Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
People assume that every accomplishment—each step in what we call progress—will lead to the solution to a problem and will help them reach the goal of understanding themselves and the world around them. In reality, however, each new answer provokes additional questions and each fresh discovery uncovers further complications. Every accomplishment leads to further problems, added responsibilities, more complications, and new challenges.
Assignment: Does every achievement bring with it new challenges? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.
“Achievement”, conveys a sense of glorious ending after a series of lengthy and painstaking struggles. However, it is not simply a small “ending” of a goal because in the complicated reality, everything, including …show more content…
For example, Ming rulers in China tried to limited overland trade threatened by Mongols but thrive its economy as well to rebuild a powerful empire with strong Chinese identity. They successfully developed maritime explorations as Zhenghe made contacts to people in Africa, Arabian Peninsula, and Southeast Asia seven times, and actively attended the Indian Ocean trade network. However, this achievement on maritime activities brought both chances and challenges for Ming Empire. The expeditions cost too much money that there was lack of defense for Mongols’ threat in the north. In addition, the prosperity in Indian Ocean network attracted Portuguese who then monopolized this network and colonized regions including Macaw in Ming