the most boring paper i've ever written.
so i had to write this paper.... and i had no motivation for it.. so i wrote about the first thing that came to mind that i though had enough substance to write 3 pages over. and it turned out to be the most boring thing ever... i mean so boring... it could probably put someone to sleep.. but anyways.. here it is.
Better Healthcare Caused Longer Lives
Can you imagine being married before you even got out of middle school? Would you be able to raise a child before you could even drive a vehicle? Suppose you had been born in the late 1800s or early 1900s.You would have been expected to be an adult by age twelve. At that time it was rare for a person to live past the age of forty. Today, many people dont get married or have children until they are in their late thirties or forties. This is because people generally live to be twice a sold if not more then our ancestors. Improved healthcare and technology have made it possible for people to live longer, healthier lives than people in previous lifetimes.
Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia, states way back in the beginning of time, it was rare for a Neanderthal to live past 20 years old. The average life expectancy of newborns even at the turn of the century was a mere 37. Today, the average life expectancy of a newborn is 81. We have surpassed our earliest ancestors by more than 200 percent. I believe there are two main reasons for this increase. The first and most significant is the improvements made in healthcare.
In the earliest times there was basically no such thing as healthcare. Even in the 19th and early 20th centuries healthcare was minimal and you took it at your own risk. If you got hurt, unless it was extremely serious, at best you might have gotten a kiss on the cheek from Mom and a day off of work. If you were seriously injured, you most likely had to ride in the back of a wagon several hours to the nearest doctor's office. There, you would receive what care your family could afford and what the doctor could think up. Surgery was performed with the equivalent of a dull razor blade. A shot was usually given with something similar to a toothpick. Most injuries and illnesses were treated with a shot of penicillin. The doctor would then tell you to go home and hope for the best. There have been numerous changes made to healthcare in the last several years.
DNA, the building block of life wasn't even explored until 1953. Before then, DNA was just a mystery to us. Now, doctor's use DNA for just about everything. Open-heart surgery wasn't even sucessfully performed until 1952. These days, open-heart surgery saves thousands of lives every year. Before 1912, there were no such thing as vitamins. Vitamins, something we take for granted, were actually a huge medical breakthrough. There wasn't even a distinction of different blood types until the early twentieth century. All of these are crucial things for human survival, however, none of them even existed before the past century.
One major thing that has changed, is that healthcare is more investigative than it ever has been. A lot of diseases and injuries are prevented early in life so that we do not have to worry about them as we grow older. Billions and billions of dollars are spent on medical research every year. Rather than wait for soemthing to happen, like they used to do, now doctors and scientists are working around the clock to prevent things from happening. Not to mention, there has been massive amounts of research done to help people live healthier lives, so that medical problems won't be such a threat in the future. Nutrition and diet are at the forefront of American lives. People and food are getting healtierand healthier as time goes by. This is just part of the reason people are living longer lives.
Along with improved healthcare, I believe that technology has made it possible for people to live longer lives. In the past, all work had to be done by hand. If it couldn't be done by hand, it wasn't done at all. Now, computers have made it possible for almost everything to be done with little or no man power. Physical labor has been made much less strenuous with the help of tractors and robotic devices. It is now possible to manufacture almost anything in a factory with the use of computerized machines and conveyor belts. The increase in technology has decreased the amount of wear and tear on the human body. Today's men and women only perform a fraction of the manual labor that people from earlier times had to perform. Therefore, we are able to take better care of our bodies.
As we can see in this paper, as well as in the world around us, medical advancements, along with improved technology, have increased the human life expectancy by more than 200 percent. At this rate, it is impossible to tell what the life expectancy of our grandchildren will be, but we can be sure it will keep increasing. We can thank our healthcare workers, scientists, computer technicians and designers, along with many other people for this change.
Better Healthcare Caused Longer Lives
Can you imagine being married before you even got out of middle school? Would you be able to raise a child before you could even drive a vehicle? Suppose you had been born in the late 1800s or early 1900s.You would have been expected to be an adult by age twelve. At that time it was rare for a person to live past the age of forty. Today, many people dont get married or have children until they are in their late thirties or forties. This is because people generally live to be twice a sold if not more then our ancestors. Improved healthcare and technology have made it possible for people to live longer, healthier lives than people in previous lifetimes.
Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia, states way back in the beginning of time, it was rare for a Neanderthal to live past 20 years old. The average life expectancy of newborns even at the turn of the century was a mere 37. Today, the average life expectancy of a newborn is 81. We have surpassed our earliest ancestors by more than 200 percent. I believe there are two main reasons for this increase. The first and most significant is the improvements made in healthcare.
In the earliest times there was basically no such thing as healthcare. Even in the 19th and early 20th centuries healthcare was minimal and you took it at your own risk. If you got hurt, unless it was extremely serious, at best you might have gotten a kiss on the cheek from Mom and a day off of work. If you were seriously injured, you most likely had to ride in the back of a wagon several hours to the nearest doctor's office. There, you would receive what care your family could afford and what the doctor could think up. Surgery was performed with the equivalent of a dull razor blade. A shot was usually given with something similar to a toothpick. Most injuries and illnesses were treated with a shot of penicillin. The doctor would then tell you to go home and hope for the best. There have been numerous changes made to healthcare in the last several years.
DNA, the building block of life wasn't even explored until 1953. Before then, DNA was just a mystery to us. Now, doctor's use DNA for just about everything. Open-heart surgery wasn't even sucessfully performed until 1952. These days, open-heart surgery saves thousands of lives every year. Before 1912, there were no such thing as vitamins. Vitamins, something we take for granted, were actually a huge medical breakthrough. There wasn't even a distinction of different blood types until the early twentieth century. All of these are crucial things for human survival, however, none of them even existed before the past century.
One major thing that has changed, is that healthcare is more investigative than it ever has been. A lot of diseases and injuries are prevented early in life so that we do not have to worry about them as we grow older. Billions and billions of dollars are spent on medical research every year. Rather than wait for soemthing to happen, like they used to do, now doctors and scientists are working around the clock to prevent things from happening. Not to mention, there has been massive amounts of research done to help people live healthier lives, so that medical problems won't be such a threat in the future. Nutrition and diet are at the forefront of American lives. People and food are getting healtierand healthier as time goes by. This is just part of the reason people are living longer lives.
Along with improved healthcare, I believe that technology has made it possible for people to live longer lives. In the past, all work had to be done by hand. If it couldn't be done by hand, it wasn't done at all. Now, computers have made it possible for almost everything to be done with little or no man power. Physical labor has been made much less strenuous with the help of tractors and robotic devices. It is now possible to manufacture almost anything in a factory with the use of computerized machines and conveyor belts. The increase in technology has decreased the amount of wear and tear on the human body. Today's men and women only perform a fraction of the manual labor that people from earlier times had to perform. Therefore, we are able to take better care of our bodies.
As we can see in this paper, as well as in the world around us, medical advancements, along with improved technology, have increased the human life expectancy by more than 200 percent. At this rate, it is impossible to tell what the life expectancy of our grandchildren will be, but we can be sure it will keep increasing. We can thank our healthcare workers, scientists, computer technicians and designers, along with many other people for this change.