From the very beginning of time, living organisms were already competing for food sources, territory, and survival chances, whether we knew it or not. As time gradually went on, the human species were also evolving. During the Stone Age humans consistently hunted for food. There were many animals that were dangerous to man but we created tools like the spear to hunt. We were able to create simple tools from rocks and sticks of wood to scare, and hunt the dangerous animals around us. The more dangerous the animal was, the more tools and skills we learnt to protect ourselves. When you look into more of the history; you can see the pattern of many countries fighting to protect and claim territory from each other. For example, war between Britain and France over our country, Canada. Both countries have been enemies for many years, and both knew the exactly how powerful each other were. Yet they constantly sent troops to war to battle each other. Both countries constantly had struggles for power. Due to the fact both countries were powerful, both would plan, and develop more advance tools to defeat each other. Though Britain does win the war in Canada, Britain had lost the war in Europe. Thus proving it was not a complete victory.
Nowadays there are still wars but not as much for territory, but the rights of humans. There are many wars in countries around the world that fight to overthrow or change their government system. According to dictionary.com the definition of government is "the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration." The government is supposing to govern the people through hearing the people’s requests. When the government has the power to mend their authorities and neglect the citizen’s wishes, it causes the citizens to attempt to overthrow their government for their better futures. Even though people understand the fact, changing the country is a very hard task, they still get together to put their opinions and thoughts together to attempt to change their government.
Therefore, having a more dangerous and powerful enemy can cause whom or whatever to strive to gain more power. Without an opposing force that is stronger than you, it is much like moving on in life without a goal. Hence it is much harder to continue to strive for more power or change.
Good essay, Winki! I liked how you used both a historical example, as well as a more modern example as your two points. However, even just scrolling down at a glance, I found your essay to be kind of oddly proportioned! Your introductory and closing paragraphs were both quite short compared to your body paragraphs. In the future, I think that you should work on finding a balance in their lengths. Maybe you could try previewing your points in the intro paragraph, and then summarizing them in the closing one!
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