Examples Of Power As A Tool

Gaining power is something that our species has evolved to strive for. Throughout history man has always tried to gain power in some way, but gaining power is not an easy task and while gaining power is something that is core to all of human desire it is reached in different ways. Some gain power through war, economics, politics, and some power is inherited, but regardless of how power is gained, all power has to be maintained and how it is maintained is the real argument because the ways of gaining power that we explore have already happened and were successful in giving power to people but the ways the power is maintained is what makes one successful or not.

While there are many strong relationships, there are also familial relationships as evidenced through Shelby and her mother, M’Lynn. Their relationship does a great job demonstrating the characteristic of responsibility in family relationships. M’Lynn constantly felt the need to protect Shelby. She also felt responsible for Shelby’s health and well being. Our text explains this same idea claiming, “Family members see themselves as having certain obligations and responsibilities to one another,” (DeVito, 2015). We found that Shelby and M’Lynn’s relationship is based off of this element of obligation and demonstrates how a family characteristic can dictate how members act. For example, because of Shelby’s diabetes, M’Lynn constantly watches after her. When Shelby’s blood sugar drops in the salon, her mother runs right over to her and feeds her juice demonstrating her duty to take care of her daughter. If she was not a family member of Shelby she may have just uncomfortably observed the whole incident like some of the other women. However, because they do have a familial bond, M’lynn knows more about Shelby and her condition than anyone else; she understands that she is the only one out of the women that knows how to take care of her daughter during a diabetic

Power is the ultimate goal of many throughout their life. If power is taken advantage of it

Throughout an individual’s life, one is bound to encounter domination against others. There are different ways to show power; physically, economically, intellectually, etc. However, power can be used positively or negatively. In the novel, Of Mice and Men, Lennie has the capability to use his strength to gain power. Next, Curley’s wife uses her gender to control men and takes advantage of her role as her husband’s wife to make the workers fear to lose their job. Finally, Curley has the advantage to use his father’s status on the ranch to make himself seem “untouchable”. Lennie, Curley’s wife, and Curley all have power, but when he or she gets directly or indirectly belittled, the character tends to use their own power to disempower others.

Some theorists believe that ‘power is everywhere: not because it embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere… power is not an institution, nor a structure, nor possession. It is the name we give to a complex strategic situation in a particular society. (Foucault, 1990: 93) This is because power is present in each individual and in every relationship. It is defined as the ability of a group to get another group to take some form of desired action, usually by consensual power and sometimes by force. (Holmes, Hughes &Julian, 2007) There have been a number of differing views on ‘power over’ the many years in which it has been studied. Theorist such as Anthony Gidden in his works on structuration theory attempts to integrate basic

“As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.” Nietzsche was one of the first modern philosophers to rebel against rationalism and when World War I came about, the revolution against religion truly became a legitimate statement. Friedrich Nietzsche strongly believed that many of those that practiced religion were led to the acceptance of slave morality. Religion had always played a fundamental role in society as it sets strict boundaries and standards of what is morally correct and incorrect. However, Nietzsche claims that, “Human nature is always driven by “ ‘the will to power’ ”, but religion will tell one otherwise, saying that one should forbid their bad desires. In Nietzsche’s

Is power a strength or weakness? Power is defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary as the ability to do something or act in a particular way. My definition of power is being able to uphold responsibility. In chapter 24 page 196 it states, “you choked with the silence of spiritual discipline, and with the streams of your tears, you watered the entire desert”. This refers to how in the Byzantine Empire you are raised to hide your emotions from the world this is a weakness because you suffer internally, this is also a strength because by hiding your emotions you show no weakness to other empires.

The extreme nature of the Third Reich was the consequence of the Nazi ideology. The structure of the Nazi ideology stems from the spencerian notion of “survival of the fittest”. Another concept that the Nazi’s misappropriated was “will to power” written by Friedrich Nietzsche which links to the fundamental element of social, political and economic relationships. Hitler was the very embodiment of the ideology because he intertwined the Nazi movement and ideology with himself even before he became the chancellor. As Ian Kershaw states:

Informal powers are those not stated in the constitution but include persuasion, make agreements,issue executive orders,and more.Formal powers are found in Article II of the constitution, those powers include the ability to veto a bill, command the government military, make treaties and more. The powers that are considered "necessary and proper". They are the powers that are inherited when the role of President is achieved. One example of implied power that was used recently by The president of The United States was the speech given from Poland sending his condolences to the victims and families affected by the Dallas Shooting recently. As the leader of The United States,it is necessary and proper for him to address major incidents that occur

Discuss the motivation for power. Which characters in the novel are seeking it, and for what reason?

Willpower (Control) In life, a majority of people will to try live in a way that makes them most content. What is one’s greatest desire in life? While it is speculated that people live to content, people are greedy and corrupt.

Parents and caretakers usually develop three stratergies for disclipning namely viz. power,withholding of affection,manangenent.Power discipling stratergy consist of physical punishment which could be used by their power to have control of things.Second stratergy is discipling through control of affection and the later deals with initial set of rules from appropriate age level.

5. Discuss Nietzsche’s theory of “will to power” and “the innocence of becoming”. Does the hypothesis of the will to power successfully “debunk” traditional religion, morality, and philosophical claims to provide the “disinterested” or “objective” truth?

Power means to be on top, that there is no competition against you. I personally believe power gets you respect. People follow a powerful person. A powerful person is someone who does anything that they please in any particular way without any restraints. Another the way of having power to be financially successful. Having financial power in my world is another way of being powerful because money has a huge value in today's society and can affect people’s decisions. Having power is important to me not only for the respect factor but because by being powerful I would have less financial worries.

Once we started training, we saw that our worst enemy, Ms. Control, was about to attack. You see, Control Master escaped from jail two months ago ,although, we still can’t capture her. We most likely could’ve captured her, ,but Lily -- my partner -- shot me when trying to aim Ms. Control every time we almost captured her. It’s not like she had aim, she’s an animal lover so she gets distracted when an animal comes by. My mind was starting to be fed up with her nonsense . . . so today was the last time Lily had a chance to stay focused. So the battle went like this -- Control Master tries to control me with her mind mask ,but I dodged It. Afterwards ,