While it takes a lot to build up a society, it doesn’t take nearly as much for it crash and burn. One simple flaw can weaken it, and three added together will ruin the whole thing. Even the greatest societies can fall as the result of political corruption, war, and social injustice. These three have negatively affected Rome, Greece, Uganda, and even the fictional society in Matched by Ally Condie. “Political corruption is the use of power by government officials for illegitimate private gain.” This can lead to the downfall of societies because when citizens find out, they won’t have any respect for their government/leaders because of the bad things they do. Lack of respect can cause riots/outbreaks in cities. In Matched, the officials of their society use their power to test experiments on citizens without them knowing. ‘ “It was time for this little experiment to end anyway,” the Official says, sounding regretful… “What experiment?” “The one with you and Ky.” ...It was planned out from the start.’ The officials of the society thought they had the right to play with Cassia’s life without her knowing, even a little bit of it. Political corruption can lead to the downfall of societies because when citizens find out, they won’t have any respect for their government/leaders because of the bad things they do. Lack of respect can cause riots/outbreaks in cities. The government officials in Rome were military soldiers, who decided they were so important that they had authority to pick the next emperor of Rome. “...the elite bodyguards of the emperor, led to political corruption and grew to such an extent that this massive troop of soldiers decided on whether an emperor should be disposed of and who should become the new emperor!(Tribune... ... middle of paper ... ...t societies can be weakened or even fall due to political corruption, war, and social injustice. When a society has one of these things, or even all three, it will not be a safe or fun place to live. Citizens will start riots and some will maybe even flee. And honestly, these things are bound to happen. Ultimately, we are doomed… it’s just up to us how long that will take. Works Cited "Reason Why the Roman Empire Fell." Reason Why the Roman Empire Fell. Tribunes and Triumphs, n.d. Web. 26 Mar. 2014. "The Fall of Ancient Rome." The Fall of Ancient Rome. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Mar. 2014. "Peloponnesian War." Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2014. Web. 26 Mar. 2014. . "Social Injustice Issues in Uganda." Shvoong. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Mar. 2014.
Political corruption is one of the significant themes in the novel “The House of the Scorpion.” Political corruption is the use of power by government officials for illegitimate private gain. Everyday political figures and governments who we rely on to protect us betray us. Whether it is by bribery,extortion, cronyism, nepotism, patronage, graft, embezzlement, criminal enterprise, drug trafficking, money laundering or human trafficking, political officials or governmental systems we look up to have dabbled in corruption here or there. However, the corrupted governments inside the novel do not differ from our everyday government such as: the American government because both governments inside and outside the novel prevent people from leaving the country, make illegal deals with people and corporations for favours and both have become a country in a state of regression.
There are so many powerful countries and governments today, but have you ever wondered what were the most powerful ancient empires and what happened to them over the years. The Roman Empire was at once a very flourishing and thriving place to live, but then all of a sudden it began to fall and decline until it was a weak and vulnerable empire. Historians debate the issue of why it declined and eventually fell. They ask themselves the question, what are the main reasons for the fall of Rome? The main reasons for the fall of Rome were their military struggles, political problems, and the disasters they encountered during that time period.
In this, we find the first commentary, which in fact mirrors history. Here we see that a society, as occurred with the Roman Empire, can grow only up to a certain point, after which it begins declining and decaying, due in part to the gross levels of comfort that its populace become used to. This reliance upon comfort leads to an eventual loss of civic virtue among the people of the society. Once virtue is lost, the moral framework which holds a society together begins to fail, and after a time, crumbles, leading to a collapse of the society itself.
...downfall.Mostly societies fall due to whoever is leading them, like in Athens they were told to retreat inside of the walls which lead to an outbreak that killed ⅓ of the city’s population.Although trying to make a “perfect” society never ends up working out, we can learn from our mistakes and always try to make ours better. As I once said, “It is not possible to create a perfect society for imperfect beings.”
...fall of Rome because the constant change of the emperors was destructive. Frequent assassinations had damaged the faith of citizens living in ancient Rome as well as members of the Roman army and confused them. With less belief, the government was unable to control their armies unlike when the empire was mighty. Also, since the emperors did not have enough experience to rule over the empire wisely, they made unhealthy decisions which were not advantageous for Rome, such as allowing soldiers to not wear the armors. The weakened army without any armor couldn’t manage the invasions from foreign groups and disasters. The disasters that had to be handled by the government were left alone, causing tremendous death of Roman people. As all reasons we knowledge of are linked to governmental insecurity, the primary reason for the decline of Rome was the political instability.
Power is the source of all corruption as supported by Dickens’s novel A Tale of Two Cities. The characters Monseigneur, Marquis of Evermonde, and the revolutionaries all become corrupt in the end because of the power they possessed. If they did not possess power, they would not have been able to complete the actions they had planned to. Then, if they’re actions did not occur, the corruption they caused would cease to exist
society has failed, but that it evidently has caused an extermination of the very civilization in which it
Societies fall for numerous reasons including corrupt leadership. The Gladers, in the Dystopian book “Maze Runner”, were sent to the glade by W.I.C.K.E.D, which as far as we know, is the government system in this place they are at. The leaders are doing “research” or so they say to help cure this sickness they call the flare. The government is trying to preserve the race from this disease. They ignore the minorities ,or the people infected by the disease, like the German people did in the early 1900’s. The minorities are believed to be trash and already dead. Their leader has drilled that into their heads. The people only have this “W.I.C.K.E.D” so they can’t look to anyone else, such as Hitler in Germany. Maybe they might have a dictatorship that is W.I.C.K.E.D. The government is corrupt and their ideas have infected the society. “We won’t let them do this to children. We’ve sworn our lives to fighting WICKED. We can’t lose our humanity, no matter the end result...“You’ll learn more in time... They call it the Scorch—it li...
Known as a period of political scandal, many politicians engaged in bribes, lies, and abuse of power to further a political, social, and often personal agenda. The typical corrupt leader "will sell his vote for a dollar [...] turns with indifference from the voice of honesty and reason [...] his unalienable right may be valuable to him for the bribe he gets out of it" (166). Such politicians are an injustice to society because as they are elected by the people, they must act towards the betterment of the people, rather than for themselves. Furthermore, those who elect this politician to office merely underestimate their political and social responsibility because they "want the feeling that their own interests are connected with those of the community, and in the weakness or absence of moral and political duty" (167). Thus, under the control of the ruthless politician and the reckless voter, the true essence of democracy is
The runaway corruption in the country harms the business environment and causes collapse of various established institutions and industries.
Government corruption can generally be defined as a misuse of public power for private gain. Grand, Petty, and Political are all different forms of corruption within a government. Grand corruption occurs at the highest level of power within a government and helps a few while hurting the country’s citizens. Although this happens at the highest level of a government, and it seems as though it should be something that is noticed easily, grand corruption regularly goes unnoticed and unpunished. Petty corruption occurs in
Imagine a world where you are stuck in an arena, several times the size of a football field, and you are with about fifty teenage boys for as long as you live. Well, lucky for you, that is the world which is The Maze Runner. Yes, The Maze Runner, by James Dashner, is a fictional society, but there are real life civilizations that fall too, such as Germany in the Nazi era, Sierra Leone, and Ancient Rome. Societies can crumble down and burn due to corrupt leaders or government, lack of crucial resources, and a diminished security.
Robert D. Kaplan, The Coming Anarchy: How Scarcity, Crime, Overpopulation, Tribalism, and Disease are Rapidly Destroying the Social Fabric of Our Planet.
The biggest loser from corruption is society as a whole. Corruption allows inefficient producers to remain in business, encourages governments to pursue perverse economic policies, and provides opportunities to bureaucrats and politicians to
Chetwynd (2003, pp. 3-4) says that while corruption does not directly make a mark on poverty, it has negative influences on economic growth and government administration, which lead to poverty. In terms of economy, corruption interrupts economic growth, worsens income inequality and decreases economic growth rates which increase poverty. Regarding government administration, corruption lowers governance, impairs governance, and decreases public trust in government that increases vulnerability of the poor (Chetwynd, 2003, The World Bank Group, 2015). For instance, political corruption in Kenya, which is estimated more than 40 percent of Kenya’s public revenues lost, decreases investments in schools, infrastructure, and social services (Mutua, 2008). Apart from that, Labelle (2014) asserts that corruption and poverty go hand-in-hand which harms the people’s well-being. The impacts of corruption are personal and they are harmful. Corruption also leaves children without mothers, families without healthcare, people without food, the elderly without security, and businesses without capital. Furthermore, Swardt (2015) also reveals that high levels of corruption affect the targets of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This correlation holds across all the development goals which are linked to poverty and hunger, low education, maternal and child health, communicable diseases, water and sanitation. As a result of these reasons, corruption is a main factor of