What is Power?

“Power is the ability to do or act; the capability of doing or accomplishing something” is the definition stated by Dictionary.com. The list of definitions goes on and on but I really think this first definition really says it all. Putting the definition in my own words I would say that power is the ability to choose and control the life of oneself and or the lives of other people through many different aspects such as politics, economy, and personal life. As I said before the three main topics I am going to explain are power in politics, economy, and personal life.

First off politics, politics can be great and it can be horrible. Politics and high government jobs can give so much power to people it can be very dangerous. One example is the Second World War and their outcomes. So much power was given to Hitler that he was able to take an entire nation under his one control and do with it as he saw fit. Second politics lets people decide if o their country is going to take over a neighboring country and steal or help that country. I really put this point in here to help my next point of the ability to change lifestyles. When the British marched into India and many other countries they enforced their own lifestyle, religion, and many other aspects of life upon that nation. They changed the way people lived and made a living which leads to my next topic Economy.

Economy is a major player in dishing out lots of the worlds power. It can place a massive amount of power on one person one day and then take it away and distribute it somewhere else. My first point is the Industrial Revolution; this one event created many millionaires, countries, and businesses that have had some of the most power in the history of the world. One example is Carnegie Steel; this one company was the leading producer and supplier for most of the world’s steel in that time. The industrial revolution also as stated earlier created many of the world’s millionaires/ billionaires and with money usually comes some power along with it. Capitalism is my second example that economy gives large amounts of power but capitalism spreads the power a bit more equally but not perfectly. It allows people to try and gain as much power as they can get. But they can also crash and have nothing left. My last example communism has a very different affect it spreads all power so equally that in the end no one really has any power. This can both be good and bad. It can be good because no one can do anything to downgrade anyone else but it can be bad because no one can do anything if something very horrible happens and someone with a lot of power is supposed to deal with it.

My last point of power is the power over personal lives. Power is the main factor for someone to be able to run their own life. If no one had any power over themselves than we would be able to wake up in the morning and do anything someone else would have to tell us to do it. My second example is the kind of job someone gets. If someone has no power over their life then they could end up doing something completely worthless to themselves and or to society. Power is an essential that is needed in everyone’s life to have a normal life and to live the life that they want to live.

So overall I believe that power is the ability to choose and control your own life and or the lives of others. I proved this through showing the power given and taken by politics, economies, and life. Where would we be without power?

Control or Power?- The Giver

I picked the theme of control because my book, The Giver, has many instances that relate to control. First the people don’t have memories and the community chooses and gives them everything that they need in their lives. The community has also been able to take all feelings that people have for other people even the family unit that they live with. The founders of the community even went as far as too control the landscape and weather. In the begging of the community there must have been some control but now it just seems to have slipped away. There are a group of elders that may decide the outcome on a couple of problems but for the most part not even they have any control over anything at all. In the novel it seems as though the whole idea of control or the concept has been taken away but control still lives on in the people’s lives. The only person in the entire novel that has any control what so ever is the giver and the receiver both of which at some times have memories and can choose to make decisions about their lives. Control is the main theme in this novel even though at times there doesn’t seem to be any control at all.

Population Project

The three most important things i learned during POP are that saving your work to the last day before the paper is due is very risky and bad. Second i learned that the earlier you get something done especially research the better. And lastly, plan before you start to actually work or write a paper or project. And the value that i think i will take away from this project and use later in my life is the value of planning before i start to work.

Net Affect of Globolization

"Globalization" is the growth integration of economies and societies around the world-The World Bank. Globalization is such a complex thing that you could look at so many aspects of it and still find something new to look at. So i am going to focus on the positives and negatives of globalization.

Their are quite a few positives to globalization and many of them have to do with the economy. First globalization creates new jobs in many newly formed and growing counties. It also helps with the production of goods at lower cost which then turns into lower costs for consumers in the world. It also helps by taking machines and ideas to new places to be used and improved upon by the people. But globalization doesn't just help the economy it also helps the over all world by bringing new ideas and ways of life to many countries and helps people to know more about the world as a whole.

Now even though globalization does many great things around the world that are almost too numerous to mention it can also cause great problems. Globalization has started to spread so rapidly that it would be very hard to control it. I said earlier that globalization helps the economy of countries and it does but the way it helps doesn’t always benefit the workers of the country. Many businesses will outsource and offshore many jobs that used to be in the country that the business was based in and many people of that country had jobs in that business. But as the businesses outsource and offshore many of those jobs start to disappear. The whole spread of ideas is great for the world but globalization has almost taken it too far. Some countries are starting to loss their own cultures because they try to hard to adapt to the western way of life. Globalization is starting to make it so you almost have to have a western way of life to fit in and that is not good.

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