Title : The Rise Of "Awesome"

Central Argument: Change over time is present in any subject, such as in the word awesome.

I agree that our lives are filled with things changing. As the article “The rise of Awesome” suggests that even with the meaning of words change exists. First the word awesome only meant to awe and now the words means great, evolution takes place everywhere. Whether it is to do with human evolution, or do to with ourselves changing in personality likes and dislikes. Change does exist in the little as well as the big things in our lives. Thanks to the scientists we know that evolution does take place over a long period of time. We as humans have also changed in our thinking and the way we put things into action.

First we made fire out of the friction between two stones. Now all we have to do is switch on a button. Before we used arrows to hunted in order to survive. Now we go to a grocery store to buy our food. Our physical appearance has changed as well as the way we do things. We, humans have evolved as well as the world around us. From walking on all fours and having a hunch back. We now are bipedal, improved and useful.

Not just us, but also the wildlife around us has changed. Dinosaurs no longer exist, as well as the wooly mammoths. Now we have different kinds of creatures roaming around us who have similar characteristics too the animals before them, such as elephants, sharks, and birds. All these creatures have changed over time just like us. The flowers, the trees too have evolved over the generations.

We cannot stop change from taking place. For something to change it can take years or months. Meaning of words over the years has also changed. Such as the meaning of the word sick as mentioned in the article. I too use these words to mean something completely different then what the word use to mean. At times I tell my friend that her dress look sick. Which may sound like I am insulting it, but actually what I mean is that my friend looks fabulous.

Change has also taken in the way we think. All around the world women were seen as nothing more than just wives who would produce many children. This thinking is still changing, in many parts of the world women have become successful and have found freedom. However, there still remains many places in the world that still have a long way to go.

The way we view children has also changed. Before the Enlightenment children were viewed as young adults. However, with the great philosophers such as Rousseau, who wrote Emile, discussed how children are children and they should be treated with care and support. As John Locke said that we are born as blank slates and as we grow up we learn and experience and therefore we gain knowledge. Children from this time period onwards were given their own toys to play with, and were expected to act nothing more than just children. Change is constant and change is everywhere.