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Respectahobbit

Just what I said. And I probably need that answer from Hawkeye or Jared or whoever knows History.

I've got to do an essaaaaayyyyyyy on "Bad ways to use power" and "Good ways to use it" and stuff like that... Can you think of any people in History who use power(Like a president or something)in a good way? Or any people in History( Shock

)who use power in a bad way???????????????????????
OK I REALLLLLLLLLLLLYYYYYYYYY need some help here, QUICK!

~Robin the piggy luver

Coralfish · Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2003 8:19 pm Post subject:

Well....our current president is a good example. Um, others that come to mind that abused power: the famed Clinton administration, and there are many other world leaders past and present that have abused their power, often with with terrible outcomes. When I think of those who abused their power, Hitler, and Stalin etc..come to mind, however that is just an example. Right now we have Houssain over in Iraq who has contantly commited crimes against others and his own people. History is full of examples, one just has to take the time to read about them. I guess an assignment like you have is a prime opportunity to do just that! Wink

Chepa · Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2003 10:07 pm Post subject:

couldn't you just do Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin.... Well maybe i don't know anything.... Or read the question wrong...

Jared · Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2003 10:22 pm Post subject:

Read Machiavelli! He writes about all the proper ways to conquer countries and keep them under your grasp... using all sorts of harsh methods (and some less harsh ones).

For U.S. leaders who misused power, you might want to take a look at the traditional ones like Harding, Nixon and Clinton, but consider some others as well. How about Franklin Roosevelt?

The list of people across the world who have misused power is almost endless... currently, Saddam Hussein, Fidel Castro, Kim Jong Il and others come to mind, but if you go back a few years, you also have men like Pol Pot and Idi Amin to consider. There are always the perennial favorites, Hitler and Stalin, but perhaps they have been overused. I'd venture to say that a good deal of people can't say where Pol Pot or Idi Amin came from, but together, they killed as almost as many people as Hitler did.

In a far smaller area.

Everyone writes about the concentration camps of Germany ... so write about the killing fields of Cambodia.

As for good ways to use power, well, I'll leave you on your own on this one, as there are far too many people to choose from... including many great Americans.

hawkeye · Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2003 10:26 pm Post subject:

Zwall · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 3:25 am Post subject:

I couldn't agree more... Laughing

gimp80995 · Guest

Abraham Lincoln

John F. Kenedy

David (from the Bible) (both good ways and bad ways with him)

I'll try to get back with more......but your paper may have been due by the time I return to a computer again.

Peace Out

-Gimp

Respectahobbit · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 7:11 pm Post subject:

Thanks all!!! I've decided on Clinton and Hitler, and George Washington and Thomas Alva Edison. Very Happy

smurfs · Guest

Hitler definitly him, no question about it, he has to be the number one example of Rasis people in the WORLD!!!!!!!!!! and he definitly no row modle!!!!! and that is a VERY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jared · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2003 11:18 am Post subject:

Number one example? He's certainly on the list, but just because he is recent doesn't by any means mean that he's the most evil person around. I can think of quite a few people from the 1900s alone who I believe were more evil than Hitler.

Or at least, were better able to carry out that evil unopposed.

I'm not downplaying the evil things Hitler did... his atrocities are endless. But it seems that we know of Hitler because of the war, but everything else seems to pass us by. The Third Reich was by no means the only monstrous, oppressive and deadly regime of the 1900s.