Technology and Change Essay

For our social studies, we're studying about different era's in our time. We have to choose three technologies in that era and research something about them. So we chose to study about the 20th century and create an essay about it.

Question: Explain a technology period you have studied and what some of the

important inventions were in this period.

Use the Lawyer paragraph to explain this.

Paragraph 1: Introduction.

Re-state what the question is in a paragraph

During the 20th Century period in history there were some significant technological advancements. Some

of the inventions during this time were plastic, television and internet. These inventions seen during this

time are still widely used and seen today. 

Paragraph 2: Invention 1 explained

State what the invention is, what it does and how far it has come up until today

A Significant invention during the 20th Century was plastic. Plastic is widely used around the world. It

was first invented in 1907 by Leo Baekland. Plastic is useful to most people because it can be recycled or

reused. It can be used for eating, drinking, for buying things at the supermarket, packaging and anything

else. But despite plastic being useful, it has a huge disadvantage in the world. First of all, people are using

too much plastic which causes an excessive amount of waste. When plastic is made, it takes thousands

or millions of years before it wither. However, there are billions of plastic products now, it would be very

hard to decompose. This causes animals to suffer and cause a huge impact in the world like if it doesn't

decay now, this place will be full of plastics. Well, despite these things, we can still recycle plastic and

create more things that we can use over and over again. Therefore plastic is an important invention of this

time.

Paragraph 3: Invention 2 explained

State what the invention is, what it does and how far it has come up until today

A Significant invention during the 20th Century was television. Television is another significant technology

that was invented in the 20’s century. Television is used for entertainment, listening to news or anything

else. This invention has huge improvement as time goes on. First, its appearance differs in size as

technology improves. It originally looks like a small brown tv and a black and white screen. But between

1940’s and 50’s, colored television was invented. Then the screen follows next and becomes flat which

makes it easier for people to watch. Different programmes can now be watched there like cartoons, news

and other devices that can be connected in the tv. This is a very important technology because it makes

people's lives easier, like when watching news, you know what’s happening around you and you don’t

have to read newspapers anymore. But this television also has disadvantages, some people are addicted

to watching and if it overuse, it could break or sometimes it might explode. Well, this doesn’t happen very

often because not everyone is addicted and some people don’t have televisions. We can still say that

televisions are a significant invention that was invented in the 20th century because it helps us in many

different ways. Therefore television is an important invention of this time.

Paragraph 4: Invention 3 explained

State what the invention is, what it does and how far it has come up until today

A Significant invention during the 20th Century was the internet. The Internet was first invented by Robert

Kahn and Vint Cerf in 1960. This invention is very important and beneficial to everyone. Without the

internet, life would be a little hard because this invention is used in most things today like studying,

working, researching, entertainment and many other things. Almost everyone with a gadget or device

uses the internet. People use this for working on their job, for talking to their family, for studying or

anything else. This is still widely used and seen today as more things will be invented, the internet will

always be there to help. Therefore the internet is an important invention of this time.

Paragraph 5: Conclusion

Go over the points you have just made above

There were many significant technological advancement seen during the 20th Century. Some of those

discussed are plastics, televisions and the internet. These are all commonly seen today all over the world

and are still very important in today's generation.