L'idée de progrès : définitions (Anglais)

« 1 / 2 L'idée de progrès : définitions L'idée de progrès fait partie des quatre notions du cycle de termi­ nale.

Elle s'inscrit dans le thème conducteur suivant : « Des gestes fondateurs et des mondes en mouvement ».

Or le mouvement est inhérent à la notion de progrès.

0 Définitions L'idée de progrès est certainement positive .

On peut considérer que le progrès permet une vie meilleure à tous ceux qui y ont accès.

Cependant, il peut entraîner dans son sillage des abus de pouvoir et laisser des gens sur le bord de sa route.

$ Progress (n.)/'prô- .gres /: a movement forward or toward something, the process of improving or developing something over a period of lime , a graduai betterment of mankind .

m A better life $ 1.

Scientific progress for common good When research came to a breakthrough in 1796 with the smallpox vaccine found by British physician Edward Jenner , life changed for millions of people.

Before that, once you got infected, you hardly stood a chance.

The same went with the discovery of the antibiotic substance penicillin in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming , a Scottish biologist.

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More equality Progress in biology and in sciences is for the common good.

Death rate decreases and life expectancy increases .

As long as everybody can access scientific progress, a society grows better and equal.

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Social progress Putting an end to abusive laws definitely brings social progress.

ln 1964, the Civic Rights Act outlawed racial discrimination, from which the U.S had been suffering for decades.

ln England, suffragettes fought hard to win the right to vote.

They were first granted voting rights after WWI but at that time the law specified that a woman had to be over 30 years old and able to prove property 2 / 2. »