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.
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