The Great War Argumentative Analysis

When a glass shatters, even when pieced back together, it is never truly the same as it was before standing with its cracked frame. The same can be said for a world that has gone to war. Ontario in particular, is a Canadian province that has not flourished because of World War 1. Wars in many cases are beneficial as they increase a countries productivity and bring unity to a countries people but not in this case. This paper is written to illustrate how World War 1 was adverse in transforming Ontario as a province. The Great War is a critical turning point in history that evidently tore Ontarian families apart due to higher than expected death tolls. Tearing the people that enhance productivity in the economy makes it harder for the country to benefit as a whole. War-torn families time is in many cases …show more content…
These generations are building their parents bridges and this cannot be done if they think war is the answer. Furthermore, the massive amounts of war debt that accumulate would help the rise of the eventual depression sending the struggling Ontarian economy ultimately into further economic anguish (and the world for that matter). It is true a country must spout an exorbitant sum of money to fund adequate war efforts, but at the cost of threatening the next decades of a countries affluence. With deficits trumping the billion-dollar mark, this absurd amount of money representing a large fraction of Canadian GDP would have to be paid by future generations hindering their ability for future growth. With large percentage of tax dollars going to paying debts, Ontarian government cannot set aside capital to enrich Ontarian landscape. This setting back economy years and years until payables are extinguished. These three points unmistakably demonstrate the degree of which Ontario was transformed through societal, cultural and economic changes due to World war 1 and their adverse effect to the