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    cultures, Ontario students should only study Canadian writers. There are three main reasons for this: the need to focus on Canadian culture despite being surrounded by other cultures, the need to promote and establish our own writers, and the need to encourage the development of younger Canadian authors. This essay will prove that graduating students in Ontario should only study Canadian literature in a Grade 12 English course in an effort to strengthen Canadian culture. Students in Ontario taking English

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    Capitalism, in its advancements, had led to new criticisms made by Max Webber. He had come to the conclusion that capitalism was a “result of the protestant spirit” (126). Webber believed that religion, particularly Catholicism, had a bigger role in capitalism rather than the status of the economy itself. Regardless of the standing power of ruling countries like Spain, capitalism did not evolve due to the Catholic religion. As stated in Capitalism: a Graphic Guide, “being wealthy was never seen as

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    saying societies can fall if their not ruled the right way. And some of the societies seemed like nothing could get in their way, but obviously they did because they didn't take good care of them. That goes for a lot of other places also. Great societies fall due to social inequalities, a dysfunctional or corrupt government, a crippled and inflating economy, and over expansion. That’s why Nazi Germany, The Civil Rights Era in America, and Ancient Rome didn't survive. A number of societies fall because

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    that your society is perfect, without any flaws or worries? Well, that's what the Romans and what Nazi Germany thought, and where are they now? Gone. That's where they are. Even in the fiction book, Ready Player One, they thought they were so tough, but not anymore. These Societies may have been powerful and wealthy, but they all suffered the same fate. Corrupt leaders, turned the society upside down. Poverty, affected the moral of the civilization, bringing it down. Wars destroyed the society, making

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    comes to mind is religion. For thousands of years civilizations have used gods and religions to explain the existence of the universe. The explanation for the existence of the universe, however, is not the only way that religion has been used in societies. In ancient time when the concept of governments and societal structure were non-existent, so a strong belief in religion was there to fill in

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    Unlike a grave site memorial, which marks where a body is burried, roadside memorials shows where a person died abruptly and unpredictably. When we see one, we get curious automatically and ask what might have happened in that place. Perhaps the basic reaction that we give when we see a roadside memorial is enough to understand its purpose and tolerate its presence when we are on the road. However, Some of the usual arguments that people post in opposing the presence of these memorials are dangerous

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    Imagine a life where everything is perfect. Sadly this is not possible. Many societies that were thought to be perfect, like The Maze Runner, Nazi Germany, Sierra Leone, and Ancient Greece figured this out the hard way. Societies fall due to corrupt leaders, lack of supplies, and a faulty security system. Societies fall due to corrupt leaders which is a political problem. What lead to the fall of The Maze Runner was the fact that they had corrupt leaders. Their leaders all went off in some way

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    Sociotechnical Systems Essay

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    systems was created in the 1960’s as a part of organizational development research by E. Trist and F. Emery. Ranging from a small system between you and your phone, to the interaction between human behaviors with massive technical infrastructures society has developed in hopes to boost performance and quality for both the societal and technical side of the system (Fischer). The essential impression behind a sociotechnical system refers to the interrelatedness that humans, which are the social aspect

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    As societies develop, many changes occur that help the progression of a better civilization. While some changes are subtle, others are incredibly dramatic and alter the course of human history. Few changes of this significance have occurred and one of these more notable changes appeared in the era of the Hunter-Gathers. The drastic changes from a Hunter-Gatherer society to an Agriculturalist or Pastoralist civilization are some of the most radical alterations in societal development on earth.

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    Breastfeeding in Public

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    feeding a child. It has existed since the beginning of time. In fact, out of all the mammals that exist on this planet, every one of them nurse their babies, including humans. Recently, breastfeeding in public has been seen as indecent. Why would society frown upon the most natural and beautiful act a mother can do for her child ? Almost

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