Matt
Harris
3A
Mrs.
Pickett
Current
connections
The Present and the Past
In the past (namely the 1700's) there wasn't exactly a
lot to do to pass the time. A lot of people didn't have fun; they simply worked
because they had to survive day by day.
In the days before technology invention, such as cars or computers, all people
did was work and farm. Occasionally children would play outside, for example
hanging out at the local pond to fish or swim. At that time they did not simply
hunt for fun, they hunted for survival bringing food to their families. There was
not enough food to waste according to farmers, which at that time made up"
90% of the U.S population." They worked very hard to provide food and
comforts for their families; they were some of the most tough and hardworking
people in history.
In today's society Americans have become sedentary and
obese. However our current technology is so much more advanced, the farming workforce could probably produce
200% more crops than farmers in the 1700's in half the time. Yet in 2008,
there was a reported "50.2 million people starving in the U.S."
The reason is most people in today's society waste ten times as much food as people in the
1700's. If people in today's society
could just learn to work harder, eat what they need and not what they want,
then maybe we could be the hardworking farmers that we once were.
