Life 100 Years Ago Essay Example

is a drastic change. Before e. g. 90% of all doctors had no college education and two out of every 10 adults couldn’t read or write.

Now we have many types of schools focused of different fields of jobs and people can choose which university they want to go to. Also the government pays for the students each year. This brings me to the idea whether political systems and politicians have changed. There used to be many wars that affected the whole world such as the World Wars but there are still some conflicts between countries which result in miscellaneous attacks on people. That is probably what hasn’t changed.

But on the other hand, we have relatively stable political systems (where there used to be kings or dictators, presidents or other heads of state are). Another thing we could look at is food and drinks as all people need to eat and always will. I don’t think that this has changed much over the century, but certainly with higher and new technologies, we can prepare meals in healthier ways etc. However, alcohol is probably much more used now than before. Also because of that new technology, we now have e. g. microwaves, electric ovens etc. while e. g. bubble gum, toasters nor even milk cartons used to exist 100 years ago.