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The Rise of “Awesome”

Central argument: Like how the meaning of words, such as “awesome,” has evolved throughout time, so has the English language and every other aspect of nature and things that affect our everyday life.

Throughout time, change is bound to take place; it usually starts off small, but in the end the change is evident and not so small anymore. This article, “The Rise of ‘Awesome’” states the theory of evolution through the word “awesome.” Evolution is evident in every other aspect of life. The evolution of human is explained in Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. The everyday life of a human has also evolved due to the advancement of technology as well as the evolution of gadgets.

There is scientific proof that humans have indeed evolved from apes from all the fossil evidence that have been discovered. Darwin concluded that all form of life is related and has a common ancestor. These ancestors were simpler creatures who, over thousands of years, evolved into a more complex version and made a “new” form of life. Everyone is familiar with the evolution picture which starts off with an image of a monkey, proceeding to couple of hunched human-like figures with a few changes as you look towards the right of the picture, to finally a human that we associate ourselves with. That picture shows how humans have evolved physically, but throughout that period, the mental ability of humans evolved as well.

In the first few forms of humans in the evolution picture, humans lived their lives as nomads, constantly moving from place to place in search of food. However, as they evolved physically, so did their minds and thoughts. They realized that they could settle down in one place and plant food and tame animals. From the use of simple tools like the sickle, they upgraded their tools to the use of ploughs, tractors and combines. People nowadays no longer need to farm for a living, as their source of food is the closest supermarket. The way people spend their 24 hours has changed drastically from moving from one place to another for food to a regulated schedule of getting up, working eight hours of the day, and going back to the same how throughout the year. The advancement in technology has played a big role in this evolution as people can communicate faster than ever nowadays due to the internet.

With the evolution of the mind comes, new, innovative, and creative ideas. In the 21st century, everybody is competing with each other to be, have, or come up with the best. This is especially true for the gadget industry. Each industry is competing for the most sales; to achieve maximum profit they must make their product look better than the rest. For this reason people have been coming up with the newest, unimaginable ideas. Just over a decade ago, I remember my mother carrying a colorless, tiny screened, ugly, black Samsung phone, but now she carries one of the latest phones going around. That Samsung phone she once owned is nowhere to be found in the market. All the cell phones on sale are colorful, have big screens, have numerous applications built within the phone and support a large variety of other services. There definitely has been a drastic and rapid evolution in the technology provided and demanded.

Evolution has taken place throughout history, and still takes place today. Humans, physically and mentally, have evolved from ape-like creatures to what we are today, and believe it or not, we are still evolving. Just like humans, so have gadgets, such as the mobile phone, evolved from unattractive, bulky, colorless gadgets, to sleek, slim, and colorful ones. These are just a few examples of evolution that has taken place and still are, just like the meaning of the word “awesome.”