Notes

In 1954, Roald Dahl wrote a witty story called "The Great Automatic Grammatizator". It's a different type of story compared to the children's author we all know and love. Adolph Knipe, a computer genius, has always longed to be an author. Envious of the competition in the country, Adolph Knipe sets out to create a writing machine that can compose stories with various styles. Later on, the machine was a success. The Grammatizator is said to have three rows with over a hundred buttons. The user can control the mood of the story, the topic, how many characters and what author style they want to imitate. By clicking a few buttons and controlling switches- BOOM! The story is ready in a matter of a few minutes. Anyone can be a successful author using this machine. Not to mention, they can make a lot of money by producing a lot of stories. Writers don't need to worry about spelling, grammar, content or sentence structure. This could save up a lot of time and energy. Technology wasn't advanced back then, and this revolutionary made-up prototype was only a faraway dream for people who wished to be authors. Somehow, Roald Dahl was partly able to foresee the future of a world filled with technology. A genius he is!

Fast forward to the 21st century, a world full of technology. Humans are increasingly productive with the resources around them. Now, anything can be done with the right tools. People can now find out about a nearly endangered species or mysterious places by surfing the web. Even better, people can create solutions that can save thousands of lives, like finding out a cure for preventable diseases or ground-breaking solutions to make living life more efficient. With all of these reasons, what could possibly be bad about technology?

There's always a flip side to everything. Technology, in this case, is the trigger point for students to be "idle" because it's addicting. Kids nowadays just sit down and stare at screens all day: they are attached to all kinds of things. Be it playing video games, listening to music, keeping up with the latest gossip (preferably gossip about the Kardashians) or going on social media. Others, probably their parents, might think that they're hooked on an interesting e-Book, but they're wrong. Students will whine that they have no time to study, read and, most importantly, write. Fortunately, some bright people see this as an opportunity to create services for their own benefit also with the intention of helping others. Although the start of these services are unclear, it started its operation because of the students’ difficulty to write papers.
The companies that offer essay writing services, like Custom Writing Services, claim that they "provide quality services to all our customers [...] creating all kinds of research papers, essays, assignments as well as dissertations." When ordering from different essay writing services, prices can vary. Some essays offer their rates (which depend on the words per page) around $10-120, while others name their prices as high as $1000. The prices vary on the type of essay chosen, with dissertations being the most expensive. These custom essays would be delivered in a couple of weeks, but prices will become higher if the customer needs his essay as soon as possible. As a result, the more a company receives these urgent orders, the more profit the companies will earn. In these instances, it’s the essay writing services who benefit more compared to its customers.The Huffington Post describes the different types of essay writing services customers, the majority being “students who use English as a second language, students handling school life with part time jobs or students who are just lazy”.