Council Of Vocation Dbq

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I believe that the Council of Vocations assigned Equality the job of street sweeper because he was already smarter, taller, and more curious about things than everyone else. The Council of Vocations fears that if they were to assign Equality to be a scholar he would be to interested in the work he is doing. His wanting to learn more about science would lead him to find the way that his society and councils run the city, and how they have ran the people for all of these years. Equality would soon find out what is really going on in the society that he lives in.
The question you must ask yourself is, did Equality really want to defy his councils and go against them or just contribute to his society he lives in? Equality did not want to go

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