Anthem Essay: Science And Technology

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Chase Newcomb
10th Grade English
Anthem Essay
I'll be talking about the science and technology and how it has changed over the years and how it has changed in different societies. The science and technology can only thrive in a situation where individuals are free to explore and think. The technology has changed so much just in the past fifty or ten years, from not having computers or Internet. The technology now is way more progressed than it just was ten years ago. We can take a car and we have made them safer by making them different chapels and structures. We have added air bags that protect you from hitting your head and being injured badly or even death. They have also changed the cars so they are just all

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