What is Power?

According to Oxford's dictionary, it defines power as ability to control people or things. Which mean that Power is control, And I agree with this definition. This year in humanity class we’ve talk lot about power and I think power usually works in two specific ways; ideologically, militarily. I have two examples that show the power is control, they are; Fear of nature, and individuals’ power.

Firstly you can see that power is control if you look at the ancient time. Ancient people believed there is a god and they always feared them and worshiped them. For example they created their own god such as ‘Sun god, and wind god etc’ so by believing them they control themselves from other danger. You can see these happen today. During imperialism when India was under British Empire’s control, Indian people believed in Gandhi’s idea of non - violence and they also worshiped his ideas. By believing this idea that has huge power they could control themselves from the anger and were able to kick out British Empire from their own land. Fear of God also can be superstition, for example, Buddhism and Hinduism believe reincarnation, which is once a person die they will reborn in another form. By believing in this principle that has power of control, people could control themselves and this made their religion stronger. But sometime this fear of nature can have negative effect, for example Russian revolution, Russian citizen believed in different things unlike the Tsar and when Tsar lost power to control many angry citizen it finally lead to Russian Revolution and it ended up by killing Tsar and his family

Secondly, another example you can find is individuals’ power. In WW2 Hitler and Stalin were great dictators; they controlled many people with their persuasive and powerful speeches. Although sometime they used military to force other people to believe in what they believe, their ideas were clear and strong enough to control people. However you can see these examples in Globalization today. Today since Globalization shrunk the world in to the smaller size, more individual company move around the world to advertise that their product is better than others. For example commercial, we do see million and trillion of commercial every day but actually each one of them has individual special powers that control people to buy their products. One last example is cold war. Cold started at the end of the world war 2. Unlike WW2, cold war was more like ideological war. USA and USSAR, the two great super power who believe different principal had to fight for idea. Each one of them spread their idea to country to country, and they propaganda to show citizen that their systems were better. It was all about that the side who gain more control of more country will win this war.

As you can see there were two big example that show the power is control; Fear of nature and individuals’ power.

What is Power?

Net Effect of Globalization

According to the book 'The World is Flat' written by Thomas Friedman, Globialization has effected our life in many good ways. For example, outsourcing has make our life better and easy. He also mentioned that the creation of window and open sourcing has tide world tiny by allowing many people to access internet and share their own idea and opinion. These factors were believed to make world smaller and flat.
It seems like that the globalization is only a good thing. However, Globalization also has dark sides. For example, people in middle level's lifes are getting better although low level people's lifes are getting worst and worst. Since many information that contains unique ideas spread to all over the countriesm, it can ruin some country's culture or their religious belief. As we watched, in '30 days' the guy named 'crise' lost his job because there was foreign worker who could do his job easily in less pay but in better quality.

Three most valuable things i learn during POP

There are three most valuable things i learned during working on Population Project. They are advantage and disadvantage of CNG, and other new alternative fuels. During POP i really worked a lot on these because they were part of my research paper. I'm sure learning more about these facts will affect my future because right now the world citizens are concerning about Global warming and one of the way to reduce the global warming is finding new alternative fuels that would replace fossil fuel which are causing global warming by producing lot of harmful gases. If we don't find better new alternative fuel that reduce harmful gases, our future will be terrible. As i mentioned on my research paper, if we just leave the situation like this, our next generation probably might have to live in special suit with helmet that contains fresh oxygen to help them breath. To avoid this future i think learning about these thing are really helping me to change my future.