Gain Power Essays

  • Othello - Manipulation To Gain Power

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    Othello: Manipulation To Gain Power     Manipulation is a very powerful word. People use this tactic everyday to get what they want in life. By deceiving people or tricking them into seeing a certain point of view, people gain power. To skillfully use the power of manipulation a person must use another person's weaknesses. By using a person's emotions against them, they can be manipulated with ease. In Shakespeare's Othello, the character of Iago uses these tactics almost to perfection

  • What It Means To Gain Power

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    Power is only truly given by the people. It’s the people that will elect the president of the United States, thus he has power. It’s the people who elect group leaders, team leaders, and other political positions. Without the people power wouldn’t play such a prominent role in the world, but the people have been mistreated by the powerful because for many years the idea of what it means to remain powerful is that they have to be all about themselves and be demanding. The definition of the acquisition

  • How To Gain Power In Lord Of The Flies

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    Karen Wong Period 3 10.8.14 LOTF Essay #1 There are many things in the world that can gain power. However, many people have different points of views on the attainment of power. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding portrays how people, ideas, and objects can gain power when people acknowledge to their having power. An object that had power over social organization, communication, and authority in Lord of the Flies was the conch. From the start, the conch had been an important tool in bringing

  • Corruption In King Lear

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    childhood now into adulthood, as he has always been treated horribly by his family. Due to the resentment he faces as an illegitimate child as an outsider, this motivates him to take action in order to remove his status as a bastard child, and to gain power and status like his legitimate brother Edgar. Edmund was not originally pure evil, but

  • Conflict rises from power

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    Conflict is about power; it results from struggles to maintain or gain power The need for power is a reality of life; to use or abuse, to claim or deny, own or disown. However the struggle many go through to gain that feeling of control and power can lead to inner turmoil and conflict between others and one self. Set in the times of the tragic witch trials The Crucible is a drama that shows power resting on moral, legal and religious dynamics that lead to inner, social and religious conflicts. Marking

  • Comparing Wealth, Power, and Virtue in Measure for Measure and Mrs. Warren's Profession

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    Wealth, Power, and Virtue in Measure for Measure and Mrs. Warren’s Profession As seen in the dramas Measure for Measure and Mrs. Warren’s Profession, the Elizabethan and Victorian periods have different views of wealth, power and virtue. To compare these views, one should start by defining the different views of virtue. The people of the Elizabethan times see virtue in obtaining a balance of their three souls and as promoting order within their society and city. Also in this

  • Analysis Of Machiavelli

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    Machiavelli’s Judgement of the People “Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil” (Veronica Roth). Machiavelli is providing all of his knowledge that is useful for aspiring or current rulers. The information is also helpful to understand how Machiavelli was truly thinking during his time in power. He has experienced many things that have persuaded him to think the way he does. He has a specific mindset when it comes

  • Orwell's Animal Farm

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    became a representative of these animals. Napoleon also used many tools of propaganda to gain power. The sheep perhaps were his most important tools of propaganda throughout the novel. They were, for sure, a deciding factor in Napoleon's rise to power. Snowball, the other pig who shared the position of leadership with him did not agree with him on many counts. However, he was a good speaker and could easily gain the animals support with his speeches alone. So, Napoleon trained the sheep to break into

  • The Interference Of The Supernatural In Macbeth

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    true personality. After the prophecies of the witches' revealed the fate of Macbeth, the plan in which to gain power of the throne is brought up. According to Lady macbeth and Macbeth the only way to gain power of the throne was for macbeth to murder King Duncan. was an easier plan. Lady Macbeth also relied on the supernatural by her soliloquy of calling upon the evil spirits to give her the power to plot the murder of Duncan without any remorse or conscience(Act I, Scene V, lines 42-57). Lady Macbeth

  • Simon Bolivar

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    throughout the European population. They stated the opposition to absolute monarchies as well as a new main focus on people’s innate rights and freedoms. Many leaders after this period of Enlightenment preached its ideas, while others simply used them to gain power. Simon Bolivar might have preached opinions that mainly reflected the ideas of the French Revolution. However, his actions contradicted these opinions, and revealed that his true intentions were selfish and illiberal. In several documents and speeches

  • Neo-Nazis

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    certain types of employment, housing, political rights, educational opportunities, or a social interactions are guilty of racial discrimination. Race hatred, permitted to gain unlimited power, will be disastrous. The state - sponsored genocide perpetrated by Nazi Germany is an example of what happens when people who hate gain power. Hitler's extermination took the lives of six million human beings for no other reason than they were Jewish. It started in little ways, an ethnic joke, stereotyping that

  • Essay on Manipulation through Language in The Memorandum

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    that involve language, and in the process, they gain the authority or recognition they are seeking. Ballas promotes the new creation of the synthetic language, Ptydepe, which reduces humans by mechanizing them for the purpose of a more scientific and efficient system of communication. The language is created so that people will show no emotions or flaws when speaking. This system is analogous to the bureaucracy, which also implements its linguistic power to establish and maintain order in every aspect

  • Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan

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    better off by joining the social contract, which all humans are unintentionally apart of. In Book II, Hobbes asserts that there must be some form of leadership, which holds the people together and keeps them from following their natural instincts to gain power and use it in a malicious way. The contract only works because when a government is set up and laws are put in place, there are punishments, which make the citizens afraid to act out of line, thus making a more peaceful place for everyone. The Leviathan

  • Aristophanes' Assemlywomen and Lysistrata

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    incapable of having balanced power in their relationships. In both of these plays, the men were unable to keep their own sense of power when the women took over politics, and they eventually moved into the submissive role of women. In Lysistrata, the women used their seduction to gain power. Similarly, in Assemblywomen, the women came into power through deception and clever planning. This paper explores why women rarely stepped up to take power; how they would gain power when they would step up to

  • Genocide in Rwanda

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    Genocide War is not a necessary evil humans must endure. Although, war is not necessary, humans go to war to try to gain power, fortune, and to spread their particular group’s religions and beliefs. By definition civilization is an advanced state of intellectual, cultural, and material development in human society, marked by progress in the arts and sciences, the extensive use of record-keeping, including writing, and the appearance of complex political and social institutions. The chaos of war

  • Cyber Terrorism

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    to stress to people that this is a big problem and will become worse in the future since everything is being done in Cyber Space these days. In this research paper, I will prove that hackers gain power and publicity with crimes they commit through cyber space. And it is easy for even amateur hackers to gain information and money from powerful organization without any detection or suspicion. Hacking is also a costly and destructive force for people in Cyber Space. Cyber Terrorism is such a destructive

  • Destalinization

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    Destalinization Politics has always been about image. A good image leads to power, it's that simple. Sometimes it is hard to draw the line between a leader who is genuinely interested in improving the lives of his people and one that is interested in filling a few more pages of the already crowded History book. A good example of this is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in its transition time between 1953 and 1964. The tyrannical rule of Joseph Stalin in the USSR was finally over, and

  • The Foolishness of Ignoring Advice

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    a truly wise person to give advice. As well, those that are foolish choose not to accept the advice. In the end, the foolish will suffer from their ignorance. Throughout the play King Lear, this is shown repeatedly as the characters struggle to gain power and show their loyalty. Evidently, choosing to ignore the advice of others leads to suffering. To begin, the wise offer crucial advice to those in need. Firstly, advice is used to warn friends. In the beginning of the play, Kent warns King Lear

  • Julius Caesar Essay: Marc Antony’s Power of Persuasion

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    Marc Antony's Power of Persuasion in Julius Caesar In William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, although Marc Antony is allowed to make a speech at Caesar's funeral, he must not speak ill of either the conspirators or Caesar.  Antony was infuriated with Caesar's assassination, and wants to seek revenge on his killers as well as gain power for himself in Rome's government.  He must persuade the crowd that has gathered that Caesar's murder was unjust, and turn them against Brutus and Cassius.  He tries

  • Animal Farm, by George Orwell

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    In the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell, the pig Napoleon uses specific tactics to gain power and control over the animal farm. Some of these techniques include controlling information through education, scapegoating, use of fear, swaying public opinion and blind obedience. Throughout the novel, the most prominent way that Napoleon gained power was through controlling the education that the animals received. In the beginning of the novel, Snowball believes in educating all of the animals on Animal