I. All About Power
A. How do you define Power?
1. Power is the ability to have control over someone or a community. If used wisely, it can be a great virtue to one and can increase the respect others have for him or her. Power is also one’s role to instruct or affect the conduct of others or the course of events.
B. Is there a unified definition of Power? Elaborate.
1. Power, according to the oxford dictionary, means, “to have the ability or capacity to do something or act in a particular way.” Power is mainly thought as a control over someone or something. That is why there is one since most of the definitions resemble authority, control, and jurisdiction.
C. What does power look like in the hands of people, world leaders, teachers, parents,
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“What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.”
a. We believe what we want to believe, which is basically what we wish. When we think we hope it’s normal and not awkward or weird in any way, thus making us hope other think the same.
C. What kind of child was the Great Julius Caesar?
1. Julius Caesar was born on July 13, 100 B.C. He had an aristocratic family, the gens Julia. His father died when he was young and a few years later he was engaged to and possibly married to a young and wealthy woman, her name was Cossutia. It was soon broken off and he later married Cornelia at age 18, who gave him his only legitimate child. It was a girl named Julia. The dictator, Sully, commanded him to divorce Cornelia, but he declined. So Sully demanded he be executed, so Caesar went into hiding. Eventually his friends and relatives gave him pardon. Later on he became a part of the military.
D. How did he learn about Power?
1. Caesar learned about power from the patronage of his uncle, Caius Marius, by marriage. Later when Sully died, he returned and began his political career. Later on, he was made military tribune and a public official. He helped Pompey gain power in the war in the east. Afterward, he was elected high priest, supposedly by
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