.
Great Depression in 1929 shows the strong-impressive influence that the economical advancement had on our satisfying lives. Producing over 15 million unemployed, slump of 1929 bred the insolvency from U.S. to France. By 1920, U.S. has accumulated a lot of capital; World War I offered a great market for U.S. to trade a large amount of military weapons. In spite of this huge earning, not only the economy of U.S. but also that of other nations gradually declined. Unimaginable number of people suffered from poverty problem that can only be solved by the prosperity. Shown in the Great Depression, it was financial or economical problem that had led the whole nation or even the world into the chaos. In my point of view, financial growth is essential to live a productive life since there cannot exist a happy life without any money to buy one’s meal to maintain his or her vitality.
No one gets happy without any food needed to survive or any ability to grow any crop. Likewise, economical or technological grown is a profound and fundamental factor that leads to a satisfying and happy life.