Essay: "Life is better today than it was 100 years ago" discuss Life of human beings is continually changing, it is due to the alteration of humanity’s needs. The change involves mainly aspects like health, instruction and entertainment. Firstly, health situation has changed a lot during years, for example: before, children born at home, instead now they do it in a hospital; 100 years ago women died more frequently having a child than presently. Moreover, mass medias and education help to create a wider knowledge and consciousness about health. Secondly, 100 years ago, illiteracy was more frequent than today since the fact that people did not need to study or know something in order to do their job. Also the primary school was not compulsory; as a result of that many people could not write or read. This illiteracy was due also to the fact that in the past only wealthy people could afford education, the others had to work. As a consequence they had not time and money to spend in education. On the contrary, nowadays, a graduation is indispensable for the majority of jobs. Thirdly, entertainment is changed a lot. In fact, in the past there were not television and computer, as a consequence people spent time in a different way. What is more, the new mass medias like radio or television helped people to learn a standard language without influence of vernacular. By the way, there are also some disadvantages due to the introduction of all these mass medias. For instance, now people spend less time talking face to face because they prefer chatting on the internet. It means that for some extent life is not better now, but it is easier and more comfortable. For example, buying something online is easier than going to the shop. On this basis, we can state that now life is surely more safe, not only for the health, but also thanks to the higher rate of information and instruction.