Shames asserts that Americans have been influenced by the frontier belief “that America would keep on booming” (para. 9). I feel that this belief continues to be influential into the twenty-first century. People may not be realized how the circumstances are changing around them, but if they compare between the past and the present, it is really easy to know many things have been changing and improving. People have been willing to seek more valuable and convenient things in life even in the past, and there are many elements that would last to improve for a long time, especially various types of technology. Since there are many kinds of technology that have been improved in America, such as in the medical field or the mechanical engineering,
