Abuse Of Power Research Paper

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Power is an addiction. Once you have power, you do not want to let it go. You'll do anything you have to just to get more. To get power you have to gain people's trust like in the job world, work hard and work good to gain the bosses trust and move up in the businesses. Other ways of gaining power other than people's trust is to inherit that power or to take power. There are many examples of power being abused in our past and by it being abused, their attempts for total power is a fail or their society corrupted.
The first example of power being abused and mistreated is Adolfo Hitler. Hitler gained power moving through the ranks of the German army and gaining the trust of his people. He then became what I like to call power hungry and began …show more content…

This is an example of a man who gained his power through trust and hard work but ended up killing millions of people with his power. To help stop this from happening again I believe that if we see this happening again the
U.S. will need to step in earlier in stoping such a tragedy by using the power we have.
Even though we would be using our power to stop power it would be for the greater good. Another example of power being abused is the Khmer Rouge. The Khmer
Rouge was a group of men and young male kids that was ran by Pol Pot. Pol Pot thought that he could use his power to start his own and stricter society to how he wanted things. He used his army to eliminate millions of of people he thought would get in the way. He killed people for just looking smart because he thought they could be a threat. But with his abusement of power his little society he had built became corrupted and he lost his power. To fix this I think we need to have a better and faster realization of a possible tyranny. To stop tyranny so that no one man can control millions of people to use in his own ways.
Another terrible tyranny was Sudan Husain. This man killed millions of people with his solders to try and gain more power than he already had. He used his army

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