Idea of progress - BAC anglais
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Idea of Progress :
Introduction :
Hello, my name is Lou-Anne and I'm going to talk about the Idea of Progress.
To begin with, I’d like to state a definition of progress.
Progress can be scientific (medicine ) technical (the internet) or social (women's rights ) and must make our lives easier or our world a better place to live in.
For me, we can only call something progress if it is an improvement on a previous situation.
Also, what is an improvement for some people often means negative consequences for other people.
To illustrate this notion, I have chosen to talk about the social progress of the end of slavery in the USA with Martin Luther King.
In other part, I have chosen to bring out the advantages and disadvantages of the technical progress on teenagers in our society, like Internet for example.
- I- First of all, thanks to the social advances, equality has become better established.
- For example, the movie « Selma » by Ava DuVernay we saw in class, counts the historic fight of Dr Martin Luther King to guarantee civil right at all the american citizens.
A dangerous campaign achieved by a long walk , which conducted the president Jonhson to sign the law of the civil right in 1965.
- This movie, based on real facts and characters, well shows the complexity of the « black problem » in the USA in 1960's : The pressure between different black communities, leaders's difficulty ( including Martin Luther King) , white power's position.
It allows to realize the violence that the black Americans suffered.
- In addition, with the raise of racism and intolerance, this could affect the youth and show them that whatever the skin color or another difference , a human deserves respect and equality.
To bring out the slavery in the USA,I can also think of the movie « 12 years a slave » by Steve Mac Queen.
- II- Then, thanks to advances in sciences, communication has become much more accessible.
- For example, in a recording we listened in class called « My Facebook Page », a teenager explain her utilisation of Facebook. This interview show us the evolution of today's society and the fact that technology has progressed :
Indeed, she indicates that she can control information on her profile, she knows if people are dating other people or if they went on a trip and she can see their photos or what they're doing.
→ The journalist draws our attention to the fact that people can control what they want on Internet : now, there isn't a real confidentiality anymore and there is more accessibility. Because of this huge accessibility and the low confidentiality, more problems appear.
- Cyberbullying is an interesting example to illustrate those problems and
the notion of « Idea of progress ». It shows how technological progress of Internet changed our relationships with others.
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