<p>Please grade my friend’s essay. He asked me to do it for him but… I am unable to decide. </p>
<p>Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below. </p>
<p>Most people think that contentment—being happy with the way things are—is the perfect state of affairs. After all, what could be better than being so satisfied with how things are that you don’t want anything else? But contentment has disadvantages: if we are content with the way things are, we are not motivated to change things, to improve ourselves, or to do better. We must therefore always choose between being content and pushing ourselves to do better. </p>
<p>Assignment: Does being content with the way things are prevent people from improving themselves and doing better? 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. </p>
<p>I believe that being content with the way things are prevent people from improving themselves and doing better. Contentment no motivation leads to an individual being satisfied with his present condition and will never try to change things. </p>
<p>If doctors and researchers would have been content with what they had a decade ago we would never have improved in the field of medical science. Similar would have been the case with technology. Motivation is the key to bring about a change in present condition but is lost if an individual is content with his present conditions. </p>
<p>Would it have been possible for us to know about the recently discovered planets if everyone was content and satisfied and no on was motivated to know about what lies beyond Pluto. </p>
<p>Indeed, motivation makes an individual perform a task better but contentment, on contrary holds back an individual to live with the things the way they are…</p>