8.15独立写作:Young people today more likely to give time and effort improving the world than young people were in the past.
Motivation is somehow intrinsic. Exposed to a hodgepodge of academic offerings and provided with a plethora of advanced technological equipments, young people today are, in fact, intrinsically motivated to enhance the current quality of life, in order to lead better lives in the future. Even for some exceptions, extrinsic stimulations in the modern world ensure that they will spend more time and effort on improving the world.
Modern society has witnessed an upheaval in technology and science. As we are reaching the next phase of the Information Age, it’s easy to forget that just several decades ago, the Information Age was stuck on its launching pad. The internet was unknown to nearly everyone except university researchers and TV was still patting itself on the back over cable success. Whereas now they have been the most pervasive and persuasive signal of modern technology and are utilized by numerous teenagers who are desperate to learn more about other civilizations in the world, thereby giving us an ever more detailed insight into the world around us. To be more specific, my grandfather had the ambitions to become a scientist. However, the limited access to advanced knowledge at his time confined his talents. On the contrary, I used to have no inclination even to dabble in this domain, but all the intriguing experiments on the Internet fascinated me spurred my zeal in science. Furthermore, social problems witnessed by young people today are never more severe. To be more specific, social and institutional contexts for sex discrimination in American life have included the workplace, occupations, income, employment and home, despite a century of social change stimulated by the feminist movement in issues like sexual violence and exploitation. Economic and political inequalities in any country around the world arise continually from over-concentrations of wealth and power and imbalances in the distribution of wealth. Enormous young people made up their mind to improve the world after they saw the people starving in Africa, babies rejected by homeless parents or the broken Earth replete with greenhouse gases. In short, all these social problems urge young people today to take more effort on improving the world.
In general, due to the material and spiritual stimulus in the modern society, young people today are more likely to be motivated by their interests and aspirations to enhance the world. |