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For thousands of years, leisure has played a very important role in the development of society. From the very dawn of mankind right up to the present day, leisure has always been in our society. Leisure has changed and evolved over this period of time and why it has evolved is because of the human race, who have seen leisure as an opportunity for themselves to break away from the stress and boredom of everyday life. Leisure has given man the chance to enter into their own world where they are in total control, where they are free.
This essay will look at how it is the ‘'actor'' that is the person who decides what leisure is to them, how leisure is individualistic, how it is one's free choice. In order to do this, the early civilizations must be looked at; this essay will try and establish how they saw leisure and how their society integrated leisure. Many ancient societies have left us with records of how they used leisure, for example the ancient Greek civilization and the......

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