Glory Road

Glory Road

So far in this novel, the only social issue that has been shown is to deal with war. The reason why I think this is the social issue is because the main character receives a letter stating that he has to join the army and fight for his country. This is sort of like the conscription crisis that happened during World War 1.  The conscription crisis is about how able-bodied men, from the age of 18 to 45 had to join the army when their country was at war. The main character ends up getting into the army working as a soldier instead of the job that he wanted which was the job of which the person only had to type up letters and such, which meant he didn’t have to actually fight in the war but was still in the army. 

http://www.cbc.ca/history/EPISCONTENTSE1EP12CH2PA3LE.html

This link is to a website that talks about the conscription crisis, who it affected and why it was created. The conscription crisis was a law that had forced able-bodied men around the age of 18-45 to HAVE to join the army; this was done to get more soldiers since they had lost so many soldiers in battle. This caused many people to start riots, destroy stores and streets. In the novel it does not mention the main character being enraged and joining the riots, rather it just talks about him going and joining the war, even though he has a strong belief against war in general. When the main character didn’t put up a fight of joining the army, you could infer that he had no choice but to do as the letter told him to.

Population Increase in the Future, Abundance of Seniors

Population Increase in the Near Future

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-s-seniors-population-to-jump-workforce-decline-by-2063-1.2770359

In this article it focuses on how Canada is going to have a abundance of seniors to take care of and how by the year 2063 Canada is going to have a workforce decline, this means that their are going to be too many people trying to apply and get a job while there are no jobs left because of how many people Canada is going to have. In a recent statistics reading, the population in Canada is supposed to rise to be around 40 to 60 million. This just doesn’t cause over population and mean that Canada is just going to become more populated, it means that there are going to be more people looking for jobs, more people in need of health care, more resources being used and made. Another problem that will occur is that the baby boomers are going to be in the ret age now. This means that there are going to be more seniors, and again more medical attention is going to be needed for them. With there being so many people that are looking jobs it is said that there is going to be a work force decline. This means that there aren't going be enough jobs for the HUGE population.

In this article it focuses on how Canada is going to have a abundance of seniors to take care of and how by the year 2063 Canada is going to have a workforce decline, this means that their are going to be too many people trying to apply and get a job while there are no jobs left because of how many people Canada is going to have. In a recent statistics reading, the population in Canada is supposed to rise to be around 40 to 60 million. This just doesn’t cause over population and mean that Canada is just going to become more populated, it means that there are going to be more people looking for jobs, more people in need of health care, more resources being used and made. Another problem that will occur is that the baby boomers are going to be in the ret age now. This means that there are going to be more seniors, and again more medical attention is going to be needed for them. With there being so many people that are looking jobs it is said that there is going to be a work force decline. This means that there aren't going be enough jobs for the HUGE population.

Connection:

The connection that I can make to this text is, text to world. Canada cannot stop the fact that a big part of Canada's population is going to seniors but, they could try and prevent the fact that there is going to be too many people in search for a job and have no jobs to offer. This news article states what could happen ( workforce decline ) if the population and immigration continue to grow at the same rate.