Does power corrupt?

The definition of the word power is “the possession of controlling influence.” You can find power just about anywhere, you can find it in the United States in the white house, such as you can find it with the president, or you could find it in the hospital where the doctors have the power to control your life, wither you live or die from that one surgery. You can also find power in places where there are government, such as in officers or judges, they have the power to send some people to jail, and wither or not to let them go for something they did wrong, or to take them to jail.
Power can be good when it is in the hands of the right people such as in police officers that bring justice to the world and such. They make sure that nobody does anything against the law and if someone does break the law, they make sure that they handcuff them and send them to jail. Also officers have the power to kill someone at a moment’s notice, this is only if the person if opening fire on the officers, or if they have hostages. Another person with extreme power today is the President of the United States. The president, president Obama, has the power to run the country and make sure everything is in order. The president has the power to choose the chief executives and the government officials. Also the president can veto a bill if he like it, or he could use influence to get a bill that he likes passed. Also the president of the United States is Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces and the army. The president determines the foreign policy and represented our country to other leaders.
Power can also be a bad thing if it is in the wrong person’s hands, then it is considered corruptive. Power is bad when it is in someone’s hands, such as Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler was live from the year 1889 to 1945, and he was the head and leader of the Nazis. This was a political group that eventually turned into the most feared group in the world. Hitler and the Nazis had so much power, that they decided to kill all of the Jews in the world, Hitler once said “ that it was not enough for the Jews simply to die; they must die in agony”. This eventually brought the Nazis to seek out Jews and either kill the on the spot, send them to ghettos, to to send them to concentration camps, where they would surely meet and agonizing death after working with much food water, or any clothes. Hitler and the Nazis kill anywhere to 15,003,000 people to 31,595,000 people, and most of those people were just housewives, fathers, aged, sick, Jews, they were just normal people trying to enjoy their time on Earth, but their time got cut short the day the Adolf Hitler came into office and gained a lot of power.
In the End, power is corruptive if it is in the wrong person’s hands and they are using it the wrong way, like Hitler did killing innocent people just because he thought that they were different. Also power can be a good thing if it is in the hands of someone who is looking out for the people, most likely like the President of the United States, where he is trying to make this a better country to live in, even though sometime people may not agree with what he is doing, he is trying his best to make this a better country for all of us in the United States of America.


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