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My main claim is that we do need non-conformist in our society. Non-conformist are needed so society and the world we live in can change. This includes inventors that have made powerful impacts in our world and community that are non-conformist. In fact, Thomas Edison could have been known as a non-conformist for inventing the light bulb. Furthermore, Albert Einstein a genius that did not graduate high school, but invented the atomic bomb. As I have stated, nonconformist are needed in our society to make greater changes; however being a conformist sometimes is not bad. The general argument made by the author Logan Feys in his work, “The Sociology of Leopard Man.” In this article the author tells the reader about who Leopard Man is and how

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