The Rise of Awesome.

Central argument : Everyone in the world advances and follows the changes after recognizing things which have changed.

The Rise of Awesome written by Robert Lane, demonstrates how different words have changed its meaning throughout the period. However, it is not only words which have changed throughout past decays and century; things change as the time goes by. Everyone in the world advances and follows the trend after recognizing them after changes. Such as the women rights, how women had no rights at all before 1900’s. Rights for the dark skinned people, how they were treated differently and unfairly compared to fair skinned people. Lastly the technology, it changes every day, and majority of the people seem to follow the technology and advance themselves.

Businessman, chief, priest, architect, artist and many more, these are the list of the jobs men used to and still have. Housekeeping this was the only job for the women until early 1900’s. However, as the time went by, women started to gain more rights and in present day women are more likely to have more rights than men or equal to men. For example, in Korea women has formed a group called “Yeosung dang” and they basically has control over majority of the groups in Korea. They not only formed groups, but today most of the women has high position jobs in companies and firms, one great example can be the prime minister of Australia elected in 2010, and she is one of the first women prime minister. When water is spilt on a table it will spread as far as it goes, after women gaining few rights they started to seek for more and after short amount of time they are equal than higher than men. And sometimes women take place in big movement of the history.

Rosa Park, a dark skinned woman who has taken risk to show dark skinned and fair skinned people should be equal. Because dark skinned people were treated as slaves in 1700~1800’s after all the slaves were freed, people still had a same mindset in their head ‘Dark skinned people are untouchables’ until a small movement was started in the society. Starting with a small change and putting in time brought a big change. It was only a person, Rosa Park, who started the rebellion, but as the time went by people started to follow and support this rebellion which leads it to its success giving rights to dark skinned people. The biggest event which clearly shows this rebellion has succeeded is election of president Obama, the first dark skinned president in USA. It did take them long time to succeed their goals, but as a result it was a successful movement. I think the reason was due to the technology which was underdeveloped during 1800s.

Facebook, Twiter and many other social networks which is used by majority of the global citizens. I-pad, I-phone and many other devices which use new technology, ios5, are demanded by lots of people. People seem to demand for these technologies because they know the changes between the past generation and the new generation. Buying new devices with technology doesn’t necessarily means it is better, but people seem to do it because they follow the changes which have occurred in the world.

Everyone in the world advances and follows the changes after recognizing things which have changed. It is like the root of the tree once it starts growing, it will grow as deep as possible and as wide as possible to obtain all the minerals. Because some things are so widely spread it is easy for people to recognize them and follow them and also advance themselves to the new ideas.