"What we call progress is a matter of exchanging one problem for another." -
Write an essay in which you take a position on the statement above. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true.
What is progress? Is it defined by human dedication and the constant striving to achieve newer heights? Or is it a harsher phenomena, characterized by ever more difficult obstacles and setbacks as man inches forward? This is the question the issue presented here, tries to answer, although I'd like to begin by disagreeing with the answer it provides. Progress is not simply a succession of ever increasingly difficult objectives, it is the mastery of those objectives and the subsequent victory of human endeavour.
Firstly, the issue has one truth as it's basis, namely, with increasing progr...
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Sentence: This is progress, accepting the existence of a problem, analysing it, finding one's way around it, and succeeding.
Error: analysing Suggestion: analyzing
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