As Sanford J. Ungar claims in his essay "The stem fields----Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics----are where the action is" (Ungar 229). Ungar says that because the world is in the creation phase. On those fields is where the development of new ideas are, and that's why people kind of despises The Liberal Arts, they think that The Liberal Arts are a waste of time for their degrees because they aren't going to use in their jobs, but every single profession is important, everyone has their role in the job market. To be an engineer, you have to know a little of basic literature or even history because that will help the engineer to build the blueprints according to the culture or place where he is doing the job, that's all about